2018

Winners of the 2018 OJAs were announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Sept. 15, in Austin, TX, with Niala Boodhou, host of NPR Illinois’ The 21st, emceeing the event. Watch the ceremony here. Learn more about the 2018 finalists and judging process.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Washington Post

Finalists:

The New York Times
Vox.com

Medium Newsroom winner

ProPublica

Finalists:

Austin American-Statesman Sites
Quartz
Reveal

Micro Newsroom winner

Postdata.club

The Trace

Finalists:

PublicSource
The New Food Economy

Small Newsroom winner

The Marshall Project

Finalists:

Longreads
The Texas Tribune

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

All Work. No Pay.

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX

finalist

Hacking Democracy

The Washington Post

finalist

Lost Mothers

NPR, ProPublica

finalist

Taking Cover

Better Government Association, WBEZ

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

The Vegas Massacre

The New York Times

Finalists:

Horror on Yonge Street
Toronto Star
The Search Operation of the Submarine ARA San Juan
LA NACION

Medium Newsroom winner

Collapse of the Florida International University Bridge

Miami Herald

Finalists:

Thomas Fire Coverage
Southern California Public Radio
Wine Country Wildfires
San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst

Small Newsroom winner

Austin Serial Bombings

KUT Austin

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Medium / Large Newsroom winner

Prosecutor Nisman Phone Interceptions Mapped in Playlists

LA NACION

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

The New American Songbook

The GroundTruth Project

Finalists:

Bundyville
Longreads, Oregon Public Broadcasting
She Says
WFAE - Charlotte's NPR News Source

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

Verificado 2018

AJ+ Español, Animal Político, Pop-Up Newsroom

finalist

Crossing the Divide

The GroundTruth Project, WGBH Boston

finalist

Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, The New York Times

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

winner

Yemen’s Skies of Terror

Al Jazeera Contrast

finalist

Augmented Reality: David Bowie in Three Dimensions

The New York Times

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

The Uber Game

The Financial Times

Finalists:

The Four Days In 1968 That Reshaped D.C.
The Washington Post
The Waiting Game
ProPublica, WNYC
Thousands Cried for Help as Houston Flooded
The New York Times

Small Newsroom winner

The Last Generation

FRONTLINE, The GroundTruth Project

Finalists:

Gerda
KUER, RadioWest

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

The Wall

The Arizona Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK

Finalists:

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.
The Boston Globe
California’s Power Glut
Los Angeles Times
North Korea
The Washington Post

Medium Newsroom winner

Dirty Gold, Clean Cash

Miami Herald

Finalists:

Project Nora
The Oregonian / OregonLive
Walking While Black
Florida Times-Union, ProPublica

Small Newsroom winner

Texas Tribune: Dangerous Deliveries

The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

Nuclear Negligence
The Center for Public Integrity
Three Rivers Rising
PublicSource

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

A Betrayal

New York Magazine, ProPublica

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

Project Nora

The Oregonian / OregonLive

Finalists:

Europe Slams Its Gates
Foreign Policy, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Marshall Islands: The Poison and the Tomb
Mashable

Small Newsroom winner

Californians: Here’s Why Your Housing Costs Are So High

CalMatters

Finalists:

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

winner

Trint

finalist

Washington Post ARC Publishing

The Washington Post

Online Commentary

winner

Nicholas Kristof and Colleagues

The New York Times

finalist

Seven Steps to Save 27,000 Lives

The Boston Globe

Sports, Health and Wellness

Large Newsroom winner

The Winter Olympics

The New York Times

Finalists:

Eight Seconds: The Life and Death of a Cowboy
The Globe and Mail
Olympics
The Globe and Mail

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Betrayed

Chicago Tribune

Finalists:

From Russia With Blood
BuzzFeed News
The Neglected Bridges
VG
Toxic City: Sick Schools
Philadelphia Media Network

Medium Newsroom winner

Trump Town

ProPublica

Finalists:

Benefit of the Doubt
The Oregonian / OregonLive
Bombs In Our Backyard
ProPublica
On the Fire Line
PBS NewsHour

Small Newsroom winner

Digging into the Mining Arc

Correo del Caroní, InfoAmazonia

Finalists:

A Broken System
Injustice Watch
The Daphne Project
Forbidden Stories

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless

The Guardian US

Finalists:

Death & Dysfunction
NJ Advance Media
Scarred by School Shootings
The Washington Post
The Follower Factory
The New York Times

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Walking While Black

Florida Times-Union, ProPublica

Finalists:

The Taking
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune
Too Broke for Bankruptcy
ProPublica

Pro-Am Student Award

winner

Troubled Water

Carnegie-Knight News21, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

finalist

HEI6MAN EVOLUTION

OU Daily, University of Oklahoma

finalist

More Than a Mascot

Capital News Service / Philip Merrill College of Journalism

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Aftermath

UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Finalists:

The Deported: Life Beyond the Border
University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, USC / JOVRNALISM
The Perfect Storm
The Eagle / American University

2018

Winners of the 2018 OJAs were announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Sept. 15, in Austin, TX, with Niala Boodhou, host of NPR Illinois’ The 21st, emceeing the event. Watch the ceremony here. Learn more about the 2018 finalists and judging process.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

Knight Award for Public Service

NPR, ProPublica

Better Government Association, WBEZ

Breaking News

Finalists:

Finalists:

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Finalists:

Finalists:

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

AJ+ Español, Animal Político, Pop-Up Newsroom

The GroundTruth Project, WGBH Boston

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, The New York Times

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Finalists:

FRONTLINE, The GroundTruth Project

Finalists:

Explanatory Reporting

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

Feature

New York Magazine, ProPublica

Finalists:

Finalists:

Finalists:

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

Online Commentary

Sports, Health and Wellness

Finalists:

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Finalists:

Finalists:

Correo del Caroní, InfoAmazonia

Finalists:

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Finalists:

Florida Times-Union, ProPublica

Finalists:

Pro-Am Student Award

Carnegie-Knight News21, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

OU Daily, University of Oklahoma

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Finalists:

Finalists:

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