The day has arrived! At 4pm ET, the winners of the 2020 Digital Publishing Awards will be unveiled in a livestream digital presentation on Twitter.com/DPAwards and you can follow along here on digitalpublishingawards.ca.
Be sure to keep refreshing this page to see live updates starting from 4pm ET. We are looking forward to sharing all the exciting news with you, your friends and colleagues.
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[5:20pm] That concludes our Winners Celebration! Thank you to everyone for joining us and a huge congratulations to the outstanding winners and finalists of the 2020 Digital Publishing Awards!
See the complete list of winners, including honourable mentions, at digitalpublishingawards.ca/announcing-the-winners/
[5:16] Closing out the #DPA20 Winners Celebration, the nominees and winners of General Excellence: Large Publication…
[5:13] Now presenting General Excellence: Medium Publication…
[5:09pm] We’re down to the final award! General Excellence is split into 3 divisions honouring publications that live up to their editorial mandate, meet high journalistic standards, and serve their intended audience by taking full advantage of the opportunities digital mediums offer.
First up, let’s see who takes home the gold in the small publication division…
[5:05pm] Let’s take a look at Innovation in Digital Storytelling…
[5:00pm] Check out this excellent work nominated in Best Digital Design…
[4:58pm] Next up, Best Podcast…
[4:55] We have a tie for gold in Best Editorial Newsletter!
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[4:50pm] Now onto Best Social Storytelling… let’s see who takes home the gold…
[4:48pm] The next award recognizes outstanding use of photography to tell a story, including photojournalism, photo essay, photo galleries, conceptual photography and photo-illustration. Now revealing the #DPA20 winners in Best Photo Storytelling…
[4:46pm] Best Online Mini-Doc is next, check out these outstanding nominees and winners…
Let’s hear from the winners!
[4:42pm] Let’s take a look at Best Online Video: Feature…
[4:40pm] Now presenting Best Online Video: Short …
[4:36pm] Next up is Best Science & Technology Storytelling…
[4:34pm] Best Arts & Culture Storytelling honours go to…
[4:30pm] Let’s take a look at the Best Service Feature nominees and winners!
[4:26pm] Next up is Best Personal Essay – be sure to bookmark these great reads!
[4:24pm] Let’s take a look at the nominees and winners in Best Feature Article: Long…
[4:22pm] Best Feature Article coming up…
The #DPA20 gold in Best Feature Article goes to “How the RCMP found Canada’s most wanted fugitives with a raven, a Cree trapper and luck” by @RenataDAliesio and @MelTait of the @globeandmail. Congratulations!
Read this award-winning piece here.
[4:20pm] Now presenting Best Feature Article: Short
[4:15pm] Let’s see who the #DPA20 Best Column gold medal goes to…
[4:12pm] Best News Coverage: Community Publication is announced!
Congrats to @XtraMagazine – gold winners in #DPA20 Best News Coverage: Community Publication for “Rainbow Votes 2019: LGBTQ2S Issues and the Canadian Federal Election”. Congrats @EricaLenti@rachelagiese and team! Read the award-winning coverage here.
We love hearing from the winning team – big congrats!
[4:10pm] Let’s see who takes home Best News Coverage…
[4:05pm] Best Digital Editorial Package is presented!
Check out the award-winning piece here: https://globalreportingprogram.org/fishmeal/
[4:02pm] The #DPA20 Emerging Excellence Award goes to @JaneLytv of @BuzzfeedNews. Establishing herself as a global leader in debunking disinformation along with her vision and leadership skills impressed our jury. Congrats, Jane! Explore Jane’s work here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/janelytvynenko
Congratulations, Jane!
[4:00pm] And we’re off! The 5th Annual Digital Publishing Awards open with words from our 2020 Digital Publishing Leadership award winner, Dmitry Beniaminov.
This award is generously sponsored by the Reader’s Digest Foundation @ReadersDigestCA, a charity dedicated to the development of Canadian journalism, and supporting journalists and creators. Thank you!