THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

From the 9th 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

@thisisfusion
Create a unique visual language for our Instagram account and grow our audience
ABC News Social Media
ABC News' main objective on social media is to reach as many users as possible and give them the …
finalist
AJ+
AJ+ is Al Jazeera's digital-only offshoot that creates news for the connected generation. In a big …
BFF Trump
The 2016 Election. Trump was everywhere - on the news, on buildings, sidewalks and steak packaging …
Best in News and Media - ATTN:
ATTN: is an issues-driven media company. Our mission is to deliver engaging content to a mobile-fir…
finalist
CNN Heroes: Real-Time Messenger Vote and Multi-Platform Campaign
CNN's vision is to be the worldwide leader in mobile and video news storytelling. Continuously loo…
NBC News: Decision 2016
For NBC News' election day coverage on social platforms, we had several objectives: Provide a servi…
winner
Olympics News Lab at Google
During the Olympics, a few stories are recycled over and again. But, according to the 300 million d…
SEMANA Magazine
From the first day, the philosophy of the magazine was to create a research unit that uncovered wha…
finalist
Standing Strong at Standing Rock
As one of the first national media organizations to have video journalists on the ground in North D…
finalist
audience honor
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: Election 2016
The Washington Post is widely recognized for our world-class journalism. Our objective in 2016 was …
The Young Turks
The Young Turks is the flagship show of TYT Network and is the largest online news show in the worl…