2024

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

ProPublica

Finalists:

CalMatters
The Marshall Project
The Texas Tribune

Micro Newsroom winner

Mission Local

Finalists:

Civil Eats
PublicSource
The Air Current

Small Newsroom winner

The Markup

Finalists:

Bellingcat Online
Honolulu Civil Beat

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

State of Disrepair: Inside Idaho’s Crumbling Schools

Idaho Statesman, ProPublica

finalist

Lost Rites

NBC News Digital

3M Truth in Science Award

Large Newsroom winner

Illustration of bats flying at night in front of the moon.

The Bat Lands

Reuters

Finalists:

Don’t waste food
Reuters
Eating Lab
The Washington Post
Why the haze has reached Singapore’s shores again
SPH Media, The Straits Times

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Photo of a politician speaking from behind a podium on the site of an industrial plant

Lithium Liabilities

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School of Journalism ASU

Finalists:

Electricity Saved My Brain
Science News
The new weight loss drugs are revolutionizing our understanding of desire. Food cravings could be just the beginning
STAT

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Photo of Washington Monument in DC in a haze caused by wildfire smoke

Canadian wildfire smoke

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Bridge Collapse in Baltimore
The New York Times
Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse
The Washington Post

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Photo of the flooding in a town in Vermont

Historic flooding inundates Vermont

VTDigger.org

Finalists:

Crises for Chicago’s Migrants
Block Club Chicago
Prosecutors and Campus Protests
The Appeal

Digital Video Storytelling

Long Form, Large Newsroom winner

The Discord Leaks

FRONTLINE, The Washington Post

Finalists:

Run For Your Life
Bloomberg News
Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company
The Wall Street Journal

Long Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Cover image for film shows graphic of military man with gun and veiled woman

The Night Doctrine

ProPublica, The New Yorker

Finalists:

After the Crash
Mother Jones

Series, Large Newsroom winner

Photo of a documentary cover image with a group of brown men and women

52 Documentary: 22 Episodes of Inspiring Women’s Journeys

Voice of America

Finalists:

Start Here
Al Jazeera Digital

Short Form, Large Newsroom winner

Cover photo for video of a young boy crying with a baby next to him

On Their Own: Growing Up in War-Torn Gaza

NBC News Digital

Finalists:

Gaza’s Deadliest Days
Al Jazeera Digital
How Big Business Broke Recycling (And Blamed You)
PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal

Short Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Cover graphic for video of a fetus in utero with a needle inserts into womb

What is in utero gene editing?

STAT

Social Media, Large Newsroom winner

Graphic of young boy on destroyed cityscape with text "My Name is Ziad"

My name is Zaid

CNN

Finalists:

Start Here
Al Jazeera Digital

Social Media, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Graphic showing number of songs by Black Women

The Pudding’s Social Media Video

The Pudding

Finalists:

Adapting ProPublica’s Investigative Reporting for Social Video Audiences
ProPublica
Money Behind Bars
The Marshall Project

Excellence in AI Innovation

winner

They Call Us Meat

BBC

finalist

We Asked AI to Map Our Stories. Here are the Results.

THE CITY

finalist

YESEO

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Daily/Weekly News winner

Photo of a woman opening a sheet or shade

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Finalists:

The Decibel
The Globe and Mail

Limited Series winner

Photo of a man without a shirt on covering his back with a blue tarp

A Place to Sleep

Albany Democrat-Herald

Finalists:

NPR’s Embedded: Buffalo Extreme
NPR
The Gun Machine
The Trace, WBUR

Ongoing Series winner

Imperfect Paradise

LAist Studios

Finalists:

Mayhem at OpenAI
The New York Times

Use of Audio Storytelling winner

Graphic of vocal pitch throughout the National Anthem of Whitney Houston's 1991 Super Bowl performance

Quantifying the Diva-ness of 138 National Anthem Performances

The Pudding

Finalists:

Noise Could Take Years Off Your Life. Here’s How
The New York Times

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

Illustration of people in front of a truck with its doors open. In the distance, a truck full of people

