“DenseCity,” a NYCity News Service multimedia special report that examines New York’s struggle to navigate a future with more people and less space, has been named a finalist in the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards competition.
The project, produced by students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, combines text, pictures, video, audio and interactive graphics to tell the story of New York’s growth amid Mayor de Blasio’s plan to create 80,000 new units of affordable housing and renovate 120,000 more.
The special report is a finalist in the “Student Project, Large” category, along with offerings from the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University and the Carnegie-Knight News21 project at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
The winner will be announced at the 2014 ONA Conference and Online Journalism Awards Banquet on Sept. 27, in Chicago.
The Online News Association bills itself as a nonprofit membership organization for digital journalists, connecting journalism, technology and innovation. Founded in 1999, ONA boasts more than 2,000 members.
The NYCity News Service, which debuted in 2007, feeds multimedia content to news organization of various types and sizes, including The New York Times, The Huffington Post and DNAinfo.com. The News Service has collected numerous local and national honors from the Online News Association, as well as from Editor & Publisher’s EPPY Awards competition and the Society of Professional Journalists, both of which recently named the site the best of its kind in the nation.