THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

From the 10th Annual Shorty Awards Best in News & Media

This award recognizes the most effective use of social media to disseminate news and information. Submissions for both coverage of specific news events and for overall performance will be accepted.

See previous winners and honorees here.

Nominees

Hurricane Maria Coverage in Puerto Rico
We began with an assignment: tell the story of what's happening in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Mari…
INTO.com
As the world's largest social networking app for gay, bi, curious and queer men, Grindr saw an oppo…
Keeping Up With the Tweeter in Chief
Donald Trump has rewritten the presidential playbook, forever changing the way a president talks, a…
finalist
Los Angeles Times Presents “Dirty John” Podcast Series
LA Times and Wondery (an audio on-demand media network) partnered to launch a multiplatform (conten…
Mashable on Social Media
Mashable is a media and entertainment company for superfans. We're obsessed with culture and tech, …
winner
NowThis News - The No. 1 Social News Brand in the World
NowThis has a mission to be the most valuable and viewed social news brand for young people on ever…
finalist
The New Yorker on Social Media
We put the power of our social platforms—and our reporting—behind the year's most consequential sto…
finalist
The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness. A nearly nonstop news year, 2017 brought a special counsel investig…
finalist
VG on Snapchat Discover
Note: Please see the attached links for a more visual experience of this information!Being the larg…
WIRED Social Media
While many publishers use social media as a megaphone to broadcast their stories and drive traffic …
finalist
audience honor
War in the Koreas
Amid Kim Jong-un and President Trump's war of words threatening nuclear annihilation, the "Direct F…
War on terror reconsidered | reTHINK TANK
Our first objective with any of our videos is to take our scholars' research (which is often dense …