ATLANTA, GA — (Marketwired) — 10/24/13 — Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, national security and international elections by news organizations large and small took top honors at the 2013 Online Journalism Awards Banquet, which ended the .
At the 14th annual awards dinner, The Guardian won both the Gannett Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism and the Watchdog Journalism Award for digging into leaked National Security Administration files.
Coverage of disasters dominated the Breaking News categories, with the Boston University News Service and Boston.com/ Boston Globe winning for its continuing reporting on the city-s marathon bombing and WNYC for coverage of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
Each winner of the three General Excellence Awards — AxisPhilly, The New York Times and The Texas Tribune — took home a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Knight Award for Public Service, with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, went to the Boston Globe for “68 Blocks,” a series on a year in the city-s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood. The New York Times won the Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Award for its JavaScript library for data documents, D3.js.
Launched in 2000, the OJAs are administered by the Online News Association, 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:
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The Online News Association 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 .
The prepares analytical and responsible communication professionals for success in a global society. The School offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations, visual journalism, communication studies and motion pictures. The School-s state of the art, all-digital facilities and resources are among the most advanced in the country. Approximately 1,500 students are enrolled.
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