E&P and Local Media Consortium.com announced the winners of the 25th annual EPPY Awards on Oct. 27 during a virtual live ceremony sponsored by Viafoura.
This year’s EPPY Awards received more than 450 entries. Winners were selected from an international list of nominations to honor the best digital media websites across 38 diverse categories, in addition to categories for excellence in college and university journalism. Each category was separated into websites with more than 1 million monthly unique visitors, and those that receive less than 1 million. Winners must receive a score in the top one-third of the average score across all categories within their division. As a result, there may be no winner in categories not reaching this threshold.
Once again, thank you to our EPPY judges this year. Our panel of judges is made up of media leaders with backgrounds in website design, marketing/advertising, editorial, technology, education, and management.
Congratulations to our 2020 EPPY winners!
Best Daily Newspaper Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
BostonGlobe.com | The Boston Globe
Finalists: ReviewJournal.com | Las Vegas Review-Journal AND SFChronicle.com | San Francisco Chronicle
Best Weekly or Non-Daily Newspaper Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
vineyardgazette.com |Vineyard Gazette
Finalists: Las Vegas Weekly for LasVegasWeekly.com AND People Newspapers |for PeopleNewspapers.com
Best Online News Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
CNN Digital | CNN
Finalist: Block Club Chicago for BlockClubChicago.com
Best Online-Only News Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
STAT | STAT
Finalists: Temple University: Department of Journalism for PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com AND ReligionUnplugged.com
Best Local TV News Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
WSLS.com | Graham Digital
Best Business/Finance Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
CNN Business | CNN
Best Business/Finance Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
STAT: A Must Read in Business | STAT
Finalists: GrowthSpotter.com AND AdamLevin.com
Best News/Political Blog a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Back to the Battleground” | BostonGlobe.com
Finalists: Bloomberg Green for “Net Zero” AND Business Insider for “Power and Persuasion in Election”
Best News/Political Blog on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Coronavirus and Inequality” | Staff of the Center for Public Integrity
Best Sports News Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
Best Entertainment/Cultural News Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
OnMilwaukee | OnMilwaukee.com
Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Careless” | IndyStar.com
Finalist: Consumer Reports for “While They Were Sleeping”
Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
Two Winners:
“Give- and Taken” | Sarah Kleiner and Chris Zubak-Skees, Center for Public Integrity
“Lethal Force” | Greenville (SC) News
Finalists: STAT for “On the Covid-19 Front Lines” AND, THE CITY for “Who’s Policing You?" AND, THE CITY for “Flirting with Disaster: Flood Zones in New York City”
Best Collaborative Investigative/Enterprise Reporting on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Luanda Leaks” | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, FRONTLINE, Expresso, The New York Times and 33 other media partners
Finalists: The Center for Public Integrity, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, High Country News, Ohio Valley ReSource, and StateImpact Oklahoma for “One Disaster Away AND 70-Million Podcast
Best Collaborative Investigative/Enterprise Reporting on a Website less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“The Riviera Maya Gang: How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered The World of ATM Skimming” | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, and RISE Project
Finalists: The Kaiser Health News & The Guardian for “Lost on the Frontline” AND, THE CITY for “Chalkbeat and THE CITY”
Best Collaborative Investigative/Enterprise Video on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Go There - Fear and Anxiety in Epicenter of Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak” | CNN Go There: Wuhan
Finalists: Trib Total Media for “Tragedy at Brighton” AND CNN for “No Olvidado: Death and Dignity on the US Border”
Best Investigative/Enterprise Video on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“The Riviera Maya Gang: How a Crew of Romanian Criminals Conquered The World of ATM Skimming” | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Quinto Elemento Lab, Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad, and RISE Project
Finalists: ReligionUnplugged.com for “God And Guns: Why American Churchgoers Are Packing Heat”
Best News or Event Feature on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Visual Coverage of Protests Following George Floyd's Death” | USA TODAY Graphics
Finalists: BostonGlobe.com for “Back to the Battleground” AND Bloomberg News for “Hong Kong on the Edge” ANDThe Tennessean for “The Nashville Tornado”
Best News or Event Feature on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Coronavirus in New York” | THE CITY
Finalists: U.S. Chamber of Commerce for “Small Business Resources on COVID-19” AND Honolulu Civil Beat for “Fighting to Save This Rare Maui Bird from Extinction”
Best Business Reporting on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“The Pandemic: An Historic Business Story” | STAT
Finalists: ReligionUnplugged.com for “Whistleblower Alleges $100 Billion Secret Stockpile by LDS Church” AND ReligionUnplugged.com for “God And Guns: Why American Churchgoers Are Packing Heat”
Best Innovation Project on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“NFL Off-Season Dominoes” | ESPN
Finalists: USA TODAY for “Visual Investigation of Violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin” AND Bloomberg Graphics FOR “Tesla Model 3 Survey”
Best Innovation Project on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Detained” | Emily Kassie, The Marshall Project in partnership with The Guardian
Finalists: THE CITY for “Missing Them” AND STAT for “Promise and Peril: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Health Care”
Best Use of Data/Infographics on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“A Looming Plague” | CNN
Finalists: BostonGlobe.com for “The Boston Globe Data and Infographics” AND ESPN for “Lebron's Journey to Passing Kobe”
