Finalists for the 2012 Online Journalism Awards were announced today by the Online News Association and its academic partner, the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Eight awards come with a total of $33,000 in prize money, courtesy of theJohn S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation, which also is supporting innovative investigative work with two $2,500 awards.
“Once again, we were overwhelmed with the quality of work submitted,” said ONA Board member Josh Hatch, who, along with the Associated Press’ Director of Global Product Operations Ruth Gersh, co-chairs the Online Journalism Awards Committee. “The use of multimedia, the power of data and social media, and the ability of journalists to integrate them to inform, entertain, and emotionally connect with readers has set a high water mark.”
Here are the finalists:
KNIGHT AWARD FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
- Abused and Used, The New York Times
- Broken Shield, California Watch and Center for Investigative Reporting
- Empty Cradles, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Homicide Watch D.C.
- Stand Your Ground, Tampa Bay Times
GENERAL EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE JOURNALISM, SMALL
GENERAL EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE JOURNALISM, MEDIUM
GENERAL EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE JOURNALISM, LARGE
GENERAL EXCELLENCE, NON-ENGLISH, SMALL/MEDIUM
- 20minutos.es (Spain)
- Il Tirreno (Italy)
- Rue89 (France)
GANNETT FOUNDATION AWARD FOR TECHNICAL INNOVATION IN THE SERVICE OF DIGITAL JOURNALISM
BREAKING NEWS, MEDIUM
- Hurricane Irene Threatens New York City, WNYC
- Occupy Nashville, The Tennessean
- University of Alberta Shooting, Edmonton Journal
BREAKING NEWS, LARGE
- The Death of Muammar Gaddafi, Al Jazeera English
- The Fall of Tripoli, The Associated Press
- Hurricane Irene, The New York Times
- Occupy L.A., Los Angeles Times
PLANNED NEWS/EVENTS, SMALL
- Congressional Primaries 2012, Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University
- Primary Night 2012, The Texas Tribune
- Supreme Court and Health Care Reform, WebMD
PLANNED NEWS/EVENTS, MEDIUM
PLANNED NEWS/EVENTS, LARGE
- Judging The Health Care Law, NPR
- The L.A. Riots, 20 Years Later, Los Angeles Times
- The Reckoning – America and the World a Decade After 9/11, The New York Times
- Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks, Newsday.com
EXPLANATORY REPORTING, SMALL
- Andrew Leonard: The Student Loan Crisis, Salon
- Class: The Great Divide, St. Louis Beacon
- EarthFix, Oregon Public Broadcasting
- The Farmer of the Future, Harvest Public Media
- Putting Detroit’s Problems in Regional and Historical Context, Remapping Debate
EXPLANATORY REPORTING, MEDIUM
- College Completion: Who Graduates from College, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Opportunity Gap: Is Your State Providing Equal Access to Education?, ProPublica
- Our Time to Lead: Immigration, globeandmail.com
EXPLANATORY REPORTING, LARGE
- Connecting Music and Gesture, NYTimes.com
- Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond), The Guardian
- A Record Chain of Kidney Transplants, NYTimes.com
- Somalia: Where Famine Is a Crime, The Toronto Star
- StateImpact, NPR and Public Media Stations in Eight States
TOPICAL REPORTING, SMALL
TOPICAL REPORTING, MEDIUM
- California Lost, California Watch
- Continuing Coverage: NYPD Stop and Frisk, WNYC
- Education Coverage and the Turnaround, Las Vegas Sun
TOPICAL REPORTING, LARGE
- CNN Belief Blog, CNN
- FiveThirtyEight — Nate Silver’s Political Calculus, The New York Times
- Middle East Voices, Voice of America
- Philly School Files, The Philadelphia Inquirer
ONLINE COMMENTARY, SMALL
- Bear 71, National Film Board of Canada
- Mary Elizabeth Williams, Lab Rat, Salon
- Minorities Within a Minority Culture, The Mary Sue
ONLINE COMMENTARY, MEDIUM
- Kevin Drum Blog, Mother Jones
- Mad Men Coverage, Slate Magazine
- Nahlah Ayed: The Everyday Brutality That Is Assad’s Syria, CBC News
- Slate Political Gabfest, Slate Magazine
ONLINE COMMENTARY, LARGE
- Death and Dying — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
- Grantland.com — Bill Simmons, ESPN
- Lyndsey Parker Yahoo! Music, Yahoo!
- The Seattle Times Editorial Section, The Seattle Times
FEATURE, SMALL
- Bear 71, National Film Board of Canada
- The Canoe Project, WLRN-Miami Herald News & Under the Sun on WLRN
- Coal: A Love Story, Powering a Nation
- Twitter by Post, The Morning News
FEATURE, MEDIUM
- Aftermath Special Presentation, ABC Open
- Breaking Caste, globeandmail.com
- The Education of Dasmine Cathey, The Chronicle of Higher Education
FEATURE, LARGE
- Following the Dreamers: What Happened to the Seat Pleasant 59?, The Washington Post
- Mauritania, CNN
- Outside the Lines: A Man Obsessed, ESPN
- Punched Out — The Life and Death of a Hockey Enforcer, NYT.com
- Under Suspicion: Voices About Muslims in America, The Washington Post
FEATURE, STUDENT
- Finding the Uwharries, Carolina Photojournalism Workshop, University of North Carolina
- Slab City Stories, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
- Visualizing Florida, University of Miami Graduate Program in Multimedia Journalism
GANNETT FOUNDATION AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, SMALL
GANNETT FOUNDATION AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, MEDIUM
- Broken Shield, California Watch
- Decoding Prime, California Watch
- Redistricting: How Powerful Interests Are Drawing You Out of a Vote, ProPublica
- Terrorists for the FBI, Mother Jones
GANNETT FOUNDATION AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, LARGE
- The Fed’s Trillion-Dollar Secret, Bloomberg News
- Methadone and the Politics of Pain, The Seattle Times
- Stand Your Ground, Tampa Bay Times
NON-ENGLISH PROJECTS, SMALL/MEDIUM
- Mexodus, Borderzine.com (Mexico / U.S.)
- To Understand the Crisis, 20minutos.es (Spain)
- Whisper Jokes in the GDR – Protest Off the Record, Berliner Morgenpost (Germany)
NON-ENGLISH PROJECTS, LARGE
- The Cords That Bind Us, El Tiempo (Colombia)
- First Anniversary of Japan Earthquake, Universo Online (Brazil)
- Portraits of Paraná, Gazeta do Povo (Brazil)
