From Staff Reports
washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:59 AM

Washingtonpost.com won its first national Emmy award Monday night for its video coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

The award was accepted by Travis Fox at a ceremony in New York. Fox, senior video journalist at the Arlington, Va.-based Web site, explored issues including life in flooded New Orleans and the return of residents to Jefferson Parish, a suburb of the city.

The award, for "outstanding achievement in content for non-traditional delivery platforms," was the first of its kind for original video journalism created specifically for new media. Other nominated documentaries were produced by the Web sites of the New York Times, MTV and National Geographic.

The award affirms the "power and potential of multimedia storytelling on the Web," Jim Brady, washingtonpost.com executive editor, said in a statement.

Washingtonpost.com video journalist Ben de la Cruz won a local Emmy award earlier this year for a series of video reports about homeless people in Washington, D.C.