2017

Winners of the 2017 OJAs were announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Oct. 7, in Washington, D.C., with Joshua Johnson, host of WAMU and NPR’s 1A, emceeing the event. Watch the ceremony here. Learn more about the 2017 finalists and judging process.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

The New York Times
PolitiFact

Medium Newsroom winner

Le Temps

Finalists:

ProPublica
San Antonio Express-News

Small Newsroom winner

Nexo Jornal

Finalists:

PublicSource
STAT
The Marshall Project
The Texas Tribune

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

Doctors & Sex Abuse

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

finalist

Death Behind Bars

Reno Gazette-Journal

finalist

Fire and Death in Canada’s First Nations

The Toronto Star

finalist

Toxic Armories

The Oregonian / OregonLive

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Orlando

The New York Times

Finalists:

Dallas Police Ambush
The Dallas Morning News
Terror Attack in Nice, France
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Gatlinburg Fire

Knoxville News Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE

Finalists:

The Dallas Shootings
KERA News
Tragedy in Dallas
NBCDFW.com

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Medium / Large Newsroom winner

The Wall

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX

Finalists:

Containers
Fusion Media Group
Stand at the Edge of Geologic Time
NPR

Small Newsroom winner

Frontier of Change

AIR: Finding America, KNBA

Finalists:

Signal Podcast
STAT
The Long Shot
Science Friday

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

winner

After Solitary

Emblematic Group, FRONTLINE

finalist

Cash Cow

Al Jazeera English

finalist

Fight for Falluja

The New York Times

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery

The New York Times

Finalists:

A New Age of Walls
The Washington Post
Bound. Tortured. Killed.
The Toronto Star

Medium Newsroom winner

Titletown, TX

McClatchy

Finalists:

Boomtown, Flood Town
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune

Small Newsroom winner

Future Cities

Finalists:

TruckBeat
AIR: Finding America, WUOT

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Weigh Anchor

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

Mobile Power, Human Toll
The Washington Post
The Voters Who Gave Trump the White House
Bloomberg News
Vanishing
CNN Digital

Medium Newsroom winner

Under Our Skin

The Seattle Times

Finalists:

Draining Oregon
The Oregonian / OregonLive
Trans in Iowa: Fighting for Visibility
Des Moines Register
What Happened to Us?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Small Newsroom winner

Game of Genomes

STAT

Middle East Lobbying: The Influence Game

Al-Monitor

Finalists:

Sold Out
The Texas Tribune
The Refugee Archipelago
News Deeply

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

The Fine Line

The New York Times

Finalists:

Central African Republic
National Geographic
Inside the Massive Tunnel 60 Feet Below L.A.
Los Angeles Times
Understanding Hillary Clinton
Vox Media

Medium Newsroom winner

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard

Mother Jones

Finalists:

A Search for Life on Roads of Death
San Antonio Express-News
A Year at Encina
Capital Public Radio
The Business of Inequality
Harvard Business Review

Small Newsroom winner

America Reloaded

First Look Media, The Intercept

Dope Sick

STAT

Finalists:

The Accusation
The Marshall Project
Wear and Tear
Undark

Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism

winner

Live Notifications

The Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab

finalist

APIs and Data from ProPublica’s Represent

ProPublica

finalist

BBC News Labs: Stitch

BBC News

Online Commentary

winner

Race/Related

The New York Times

finalist

Honoring Those Lost to the Oakland Warehouse Fire

KQED

finalist

Make It Stop

The Boston Globe

finalist

Vox First Person

Vox Media

Planned News/Events

Large Newsroom winner

Electionland

Electionland Coalition, ProPublica

Finalists:

Election 2016, NPR
NPR
Election Graphics, WSJ
The Wall Street Journal

Medium Newsroom winner

Election 2016, WBUR

WBUR

Finalists:

Election 2016, OPB
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Small Newsroom winner

CrossCheck France

First Draft

Finalists:

The Colorado Voter’s Guide To The 2016 Election
Colorado Public Radio News

Sports, Health and Wellness

Large Newsroom winner

Francesco Totti King of Rome

La Repubblica

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

Berlin Marathon 2016 – How Fast Your City Runs

Berliner Morgenpost

Finalists:

The Gravity-Defying Physics of Simone Biles
Quartz

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Unfounded

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

Car Insurance
Consumer Reports, ProPublica
Doctors & Sex Abuse
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Maternal Mortality
NPR, ProPublica
Unlawful Coercion in Psychiatric Wards
VG

Medium Newsroom winner

Toxic Armories

The Oregonian / OregonLive

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

Drinks, Dinners, Junkets and Jobs

The Center for Public Integrity

Finalists:

Code of Silence
First Look Media, The Intercept
Jay Peak’s Path to Fraud
VTDigger.org

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Unfounded

The Globe and Mail

Finalists:

Bias on the Bench
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Big Money, Unlikely Donors
Los Angeles Times
Unnatural Causes
The Washington Post
Why Cops Shoot
Tampa Bay Times

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Trial and Terror

First Look Media, The Intercept

Finalists:

Boomtown, Flood Town
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune
Shoot to Kill
The Baltimore Sun

Topical Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Trump Charities

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Bullied by the Badge
HuffPost, The Hechinger Report
ISIS From All Angles
CNN Digital
Outside in America
The Guardian US

Medium Newsroom winner

Standing Rock and Beyond

Inside Energy, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

TruckBeat

AIR: Finding America, WUOT

Finalists:

Opioid Coverage
STAT
Sold Out
The Texas Tribune

Pro-Am Student Award

winner

Turning Tides: The Story of the Salton Sea

The Desert Sun, USC / JOVRNALISM

finalist

Surviving the City

BBC News, International Reporting Program, The Guardian, The Toronto Star, UBC School of Journalism, Writing, & Media

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Cuba’s New Wave

UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Finalists:

Death Denied
The Medill Justice Project

Small Newsroom winner

City of Smoke

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Finalists:

A Town Divided
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

2017

Winners of the 2017 OJAs were announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Oct. 7, in Washington, D.C., with Joshua Johnson, host of WAMU and NPR’s 1A, emceeing the event. Watch the ceremony here. Learn more about the 2017 finalists and judging process.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

Knight Award for Public Service

Breaking News

Finalists:

Knoxville News Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE

Finalists:

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Finalists:

AIR: Finding America, KNBA

Finalists:

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

Emblematic Group, FRONTLINE

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Finalists:

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Finalists:

Explanatory Reporting

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

Feature

Finalists:

Finalists:

First Look Media, The Intercept

Finalists:

Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism

Online Commentary

Planned News/Events

Electionland Coalition, ProPublica

Finalists:

Finalists:

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Sports, Health and Wellness

Finalists:

Finalists:

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Finalists:

First Look Media, The Intercept

Finalists:

Topical Reporting

Finalists:

Inside Energy, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX

Finalists:

AIR: Finding America, WUOT

Finalists:

Pro-Am Student Award

The Desert Sun, USC / JOVRNALISM

BBC News, International Reporting Program, The Guardian, The Toronto Star, UBC School of Journalism, Writing, & Media

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Finalists:

Finalists:

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