2026

General Excellence in Online Journalism

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Newsroom Finalists

LA NACION
The New York Times

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Newsroom Finalists

ProPublica
The Seattle Times
The Verge

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Micro Newsroom Finalists

Civil Eats
Jacksonville Today
Local News International
The Pudding

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Newsroom Finalists

Bellingcat
Block Club Chicago
Grist
Mission Local

Knight Award for Public Service

finalist

Exposed and Expendable

The New York Times

finalist

Operation Metro Surge

Minnesota Star Tribune

finalist

Syria after Assad

Reuters

Breaking News

Breaking News, Large Newsroom winner

A Fatal Encounter

Minnesota Star Tribune

Finalists:

Texas Floods
The New York Times
The mass shooting at Brown University
The Boston Globe
Tumbler Ridge coverage
The Globe and Mail

Breaking News, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Historic December floods

The Seattle Times

Finalists:

ICE officers arrest N.J. mayor outside immigrant detention center
NJ Advance Media
ICE raid and protests in South Burlington, Vermont
Vermont Public

Digital Video Storytelling

Digital Video Storytelling, Long Form winner

Filmed in Gaza

NBC News Digital

Meow Meow: Inside Russia’s Mephedrone Teen Crisis

BBC News

Status: Venezuelan

FRONTLINE FEATURES in collaboration with Univision, ProPublica

Finalists:

Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media
Bloomberg Originals, DCTV, Jolt.film, JW Standard
Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question
Bellingcat, Evident Media, FRONTLINE (PBS), The Washington Post
The other side of paradise: Two women accuse Julio Iglesias of sexual abuse
elDiario.es, TelevisaUnivision
The true cost of data centers
Business Insider

Digital Video Storytelling, Series winner

Agents of Chaos: Tracking Border Patrol Operations Across the US

Bellingcat, CalMatters, Evident Media

View From Above

Business Insider

Finalists:

A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Video Series
Alianza Rebelde Investiga, Cazadores de Fake News, FRONTLINE (PBS), ProPublica, The Texas Tribune
ICE and Immigration
The New York Times
Sick in a Hospital Town
ProPublica

Digital Video Storytelling, Short Form winner

Hidden Invasion: Inside Rwanda’s covert war in eastern Congo

NBC News Digital

What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War

Retro Report

Finalists:

How women in Mexico protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem
Associated Press, Mongabay
The Los Angeles Schoolteacher Leading the Fight Against ICE
Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Intercept
What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut
ProPublica

Digital Video Storytelling, Social Media winner

Dave Jorgenson Goes Independent

Local News International

The Economist’s Visual Investigations

The Economist

Finalists:

How Trump is Profiting from the Presidency
New York Times Opinion Shows
Nat Geo What in the History Explainers
National Geographic
The Children of Dilley
ProPublica
What Japan’s Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us About the Dangers of Nuclear War
Retro Report

Excellence in AI Innovation

Excellence in AI Innovation, Large Newsroom winner

Surfacing the Story: How WSJ’s ORCA Unlocks the Podcast Universe

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

Police Records Access Project
UC Berkeley School of Journalism's Investigative Reporting Program
Public Service Journalism with an AI Boost
Bloomberg Industry Group
The New York Times’s A.I. Toolkit for Investigative Journalism
The New York Times

Excellence in AI Innovation, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

The Thread: AI-Assisted Obituary Curation as Cultural Journalism

HEATDRAWN Media

Finalists:

Decoding Climate Discourse: AI-Driven Analysis of Editorials
Clif
ELNC – Using AI To Improve Translations
Enlace Latino NC

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Daily/Weekly News Finalists

CBC Front Burner: Portraits of childhood in Gaza
CBC News
Imperfect Paradise
LAist

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Limited Series Finalists

Calls from a Killer
CBC Podcasts
Camp Swamp Road
The Wall Street Journal
Dirtbag Climber
CBC Podcasts
Left To Their Own Devices
Toronto Star
Shipwreck: How a Captain, Company, and Culture Sank the SS El Faro
Aoide Media, Audible, Sugar23

