As news organizations continue to face unprecedented challenges and demands for change, the CJF-MJP Digital News Innovation Award recognizes innovations in digital media that have a demonstrated impact in advancing the quality of digital journalism.
Innovation can come in a wide range of approaches, including (but not restricted to): new formats for audiences (e.g. mobile products, etc.); new storytelling techniques; data-driven storytelling; a new digital product produced by the newsroom; involvement of the community in story development; or partnerships or team approaches to reporting and producing stories.
It is up to individual applicants to identify and explain what is innovative about the approach or technique they are nominating, and provide evidence of audience response and engagement.
While it may have taken more than a year from concept to implementation, the impact of the innovation must have occurred in 2021.
Judges will have a particular interest in innovations that help the news organization increase the size of its audience while attracting new audiences for its journalism.
The winning news organization will receive a cash prize of $10,000, with thanks to the generous support of award sponsor Facebook Journalism Project.
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PAST WINNERS
2022: New Canadian Media (NCM), an online outlet showcasing and supporting journalists from immigrant communities.
2021: Indiegraf, a startup that helps fill the gap left by the loss of local news by empowering small digital news publishers to serve diverse and underserved communities, was the recipient of the inaugural Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF)-Facebook Journalism Project Digital News Innovation Award. View the acceptance speechesby Indiegraf‘s Erin Millar, co-founder and CEO, and Caitlin Havlak, co-founder and CTO.