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  • 2021 Online Journalism Awards Now Open

    Submit your best work to the 2021 Online Journalism Awards. Submission deadline is June 10.

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This year the Online Journalism Awards feature 45 awards, including 5 with a total of $40,000 in prize money.

These prizes are made possible by SmartNews, Journalism 360, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and McKinsey Publishing. Their awards honor general excellence, engaged journalism, immersive storytelling, public service and climate change reporting.

ONA members: Submit nominations for the 2021 ONA Community Award

July 14, 2021 | Online Journalism Awards

It’s one of our favorite times of the year: Nominations are now open for the 2021 ONA Community Award. Launched in 2018, this award honors an individual or a small team that has made an outsized contribution to digital journalism, ... Read More

Submissions are open for the 2021 Online Journalism Awards

May 5, 2021 | Online Journalism Awards

The Online News Association (ONA) announced today the call for entries for the 2021 Online Journalism Awards (OJAs), celebrating the best in digital journalism from around the world. In all categories, judges will give weight to the quality of the journalism, digital ... Read More

When to watch the 2020 Online Journalism Awards winner announcements

October 8, 2020 | Online Journalism Awards

The 2020 Online Journalism Awards represent the best in digital journalism from the past year. Looking through the finalist projects is like digging through a gold mine of inspiring journalism—you’ll find everything from collaborative investigations that involved reporters around the ... Read More

Nearly 500 Recipients in the Past 20 Years

Recent General Excellence winners include The Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, Honolulu Civil Beat, The Pudding, The Washington Post and The Marshall Project.

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Watch the 2019 Ceremony

Join emcee Sam Sanders, host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute, as he presented last year’s Online Journalism Awards.

Watch the Ceremony