SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 09/24/12 — FRONTLINE, ProPublica, NYTimes.com, France-s Rue 89, Storify and Homicide Watch were among the news and technology organizations that took top honors Saturday night at the 2012 Online Journalism Awards Banquet, which ended the .
California Watch, the Tampa Bay Times and StateImpact Florida each won $2,500 and the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism at the 13th annual awards dinner, sponsored by NBC News Digital. Entries for all awards were open to news produced for any digital device.
Each winner of the six General Excellence Awards took home a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Knight Award for Public Service, which went to the start-up Homicide Watch D.C., comes with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The winners in the Breaking News categories were WNYC for its coverage of Hurricane Irene and the Los Angeles Times for Occupy L.A.
Launched in 2000, the OJAs are administered by the Online News Association, now in partnership with the University of Miami-s School of Communication, and are the only comprehensive set of journalism prizes honoring excellence in digital journalism, focusing on independent, community, nonprofit, major media and international news sites.
Here are the winners in each category, with links to their winning entries:
Homicide Watch D.C.
FRONTLINE
ProPublica
NYTimes.com
Rue89 (France)
Storify
No finalist, no winner
Hurricane Irene Threatens New York City, WNYC
Occupy L.A., Los Angeles Times
Congressional Primaries 2012, Knight News Innovation Laboratory, Northwestern University
12:51, Stuff.co.nz and The Press
The Reckoning — America and the World a Decade After 9/11, The New York Times
EarthFix
College Completion: Who Graduates from College, Who Doesn-t, and Why It Matters, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Connecting Music and Gesture, NYTimes.com
Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond), The Guardian
No finalists, no winner
EarthFix
Continuing Coverage: NYPD Stop and Frisk, WNYC
Middle East Voices, Voice of America
Bear 71, National Film Board of Canada
Mad Men Coverage, Slate Magazine
Grantland.com — Bill Simmons, ESPN
Coal: A Love Story, Powering a Nation
Breaking Caste, globeandmail.com
Mauritania, CNN
Slab City Stories, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
No Choice: Florida Charter Schools Failing to Serve Students with Disabilities, StateImpact Florida (WUSF and WLRN-Miami Herald News Public Radio)
Broken Shield, California Watch
Stand Your Ground, Tampa Bay Times
Mexodus, Borderzine.com (Mexico / U.S.)
Portraits of Paraná, Gazeta do Povo (Brazil)
The Red Line Project — NATO Coverage, The Red Line Project, DePaul University
The is the world-s largest association of digital journalists. ONA-s mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public. The membership includes news writers, producers, designers, editors, bloggers, developers, photographers, educators, students and others who produce news for and support digital delivery systems. ONA also hosts the annual and administers the .
For more information, contact:
Jane McDonnell
Executive Director
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