Digital Publishing Awards

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Best Blog or Online-Only Column, Top 7 Finalists

The award for Best Blog or Online-Only Column honours the blog or online-only column that best serves its intended audience through commentary, opinion, visual, audio, and/or interactive elements.

Judges for this award considered the overall quality of the storytelling and presentation, as well as functionality, user experience and overall impact. This year, our jury has nominated 7 standout blogs or columns.

Take a look at this year’s nominees:

Born & Raised
The Huffington Post

Arti Patel, Writer & Editor
Contributors: Russell Sabio, Chloe Tejada

Crossing You in Style
FILLER Magazine

Emily Blake, Writer
Jennifer Lee, Editor
Adrian Alphona, Illustrator

In Our Image
VICE

Jordan Pearson, Writer
Kate Lunau, Editor

Jennifer Ditchburn columns
Policy Options

Jennifer Ditchburn, Writer & Editor

Presidential Poll Tracker
CBC News

Éric Grenier, Writer
Chris Carter, Editor
Contributors: Alisa Mamak, Michael Leschart, Richard Grasley

Researching Contemporary Indigenous Art in Public
Canadian Art

Richard William Hill, Writer
David Balzer, Editor

Tim Caulfield: The Cure
Policy Options

Tim Caulfield, Writer
Jennifer Ditchburn, Editor

The winners of the Best Blog or Online-Only Column award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Join us!

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Best Online Video: Mini-Doc, Top 4 Finalists

The award for Best Online Video: Mini-Doc will honour creative excellence in the production of a video by a digital publisher that is longer than five (5) minutes in length.

Our jury has selected four mini-docs, from four different publications, all worthy of recognition. An incredible story about a search for a long-lost parent, a look at a 6,000 year-old-village, a deep look into personal tales of mental health & trauma within the Canadian Forces and a historical look at Toronto’s development.

The winners will be revealed this Thursday June 1 at The Digital Publishing Awards Soirée at The Spoke Club in Toronto. [event details]

We invite you to carve some time out of your day to view this year’s nominees in Best Online Video: Mini-Doc:

The 6,000-year-old Village
Hakai Magazine

Salute
The Huffington Post Canada

Growing Pains
The Globe and Mail

Timothy Moore, Gregory Greene, Videographers & Producers
Christopher Manza, Digital Designer & Developer

Abandoned at Birth: One woman’s incredible search for her birth mother
Chatelaine

David Zelikovitz, Videographer & Producer
Julia Nunes, Reporter
Contributors: Rachel Heinrich, Nicola Hamilton, Andrew Tolson

The winners of the Best Online Video: Mini-Doc award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Join us!

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Best Feature Video: Top 5 Finalists

The award for Best Online Video: Feature will go to the creators who have demonstrated creative excellence in the production of a video that is between two and five (2-5) minutes in length. This year, the jury has nominated 5 standout videos.

Entries in this category were judged based on overall production quality, overall content quality as well as overall impact, considering how successfully the subject matter engages the intended audience.

We encourage you to sit back, take a break and view the 5 videos nominated in Best Online Video: Feature:

Autour du jukebox avec Safia Nolin et Philippe Brach
urbania.ca

Gabriel Lajournade, Videographer
Philippe Lamarre, Producer

Coming Out To My First-Generation Parents
HuffPost Canada

Stephanie Sannutto, Videographer & Producer
Arti Patel, Producer

So Fresh and So Clean: Behind the Scenes with the Raptors
Equipment Staff
Sportsnet
David Zelikovitz, Videographer
Donnovan Bennett, Producer & Reporter
Contributor: Owen Roberts

The Right to Roam
Hakai Magazine

Jude Isabella, Videographer
Gord More, Producer

Toddler with paralysis zips around in homemade wheelchair
The Canadian Press

Chris Purdy, Videographer & Reporter
Shetu Modi, Producer

The winners of the Best Online Video: Feature award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Join us!

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Best Short Video: Top 5 Finalists

Online videos have become ubiquitous in digital publishing, and rightfully so. They reach both new and existing audiences, while managing to keep those audiences captivated for a designated length of time. Videos are often easy to access, easy to watch, and very easily sharable, something digital publishers continue to strive for.

Sometimes, creating a short, succinct, punchy video in under two minutes can be challenging, but the 3 finalists in Best Online Video: Short skillfully produced engaging, interesting and informative videos, all under 120 seconds.

In this year’s Digital Publishing Awards, we split the award for Best Online Video into 3 divisions: short, feature & mini-doc. The jury for Best Online Video: Short has nominated three outstanding videos.

We invite you to add another tally to their views, and review this year’s nominees:

How the powerful opioid fentanyl kills: A CBC News explainer
CBC News

Teghan Beaudette, Videographer, Producer & Reporter
Contributors: Earl Cabuhat, Tyson Koschik

Fort McMurray Wildfires: Before & After
The Globe and Mail

Melissa Tait, Editor
Mychaylo Prystupa, Videographer

15 Fun Facts About Sperm
Today’s Parent

Leah Rumack & Kathryn Hayward, Producers
Contributors: Sun Ngo, Andrew Kolb, Steven Gircys, Jamie Piper

The winners of the Best Online Video: Short award will be announced at the Digital Publishing Awards Soirée on Thursday June 1, 2017 in Toronto. Join us!

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Best Podcast, Top 3 Finalists

Over the past decade, podcasts have emerged as one of the most captivating form of non-fiction storytelling. They inform us of the news, provide context and insight, educate and excite us.

South of the border, we were (and continue to be) enthralled by podcasts like This American Life, Serial and Radiolab. Now, we have our own impressive selection of shows from Canadian creators to choose from, and we’re excited to show you our judges’ selections for the Best Podcast award.

This year’s award will honour the podcast series that best serves its intended audience. The originality of the theme and the quality of production will be judged, as well as creative use of the podcasting medium.

This year’s nominees are nothing short of momentous, relevant and urgent. They include conversations with multifaceted, real, interesting, and flawed women, an re-investigation into the murder of a 24-year-old Indigenous woman in BC in 1989, and conversations about race in Canada, and why they’re so important.

We encourage you take a listen to this year’s nominees:

Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
CBCNews.ca