CBC.ca wins 2 OJA awards
CBC.ca won two Online Journalism Awards at the Online News Association conference -- the only organization to receive two awards at the competition. CBC.ca’s online newsroom won in the "specialty journalism" category for Canada Votes, its coverage of the federal election, and in the service journalism category for the Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Database, a tri-medial project from the CBC News investigative unit. CBC.ca was also a finalist in the online commentary category for Blair Shewchuk’s column "Words: Woes and Wonder," which lost out to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times.
The judges said that Canada Votes was "breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, offering a detailed look at the entire country, covering issues, deep election results, analysis and commentary, voter tools and extensive archives. CBC News goes well beyond the election coverage provided by many other news organizations."
The judges said they found the ADR Database "to be an extremely comprehensive project, giving Canadians, and Americans as well, useful information on dangerous drugs in an easy-to-use database, with accompanying stories and information providing valuable context." The judges said CBC News "performed an outstanding public service in bringing this information to the public," and "did significant work in getting the Canadian government to divulge this information and then putting it online."
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