2022

Congratulations to all finalists and winners for the 2022 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA22)! Winners were announced during the Online News Association’s annual conference, Sept. 21–24 in Los Angeles. Learn more.

General Excellence in Online Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

The Boston Globe

Finalists:

The Globe and Mail
The Washington Post

Medium Newsroom winner

A closeup of a young student wearing a mask and working at a desk

LAist

Finalists:

Micro Newsroom winner

Mission Local: Punching above our weight

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

The Trace

Finalists:

The Markup
The San Francisco Standard

Knight Award for Public Service

winner

A young man leaning outside on a wooden fence

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Nashville Public Radio's WPLN News, ProPublica

finalist

Netta Womack tells her story at a public microphone.

Banking on Crime

AL.com, Reckon

finalist

A mural on the side of a building with vintage photos of soldier's faces and large Mexican and US flags

Ghosts of Polluters Past

Grist, Voice of OC

3M Truth in Science Award

Large Newsroom winner

Young men walk near a burning cane field, looking for rabbits to chase down. For some families in the Glades, selling rabbit meat is their only source of income.

Black Snow: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem

Palm Beach Post, ProPublica

Finalists:

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Weekly Covid-19 deaths by vaccination status chart

How American conservatives turned against the vaccine

Vox Media

Finalists:

Gaslit
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School of Journalism ASU
The Greenland Connection
The Post and Courier

Breaking News

Large Newsroom winner

Russia’s War On Ukraine

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Finalists:

Lytton, B.C., destroyed by wildfire
The Globe and Mail

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

People react outside the Ssgt. Willie de Leon Civic Center in Uvalde, where students were transported from Robb Elementary School after a mass shooting on May 24, 2022.

Breaking News: Uvalde School Shooting

The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

Texas six-week abortion ban
The 19th
Texas Tornado Outbreak
KXAN

Digital Video Storytelling

Long Form, Large Newsroom winner

De-Escalate: The story of an intense protest on an Atlanta interstate

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Finalists:

Unlivable Oasis: A Family’s Housing Struggle on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
ProPublica

Long Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Greywater

The New Yorker

Finalists:

“Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard
Stephan Foxwell - Web & Data Editor, The Outlaw Ocean Project
Pulled Over / Pulled Under
AL.com, Reckon

Medium Form, Large Newsroom winner

The Healing Kitchen

South China Morning Post

Finalists:

Why Some White Evangelicals Are Rethinking Their Politics
ABC News, FiveThirtyEight

Medium Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

A man standing in an open doorway looking out

A Feast for Lost Souls

The Atavist Magazine

Finalists:

Hitting a High Note: Core Values and Love of Music Inspire this Talented SF Family Band
The San Francisco Standard

Series, Large Newsroom winner

Transnational

VICE World News

Finalists:

In Real Life
Newsy, Scripps

Series, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Neo-natzis hold torch rally Charlottesville

Extremism in America

Retro Report, The WNET Group

Finalists:

Proof of Concept
Grist

Short Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

How the .001% Use Retirement Accounts as Tax-Free Piggy Banks

ProPublica

Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling

Limited Series winner

Un(re)solved

FRONTLINE

Finalists:

Into the Depths
National Geographic
Say That Again?
The Christian Science Monitor
The Forgotten Revolutionary
Southern California Public Radio

Ongoing Series winner

The Facebook Files Podcasts

The Wall Street Journal

Finalists:

Roe v. Wade
The Washington Post
The Daily: The Fall of Afghanistan
The New York Times
Verified: The Next Threat
Scripps

Use of Audio Storytelling winner

Making Sense: How sound becomes hearing

Vox Media

Finalists:

Saving the sounds of an ancient city
The Washington Post

Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships

winner

“No Light. No Nothing.” Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup

NBC News, ProPublica, The Marshall Project

finalist

The Return of the Machine Gun

The Trace, VICE News

Excellence in Immersive and Emerging Technology Storytelling

winner

Un(re)solved

Ado Ato Pictures, FRONTLINE

finalist

Winter Olympics – Athletes to Watch

The New York Times

Excellence in Newsletters

Portfolio winner

Black and Latino Tennessee Voices newsletters

The Tennessean

Finalists:

Cooked: The search for sustainable eats
WBUR
The Brazilian Report newsletter portfolio
The Brazilian Report

Single Newsletter winner

Paper sakura. Panorama landscape with japanese trees, garden flowers and hills. Paper cut style origami asia travel vector background

Bulletin: Les bonne infos (The good news)

Bulletin

Finalists:

Arepita
Arepita
Cannabis CT
Hearst Connecticut Media Group
Detroit Documenters
Outlier Media
The Food Section

Excellence in Social Justice Reporting

Portfolio winner

The stench of death: On Canada’s Highway of Tears

Al Jazeera Digital

Finalists:

Denied
The Markup
Ghosts of Polluters Past
Grist, Voice of OC
Prison Dispatches from Incarcerated Writers
The Appeal

Single Story winner

An aerial photograph of a congested road in Lagos. The middle of the road is crowded with yellow buses and the sides of it with people.

Inaccessible Cities

AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera Digital

Finalists:

Excellence in Social Media Engagement

Large Newsroom winner

VICE World News TikTok

VICE World News

Finalists:

How to Be Viral With Politicians (And Without Cute Dogs)
LA NACION
The Quarantine Atlas
Bloomberg CityLab, Bloomberg News

Medium Newsroom winner

The Philadelphia Inquirer Italian Hoagie Bracket

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Finalists:

Convincing The Unvaccinated
Detroit Free Press

Small Newsroom winner

Marshall Fire coverage

The Colorado Sun

Excellence in Sports Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Future of the summer games

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

A pickle(ball) in paradise

NJ Advance Media

Finalists:

Leading Las Vegas: A British firm is upending America’s booming online sports gambling market
Fortune

Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling

Large Newsroom winner

Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’

The New York Times

Finalists:

Gender and language
Reuters
Inaccessible Cities
AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera Digital
Ukraine Crisis
Reuters

Medium Newsroom winner

Mapping where the earth will become uninhabitable

FUNKE Zentralredaktion – Interaktiv

Finalists:

Un(re)solved
FRONTLINE

Small Newsroom winner

For you, Portugal, I swear!

