Collaborative journalism recognized at OJAs

More than a dozen collaborations were recognized at the Online Journalism Awards

This weekend, more than 3,000 journalists gathered in Washington for the 2017 Online News Association conference and the Online Journalism Awards.

With mentions of parachute journalism in the keynote and sessions and table talks on collaboration, the idea and spirit of partnerships was very much alive at the conference.

Here are the 14 editorial projects recognized at this year’s Online Journalism Awards.

Winners

EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO DIGITAL STORYTELLING

• Frontier of Change | AIR: Finding America, KNBA (category: small)

EXCELLENCE IN IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING

• After Solitary | Emblematic Group, FRONTLINE

PLANNED NEWS/EVENTS

• Electionland | Electionland Coalition, ProPublica (category: large)
• CrossCheck France | First Draft (category: small)

TOPICAL REPORTING

• Standing Rock and Beyond | Inside Energy, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
• TruckBeat | AIR: Finding America, WUOT (category: small)

PRO-AM STUDENT AWARD

• Turning Tides: The Story of the Salton Sea | The Desert Sun, USC / JOVRNALISM

Finalists

EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN VISUAL DIGITAL STORYTELLING

• Boomtown, Flood Town | ProPublica, The Texas Tribune (category: medium)
• TruckBeat | AIR: Finding America, WUOT (category: small)

THE AL NEUHARTH INNOVATION IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AWARD

• Car Insurance | Consumer Reports, ProPublica (category: large)
• Maternal Mortality | NPR, ProPublica (category: large)

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AWARD FOR INVESTIGATIVE DATA JOURNALISM

• Boomtown, Flood Town | ProPublica, The Texas Tribune (category: small/medium)

TOPICAL REPORTING

• Bullied by the Badge | HuffPost, The Hechinger Report (category: large)

PRO-AM STUDENT AWARD

• Surviving the City | BBC News, International Reporting Program, The Guardian, Toronto Star, University of British Columbia

Heather Bryant is the director of Project Facet, an open source initiative supporting newsrooms with the infrastructure and best practices of collaborative journalism. She spent the past year studying editorial collaboration as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and previously worked in public media in Alaska. Want to join the conversation on collaboration? Join the collaborative journalism slack.