The Hearst Journalism Awards Program has been called the Pulitzer Prizes of (U.S.) student journalism. I can’t say whether that is an exaggeration, but the awards do come with generous money prizes for the individual students and the schools they attend. Journalism educators generally agree on the prestige of the Hearst awards.
I was looking at [...]

The annual winners of the Society of News Design multimedia design competition include only two Gold awards, and both went to The New York Times.

I missed this one, explaining an accident in New York City. I really like how it uses a photograph combined with animation to show what happened, and it uses that now-familiar [...]

The Society of Professional Journalists has announced its annual awards for best online reporting. I think we should take a moment to consider how this great reporting is presented online.
Deadline Reporting (affiliated): Path of Destruction: Central Florida Storms, Clarisa Gerlach & staffs, TBO.com, WFLA and The Tampa Tribune. Is it just me, or is the [...]

I have called it one of the best information graphics ever, and now it’s won the Peter Sullivan award at Malofiej 16, the greatest annual honor in the world for infographics. So if you have never experienced it, please have a look:
Deadly Rampage at Virginia Tech (The New York Times)
It was produced on deadline and [...]

Scott Karp writes about “link journalism” and how it could have saved face for The New York Times in the recent case of using unnamed sources in a story about John McCain and a lobbyist:
… on the web, with its infinite space and connectedness, the Times could have added an important supplement to their own [...]

From the Newspaper Association of America come these awards for Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling in 2007:

24 Hours in Lawrence, Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World/The World Co.
Broken Trust, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune
A People Torn, Star Tribune, Minneapolis (see my blog post about this one)

Congratulations to Matt Waite and The St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly for a win in [...]

The SNDies competition honors online journalism story presentations, with an emphasis on effective design. We see different winners here, compared with other competitions, because the judges in this competition focus on how well the package works, as well as its overall aesthetic (and the journalism must be good).
Joe Weiss has tagged them all for us [...]