Honors From the Online News Association
The Times won five Online Journalism Awards and had six finalists for digital work from throughout the Newsroom and Opinion.
The Times won five Online Journalism Awards and had six finalists. The awards are given by the Online News Association and honor excellence in digital journalism.
“This list of well-deserved winners shows the consistent journalistic strength that runs across so many different kinds of stories,” Steve Duenes said. “The shape of each of these projects is just right, and the variety on the list is really representative of the digital range that The Times produces routinely.”
Our winners were:
- The 1619 Project, which reframed how millions of Americans understand the legacy of slavery in American society, for the Knight Award for Public Service.
- “Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them.” from Culture, Video and Graphics, in the medium-form Digital Video Storytelling category.
- “See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s,” which allowed readers to visualize the air pollution in their own area and compare it with other places, for Excellence in Immersive Storytelling.
- The America We Need, a series from Opinion suggesting ways to build a better nation after the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, for Online Commentary.
A series from the Visual Investigations team documenting Russia’s bombing of hospitals in Syria won the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award.
The Times also had six finalists:
- A package highlighting our most innovative pieces from Graphics, Design and Photo in the Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling category.
- Our Race/Related newsletter, a joint entry with the Marshall Project, in the Excellence in Newsletters category.
- A package that focused on visualizing the coronavirus outbreak, in the Explanatory Reporting category.
- “‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters,” in the medium-form Digital Video Storytelling category.
- “The Class of 2000 ‘Could Have Been Anything,’” showing the devastation of the opioid epidemic on one high school class, in the Feature category.
- And the Twitter Presidency series, which documented how President Trump reshaped the presidency in over 11,000 tweets, for the University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism.
Find the full list of winners and finalists here.