{"id":1552,"date":"2012-09-24T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T21:55:21","slug":"2012-online-journalism-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/2012\/09\/24\/2012-online-journalism-award-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Online Journalism Award winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 Online Journalism Award winners announced<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\tSAN<\/span> FRANCISCO<\/span> — FRONTLINE<\/span>, ProPublica, NYTimes.com, France’s Rue 89 and Storify were among the news and technology organizations that took top honors Saturday night at the 2012 Online Journalism Awards Banquet, which ended the Online News Association Conference.<\/p>\n

\n\tCalifornia Watch, the Tampa Bay Times and StateImpact Florida each won $2,500 and the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism at the 13th annual awards dinner, sponsored by NBC<\/span> News Digital. Entries for all awards were open to news produced for any digital device.<\/p>\n

\n\tEach winner of the six General Excellence Awards took home a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Knight Award for Public Service, which went to the start-up Homicide Watch D.C., comes with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe winners in the Breaking News categories were WNYC<\/span> for its coverage of Hurricane Irene and the Los Angeles Times for Occupy L.A.<\/p>\n

\n\tLaunched in 2000, the OJAs are administered by the Online News Association, now in partnership with the University of Miami’s School of Communication, and are the only comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in digital journalism, focusing on independent, community, nonprofit, major media and international news sites.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the winners in each category, with links to their winning entries:<\/p>\n

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\n\tKnight Award for Public Service<\/strong>
\n\tHomicide Watch D.C.
\n\thttp:\/\/homicidewatch.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGeneral Excellence in Online Journalism, Small<\/strong>
\n\tFRONTLINE<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGeneral Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tProPublica
\n\thttp:\/\/www.propublica.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGeneral Excellence in Online Journalism, Large<\/strong>
\n\tNYTimes.com
\n\thttp:\/\/nytimes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGeneral Excellence, Non-English, Small\/Medium<\/strong>
\n\tRue89 (France)
\n\thttp:\/\/www.rue89.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism<\/strong>
\n\tStorify
\n\thttp:\/\/storify.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking News, Small<\/strong>
\n\tNo finalist, no winner<\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking News, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tHurricane Irene Threatens New York City, WNYC<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/blogs\/wnyc-news-blog\/2011\/aug\/25\/hurricane-irene-barrles-toward-tri-state-area\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking News, Large<\/strong>
\n\tOccupy L.A., Los Angeles Times
\n\thttp:\/\/timelines.latimes.com\/occupy-la-breaking-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPlanned News\/Events, Small<\/strong>
\n\tCongressional Primaries 2012, Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University
\n\thttp:\/\/www.congressionalprimaries.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPlanned News\/Events, Medium<\/strong>
\n\t12:51, Stuff.co.nz and The Press
\n\thttp:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/12-51<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPlanned News\/Events, Large<\/strong>
\n\tThe Reckoning – America and the World a Decade After 9\/11, The New York Times
\n\thttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/thereckoning<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tExplanatory Reporting, Small<\/strong>
\n\tEarthFix
\n\thttp:\/\/earthfix.opb.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tExplanatory Reporting, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tCollege Completion: Who Graduates from College, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, The Chronicle of Higher Education
\n\thttp:\/\/collegecompletion.chronicle.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tExplanatory Reporting, Large (tie)<\/strong>
\n\tConnecting Music and Gesture, NYTimes.com
\n\thttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/04\/06\/arts\/music\/the-connection-between-gesture-and-music.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGay Rights, State by State (and Beyond), The Guardian
\n\thttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/interactive\/2012\/may\/08\/gay-rights-united-states<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tExplanatory Reporting, Student<\/strong>
\n\tNo finalists, no winner<\/p>\n

\n\tTopical Reporting, Small<\/strong>
\n\tEarthFix
\n\thttp:\/\/earthfix.opb.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tTopical Reporting, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tContinuing Coverage: NYPD<\/span> Stop and Frisk, WNYC<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/articles\/wnyc-news\/2012\/may\/29\/city-teenagers-say-stop-and-frisk-all-about-race-and-class\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tTopical Reporting, Large<\/strong>
\n\tMiddle East Voices, Voice of America
\n\thttp:\/\/www.middleeastvoices.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOnline Commentary, Small<\/strong>
\n\tBear 71, National Film Board of Canada
\n\thttp:\/\/bear71.nfb.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOnline Commentary, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tMad Men Coverage, Slate Magazine
\n\thttp:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/tv_club\/features\/2012\/mad_men_season_5\/week_1\/mad_men_returns_and_the_tv_club_puts_on_its_party_plaid_.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOnline Commentary, Large<\/strong>
\n\tGrantland.com — Bill Simmons, ESPN<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/8026268\/the-consequences-caring<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFeature, Small<\/strong>
\n\tCoal: A Love Story, Powering a Nation
\n\thttp:\/\/coalalovestory.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFeature, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tBreaking Caste, globeandmail.com
\n\thttp:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/breaking-caste\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFeature, Large<\/strong>
\n\tMauritania, CNN<\/span>
\n\thttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/mauritania<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFeature, Student<\/strong>
\n\tSlab City Stories, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
\n\thttp:\/\/slabcitystories.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Small<\/strong>
\n\tNo Choice: Florida Charter Schools Failing to Serve Students with Disabilities, StateImpact Florida (WUSF<\/span> and WLRN<\/span>-Miami Herald News Public Radio)
\n\thttp:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/14\/no-choice-florida-charter-schools-failing-to-serve-students-with-disabilities\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Medium<\/strong>
\n\tBroken Shield, California Watch
\n\thttp:\/\/californiawatch.org\/public-safety\/sloppy-investigations-leave-abuse-disabled-unsolved-14971<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tGannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Large<\/strong>
\n\tStand Your Ground, Tampa Bay Times
\n\thttp:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/stand<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNon-English Projects, Small\/Medium<\/strong>
\n\tMexodus, Borderzine.com (Mexico \/ U.S.)
\n\thttp:\/\/mexodus.borderzine.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNon-English Projects, Large<\/strong>
\n\tPortraits of Paraná, Gazeta do Povo (Brazil)
\n\thttp:\/\/www.gazetadopovo.com.br\/vidaecidadania\/retratosparana\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNews and Online Commentary, Student<\/strong>
\n\tThe Red Line Project — NATO<\/span> Coverage, The Red Line Project, DePaul University
\n\thttp:\/\/www.redlineproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAbout ONA<\/span><\/strong>
\n\tThe Online News Association<\/a> is the world’s largest association of online journalists. ONA’s mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public. The membership includes news writers, producers, designers, editors, bloggers, technologists, photographers, academics, students and others who produce and distribute news for digital delivery systems. ONA<\/span> also hosts the annual Online News Association annual conference<\/a> and administers the Online Journalism Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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