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Best Long Feature, Top 5 Finalists

We hope that you’ve had a chance to review this year’s Short Feature nominees, because today we present the finalists for its counterpart— Best Long Feature.

This year the jury has chosen five finalists for the Best Feature Article: Long. The award will honour the best long feature story (minimum 2,000 words) in terms of the overall quality of writing, including but not limited to reporting, criticism, reviews and other non-fiction genres.

The nominated pieces include two from west coast online magazine Hakai, as well as a story of the unlikely revolutionaries of the Syrian War, an investigation into Canada’s work with unmanned aerial vehicles in Afghanistan, and a tour of Canada’s small town Chinese restaurants.

Here are the nominees for Best Feature Article— Long:

Crocodiles Rising
Hakai Magazine
Shanna Baker, Writer
Jude Isabella, Editor

The Whale Dying on the Mountain

Hakai Magazine
J.B. MacKinnon, Writer

Jude Isabella, Editor

Graffiti Kids

The Globe and Mail

Mark MacKinnon, Reporter
Chris Wilson-Smith and Evan Annett, Editor

Chris Manza and Danielle Webb, Digital Developers/Designers

Contributors: Bryan Gee, Rachel Wine, Dominic Bugatto, Victor Dwyer and Lisan Jutras

Check out our interview with nominated digital developer/designer Chris Manza.

The Drone and the Damage Done: How Canada’s UAV Operation Wounded Its Own

BuzzFeed Canada

Emma Loop, Writer

Paul McLeod, Editor

Chop Suey Nation
The Globe and Mail

Ann Hui, Reporter

Denise Balkissoon, Editor

Contributors: Mason Wright and Cliff Lee

The winners of the Best Feature Article: Long award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!

Full list of 2017 nominees
Digital Publishing Awards Event Details
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Best Digital Initiative, top 4 finalists

In 2016, we were introduced to countless new and compelling ways of consuming digital content. Designed and executed by some of the country’s biggest talents—digital initiatives, those that keep you scrolling through until the very end— make for the most engaging and memorable news stories, and we’re excited to share the judges’ top picks for this year’s Best Digital Initiative.

The jury has selected 4 nominees for this year’s award, which honours an innovative digital creation, project, design or concept. This may include a tool, an application, a package, a presentation of data, etc., which enhances audience engagement and/or user experience.

This year’s nominated pieces include an investigation into the hidden hardships of Chile’s most vulnerable, an in-depth look at the consequences of the lack of diversity in newsrooms, un robot français qui peut répondre á toutes vos questions, and personalized newsletters sent straight to your inbox.

Explore all four pieces below:

Hidden in Plain Sight
UBC School of Journalism

Taylor Owen, Creator

Chantelle Bellrichard, Digital developer

Contributors: Kathryn Gretsinger, Claire Ward, Daniel Hernandez, Michelle Ghoussoub, Codi Hauka, Jon Hernandez, Mike Lakusiak, Peter Mothe, Ahmed Najdat, Konstantine Roccas, Natalie Walters and Daisy Xiong

Toronto Life Email Newsletters

Toronto Life

Luc Rinaldi and Steve Kupferman, Creators

Matthew Warland, Adam Campbell and Ian Jackson, Digital developers

Matthew Warland, Designer

Contributors: Marc Weisblott and Rebecca Flemin

Allez-vous être remplacé par un robot? Demandez-le à… notre robot!

L’actualité

Naël Shiab, Creator, Digital Developer and Designer

Why Diversity?

Ryerson Review of Journalism

Fatima Syed & Carine Abouseif, Creators

Kat Eschner, Editor

Lindsay Smith, Digital developer

Fatima Syed & Carine Abouseif, Designers

Contributors: Eternity Martis, Allison Baker, Viviane Fairbank, Laura Hensley, Blair Mlotek, Tim Falconer, Lauren McKeon, Jonah Brunet, Erin Sylvester, Sydney Hamilton and Davide Mastracci

The winners of the Best Digital Initiative award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!

Full list of 2017 nominees
Digital Publishing Awards Event Details
Purchase your tickets for #DPA17

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Best Practices: Sharpen Your Twitter Skills

If used wisely, Twitter is an amazing tool to help DPA and NMA winners and nominees expand their network and help spread the word about their awards and their work in general. The NMAF is pleased to present the second volume of our Best Practices Guide, Sharpen Your Twitter Skills.

To help DPA and NMA winners – publishers, writers, and creators – make the most of Twitter, we’ve created a guide dedicated entirely to this social media tool! From Twitter Moments to hashtags, our experts share their secrets to optimize tweets and build a strong community of followers.

The guide details how journalists can use Twitter to incite conversation, the goldmine of information within Twitter analytics, and an example of a highly successful Twitter campaign. It shares anecdotes on how NMA and DPA award-winners, such as Desmond Cole, have created space on Twitter for meaningful dialogues, and advice from Chatelaine’s social media senior editor, Haley Overland: “Build your audience… every damn day.” To start building that audience and expand your digital reach, click here to download our 2017 Best Practices Guide.

About Winners’ Circle

In November 2016, the National Media Awards Foundation presented the second Winners’ Circle event, an exclusive activity for DPA and NMA winners and nominees to meet, mingle, pitch, and learn. We partnered with Twitter Canada for this event, at which Jennifer Hollett (Twitter Canada’s head of news and government) spoke on growing your Twitter presence.

Please stay tuned for when we announce our next Winners’ Circle event. For updates, you can follow the DPAs on Twitter and Facebook.