2019

Winners and finalists for the 2019 OJAs have been announced and are listed below! Winners were announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Sept. 14, 2019, in New Orleans. Watch the ceremony here. Learn more about the 2019 winner and judging process.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

ProPublica

Finalists:

The Texas Tribune

Micro Newsroom winner

The Pudding

Finalists:

Aos Fatos
Postdata.club

Small Newsroom winner

Honolulu Civil Beat

Finalists:

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

The Force Report

NJ Advance Media

finalist

Growing up through the Cracks

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

finalist

Pain and Profit

The Dallas Morning News

finalist

Texas Tribune: Protecting Voters’ Rights

The Texas Tribune

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Finalists:

Christchurch Terror Attacks
Stuff.co.nz
Fire Mauls Beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Camp Fire: California’s Deadliest Wildfire

San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst

Finalists:

Christchurch Terror Attacks
Radio New Zealand
The Capital Gazette Shooting
Capital Gazette, The Baltimore Sun

Small Newsroom winner

Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Strikes Southcentral Alaska

Anchorage Daily News

Finalists:

Austin’s Boil-Water Notice
KUT News
Seeing a Black Hole for the First Time
Science News

Digital Video Storytelling

winner

Real America with Jorge Ramos: Immigration

Univision

finalist

Gone in a Generation

The Washington Post

finalist

Operation InfeKtion: Russian Disinformation from Cold War to Kanye

The New York Times

finalist

Uncovered

Channel 4 News

finalist

Visual Investigations

The New York Times

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Limited Series winner

Last Seen

WBUR and The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Believed
Michigan Radio
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
The Boston Globe, Wondery
Infectious: The Strange Past and Surprising Present of Vaccines and Anti-Vaxxers
Reddit, WBUR

Ongoing Series winner

Drilled

Critical Frequency

Finalists:

70 Million Podcast
Lantigua Williams & Co.
Throughline
NPR

Use of Audio Storytelling winner

Monumental Lies

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX, Type Investigations

Finalists:

Sex Hurts
Bodies podcast, KCRW

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

Electionland

Electionland Coalition, ProPublica

finalist

Broke in Philly 2018

Resolve Philadelphia

finalist

Hurricane Maria’s Dead

Associated Press, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo Puerto Rico, Quartz

finalist

Implant Files

Associated Press, AVROTROS, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit

finalist

Since Parkland

McClatchy, Miami Herald, The Trace

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

winner

Remembering Emmett Till: The Legacy of a Lynching

The New York Times

finalist

12 Seconds of Gunfire

The Washington Post

finalist

SwampScapes

University of Miami

Excellence in Sports Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

LA NACION

Finalists:

Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby
The New York Times
Paddling for Gold
The Seattle Times

Small Newsroom winner

Titletown, TX: All We Got

McClatchy Studios

Finalists:

Dirk’s Domain: The Ultimate Career Retrospective of Dallas Mavericks Superstar Dirk Nowitzki
The Dallas Morning News

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

Borderline

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Flood Thy Neighbor
ProPublica, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX, Vox Media
Susan Potter Will Live Forever
National Geographic

Medium Newsroom winner

Actual Reality

McClatchy

Finalists:

Mayberry Texas: A Catalyst Project
KXAN
The Chatbot Who Loved Me
Dagens Næringsliv
Touchstones
The New Yorker

Small Newsroom winner

Poisoned Cities; Deadly Border

The Arizona Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK, The Desert Sun

Finalists:

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Hostile Waters: Orcas in Peril

The Seattle Times

Finalists:

Gone in a Generation
The Washington Post
Solitary Voices
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, NBC News Investigative Unit, The Intercept, Univision
Why Disasters Happen
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Powerless

Charleston Gazette-Mail, ProPublica

Finalists:

Jailed in Crisis: Mental illness in America’s Jails
The Virginian-Pilot
Lessons Lost
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Perversion of Justice
Miami Herald

Small Newsroom winner

La Cuba Que Viene…

El Toque

Finalists:

Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather and Climate Change on the American Farm
InsideClimate News
Hawaii 2040
Honolulu Civil Beat

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

Visual Investigations: Gaza

The New York Times

Finalists:

Artifacts of Injustice
The Seattle Times
Surrounded
Los Angeles Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Losing Laura

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

‘Shocked and Humiliated’

The Center for Public Integrity

Finalists:

All the Presidents’ Meals
Foreign Policy
Five Days to Vacate: How a Sudden Setback Can Lead to an Eviction in Travis County
KUT News
Stuck Kids
ProPublica Illinois

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

winner

360° Drone

CNN

finalist

Open Government Guide

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

finalist

TwoTone

Datavized Technologies

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

Portfolio winner

Southern California Public Radio

Finalists:

The Bureau Local
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Project winner

Documenters.org

City Bureau

Finalists:

#FactsMatterPH
Rappler
Florida Voices
USA TODAY Network-Florida
Hospitals Kept ER Fees Secret. We Worked with Patients to Uncover Them.
Vox Media
Three Mile Island Accident’s 40th Anniversary
PA Post, WITF

Online Commentary

winner

The Privacy Project

The New York Times

finalist

A Woman’s Rights

The New York Times

finalist

Free Press

The Boston Globe

finalist

Shades of Black

The Guardian US

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Driver’s Notebooks Exposed Argentina’s Greatest Corruption Scandal Ever

LA NACION

Finalists:

Parkland: Unprepared and Overwhelmed
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret
The New York Times

Medium Newsroom winner

Case Cleared: How Rape Goes Unpunished in America

Newsy, ProPublica, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX

Finalists:

Investigating the NRA
The New Yorker, The Trace

Small Newsroom winner

Breathtaking

Undark

Finalists:

Recycling in Chicago
Better Government Association

The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

A Different Border Crisis

Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

Dirty Business

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Finalists:

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Force Report

NJ Advance Media

Finalists:

Copy, Paste, Legislate
The Center for Public Integrity, USA TODAY NETWORK
Heartbroken
Tampa Bay Times
Murder with Impunity
The Washington Post

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Lessons Lost

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Finalists:

Free to Shoot Again
BuzzFeed News, The Trace
Hurricane Maria’s Dead
Associated Press, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo Puerto Rico, Quartz
Vanishing Violence: Inside the Staggering Drop in Serious Youth Crime
San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst