2010 Awards

Breaking News, Large Site

Winner:

• Haiti Earthquake, CNN

Finalists:

• Four Police Officers Slain, The Seattle Times
• The death of Edward M. Kennedy, Boston.com
• G20 Summit, CBC News
• Haiti Earthquake Coverage, New York Times

Breaking News, Small Site

Winner:

• Nashville Flood, The Tennessean

Finalist:

• May 10 Tornados, The Oklahoman

Community Collaboration

Winner:

• West Seattle’s only 24/7 news source, West Seattle Blog

Finalists:

• Haiti: The Missing, The Found, The Victims, CNN
• Westside Debate, The Los Angeles Times
• G20: Street Level, CBC News

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

Winner:

• NPR API

Finalists:

• AP Stylebook Application, site, Twitter feed
• CNN iPhone App with iReport integrated

Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Large Site

Winner:

• Toxic Waters, New York Times

Finalists:

• Toyota: Road to Recall, The Los Angeles Times
• Do No Harm, The Las Vegas Sun
• Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing the Wounded, NPR, Frontline and ProPublica
• Justice Delayed, Dismissed, Denied, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Small Site

Winner:

• Law and Disorder, ProPublica and The New Orleans Times-Picayune

Finalists:

• Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice, The Center for Public Integrity
• Vanishing Point: A five-part investigative series, Vancouver Sun
• Out of Reach, voiceofsandiego.org
• API, NPR

Finalists:

• Application, site, Twitter feed, Associated Press
• iPhone App with iReport integrated, CNN

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Site

Winner:

• MSNBC

Finalists:

• Nymag.com, New York Magazine
• NPR
• New York Times

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Site

Winner:

• The Las Vegas Sun

Finalists:

• Military Times, Army Times Publishing Company
• Mother Jones
• Salon.com, Salon

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Micro Site

Winner:

• California Watch and Center for Investigative Reporting

Finalists:

• Gotham Gazette
• St. Louis Beacon

General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Site

Winner:

• The Texas Tribune

Finalists:

• ProPublica
• voiceofsandiego.org

General Excellence in Online Journalism-Non-English, Large Site

Winner:

• Lanacion.com

Finalists:

• El Pais
• G1

General Excellence in Online Journalism-Non-English, Small Site

Winner:

• OWNI

Finalists:

• Local Foods, Yahoo! Taiwan
• Cyberpresse.ca

Knight Award for Public Service

Winner:

• Flipping Fraud, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Finalists:

• Do No Harm, The Las Vegas Sun
• I-81: Fear, Facts and the Future, The Roanoke Times

Multimedia Feature Presentation, Large Site

Winner:

• Held by the Taliban, New York Times

Finalists:

• Surviving the Tsunami – Stories of Hope, Reuters
• Grand Trunk Road, NPR
• Vancouver Olympics, USA TODAY

Multimedia Feature Presentation, Medium Site

Winner:

• We Choose the Moon, The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Domani Studios and The Martin Agency and AOL, AOL News, AOL SHOUTcast

Finalists:

• American Soldier, The Denver Post
• Bottoming Out, The Las Vegas Sun

Multimedia Feature Presentation, Small Site

Winner:

• This Land, National Film Board of Canada

Finalists:

• Powering a Nation, News21
• Black Saturday, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Innovation

Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student

Winner:

• A Seed is Forever, University of California, Berkeley

Finalists:

• Farm to Fork: Investigating Agriculture, Western Kentucky University Fleischaker-Greene Scholars
• Living Galapagos, University of North Carolina
• SyracuseDiners.com, Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Online Commentary/Blogging, Large Site

Winner:

• Howard Bryant, ESPN

Finalists:

• Christopher Knight, Culture Monster, The Los Angeles Times
• Jill Lawrence, Politics Daily

Online Commentary/Blogging, Medium Site

Winner:

• Glenn Greenwald, Salon

Finalist:

• Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

Online Commentary/Blogging, Small Site

Winner:

• Dad Has Dementia, Caring.com

Finalists:

• The Sisterhood, Forward.com
• Chris Hedges, Truthdig

Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Large Site

Winner:

• Technology, CNN

Finalists:

• Afghanistan Crossroads, CNN
• Haiti, Life After Death, AOL News

Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Medium Site

Winner:

• Team Coverage of BP Oil Spill, Mother Jones

Finalist:

• Inside Politics Blog, CBC News

Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Small Site

Winner:

• Building a Community around Education Coverage, voiceofsandiego.org

Finalists:

• The Flame Trench space blog, Florida Today
• Disaster in the Gulf, The Center for Public Integrity
• Persian Letters, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Online Video Journalism, Large Site

Winner:

• William and the Windmill, The Toronto Star

Finalists:

• Traumatic Brain Injury – The Battle For Care, NPR and ProPublica
• Krulwich on Science, NPR
• Sudan Stories, TIME
• Scene In Video Series, Washington Post

Online Video Journalism, Medium Site

Winner:

• Bottoming Out, The Las Vegas Sun

Finalists:

• Choosing Thomas, The Dallas Morning News
• Death on Chipman Street, Knoxnews.com

Online Video Journalism, Small Site

Winner:

• Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, Yale Environment 360

Finalists:

• Tapped Out: How an Unpaid Water Bill Cost a Baltimore Woman Her Home, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
• Explaining Instant Run-off Voting, Minnesota Public Radio
• Take Care, MediaStorm

Online Video Journalism, Student

Winner:

• My Story, My Goal, Knight Center for International Media and University of Miami

Finalist:

• The Fall Workshop, Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies, Professional

Winner:

• Oil Spill Tracker, New York Times

Finalists:

• Home and Away: U.S. & Coalition Causalities, CNN
• Bottoming Out, The Las Vegas Sun
• Data Apps, The Texas Tribune

Outstanding Use of Emerging Platforms

Winner:

• Mobile Applications, NPR

Finalist:

• USATODAY for iPad, USA TODAY

Rich Jaroslovsky Award

Winner:

• Kinsey Wilson

Specialty Site Journalism, Affiliated

Winner:

• CHOW.com

Finalists:

• Election 2010, BBC News
• NPR Music, NPR

Specialty Site Journalism, Independent

Winner:

• theheart.org, WebMD

Finalists:

• Design Observer, Design Observer Group
• Curbed Network

Judges:

• Angela Pimenta, Editor and Brasilia Bureay Chief, Editora Abril
• Brian Storm, Founder & Executive Producer, MediaStorm
• Christine Montgomery, Managing Editor, PBS.org; President, Online News Association
• Chrys Wu, User Engagement Strategist, Matchstrike LLC
• David Plotz, Editor, Slate
• Eric Scherer, Director of Strategy and External Relations, Agence France-Presse
• Gary Kebbel, Dean, College of Journalism and Mass Communications University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Jose Zamora, Journalism Associate, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
• Kathryn Corrick, Digitial Media Consultant
• Katie King, Senior Product Manager, Portal & Partnerships, Microsoft/MSN UK, ONA Board Member
• Kirk Lapointe, Managing Editor, Vancouver Sun
• Lisa Williams, CEO and founder, Placeblogger.com
• Mario Tedeschini, Chief of Internet Publishing R&D, Gruppo Espresso
• Matt Thompson, Editorial Product Manager, Project Argo / National Public Radio
• Michelle Nicolosi, Executive Producer, SeattlePI.com
• Rich Beckman, Professor, John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, University of Miami School of Communication; Online Journalism Awards academic partner
• Rich Jaroslovsky, columnist, Bloomberg News
• Shazna Nessa, Director, Interactive and Graphics, Associated Press
• Wendy Warren, Vice President and Editor, Philly.com