Each year we invite members of the Online News Association to nominate peers for the ONA Community Award, a special recognition for an individual, small team or community that has made extraordinary contributions by creating inclusive spaces to enable digital … Read More
Under Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, an internet meme and movement emerged in China as people searched for ways to escape the country for greater freedoms. In the mini-documentary The Young People Who “Ran” out of China, Are Their Dreams … Read More
UPDATE (May 8): We received an unusual number of messages about needing more time in the week leading up to the deadline to submit entries to the 2024 OJAs. To give everyone the opportunity the opportunity award entries and be … Read More
Online Journalism Awards judges were impressed with how ProPublica’s Roots of an Outbreak leveraged academic literature, skillful data analysis, interactive design and an “impressively personal depth of reporting” to explain the complexity of disease outbreaks. The project was a … Read More
Internet access is an essential lifeline to learn, work, access public services and fully participate in today’s society. But for many American households, broadband internet is still too expensive, too slow and out of reach.
In 2022, The … Read More
On March 8 2023, International Women’s Day, La Nación published an ambitious project, calling attention to the disappearance of more than 5,000 women over the course of three decades. The project included reconstructing the history of 60 of those … Read More
ProPublica, along with partners Oregon Public Broadcasting and NBC News, took extra care in approaching Indigenous communities in advance for this excellent portfolio series. The pieces focus on difficult issues: unreturned remains from museums and universities, and a failure … Read More
When a long line of Russian tanks rolled into Bucha, Ukraine, on March 3, 2022, the extent of the violence and horrors they were about to unleash was unimaginable. The invasion and month-long occupation was part of a larger … Read More
Borderless Magazine, a member-supported newsroom reimagining immigration coverage in Chicago, won the Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism in the 2023 Online Journalism Awards for their experiments with field canvassing techniques to better understand Spanish-language audiences.
This impressive effort started … Read More
Environmental audits and certifications are part of a $200 billion sustainability industry meant to help fight the climate crisis. But the poorly regulated system for earning “green” labels frequently fails to hold companies accountable to environmental standards, labor laws … Read More
