The New York Times, The Texas Tribune and the Baltimore Sun took home multiple awards at the Online News Association\u2019s annual awards ceremony on Saturday in Los Angeles, and The Washington Post won the award for general excellence among large media outlets.<\/p>\n
More than 130 industry professionals screened 994 entries this year and selected the semifinalists. Fifteen judges then selected the finalists and winners.<\/p>\n
The New York Times won for online commentary with its transgender community page and sports with a World Cup interactive, and it also received the Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism for AI2HTML.<\/p>\n
The Texas Tribune won for explanatory reporting for Undrinkable, a look at water quality in the state, and topic reporting for Hurting for Work in the small organization category, and the Baltimore Sun won for breaking news and explanatory reporting in the medium organization category. Both entries were part of its Freddy Gray coverage.<\/p>\n
Other highlights included the inaugural James E. Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, which went to Cengiz Yar, a freelance journalist who reports on Syria. He said winning the Foley Award didn\u2019t only recognize his work.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday you honor James,\u201d Yar said, \u201cbut you also honor the people he died for.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award was awarded posthumously to Dori Maynard, who was head of the Maynard Institute for Journalism when she died. Maynard is known for her efforts to increase newsroom diversity, and was\u00a0 called the \u201cconscience of online journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn Hsu, recently named the new Executive Director of the Maynard Institute, accepted the award for Maynard. Maynard\u2019s mother, Liz Rosen, also joined Hsu on stage to accept the award and said how pleased her daughter would to have this award.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all of you who are going to be the ones who carry on her work,\u201d Rosen said.<\/p>\n
The crowd gave standing ovations for both Yar and Maynard.<\/p>\n
After announcing The Baltimore Sun as the winner of the Breaking News Award for a medium-sized news organization, an error appeared in the email recognizing its coverage of the Baltimore riots and the Freddie Gray case. It misspelled Gray’s name as \u201cFreddy Grey.\u201d<\/p>\n
ONA was unaware of the error, but quickly corrected it after the organization was informed.<\/p>\n
“It’s unfortunate that we misspelled that,” said Irving Washington, ONA deputy director, “but we are correcting the error.”<\/p>\n
Ten of the awards came with $60,000 in prize money from the Knight Foundation, the Gannett Foundation and the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. The awards recognized stories from data journalism, multimedia, investigative journalism, public service and general excellence.<\/p>\n
The OJAs are the only set of honors recognizing excellence in digital journalism since 2000.<\/p>\n
The following is a complete list of the winners of this year\u2019s OJAs:<\/p>\n
Knight Award for Public Service<\/b><\/p>\n
BBC WhatsApp Ebola News Service<\/a>, BBC World Service, BBC News<\/p>\n Breaking News, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Charlie Hebdo Real-Time Coverage<\/a>, reported.ly<\/a><\/p>\n Breaking News, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n Baltimore Riots and the Freddy Gray Case<\/a>, The Baltimore Sun Staff<\/p>\n Breaking News, Large<\/b><\/p>\n Ottawa Shooting<\/a>, The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small<\/b><\/p>\n kbia.org<\/a>, KBIA News<\/p>\n General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n qz.com<\/a>, Quartz<\/p>\n General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large<\/b><\/p>\n washingtonpost.com<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/p>\n Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism<\/b><\/p>\n AI2HTML<\/a>, The New York Times<\/p>\n James E. Foley Award for Conflict Reporting<\/b><\/p>\n Cengiz Yar<\/p>\n Planned News Events, Small<\/b><\/p>\n No finalists<\/p>\n Planned News Events, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n #MakeAlCare \u2014 The Evolution of One Voter<\/a>, Meghan McCarty, KPCC, Southern California Public Radio<\/p>\n Planned News Events, Large<\/b><\/p>\n Election Party!