Online Journalism Award Finalists Announced

The University of Miami's Online News Association announced the finalists for its annual Online Journalism Awards this week. LA got quite a bit of love this year. The LA Times, California Watch and the Tiziano Project were among those honored. Further up north, the Bay Area's ProducerMatthew.com got a nod for its stellar aggregation of post-tsunami Japan news. Full list of finalists after the jump: Knight Award for Public Service Assault on Learning – The Philadelphia Inquirer Barnegat Bay Under Stress – Asbury Park Press Breach of Faith – Los Angeles Times Deadly Neglect – Chicago Tribune On Shaky Ground – California Watch and Center for Investigative Reporting Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Flipboard Power to the People: Voter Education for All – e-thePeople ScraperWiki ScribbleLive General Excellence in Online Journalism, Micro Site NJ Spotlight OnEarth The Tiziano Project Yale Environment 360 General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Site California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting FRONTLINE ProPublica The Texas Tribune voiceofsandiego.org – Voice of San Diego General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Site CBC News Las Vegas Sun NewsOK / The Oklahoman The Globe and Mail General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Site Al Jazeera BBC News The New York Times The Wall Street Journal General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English, Small Site El Nuevo Herald.com Il Tirreno OWNI General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English, Large Site 20minutos G1 – Portal de Notícias da Globo LA NACION Breaking News, Small Site Aggregation Breaking News – Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 – ProducerMatthew.com A Snow Storm Hits New York and WNYC Listeners Map the Cleanup – WNYC Radio Slave Lake Wildfires in Northern Alberta – Global News Stanley Cup Hockey Riots in Vancouver – The Vancouver Sun Breaking News, Large Site Congresswoman Shot – The Associated Press Coverage of the Uprisings in Egypt – Al Jazeera Japan Earthquake – Wall Street Journal The Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis in Japan – The New York Times Specialty Site Journalism, Affiliated NPR Music – NPR Pipeline – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/post-gazette.com The Civil Rights Cold Case Project – Center for Investigative Reporting, Paperny Films USATODAY Travel – USATODAY Specialty Site Journalism, Independent edweek.org – Education Week, Editorial Projects in Education IEEE Spectrum – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Small Site Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America – National News 21 and The Center for Public Integrity Dialysis – ProPublica Dollars for Doctors – ProPublica Lifesaving Drugs, Deadly Consequences — InvestigateWest On Shaky Ground – California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting The Truth Left Behind: Inside the Kidnapping and Murder of Daniel Pearl: Pearl Project, sponsored by Georgetown University and the Center for Public Integrity’s International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism, Large Site Breach of Faith – Los Angeles Times OTL: Painkiller Misuse Numbs NFL Pain – ESPN Top Secret America – The Washington Post What Really Happened to Phoebe Prince? – Slate Multimedia Feature Presentation, Small Site Apart from War – News21 Team at Syracuse University Crisis Guide: Pakistan – Council on Foreign Relations/MediaStorm The Poppy File – OpenFile, ninth+crux Multimedia Feature Presentation, Medium Site Exile Without End: Palestinians in Lebanon – CBC News, Radio-Canada, ALT Digital Design Studio The ’60 Bucs (Parts 4-7) – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Multimedia Feature Presentation, Large Site A Year at War – The New York Times Quieting Dylan’s Brain – Los Angeles Times Traumatic Brain Injury: Coming Home a Different Person – The Washington Post Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student Global Warning – Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Haiti’s Lost Children – University of Miami Now What Argentina – University of North Carolina & Universidad Pontifica de Argentina Vwa Fanm: Stories on Statelessness and Migration – Knight Center for International Media Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Small Site Doctors Behaving Badly: Shedding Light on Poor Doctor Oversight by Medical Boards – William Heisel, ReportingonHealth.org Ecotrope: Fresh Ideas on Nature and Community – Oregon Public Broadcasting and NPR MindShift: How We Will Learn – KQED and NPR OpenSecrets.org Persian Letters – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Medium Site Casey Anthony Extended Coverage – WESH Nancy Leson’s All You Can Eat blog – The Seattle Times The Closing of the Sahara – Las Vegas Sun Ward Room – NBCChicago.com Online Topical Reporting/Blogging, Large Site CNN Belief Blog – CNN Digital How Are Local Municipalities Impacted by The Great Recession – Will Alden, The Huffington Post SciGuy – Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle Social Media Coverage – Helen Popkin, msnbc.com Online Commentary/Blogging, Small Site Online Commentary/Blogging, Medium Site No finalists selected in either category Online Commentary/Blogging, Large Site Arianna Huffington – The Huffington Post LZ Granderson – CNN Digital Providing A Voice of Authority for the Everyman – Peter S. Goodman, The Huffington Post Simon Says – Roger Simon, Politico Outstanding Informational Graphic or Data Visualization, Professional California Budget Balancer – Los Angeles Times Crime L.A. – Los Angeles Times Tell-All Telephone – Zeit Online Outstanding Informational Graphic or Data Visualization, Student No finalists selected Online Video Journalism, Small Site Cheap Shrimp, Hidden Costs – The University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Powering a Nation: Spilling Over – UNC News21 The Price of Gas – Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch When the Water Ends – Yale Environment 360/MediaStorm Online Video Journalism, Medium Site Exile Without End: Palestinians in Lebanon – CBC News, Radio-Canada, ALT Digital Design Studio Life on the Line – The Toronto Star Online Video Journalism, Large Site Caught in the Crossfire: Victims of Gang Violence – Los Angeles Times Chasing the Swell – Los Angeles Times Torn Apart – San Jose Mercury News Video Portraiture – New York Times Magazine Online Video Journalism, Student Florida Cowboys – University of Miami Giants of the Seas: Jamaica Meets the Mega-Ships – University of Miami Haiti’s Lost Children – University of Miami Now What Argentina – University of North Carolina and Universidad Pontifica de Argentina The World Journalism Project – S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University Community Collaboration Hurricane Katrina, Then and Now – CNN Digital Overtown: Inside/Out – University of Miami School of Communication, University of Illinois School of Media, Stretch Photography, LLC Social Media’s Arab Spring – Andy Carvin, NPR The Tiziano Project | 360 Kurdistan – The Tiziano Project

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