Best in News in Social Media - Shorty Awards

THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

By Campaign

Campaign by a Black-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Latinx/Hispanic-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a LGBTQ+ Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Native/Indigenous-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by a Woman-Owned Business NEW! Campaign by an Asian-Owned Business NEW! Corporate Social Responsibility NEW! Fundraising Campaign NEW! Global Campaign Integrated Campaign Local Campaign NEW! Multi-Platform Campaign On a Shoestring Pro Bono Social Movement

By Industry

Automotive NEW! Business to Business NEW! Education NEW! Entertainment Fashion and Beauty NEW! Financial Services Food & Beverage Government & Politics Healthcare & Pharma Hospitality & Travel Lifestyle & Wellness NEW! News & Media Nonprofit Restaurants NEW! Retail & E-Commerce Sports Technology

By Platform

Emerging Platform Facebook Instagram LinkedIn TikTok Twitch Twitter YouTube

Partnerships

Corporate-Community Influencer & Celebrity Media Partnership Nonprofit Partnership

Special Project

Special Project NEW!

Video Content

Animations Documentary Short Live Streaming Long Form Video NEW! Short Form Video NEW! Video Series Virtual Reality

From the 7th Annual Shorty Awards Best in News

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.

Click here to see the previous winner and nominees.

Winner

Our objective was to use social media to enable a new generation to learn more about the events in…

Finalist

The Human Rights Channel

The Human Rights Channel curates and contextualizes videos that document human rights violations an…

Nominees

#CNNElection: 2014 Midterm Election Social Coverage

With sharable graphics calling the races in real-time, video clips, Vines, cartoons, maps, chats, s…

Our objective was to use social media to enable a new generation to learn more about the events in…

CBS This Morning's Milestone Year in Social Media

"The news is back in morning news," and 2014 was a milestone year for CBS This Morning's social med…

Chicago Sun-Times social media

To get the news to our readers wherever they are – and to get it there first.To build trust with …

Ferguson under fire: CNN Social Report

Ferguson had been a trending topic across the U.S. and internationally for months following the sho…

Independent Voter Network (IVN News)

The Independent Voter Network is a non-partisan, non-profit platform for unfiltered political news …

NowThis: Social News In 2014

NowThis is the first true socially distributed media company. We live where our audience lives—on T…

PRI’s The World: Connecting US listeners to a global conversation

Social media has become an extension of the voice of The World, a weekday public radio program host…

Social coverage of 2014 Venezuelan Crisis

CNN en Español led one of the most successful social media news coverages to date during the Venezu…

TechCrunch is the number one guide for all things tech, and the publication of record for Silicon V…

The Deal Twitter

In short(y), The Deal's Twitter strategy is to present our deal analysis and newsroom interaction w…

The Human Rights Channel

The Human Rights Channel curates and contextualizes videos that document human rights violations an…

TheStreet Social Media

TheStreet's social media presence is designed to bring all of the latest investing ideas (via stori…

Univision's Social Coverage of Executive Action on Immigration (#AccionEjecutiva)

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced his Executive Action on immigration. This was the b…