Jeff Beckham

This year’s News & Documentary Emmy Awards will include a category for “non-traditional platforms”: computers, phones, iPods, etc.

As Peter Johnson points out in USA Today, however, none of the final nominees came from traditional television networks and most of them came from newspapers.

• “The Diary of Gideon in Pakistan,” MTV News on Overdrive.
• “Hurricane Katrina Batters Gulf Coast,” National Geographic/NationalGeographic.com on MSN.com.
• “Op-Ed Special Report: The Forgotten Genocide,” NYTimes.com.
• “A Shifting Bolivia,” NYTimes.com.
• “Child Porn: Interviews With Justin Berry,” NYTimes.com.
• “Fueling Azerbaijan’s Future,” WashingtonPost.com.
• “Hurricane Katrina Coverage in New Orleans,” WashingtonPost.com.