“The Missing” was among two CUNY J-School projects tapped for the Online Journalism Awards contest.
Two NYCity News Service multimedia special reports – one examining the troubled for-profit education industry, the other looking at the plight of the missing and their families – were named finalists Tuesday in the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards competition.
“Counterfeit Ed” and “The Missing” took two of the four slots in the “Student Projects, Large” category in the annual, national contest. The winner will be announced Sept. 26 in Los Angeles at the ONA’s annual conference.
The Online News Association bills itself as a nonprofit membership organization for digital journalists, connecting journalism, technology and innovation. Founded in 1999, ONA boasts more than 2,000 members.
The NYCity News Service, which debuted in 2007, feeds multimedia content to news organization of various types and sizes. The News Service has collected numerous local and national honors from the Online News Association, as well as from Editor & Publisher’s EPPY Awards competition and the Society of Professional Journalists, both of which have named the site the best of its kind in the nation.