2012

The New York Times, ProPublica, and Rue89 were recipients of General Excellence awards in 2014. Learn more about 2012 Online Journalism Award recipients.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

NYTimes.com

Finalists:

CNN Digital
The Seattle Times
WSJ.com

Medium Newsroom winner

ProPublica

Finalists:

California Watch
Slate
WNYC

Non-English, Small/Medium winner

Rue89 (French)

Finalists:

20minutos.es (Spanish)
Il Tirreno (Italian)

Small Newsroom winner

FRONTLINE

Finalists:

Homicide Watch D.C.
St. Louis Beacon
The Texas Tribune

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

Homicide Watch D.C.

finalist

Abused and Used

The New York Times

finalist

Broken Shield

California Watch, The Center for Investigative Reporting

finalist

Empty Cradles

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

finalist

Stand Your Ground

Tampa Bay Times

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Occupy L.A.

Los Angeles Times

Finalists:

The Death of Muammar Gaddafi
Al Jazeera English
Hurricane Irene
The New York Times
The Fall of Tripoli
Associated Press

Medium Newsroom winner

Hurricane Irene Threatens New York City

WNYC

Finalists:

Occupy Nashville
The Tennessean
University of Alberta Shooting
Edmonton Journal

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Connecting Music and Gesture

NYTimes.com

Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond)

The Guardian

Finalists:

A Record Chain of Kidney Transplants
NYTimes.com
Somalia: Where Famine Is a Crime
The Toronto Star
StateImpact
NPR

Medium Newsroom winner

College Completion: Who Graduates from College, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Finalists:

The Opportunity Gap: Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?
ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner

EarthFix

Finalists:

Andrew Leonard: The Student Loan Crisis
Salon
Class: The Great Divide
St. Louis Beacon
Putting Detroit’s Problems in Regional and Historical Context
Remapping Debate
The Farmer of the Future
Harvest Public Media

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

Mauritania

CNN

Finalists:

Following the Dreamers: What Happened to the Seat Pleasant 59?
The Washington Post
Outside the Lines: A Man Obsessed
ESPN
Punched Out — The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer
NYTimes.com
Under Suspicion: Voices About Muslims in America
The Washington Post

Medium Newsroom winner

The Education of Dasmine Cathey

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Finalists:

Aftermath Special Presentation
ABC Open

Small Newsroom winner

Coal: A Love Story

Powering a Nation

Finalists:

Bear 71
National Film Board of Canada
The Canoe Project
Under the Sun on WLRN, WLRN-Miami Herald News
Twitter by Post
The Morning News

Student winner

Slab City Stories

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Finalists:

Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism

Large winner

Stand Your Ground

Tampa Bay Times

Finalists:

The Fed’s Trillion-Dollar Secret
Bloomberg News
Methadone and the Politics of Pain
The Seattle Times

Medium winner

Broken Shield

California Watch

Finalists:

Decoding Prime
California Watch
Redistricting: How Powerful Interests Are Drawing You Out of a Vote
ProPublica
Terrorists for the FBI
Mother Jones

Small winner

No Choice: Florida Charter Schools Failing to Serve Students with Disabilities

StateImpact Florida, WLRN-Miami Herald News, WUSF

Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism

winner

Storify

finalist

CartoDB

finalist

NewsCred

finalist

Open Source Election Tools

Los Angeles Times

News and Online Commentary, Student

winner

The Red Line Project — NATO Coverage

DePaul University, DePaul University The Red Line Project

finalist

USC Shootings

Neon Tommy

Non-English Projects

Large winner

Portraits of Paraná (Brazil)

Gazeta do Povo

Finalists:

The Cords that Bind Us (Colombia)
El Tiempo
First Anniversary of Japan Earthquake (Brazil)
Universo Online

Small/Medium winner

Mexodus (Mexico / U.S.)

Borderzine.com

Finalists:

To Understand the Crisis (Spain)
20minutos.es
Whisper Jokes in the GDR – Protest Off the Record (Germany)
Berliner Morgenpost

Online Commentary

Large Newsroom winner

Grantland.com — Bill Simmons

ESPN

Finalists:

Death and Dying — Steve Lopez
Los Angeles Times
Lyndsey Parker Yahoo! Music
Yahoo!
The Seattle Times Editorial Section
The Seattle Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Mad Men Coverage

Slate

Finalists:

Kevin Drum Blog
Mother Jones
Slate Political Gabfest
Slate

Small Newsroom winner

Bear 71

National Film Board of Canada

Finalists:

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Lab Rat
Salon
Minorities Within a Minority Culture
The Mary Sue

Planned News/Events

Large Newsroom winner

The Reckoning – America and the World a Decade After 9/11

The New York Times

Finalists:

Judging The Health Care Law
NPR
The L.A. Riots, 20 Years Later
Los Angeles Times
Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
newsday.com

Medium Newsroom winner

12:51

Stuff.co.nz, The Press

Finalists:

Oscars Coverage
Slate

Small Newsroom winner

Congressional Primaries 2012

Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University Knight Lab

Finalists:

Primary Night 2012
The Texas Tribune
Supreme Court and Health Care Reform
WebMD

Topical Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Middle East Voices

Voice of America

Finalists:

CNN Belief Blog, CNN
CNN
FiveThirtyEight — Nate Silver’s Political Calculus
The New York Times
Philly School Files
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Medium Newsroom winner

Continuing Coverage: NYPD Stop and Frisk

WNYC

Finalists:

California Lost
California Watch
Education Coverage and the Turnaround
Las Vegas Sun

Small Newsroom winner

EarthFix

Finalists:

Counterspill
Nieman Journalism Lab

2012

The New York Times, ProPublica, and Rue89 were recipients of General Excellence awards in 2014. Learn more about 2012 Online Journalism Award recipients.

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Knight Award for Public Service

California Watch, The Center for Investigative Reporting

Breaking News

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Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism

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StateImpact Florida, WLRN-Miami Herald News, WUSF

Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism

News and Online Commentary, Student

DePaul University, DePaul University The Red Line Project

Non-English Projects

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Planned News/Events

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Stuff.co.nz, The Press

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Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University Knight Lab

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