La cobertura de los ataques a la revista Charlie Hebdo, los disturbios de Baltimore provocados a raíz de la muerte de Freddie Gray y los tiroteos en el Parlamento de Canadá se llevaron los máximos honores en los Premios de Periodismo Online (OJA, por sus siglas en inglés), que son entregados cada año por la Online News Association (ONA).
En la cena anual de los ONA también fue reconocido el fotógrafo documental y fotoperiodista freelance Cengiz Yar, con la primera edición del Premio James Foley, que honra el trabajo de los periodistas en zonas de conflicto.
Asimismo, la start-up periodística reported.ly, The Baltimore Sun y The Globe and Mail fueron los ganadores de la categorías Breaking News.
El premio valorado con 15.000 dólares que otorga la Universidad de Florida en la categoría Investigative Data Journalism fue para The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, por su profunda investigación sobre el pago de impuestos; y para el Austin American-Statesman, por su reportaje por la ineficacia de la administración pública de Texas parea ayudar a los niños vulnerables.
En la categoría de Sports, se entregaron premios a Taffy Brodesser-Akner, por su pieza sobre las mujeres en la lucha libre; y a The New York Times, por su narrativa nativa online durante la Copa del Mundo.
Los General Excellence Awards recayeron en The Washington Post, Quartz (qz.com) y KBIA News (kbia.org), que recibieron cada uno 6.166 dólares. El premio por su Public Service (5.000 dólares) fue para BBC News, por su uso de WhatsApp durante la crisis del Ébola. Por su parte, The New York Times ganó 5.000 dólares en la categoría Technical Innovation gracias a su herramienta de gráficos de código abierto, ai2html.
Estos son todos los ganadores de los Premios de Periodismo Online:
Knight Award for Public Service
BBC WhatsApp Ebola News Service, BBC World Service, BBC News
Breaking News, Small
Charlie Hebdo Real-Time Coverage, reported.ly
Breaking News, Medium
Baltimore Riots and the Freddy Gray Case, The Baltimore Sun Staff
Breaking News, Large
Ottawa Shooting, The Globe and Mail
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small
kbia.org, KBIA News
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium
qz.com, Quartz
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large
washingtonpost.com, The Washington Post
Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
AI2HTML, The New York Times
Planned News Events, Small
No finalists
Planned News Events, Medium
#MakeAlCare — The Evolution of One Voter, Meghan McCarty, KPCC, Southern California Public Radio
Planned News Events, Large
Election Party!, NPR Visuals
Explanatory Reporting, Small
Undrinkable, Alexa Ura, Neena Satija, Becca Aaronson, Emily Albracht and Ben Hasson, The Texas Tribune
Explanatory Reporting, Medium (Tie)
The 45-Minute Mystery of Freddie Gray’s Death, Kevin Rector, Greg Kohn, Adam Marton, Catherine Rentz, Amy Davis, Kenneth K. Lam and Christopher T. Assaf, The Baltimore Sun
What Does Gun Violence Really Cost?, Mark Follman, Julia Lurie, Jaeah Lee, James West, Mother Jones
Explanatory Reporting, Large (Tie)
Bees at the Brink, Star Tribune
Drugging our Kids, Karen de Sá, Dai Sugano, Paul Baca, Qin Chen, San Jose Mercury News/Bay Area News Group
Topical Reporting, Small
Hurting for Work, Jay Root and The Texas Tribune Staff
Topical Reporting, Medium
The Broken Hip, Lauren Silverman, Eric Aasen, Ryan Tainter, Dane Walters, Jeff Whittington and KERA News Staff
Topical Reporting, Large
A Year of Legal Marijuana, The Denver Post Newsroom
Online Commentary, Small
Dispatches From Syria: Marcell Shehwaro on Life in Aleppo, Marcell Shehwaro, Amira Al Hussaini, Lara AlMalakeh and Georgia Popplewell, Global Voices
Online Commentary, Medium
No Finalist
Online Commentary, Large
Transgender Today Community Page, The New York Times
Feature, Small
The Martian Diaries: What If the Curiosity Rover Kept a Scrapbook?, Science News: Alex Witze, Cori Vanchieri, Federico Castaneda, Stephen Egts, Erin Otwell, Kate Travis
Feature, Medium
Stickup Kid, FRONTLINE
Feature, Large
Beyond the Border, Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, and The Guardian US Interactive Team
Sports, Small
No Finalist
Sports, Medium
Girls Fight Out, Taffy Brodesser-Akner for Matter
Sports, Large
World Cup, The New York Times
Student Projects, Small
Mobile Health: Apps for Every Age and Ouch, Lynne Shallcross, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Student Projects, Large
The Missing, NYCity News Service Staff/CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Student Projects, Pro-Am
Gun Wars: A News21 Investigation of Rights and Regulations in America, Gun Wars News21 Staff, Arizona State University, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small
Profiting from Prisoners, Daniel Wagner, Eleanor Bell and Amirah Al Idrus, The Center for Public Integrity
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium
The Dark Side of the Strawberry, Bernice Yeung, Kendall Taggart, Andrew Donohue, Michael Corey & Ariane Wu, The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Large (Tie)
Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor, The Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Huffington Post and Media Partners
Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections, ProPublica and NPR
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small
No finalists
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Medium
Space Business, Quartz: Tim Fernholz, Nikhil Sonnad, David Yanofsky, Sam Williams
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large
Markets & Finance Interactive Graphics, The Visuals Staff of The Wall Street Journal
University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium
Trouble with Taxes, Raquel Rutledge, Kevin Crowe, Allan James Vestal, Bill Schulz & Erin Caughey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
University of Florida Award in Investigative Data Journalism, Large
Missed Signs, Fatal Consequences: How Texas Missed Deadly Patterns and Key Pieces of Information that Could Have Helped Protect Vulnerable Children, Eric Dexheimer, Andrea Ball, Jeremy Schwartz, Laura Skelding, Kelly West, Andrew Chavez, Gabrielle Muñoz, Eric Webb, Christian McDonald, Austin American-Statesman
2015 Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award
Dori J. Maynard
