Knight Award for Public Service
Winner
WashingtonPost.com, Fixing D.C. schools
Finalists
• DallasNews.com, The Dallas Morning News, Unequal Justice
• DesmoinesRegister.com, Iowa Caucuses
• Freep.com, Detroit Free Press, Kwame Kilpatrick: A mayor in crisis
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Site (Non-English)
Winner
ELPAIS.com, Spain
Finalists
• Einestages.de, Germany
• Oglobo.com.br, Brazil
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Site (Non-English)
Winner
Soitu.es, Spain
Finalists
• Aldiatx.com USA
• Blogtrotters.fr, France
General Excellence, Large Site
Winner
CNN.com
Finalists
• HuffingtonPost.com
• NYTimes.com
• Politico.com
• Reuters.com
General Excellence, Medium Site
Winner
LasVegasSun.com
Finalists
• MinnesotaPublicRadio.com
• Truthdig
• WRAL.com
General Excellence, Small Site
Winner
Army Times
Finalists
• CQPolitics.com, Congressional Quarterly Politics
• NewWest.net
• RapidCityJournal.com, Rapid City (S.D.) Journal
Breaking News, Large Site
Winner
NYTimes.com, Eliot Spitzer’s Resignation
Finalists
• LATimes.com, Wildfires
• NPR.org, China Earthquake
• SignOnSanDiego.com, San Diego Union Tribune, Wildfires
• StarTribune.com, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Bridge Collapse
Breaking News, Medium Site
Winner
STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkwood Shootings
Finalists
• LasVegasSun.com, Monte Carlo Fire
• OregonLive.com, The Oregonian, Oregon Storm Map
• Tennessean.com, Tennessee Tornado
Breaking News, Small Site
No award
Investigative, Large Site
Winner (tie)
• DallasNews.com, The Dallas Morning News, Unequal Justice
TheGlobeandMail.com, Talking to the Taliban
Finalists
• Salon.com, Mark Benjamin, Inside the CIA’s Notorious “Black Sites”
• TheSmokingGun.com, Big Phat Liar
Investigative, Small Site
Winner
RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.), ‘I Didn’t Do That Murder’: Lebrew Jones and the death of Micki Hall
Finalists
• Azstarnet.com, Arizona Daily Star, Schools promote students despite widespread failure
• EastValleyTribune.com, East Valley (Ariz.) Tribune, Blood and Money
• NWHerald.com, The Northwest (Ill.) Herald, Coincidence or Cluster: The McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits
• RawStory.com, The Permanent Republican Majority
Multimedia Feature, Large Site
Winner
Reuters.com, Bearing Witness
Finalists
• CNN.com, Eyewitness to Murder: The King Assassination
• LATimes.com, Burnover
• MSNBC.com, Battle of the bags: Paper vs. plastic
Multimedia Feature, Medium Site
Winner
STLtoday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Reporting for Duty
Finalists
• Cleveland.com, Johanna: Facing Forward
• TheGlobeandMail.com, Talking to the Taliban
• HonoluluAdvertizer.com, When Pedestrians Die
• LasVegasSun.com, Boomtown
Multimedia Feature, Small Site
Winner
GEO.fr, Hidden World
Finalists
• Arkansas Online, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Soldier’s Wife
• OttawaCitizen.com, 70 Years of Superman
• Roanoke.com, The Roanoke Times, Age of Uncertainty
Online Commentary, Large Sites
Winner
God-O-Meter, Beliefnet.com
Finalists
• Nick Anderson, Chron.com, The Houston Chronicle
• Nicholas Kristof, NYTimes.com, On the Ground
Online Commentary, Medium Site
Winner
The Bottom Line, DallasNews.com, The Dallas Morning News
Finalist
Joel Schwartzberg, NJ.com, N.J. Voices
Online Commentary, Small Sites
Winner
Mark Fiore, MarkFiore.com, animated political cartoons
Finalists
• Catherine Brahic, NewScientist.com
• Craig Crawford, Trail Mix, CQPolitics.com
Online Video Presentation
Winner
OregonLive.com, The Oregonian, Living to the End
Finalists
• Border Stories
• DesMoinesRegister.com, Insights into the Candidates
• Slate.com, Hillary’s Inner Tracy Flick
Outstanding Use of Digital Technology, Large Site
Winner
DesMoinesRegister.com, Iowa Caucuses
Finalists
• LATimes.com, California War Dead
• NYTimes.com, Politics
• WashingtonPost.com, Young Lives at Risk: Our Overweight Children
Outstanding Use of Digital Technology, Small Site
Winner
Everyblock.com
Finalists
• RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.), How Safe Are Our Bridges?
• Roanoke.com, The Roanoke Times, Virginia Tech: One Year Later
Specialty Site Journalism
Winner
WebMD
Finalists
• Congressional Quarterly
• Cricinfo
• Politico
• Reznet
Student Journalism
Winner (tie)
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill & Universidad de los Andes, South of Here
• Taylor Hayden, Western Kentucky University, Closer to Home: A Daughter Becomes Caregiver
Finalists
• University of California, Berkeley, Mauro’s Shift
• Justin McLachlan, West Virginia University, Where Doubt Remains
Topical Reporting, Large Sites
Winner
USAToday.com, Today in the Sky
Finalist
LATimes.com, Homicide Report
Topical Reporting, Small Sites
Winner
Azstarnet.com, Arizona Daily Star, Immigration in the Spotlight
Finalists
• Reznet, The Indian Vote: When Candidates Come Calling
• Truthdig, Bill Boyarsky, On the Campaign Trail
• RecordOnline.com, The Times Herald Record (Middletown, N.Y.), Varsity845