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Ongoing Series Finalists

30 for 30 Podcasts: Murder at the U
ESPN
Pablo Torre Finds Out: The Aspiration Files
Meadowlark Media
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Use of Audio Storytelling Finalists

Becoming Bovino
Chicago Public Media
El guardián del puente (The Bridge Guardian)
Radio Ambulante
You’ve never heard climate change like this before
National Geographic

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

Viktoriia Project

Forbidden Stories

finalist

Jailed and Pregnant

NBC News Digital

finalist

The Poisonous Lead Trade

Premium Times, The Examination, The New York Times, Truth Reporting Post

Excellence in Newsletters

Excellence in Newsletters, Portfolio Finalists

Engage. Inform. Activate.
LOOKOUT
From reach to connection: Boston Globe newsletter portfolio
The Boston Globe

Excellence in Newsletters, Single Newsletter Finalists

Camberville
The Boston Globe
My Legislator
CalMatters
Sprouted
Vermont Public
The 19th Takes on Menopause and Builds a Community
19th News

Excellence in Science Reporting

Excellence in Science Reporting, Large Newsroom winner

Cancer Capitalism

Bloomberg News

Finalists:

Fatal Fentanyl
LA NACION
The “megadrought” striking the American Southwest
Nikkei
The two halves of Maryam
The Globe and Mail

Excellence in Science Reporting, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town

The Xylom

Finalists:

Exposed
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School of Journalism ASU, Scripps News
Exposed: Testing the toxic legacy of lead in New Orleans
Verite News
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
ProPublica
These orcas are on the brink—and so is the science that could save them
Scientific American

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Portfolio winner

Taken by Taxes

Injustice Watch, Investigative Project on Race and Equity

Finalists:

64 Days in Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Hidden at Home
The Record / NorthJersey.com
No Place to Sleep
Hearst Connecticut Media Group

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Single Story winner

Cost of Failing

Spotlight PA

Finalists:

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror.
Mississippi Today
Damascus Dossier
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
The Alabama Solution
Alabama Film Project LLC
The Intersection
The Oregonian / OregonLive

Excellence in Social Media Engagement

Excellence in Social Media Engagement, Large Newsroom Finalists

What Iranians are Telling Us
CBC News
Climate Choices
Associated Press
Pastors and Prey
NBC News
The Economist’s TikTok channel
The Economist

Excellence in Social Media Engagement, Medium Newsroom Finalists

The Cranford Killings
NJ Advance Media
The ICE surge in Minnesota
MPR News
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Social Video Strategy
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Excellence in Social Media Engagement, Small Newsroom Finalists

Dave Jorgenson Goes Independent
Local News International
Exposed: How the toxic legacy of lead lingers in New Orleans
Verite News
Judicial Elections 101
Injustice Watch
Mississippi Today – Rankin County Sheriff’s Office reporting
Mississippi Today

Excellence in Sports Reporting

Excellence in Sports Reporting, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Prey to Play

NJ Advance Media

Excellence in Technology Reporting

Excellence in Technology Reporting, Large Newsroom winner

Meta’s Secrets to Success

Reuters

Finalists:

The Dangerous Consequences of Chatbot Delusions
The Wall Street Journal
TikTok’s mental health ‘rabbit hole’
The Washington Post

Excellence in Technology Reporting, Medium Newsroom winner

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

WIRED

Finalists:

Power Hungry: AI and our energy future
MIT Technology Review
Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Failures
ProPublica

Excellence in Technology Reporting, Small Newsroom winner

Pennsylvania’s AI infrastructure boom: From political announcement to local consequence

Technical.ly

Finalists:

A Starlink lab exposed unsuspecting workers to toxic chemicals. Records show SpaceX didn’t act until the state got involved
InvestigateWest
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
GamersNexus, LLC