Best Use of Data/Infographics on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
The STAT Covid-19 Tracker | STAT & Applied XL
Finalists: San Francisco Chronicle (SFChronicle.com) AND The CITY for “Coronavirus Tracker”
Best Community Service on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Throwaway Kids” | The Kansas City Star
Finalists: BostonGlobe.com for “Seeing Red” AND BostonGlobe.com for “At the Edge of a Warming World”
Best Community Service on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“UVA Lawsuits” | Kaiser Health News
Finalists: Greenville News for “Lethal Force” AND Institute for Nonprofit News and Partners for “Lens on Lightfoot”
Best Use of Social Media/Crowd Sourcing on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Coronavirus Q&A” | CNN Social
Finalists: KHN.org, NPR.org & CBS This Morning for “The Bill of the Month” AND CNN Social for “We Remember”
Best Use of Social Media/Crowd Sourcing on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Chalkbeat and THE CITY” | THE CITY
Finalists: The CITY for “The City’s Staff” AND Portland Press Herald for “Press Herald on Twitter”
Best Mobile News App on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
CNN Digital | CNN Digital
Best Mobile News App on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and PressReader
Best News or Event Feature Video on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“The Burning Bed” | Retro Report and The New Yorker
Finalists: CNN for “Syrians Are in a Desperate Race to Outrun a Brutal Regime Offensive” AND The Weather Channel Digital for “When Memory Fails”
Best News or Event Feature Video on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“God And Guns: Why American Churchgoers Are Packing Heat” | ReligionUnplugged.com
Finalists: Religionunplugged.com for “George Floyd, Race & Religion in 2020” AND STAT for “On the Covid-19 Front Lines”
Best Podcast on a Website with more than 1 million unique viewers
“Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction” | CNN
Finalists: The Arizona Republic for “Rediscovering Don Bolles, a Murdered Journalist” AND, The Tennessean for “Country Mile”
Best Podcast on a Website with less than 1 million unique visitors
“Offshore Podcast: Far From Home” | Honolulu Civil Beat
Finalists: Loud Tree Media for “Bookable” AND 70 Million Podcast
Best Photojournalism on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“For one Maine family, the long, hard road from ‘nowhere’ to home” | Boston Globe
Finalists: CNN for “CNN Photo” AND Singapore Press Holdings for “Journalism in Pandemic”
Best Photojournalism on a Website less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Coronavirus in NYC” | THE CITY
Finalists: THE CITY for “Seeking Justice in New York” AND ReligionUnplugged.com for “God And Guns: Why American Churchgoers Are Packing Heat”
Best Overall Website Design of a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
CNN Style | CNN
Finalists: Singapore Press Holdings for “70 Years of Waiting” AND Treehugger for Treehugger.com
Best Redesign/Relaunch of a Website with more than 1 million unique monthly visitors
ClickOnDetroit | Graham Media Group
Finalist: SFGate.com
Best Promotional/Marketing Campaign on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“Forecast: Change” | The Weather Channel, an IBM Business/TWC Branded Team, IBM Originals, The Garden Creative
Finalists: Las Vegas Review-Journal for “2020 Academic Excellence Awards Go Virtual” AND The Dallas Morning News for “The Dallas Morning News: Behind the Story”
Best Promotional/Marketing Campaign on a Website with less than 1 million unique monthly visitors
“Stimulus Package to Help Small Businesses” | El Clasificado
Finalists: Portland Press Herald for “Portland Press Herald COVID-19 Support Campaign“ AND Shaw Media Illinois for “Friday Night Drive”
Best Business Reporting on a Website with more than 1 million unique visitors
“NBC News Reporting Series: The Paycheck Protection Program” | NBC News Business, Tech, and Media Unit
Finalists: Bloomberg Businessweek for “Tainted Pills, Broken Trust” AND Bloomberg News for “Fisher’s Expensive Sexist Joke”
Best College Campus Website
Baylorlariat.com | Baylor University
Finalists: UIC for The Redline Project AND Temple University for The Temple News Website
Best College Produced Community or Niche Website
South Florida Media Network | FIU Journalism + Media
Finalists: Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for NYCity News Service, Temple University: Department of Journalism for PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com
Best News Story on a College Website
“COVID's Invisible Victims” | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Finalists: Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University for “Operation Agent Touch” AND PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com, Temple University: Department of Journalism for “People Without Government-Issued IDs Pay a Steep Price to Own Their Identity
Best Feature Story on a College Website
“Deported U.S. veterans find aid, comfort in a Tijuana ‘bunker’” | Madeline Ackley, Cronkite News at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Finalists: Temple University’s The Temple News for “I'm Still Here: Housing Insecurity Creates Daily Obstacles and Few Solutions” AND NYCity News Service, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for “The South Bronx Acts”
Best Photojournalism on a College Website
Thomas Hengge Pavement Pieces | New York University
Finalists: Benjamin Chambers, NYCity News Service for “61 Days of Solitude, Life and Love“ AND Temple University’s The Temple News for “Inside Temple University's Makeshift Surge Hospital”
Best Video on a College Website
“Coping With Covid-19” | Staff of 219 West, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Finalists: Florida International University for “Mother And Son Offer Autism Training to First Responders” AND Temple University: Department of Journalism, Media and American Politics for “Voter Security in 2020”
Best College/University Investigative Documentary on a Website
“Homeland Secrets” | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University
Finalists: News Staff, Carnegie-Knight News21, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University for “Kids Imprisoned” AND City Newsroom | NY City Lens at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for “Things Fall Apart: What Happened to New York City When the Coronavirus Came Calling”