2016

The Texas Tribune, Quartz, AJ+ Digital News Publishing and The New York Times were recipients of General Excellence awards. Learn more about the 2016 Online Journalism Award recipients.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

AJ+

The New York Times

Finalists:

Bloomberg News
Highline
Vox

Medium Newsroom winner

Quartz

Finalists:

FRONTLINE
Le Temps
ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner

The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

De Correspondent
KBIA
The Intercept
The Trace

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

Prisons Reporting

HuffPost

finalist

A Matter of Dignity

Star Tribune

finalist

Clash in the Name of Care

The Boston Globe

finalist

Nuisance Abatement

ProPublica, The New York Daily News

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Paris Attacks

The New York Times

Finalists:

Paris Terrorist Attacks
CNN
San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
Los Angeles Times

Medium Newsroom winner

An Occupation in Eastern Oregon

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Finalists:

Emanuel AME Church Killings
The Post and Courier
San Bernardino Terrorist Attack
Los Angeles News Group, San Bernardino Sun

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

Visual Digital Storytelling from The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

6×9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement
The Guardian, The Mill
Buying Democracy
Newsy
Homan Square: An Interactive Portrait of Chicago’s Detainees
The Guardian US
The Yellowstone Issue
National Geographic

Medium Newsroom winner

Casualties of the Streets

Austin American-Statesman

Finalists:

Virtual Reality
FRONTLINE

Small Newsroom winner

Undercurrent

UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Finalists:

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

2050 Demographics

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

America’s Great Housing Divide
The Washington Post
An Exploration into Medical Errors
Vox Media
The Upshot, Inequality
The New York Times
What is Code?
Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Digital

Medium Newsroom winner

The Price of Admission

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX, The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

Check 2016
Newsy
The Circuit: Tracking America’s Electronic Waste
EarthFix, KCTS9, Oregon Public Broadcasting
How The Iowa Democratic Caucus Works, Featuring Legos
Vermont Public Radio
Killing the Colorado
Matter, ProPublica
Shocking Force
The Baltimore Sun

Small Newsroom winner

Pulp Fiction

Climate Central

Finalists:

The Population Bomb?
Retro Report
Unequal Risk
The Center for Public Integrity
Video Explainers
Grist

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

Cosby: The Women

New York Magazine

Finalists:

Ground Water
The Desert Sun, USA TODAY
The Life and Times of Strider Wolf
The Boston Globe
Taken Hostage
The Wall Street Journal

Medium Newsroom winner

The Downloaders

Verdens Gang (VG)

Finalists:

Inheritance
FRONTLINE
Unsettled Journeys
The Baltimore Sun

Small Newsroom winner

The Harbor: This Waianae Homeless Camp Is Not What You’d Expect

Honolulu Civil Beat

Finalists:

The Doctor
The Atavist Magazine

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

winner

Nearby Tipping

Breaking News

finalist

ArchieML

The New York Times

finalist

Atlas

Quartz

finalist

Autotune

Vox Media

finalist

Shorthand

Online Commentary

winner

A Conversation on Race

The New York Times

finalist

Boston Globe Ideas

The Boston Globe

finalist

The Real Miss America

Mashable

Planned News/Events

Large Newsroom winner

The Election

The New York Times

Finalists:

US Election Primaries
The Guardian US

Medium Newsroom winner

One Year in Ferguson

St. Louis Public Radio

Finalists:

For Peshawar
The Express Tribune

Small Newsroom winner

Campaign 2016: The Candidates & the World

Council on Foreign Relations

Finalists:

The New Hampshire Primary
New Hampshire Public Radio

Sports, Health and Wellness

Large Newsroom winner

Sports Visualization

The New York Times

Finalists:

BBC Winners – Silvana Lima
BBC World Service

Medium Newsroom winner

Becoming Royal

McClatchy, The Kansas City Star

Finalists:

Going For Eleven: UConn Women Win The 2016 NCAA Tournament
Hartford Courant

Small Newsroom winner

Disqualified After Concussions, College Football Players Recruited Back Onto the Field

STAT

Finalists:

Blood and Sport
Retro Report

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

The Panama Papers

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Center for Public Integrity

Finalists:

Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?
Bloomberg News
Homan Square
The Guardian US
Insane. Invisible. In Danger.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Tampa Bay Times
Red Cross
NPR, ProPublica

Medium Newsroom winner

The Color of Debt

ProPublica

Finalists:

Officer Involved
Southern California Public Radio
Pesticides in Pot
The Oregonian / OregonLive

Small Newsroom winner

Exxon: The Road Not Taken

InsideClimate News

Finalists:

Civilian Deaths in Yemen: A Social Media Investigation
reported.ly
The Mastermind
The Atavist Magazine

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Focus on Force

Orlando Sentinel

Finalists:

Failure Factories
Tampa Bay Times
The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election
The New York Times
The Tennis Racket
BuzzFeed News
What Went Wrong in Flint
FiveThirtyEight

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

The Drone Papers

The Intercept

Finalists:

Surgeon Scorecard
ProPublica

Topical Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Missing and Murdered

The Globe and Mail

The County

The Guardian US

Finalists:

#OscarsSoWhite
Los Angeles Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Reliving Agent Orange

ProPublica, The Virginian-Pilot

Finalists:

Student Voices in a Tumultuous Year
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Violence in Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun

Small Newsroom winner

God & Governing: How Texas Legislators’ Religious Beliefs Guide Their Lawmaking

The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

Hawaii Behind Bars
Honolulu Civil Beat

Pro-Am Student Award

winner

Out of the Shadows

UBC Graduate School of Journalism

finalist

America’s Weed Rush

Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Carnegie-Knight News21

finalist

Bridging Selma

Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication, West Virginia University Reed College of Media

finalist

Return to Chernobyl

FRONTLINE, NYU Journalism

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

NYC Values

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU Journalism

Finalists:

Bordering on the American Dream
Texas Christian University
All My Intimate Relations: Stories of Indigenous Sexuality
UBC Graduate School of Journalism
This is a Canadian Issue
Ryerson University School of Journalism

Small Newsroom winner

2016

The Texas Tribune, Quartz, AJ+ Digital News Publishing and The New York Times were recipients of General Excellence awards. Learn more about the 2016 Online Journalism Award recipients.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

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Knight Award for Public Service

ProPublica, The New York Daily News

Breaking News

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Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

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Explanatory Reporting

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Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX, The Texas Tribune

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Feature

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

Online Commentary

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Sports, Health and Wellness

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McClatchy, The Kansas City Star

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The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Center for Public Integrity

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The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

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Topical Reporting

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ProPublica, The Virginian-Pilot

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Pro-Am Student Award

Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Carnegie-Knight News21

Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication, West Virginia University Reed College of Media

FRONTLINE, NYU Journalism

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, NYU Journalism

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