Winners Announced: GEN’s Data Journalism Awards 2016

The winners of the Global Editors Network’s (GEN) fifth-annual Data Journalism Awards were announced during a special ceremony and gala dinner on 16 June 2016 at the Vienna City Hall in Austria.

The DJA 2016 competition received 471 projects from over 50 countries, representing the five continents. The final 11 winners of this year’s awards were given prizes worth more than $1,000 each.

The Data Journalism Awards are the first international awards honoring outstanding work in the field of data journalism around the world. Launched in 2012, the competition is organized by the GEN, with support from the Google News Labs and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Global newspapers, magazines, and digital media outlets submitted some really amazing projects. Enjoy the incredible winning entries below.

The winners of the DJA 2016 competition pose for a picture with members of the jury and GEN staff after the 16 June ceremony and gala dinner in Vienna. Photograph by Mario Hanousek.

 DJA 2016 Winners:

Data Visualization of the Year (Large Newsroom) – BuzzFeed News

Investigation of the year (Large Newsroom) – The Panama Papers

Investigation of the Year (Small Newsrooms) – Fundación Civio

Open Data – La Nacion

Best Use of Data in a Breaking News Story (Within First 36 Hours) – Al Jazeera America

News Data App of the Year (Large Newsroom) – FiveThirtyEight

News Data App of the Year (Small Newsrooms) – Convoca

Best Individual Portfolio – Sisi Wei, ProPublica

Data Journalism Website of the Year – FiveThirtyEight

General Excellence Award (Jury’s Choice) – Quartz

Public Choice Award – Public Radio International

Honorable Mention: Open Data – #breathe, IndiaSpend

Simon Rogers, Data Editor at Google, was the DJA Director for this year’s competition. For his thoughts on this year’s awards read his latest post, ‘Data Journalism Awards 2016: what the winners tell us about the state of the data nation.’

For more pictures, DJA jury bios, video of the ceremony, and information regarding previous year’s winners visit the GEN website.