In the small sites category, the finalists are Pro Publica (has over $3MM in funding), The Texas Tribune (over $3MM in funding, and Voices of San Diego ( a superb success story!).
In the Microsites category, California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting, Gotham Gazette and the St. Louis Beacon- are all great choices, with at least two with budgets of over $1 MM per year.
I think all these sites are quality and amazing, but it seems silly that a West Seattle Blog, or a Baristanet, for example, would be competing in the same category as, uh, CaliforniaWatch.org.. This isn't a slur on CAWatch, which deserves all of its hard-won acclaim, but a comment that it would be nice to have a category that was for truly small sites...small in budget as well as uniques.
Of course, on the other hand, this is just about what the judges consider to be quality, not about what the value or cost per user is. Sites that have raised millions to do in-depth reporting with a full-time staff of traditional journalists who left papers for these well-funded ventures are, by definition, turning out a very difference product than someone who creates a local community media site for an under-served community.
Maybe next year, there can be a category for community media where the metric is not only an audience of under 100,000 users, but a budget of under $200,000, just to pick a random number. I'd like to see ONA find a way to seperate out the well-funded whales from the rest of the pack when we talk micro-site, because while they may be small in unique visitors, they are huge in resources.
Knight Award for Public Service
The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group: Do No Harm
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Flipping Fraud
The Roanoke Times | roanoke.com: I-81: Fear, Facts and the Future
Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
AP Stylebook Application, site, Twitter feed
CNN iPhone App with iReport integrated
NPR API
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Micro Site
California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting
Gotham Gazette
St. Louis Beacon
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Site
ProPublica
The Texas Tribune | texastribune.org
voiceofsandiego.org
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Site
The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group
Army Times Publishing Company: Military Times
Mother Jones
Salon Media Group: Salon.com
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Site
msnbc.com
NPR: NPR.ORG
New York Media: Nymag.com
The New York Times
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English, Small Site
Cyberpresse.ca
OWNI
Local Foods Yahoo!Taiwan
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English, Large Site
EL PAÍS
SA LA NACION
G1 - TV Globo
Breaking News, Small Site
The Oklahoman / NewsOK.com Staff: May 10 Tornados
The Tennessean: Nashville Flood
Breaking News, Large Site
Boston.com: The death of Edward M. Kennedy
CBC News: G20 Summit
CNN.com: Haiti Earthquake
The Seattle Times: Four Police Officers Slain
The New York Times: Haiti Earthquake Coverage
Specialty Site Journalism, Affiliated
BBC News: Election 2010
CHOW.com
NPR: NPR Music
Specialty Site Journalism, Independent
Curbed Network: Curbed.com
Design Observer Group: Design Observer
theheart.org by WebMD
Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Small Site
The Center for Public Integrity: Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice
ProPublica, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Frontline: Law and Disorder
Vancouver Sun: Vanishing Point: A five-part investigative series
voiceofsandiego.org: Out of Reach
Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Large Site
The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group: Do No Harm
The Los Angeles Times: Toyota: Road to Recall
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Justice Delayed, Dismissed, Denied
NPR, ProPublica, Frontline: Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing the Wounded
The New York Times: Toxic Waters
Multimedia Feature Presentation, Small Site
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Innovation: Black Saturday
National Film Board of Canada: This Land
News21: Powering a Nation
Multimedia Feature Presentation, Medium Site
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Domani Studios, The Martin Agency, AOL, AOL News, AOL SHOUTcast: We Choose the Moon
The Denver Post: American Soldier
The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group: Bottoming Out
Multimedia Feature Presentation, Large Site
NPR: Grand Trunk Road
Reuters, Online News and the Thomson Reuters Foundation: Surviving the Tsunami - Stories of Hope
The New York Times: Held by the Taliban
USA TODAY: Vancouver Olympics
Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: SyracuseDiners.com
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: A Seed is Forever
UNC School of Journalism: Living Galapagos
Western Kentucky University Fleischaker-Greene Scholars: Farm to Fork: Investigating Agriculture
Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Small Site
The Center for Public Integrity: Disaster in the Gulf
FLORIDA TODAY: The Flame Trench space blog
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Persian Letters
voiceofsandiego.org: Building a Community around Education Coverage
Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Medium Site
CBC News: Inside Politics Blog
Mother Jones: Team Coverage of BP Oil Spill
Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Large Site
AOL News: Haiti, Life After Death
CNN.com: Technology
CNN.com: Afghanistan Crossroads
Online Commentary/Blogging, Small Site
Caring.com: Dad Has Dementia
Forward.com: The Sisterhood
Truthdig: Chris Hedges
Online Commentary/Blogging, Medium Site
Salon.com: Glenn Greenwald
Mother Jones: Kevin Drum
Online Commentary/Blogging, Large Site
ESPN.com: Howard Bryant
Politics Daily: Jill Lawrence
The Los Angeles Times: Christopher Knight, Culture Monster
Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies, Professional
CNN.com: Home and Away: U.S. & Coalition Causalities
The Las Vegas Sun and Greenspun Media Group: Bottoming Out
The New York Times: Oil Spill Tracker
The Texas Tribune Data Apps
Outstanding Use of Digital Technologies, Student
No award given
Outstanding Use of Emerging Platforms
NPR.ORG Mobile Applications
USA TODAY for iPad
Online Video Journalism, Small Site
Huffington Post Investigative Fund: Tapped Out: How an Unpaid Water Bill Cost a Baltimore Woman Her Home
MediaStorm: Take Care
Minnesota Public Radio News: Explaining Instant Run-off Voting
Yale Environment 360: Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining
Online Video Journalism, Medium Site
The Las Vegas Sun and the Greenspun Media Group: Bottoming Out
Knoxville News Sentinel / knoxnews.com: Death on Chipman Street
The Dallas Morning News: Choosing Thomas
Online Video Journalism, Large Site
NPR: Krulwich on Science
NPR and ProPublica: Traumatic Brain Injury - The Battle For Care
TIME.com: Sudan Stories
The Toronto Star: William and the Windmill
The Washington Post: Scene In Video Series
Online Video Journalism, Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: The Fall Workshop
Knight Center for International Media, School of Communication, University of Miami: My Story, My Goal
Community Collaboration
CBC News: G20: Street Level
CNN.com: Haiti: The Missing, The Found, The Victims
The Los Angeles Times: Westside Debate
West Seattle Blog: West Seattle's only 24/7 news source
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