Divergente

Explanatory Reporting

Large Newsroom winner

Ukraine Invasion

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Gerrymandering
The Guardian US
The Ongoing Crisis of Covid Behind Bars
Associated Press, The Marshall Project
The Price Kids Pay
Chicago Tribune, ProPublica

Medium Newsroom winner

The Secret IRS Files

ProPublica

Finalists:

Lessons Learned: Drought Then and Now
CalMatters
Seize and keep: Civil forfeiture in Massachusetts
ProPublica, WBUR

Small Newsroom winner

Germany’s historical reckoning is a warning for the U.S.

Coda Story

Finalists:

Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises
Better Government Association
The Burning Issue
Grist
The Wealth Vortex
Center for Public Integrity, Transmitter Media

Feature

Large Newsroom winner

The Badge and The Cross

Associated Press

Finalists:

Devouring the rainforest
The Washington Post
Portraits of fear and loss
The Washington Post
The Surfside Condo Was Flawed and Failing. Here’s a Look Inside.
The New York Times
Too Precious to Leave Behind
The Globe and Mail

Medium Newsroom winner

Hell at Abbey Gate

Alive in Afghanistan, ProPublica

Finalists:

Small Newsroom winner

A man stands next to a crane, looking out at a large area of clear cut forest

Road to Ruin

coastalaska, Earthrise Media, Grist, The Pulitzer Center

Finalists:

The Wealth Vortex
Center for Public Integrity, Transmitter Media
Turned Away
Spotlight PA

Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

Overall Excellence, Medium/Large Newsroom winner

A man and a woman with a young child looking over photo entries

Caring for children in the pandemic

Southern California Public Radio

Finalists:

Meeting History: A Garfield Park Citizen Archive
Catchlight, ProPublica

Overall Excellence, Micro/Small Newsroom winner

Up The Block

The Trace

Finalists:

In the Shadow of the Refineries
Grist

Online Commentary

winner

Postcards From a World on Fire

The New York Times

finalist

Backspace with Sana Saeed

AJ+

finalist

President Trump walking to the podium at his inauguration

Future-proofing the presidency

The Boston Globe Opinion

finalist

A woman in a blue suit jacket and black pants and shirt smiles at the camera while leaning on a desk in front of a wall of portraits

Jeneé Osterheldt

The Boston Globe

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award

Large Newsroom winner

Claude Mangin, shown at her home in suburban Paris, has been waging an international campaign to win the freedom of her husband, political activist Naama Asfari, who has been jailed in Morocco for more than a decade. Her iPhone 11 was hacked last month with Pegasus spyware.

The Pegasus Project: A global investigation

Forbidden Stories, The Guardian US, The Washington Post

Finalists:

Medium Newsroom winner

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

The New Yorker, The Outlaw Ocean Project

Finalists:

Broken Homes
San Francisco Chronicle
Wires and Fires
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Small Newsroom winner

The Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home

The 74

Finalists:

Ignored, Dismissed
Streetsblog
Turned Away
Spotlight PA

The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

Large Newsroom winner

Police Misconduct

The Washington Post

Finalists:

Inside TikTok’s Dangerously Addictive Algorithm
The Wall Street Journal
Secret Prices, Questionable Tests: Using Data to Investigate Medical Care
The New York Times
Zoning Divide
Star Tribune

Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

ProPublica

Finalists:

Security for Sale
Charlotte Observer, News & Observer
The Costly Toll of Dead-end Drug Arrests
Better Government Association, Chicago Sun Times, The Circuit, USC Annenberg National Health Fellowship
Wires and Fires
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Topical Reporting: Climate Change

winner

Extreme heat’s deadly toll

Los Angeles Times

finalist

Mapping where the earth will become uninhabitable

FUNKE Zentralredaktion – Interaktiv

finalist

The Climate Disaster is Here

The Guardian US

Topical Reporting: Olympics and Paralympics Coverage

Large Newsroom winner

Visualizing the Athleticism of the Olympics

The New York Times

Finalists:

Future of the summer games
The Washington Post
How Katie Ledecky swims faster than the rest of the world
The Washington Post
Olympics visual portfolio
The Globe and Mail

Medium Newsroom winner

Vox Video: Winter Sports Week

Vox Media

Finalists:

My New Favorite Olympian
NBCLX

Small Newsroom winner

Anatomy of Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal

FYT Media, Phillippine Center for Investigative Journalism

Topical Reporting: Pandemic Coverage

Portfolio winner

The COVID housing crisis

Associated Press, Center for Public Integrity

Finalists:

American Education’s Most Turbulent Year
The 74
Covid Risk In Hospitals
Kaiser Health News
The Ongoing Crisis of Covid Behind Bars
Associated Press, The Marshall Project

Single Story winner

Rising up in the heartland: Latino workers fight for pandemic relief

Univision News Digital

Finalists:

How Colorado Caught COVID: The Third Wave
Colorado Public Radio
Wolf of Main Street
Bloomberg CityLab, Bloomberg News

Student Journalism Award

Portfolio: Student winner

Protest signs attached to an outdoor fence

Aloha ʻāina

The Newhouse School at Syracuse University, The Newshouse

Portfolio: Student Team winner