Tráileres, trampa para migrantes

Bellingcat, Centro Latinoamericano de Investigación Periodística (CLIP), Chiapas Paralelo, Contracorriente, En un 2x3 Tamaulipas, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Noticias Telemundo, Pie de Página, Plaza Pública

finalist

Lethal Restraint

Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Associated Press, FRONTLINE, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland

finalist

Street lined with cars with group of people including police officers in the middle of the street

Unprepared

FRONTLINE, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune

Excellence in Newsletters

Portfolio winner

PA Local

Spotlight PA

Finalists:

Boston Globe newsletters portfolio
The Boston Globe
WSJ Email Challenges
The Wall Street Journal

Single Newsletter winner

Civil Eats: The Deep Dish

Civil Eats

Tech Things With Joanna Stern

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

Climate Coach
The Washington Post
Make It Make Sense
Southern California Public Radio/LAist

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting

Portfolio winner

Photo of young woman with a hand on her head seated behind a child who is coloring

Alone and Exploited

The New York Times

Missing in Chicago

City Bureau, Invisible Institute

Finalists:

Single Story winner

A New Police Force Chased a 17-Year-Old Boy to His Death. Then It Vanished.

Mother Jones

Finalists:

Excellence in Social Media Engagement

Large Newsroom winner

A collage of images showing a man with a beard on the left, a woman's face in the middle, and a younger boy on the left. The title on the collage reads, "Close up, One Day in Gaza"

One Day in Gaza | Close Up

Al Jazeera Digital

Finalists:

Democracy dies in d̶a̶r̶k̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ social media: How to cover an election and get viral
LA NACION
NBC Debunks
NBC News

Medium Newsroom winner

Friends of the Court

ProPublica

Finalists:

Scientific American TikTok
Scientific American

Small Newsroom winner

Split image with a man on the left and a woman on the right. Text on top reads, "Mexico Tops China as Biggest U.S. Trading Partner"

Council on Foreign Relations’ Instagram

Council on Foreign Relations

Finalists:

Proud City: Pride Month in Chicago
Block Club Chicago

Excellence in Technology Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Fourteen boxes shaded with various skin tones are labeled with occupation titles

Uncovering bias in two leading AI systems

Bloomberg News

Finalists:

How Elon Musk Dominated the Night Sky
The New York Times
The Musk Industrial Complex
Reuters
Western machine tools evade sanctions to fuel China’s nuclear program
Nikkei, Nikkei Asia

Medium Newsroom winner

Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans

STAT

Finalists:

AI Is a Lot of Work
New York Magazine, The Verge
Inside Elon’s Universe
Fortune Media
Kate Knibbs covers the Generative AI Media Muck
WIRED

Small Newsroom winner

$Illustration of a pixelated lock over two buttons labeled \"BLOCK\" and \"VISIBLE,\" set over a background of cascading screenshots of websites$

Digital Book Banning

The Markup

Finalists:

Missed Shots
South Side Weekly

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

Still image of an animated map with images of events happening in different areas of the map

Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour

The New York Times

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

Black and white image of a woman holding an open book in a store

Mass incarceration devastated S.F. Japantown. For the first time, we know how much

San Francisco Chronicle

Finalists:

In Harm’s Way
The Marshall Project
The Year After a Denied Abortion
ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner

Image with red overlay shows two figures silhouetted by a large explosion and cloud of smoke in the distance

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza

Bellingcat

Finalists:

Rest of World – Visual Storytelling
Rest of World
The Pudding’s Portfolio
The Pudding

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Cars line both sides of the street and a crowd of people are gathered at the far end of the street

Unprepared

FRONTLINE, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

Black Boxes: How Police Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine

Medium Newsroom winner

A woman in a yellow mask and medical cape wears bloody purple gloves while administering a blood transfusion to a patient

Bleeding Out: A Public Health in the American Trauma System

The Dallas Morning News, The San Antonio Express-News

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

A tanker truck waits to be loaded with chemicals at K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in a residential area in Channelview, Texas.

Toxic Texas Air

Public Health Watch

Finalists:

Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick.
The Examination, The Museba Project (Cameroon)

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

DonJuan Moses, next to a projection of police cars in Mission Hill after the Stuart shooting. DonJuan was 11 years old when police burst into his Mission Hill home and arrested his cousin.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Abused by the Badge
The Washington Post
They Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Their Teens and Twenties With C.T.E.
The New York Times
Welcome to Our Home
The Finnish Broadcasting Company

Medium Newsroom winner

Lost Patients of Northern State Hospital

The Seattle Times

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

Electricity Saved My Brain

Science News

Finalists:

Richest Little City
Spotlight PA
The Catch
Long Lead
The Lost Children of North Minneapolis
The Sahan Journal, The Trace

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

Overall Excellence, Medium/Large Newsroom winner

Screenshot of a heading for an article titled, "How Well Do You Know Them?"

Get to Know Your Judges: Cleveland Judge Guide

Signal Cleveland, The Marshall Project

Finalists:

Lost Patients of Northern State Hospital
The Seattle Times

Overall Excellence, Micro/Small Newsroom winner

Photograph of a group of Vietnamese elders seated and singing karaoke

Languages of Misinformation

The Markup

Finalists:

Missing in Chicago
City Bureau, Invisible Institute

Online Commentary

Package of Columns winner

The Occupation Style Guide with Sana Saeed

AJ+

Finalists:

David Ignatius
The Washington Post

Personal Narrative winner

My Life With Long Covid

The New York Times

Finalists:

Goodbye to All That Harassment
The Verge

Sports, Health and Wellness

Large Newsroom winner

Collage of photos of young athletes that later developed C.T.E.

They Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Their Teens and Twenties With C.T.E.

The New York Times

Finalists:

Abortion: On the Brink
ABC News

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Photo of a man sitting in front of his son who has struggled with depression

Electricity Saved My Brain

Science News

Finalists:

The Obesity Revolution
STAT

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Alone and Exploited

The New York Times

Finalists:

Girl Influencers
The New York Times
Memory, Inc: The Fatal Cost of Assisted Living
The Washington Post
Slaughter in Sudan
Reuters

Medium Newsroom winner

Denied by AI: Consequences for Sick and Vulnerable Americans

STAT

Finalists:

Fast and Fatal
San Francisco Chronicle

Small Newsroom winner

Amazon Underworld

Armando.info, InfoAmazonia, La Liga Contra el Silencio

Finalists:

As City Battles Housing Shortage, CHA Lets Hundreds Of Empty Homes Decay
Block Club Chicago
Ethics Violations Plague Eric Adams Campaign Fundraising
THE CITY

The University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Dying Early: America’s Life Expectancy Crisis

The Washington Post

Finalists:

The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits
The Examination, The Washington Post

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Misplaced Trust

Grist, The Data-Driven Reporting Project, The Pulitzer Center

Finalists:

Missing in Chicago
City Bureau, Invisible Institute
Thirsty Valley
ProPublica, The Desert Sun

Topical Reporting: Climate Change

winner

In Harm’s Way

The Marshall Project

finalist

Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.

Undark

finalist

The Survivor Species

The Washington Post

Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Identity

Large Newsroom winner

Slavery’s Descendants

Reuters

Finalists:

Black Boxes: How Police Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine
Christine Emba on masculinity
The Washington Post
Naked’ And Defiant: Diary Of An Iranian Protester
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Medium Newsroom winner

The Killing of Richard Oakes

San Francisco Chronicle

Finalists:

Uprooted: How public universities in Virginia and across the nation expanded by displacing Black communities
ProPublica, Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO

Small Newsroom winner

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes

Rest of World

Finalists:

America’s Most Popular Autism Therapy May Not Work — and May Cause Serious Harm
The 74 Media
California Dreaming
The Fuller Project

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

winner

The Price of Plenty

Missouri School of Journalism, The University of Florida

finalist