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large Newsroom Finalists

Fukushima Daiichi, 15 Years Later: Unanswered Questions — Inside the Damaged Reactors Through 3D Graphics
The Asahi Shimbun
Hamshika’s puzzle: How a Sri Lankan woman seeking asylum in the US ended up in Rwanda
Al Jazeera Media Network
Is North Korea’s ‘princess’ walking a path toward succession? AI analytics of more than 14,000 hours of footage highlights elevation of Kim Jong Un’s daughter
Nikkei
Scammed Into Scamming
Reuters

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Medium Newsroom Finalists

How scientists are working to save the Congo Basin
National Geographic
Notes from a Burmese Prison
The Verge
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica
What is the tallest mountain on Earth?
National Geographic
What’s the most colorful S.F. neighborhood? We analyzed 115,000 homes to find out
San Francisco Chronicle

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom Finalists

Building on Ruins: The Russification of Mariupol, One Apartment Block at a Time
Bellingcat
Cerrado — Brazil’s Sacred Water Link
Ambiental Media
The Pudding

Explanatory Reporting

Explanatory Reporting, Large Newsroom winner

Floods Above

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Jailed and Pregnant
Bloomberg Law and NBC News
TikTok’s mental health ‘rabbit hole’
The Washington Post

Explanatory Reporting, Medium Newsroom winner

License to Kill

CalMatters

Finalists:

Burned: A San Francisco Chronicle investigation of the insurance crisis now devastating wildfire survivors
San Francisco Chronicle
Burned: The wood pellet industry’s effects on the U.S. South
Verite News & Grist
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
ProPublica

Explanatory Reporting, Small Newsroom winner

Supreme Costs

Wisconsin Watch

Finalists:

Cost of Failing
Spotlight PA
Fumed
Public Health Watch
Operation Metro Surge
Minnesota Reformer
Special education law under fire
The 74 Media

Feature

Feature, Large Newsroom winner

Exposed and Expendable

The New York Times

Finalists:

Pastors and Prey
NBC News Digital
The two halves of Maryam
The Globe and Mail
What Argentina’s Secret Archives Reveal About Its Last Dictatorship
LA NACION
What It Was Like Inside Syria’s Most Fearsome Prison
The New York Times

Feature, Medium Newsroom winner

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror.

Mississippi Today

Finalists:

Fighting for Breath
ProPublica
She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead
The Seattle Times
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is it?
WIRED

Feature, Small Newsroom winner

Saving Sinking Homes & Mourning Land that Leaves

The Margin

Finalists:

Sexual assault allegations at Julio Iglesias´ mansions
TelevisaUnivision
The Price of Progress: The Dark Side of Critical Minerals in the Amazon
Amazon Underworld
The State of Coca
Amazon Underworld

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism, Overall Excellence, Community-Based & Rural Focus Finalists

Disaster 101
Grist
Hambre de Futuro
LA NACION
How Should Opioid Settlement Funds Be Spent in Mississippi? We Let the People Most Affected Speak
Gulf States Newsroom

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism, Overall Excellence, Urban & National Focus Finalists

Chicago Under Siege: Block Club’s Coverage Of Operation Midway Blitz
Block Club Chicago
Por Comunidad, Para Comunidad: Covering ICE Enforcement in Boyle Heights
Boyle Heights Beat, The LA Local
School Game Plan
LAist
The Federal Workforce Feedback Loop
ProPublica

Innovation in Revenue Strategy

Innovation in Revenue Strategy, Large Newsroom winner

Strib Varsity

Minnesota Star Tribune

Innovation in Revenue Strategy, Medium Newsroom winner

The Kyiv Independent Reader Revenue Strategy

The Kyiv Independent

Online Commentary

Online Commentary, Package of Columns winner

American War

Finalists:

Cancer Chronicles
AL.com
United States of Alabama

Personal Narrative winner

Holes in my head. Wires in my brain

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

Dan Bright was my brother. Death Row didn’t kill us, but it tried.
The Lens NOLA
Finding My Grandmother’s Ma’amoul Cookie in Brooklyn: A Story of Palestinian Survival
Zeteo News

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Large Newsroom winner

Exposed and Expendable

The New York Times

Finalists:

