Seattle Times, ProPublica, NPR Take Home 2014 Online Journalism Awards
(firmenpresse) - CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwired) -- 09/29/14 -- Coverage of natural disasters and health care as well as the making of a T-shirt took top honors Saturday night at the , which ended the .
At the 14th annual awards dinner, ONA also announced a new award for 2015, , honoring work by reporters in conflict zones and named for the Global Post freelancer killed in Syria in August.
and dominated the Breaking News categories with respective coverage of a local landslide and floods in Alberta. The two newest OJA categories, the $7,500 University of Florida Awards in Investigative Data Journalism, were won by the ''s examination of screening programs for newborns with rare diseases and for the cover-up of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.
Each winner of the three General Excellence Awards -- , and -- took home a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Knight Award for Public Service, with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, went to ''s I-Team investigation into Florida''s lack of protection for abused children. won the $5,000 Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Award for its widely used Publishers'' Toolbox.
Launched in 2000, the OJAs are administered by the and are the only comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in digital journalism, focusing on independent, community, nonprofit, academic and major media.
Here are the winners in each category, with links to their winning entries:
Seattle Times
Calgary Herald
No finalists or winner
(Tie)
National Geographic Magazine
NPR
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Hollow Interactive
Seattle Times
The Baltimore Sun
ProPublica
The Pixel Hunt
NPR
ProPublica
BDN Maine
Northwestern University Knight Lab
Los Angeles Times
ProPublica
The Center for Public Integrity
The Miami Herald
NPR
Maclean''s
VG
Mother Jones
Texas Tribune
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
(tie)
University of Miami
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
USA TODAY
ProPublica
No finalists or winner
The New York Times
ProPublica
The Texas Tribune
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MPR News
The awards ceremony, which was live-streamed directly from the Chicago Sheraton Hotel and Towers, will be available for viewing soon .
A group of 60 industry-leading journalists and new media professionals, led by ONA Board member and OJA Chair Joshua Hatch, teamed up to screen entrants and select finalists. Twelve judges, representing a diverse cross-section of the industry, then conferred to determine winners from independent, community, nonprofit, major media, start-up and international news sites.
The 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 also hosts the annual and administers the .
supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit
is a corporate foundation sponsored by Gannett Co., Inc. whose mission is to invest in the future of the communities in which Gannett does business, and in the future of our industry. It supports projects that take a creative approach to fundamental issues such as education and neighborhood improvement, economic development, youth development, community problem-solving, assistance to disadvantaged people, environmental conservation and cultural enrichment.
is driving innovation and engagement across the disciplines of advertising, journalism, public relations and telecommunication. The strength of its programs, faculty, students and alumni -- in research and in practice -- has earned the college ongoing recognition as one of the best in the nation among its peers. The college offers bachelor''s, Master''s and doctoral degrees. The college''s strength is drawn from both academic rigor and experiential learning. CJC students have the opportunity to gain practical experience in the Innovation News Center, which generates content across multiple platforms, and a strategic communication agency that will begin operation in Fall 2014. The college includes seven broadcast and digital media properties and the nation''s only program in public interest communications.
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