Guardian, Boston Globe, AxisPhilly, Texas Tribune take home 2013 Online Journalism Awards

ATLANTA — Coverage of the the Boston Marathon bombings, national security and international elections by news organizations large and small took top honors Saturday night at the 2013 Online Journalism Awards Banquet, which ended the Online News Association Conference.
At the 14th annual awards dinner, The Guardian won both the Gannett Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism and the Watchdog Journalism Award for digging into leaked National Security Administration files.
Coverage of disasters dominated the Breaking News categories, with the Boston University News Service and Boston.com/ Boston Globe winning for its continuing reporting on the city’s marathon bombing and WNYC for coverage of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
Each winner of the three General Excellence Awards — AxisPhilly, The New York Times and The Texas Tribune — took home a $3,000 prize, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The Knight Award for Public Service, with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, went to the Boston Globe for “68 Blocks,” a series on a year in the city’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, The New York Times won the Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism Award for its JavaScript library for data documents, D3.js.

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