Syria after Assad
Reuters
Tesla’s Dangerous Doors
Bloomberg News
The Poisonous Lead Trade
Premium Times, The Examination, The New York Times, Truth Reporting Post

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium Newsroom winner

Rx Roulette: The FDA’s Dangerous Gamble on America’s Drugs

ProPublica

Finalists:

Deadly choices: How officials’ missteps contributed to the catastrophic Hill Country flood
Houston Chronicle
Failed to Death: A Chronicle Investigation
San Francisco Chronicle
Shrouded in Secrecy: When hospitals use spit hoods on patients, no one is watching
The Seattle Times

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom winner

The Price of Progress: The Dark Side of Critical Minerals in the Amazon

Amazon Underworld

Finalists:

Off the Rails
CBC, Evident Media, Global Reporting Centre at the University of British Columbia, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School of Journalism ASU, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland, NPR, The Narwhal
The Institute
Spotlight PA

The University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism

The University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Large Newsroom Finalists

Standards of Care
The Boston Globe
The true cost of data centers
Business Insider
Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes
The Wall Street Journal
Zombie Debt
Bloomberg News

The University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium Newsroom Finalists

A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror.
Mississippi Today
Trump Team Financials
ProPublica
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
ProPublica

Topical Reporting: Artificial Intelligence

Topical Reporting: Artificial Intelligence, Large Newsroom winner

Inside the Trillion-Dollar AI Machine

Bloomberg News

Finalists:

She was lonely and depressed. Her ‘beautiful little AI family’ changed everything.
The Boston Globe
The Chatbot Delusions
Bloomberg News

Topical Reporting: Artificial Intelligence, Medium Newsroom winner

“AI boyfriends”: Teens and chatbot relationships

Hearst Connecticut Media Group

The invisible labor of AI

The Verge

Finalists:

As superbugs become deadlier, scientists partner with AI to transform drug development
San Francisco Chronicle
Hype Correction
MIT Technology Review

Topical Reporting: Artificial Intelligence, Micro Newsroom winner

Shell Game

Kaleidoscope

Finalists:

Exposing the scourge of AI nudifiers
Indicator
iDave
Local News International

Topical Reporting: Artificial Intelligence, Small Newsroom winner

My mom and Dr. DeepSeek

Rest of World

Finalists:

Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres?
The Conversation Australia and New Zealand
Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work
KNKX

Topical Reporting: Gender and Identity

Topical Reporting: Gender and Identity, Large Newsroom winner

Her turn to play

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

Corporate America’s retreat from DEI has eliminated thousands of jobs
NPR
How India’s arkestra dancing shows exploit minors
Deutsche Welle
How LGBTQ Americans are grappling with Trump
NBC News
Living in Pryde
GBH News

Topical Reporting: Gender and Identity, Medium Newsroom winner

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

ProPublica

Finalists:

The future of being trans
The Verge
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
WIRED

Topical Reporting: Gender and Identity, Small Newsroom winner

The Network

Futuro Media Group

Finalists:

Openly: Underreported LGBTQ+ stories on TikTok
Openly (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
You’d better start paying attention to the manosphere. You’re living in it.
The Conversation Australia and New Zealand

Topical Reporting: Immigration

Topical Reporting: Immigration, Large Newsroom Finalists

Topical Reporting: Immigration, Medium Newsroom Finalists

Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
Bellingcat, CalMatters, Evident Media
Dreams Detained
Chalkbeat
How the US Government Remade Itself to Crack Down on Immigration
WIRED
Pregnant, postpartum — and in ICE custody
The 19th
Undocumented
KXAN

Topical Reporting: Immigration, Small Newsroom Finalists

A Long Way Home
Arizona Luminaria
And then they were gone
Mission Local
NYC: Nation’s Capital of Immigration Courthouse Arrests
THE CITY
WLRN Immigration Multimedia Reporting Package

Student Journalism Award

winner

When Lightning Strikes

WUFT.org at the UF College of Journalism and Communications

finalist

A Denton woman went looking for her sister’s grave. It sent her on a journey to save a cemetery.

KERA North Texas Public Broadcasting

finalist