<\/a>, NPR Visuals<\/p>\n Explanatory Reporting, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Undrinkable<\/a>, Alexa Ura, Neena Satija, Becca Aaronson, Emily Albracht and Ben Hasson, The Texas Tribune<\/p>\n Explanatory Reporting, Medium (Tie)<\/b><\/p>\n The 45-Minute Mystery of Freddie Gray\u2019s Death<\/a>, Kevin Rector, Greg Kohn, Adam Marton, Catherine Rentz, Amy Davis, Kenneth K. Lam and Christopher T. Assaf, The Baltimore Sun<\/p>\n What Does Gun Violence Really Cost?<\/a>, Mark Follman, Julia Lurie, Jaeah Lee, James West, Mother Jones<\/p>\n Explanatory Reporting, Large (Tie)<\/b><\/p>\n Bees at the Brink<\/a>, Star Tribune<\/p>\n Drugging our Kids<\/a>, Karen de S\u00e1, Dai Sugano, Paul Baca, Qin Chen, San Jose Mercury News\/Bay Area News Group<\/p>\n Topical Reporting, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Hurting for Work<\/a>, Jay Root and The Texas Tribune Staff<\/p>\n Topical Reporting, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n The Broken Hip<\/a>, Lauren Silverman, Eric Aasen, Ryan Tainter, Dane Walters, Jeff Whittington and KERA News Staff<\/p>\n Topical Reporting, Large<\/b><\/p>\n A Year of Legal Marijuana<\/a>, The Denver Post Newsroom<\/p>\n Online Commentary, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Dispatches From Syria: Marcell Shehwaro on Life in Aleppo<\/a>, Marcell Shehwaro, Amira Al Hussaini, Lara AlMalakeh and Georgia Popplewell, Global Voices<\/p>\n Online Commentary, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n No Finalist<\/p>\n Online Commentary, Large<\/b><\/p>\n Transgender Today Community Page<\/a>, The New York Times<\/p>\n Feature, Small<\/b><\/p>\n The Martian Diaries: What If the Curiosity Rover Kept a Scrapbook?<\/a>, Science News: Alex Witze, Cori Vanchieri, Federico Castaneda, Stephen Egts, Erin Otwell, Kate Travis<\/p>\n Feature, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n Stickup Kid<\/a>, FRONTLINE<\/p>\n Feature, Large<\/b><\/p>\n Beyond the Border<\/a>, Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, and The Guardian US Interactive Team<\/p>\n Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award<\/b><\/p>\n Dori J. Maynard<\/p>\n Sports, Small<\/b><\/p>\n No Finalist<\/p>\n Sports, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n Girls Fight Out<\/a>, Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Matter<\/p>\n Sports, Large<\/b><\/p>\n World Cup<\/a>, The New York Times<\/p>\n Student Projects, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Mobile Health: Apps for Every Age and Ouch<\/a>, Lynne Shallcross, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism<\/p>\n Student Projects, Large<\/b><\/p>\n The Missing<\/a>, NYCity News Service Staff\/CUNY Graduate School of Journalism<\/p>\n Student Projects, Pro-Am<\/b><\/p>\n Gun Wars: A News21 Investigation of Rights and Regulations in America<\/a>, Gun Wars News21 Staff, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism<\/p>\n The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small<\/b><\/p>\n Profiting from Prisoners<\/a>, Daniel Wagner, Eleanor Bell and Amirah Al Idrus, The Center for Public Integrity<\/p>\n The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n The Dark Side of the Strawberry<\/a>, Bernice Yeung, Kendall Taggart, Andrew Donohue, Michael Corey & Ariane Wu, The Center for Investigative Reporting<\/p>\n The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Large (Tie)<\/b><\/p>\n Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank\u2019s Broken Promise to the Poor<\/a>, The Center for Public Integrity\u2019s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and Media Partners<\/p>\n Insult to Injury: America\u2019s Vanishing Worker Protections<\/a>, ProPublica and NPR<\/p>\n Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small<\/b><\/p>\n No finalists<\/p>\n Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Medium<\/b><\/p>\n Space Business<\/a>, Quartz: Tim Fernholz, Nikhil Sonnad, David Yanofsky, Sam Williams<\/p>\n Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large<\/b><\/p>\n Markets & Finance Interactive Graphics<\/a>, The Visuals Staff of The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Small\/Medium<\/b><\/p>\n