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Quartz, WSJ win Online Journalism Awards

Business news site Quartz and The Wall Street Journal were among the winners of the annual Online Journalism Awards, which were announced Sunday.

Quartz won in the General Excellence in Online Journalism, medium category.

Quartz also won in the Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, medium category for Space Business.

The Journal won in he Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, large category for its markets and finance interactive graphics.

In addition, the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small category went to Profiting from Prisoners, by Daniel Wagner, Eleanor Bell and Amirah Al Idrus of The Center for Public Integrity, which examined how banks gouged families of prisoners with high fees.

The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, large category went to Propublica and National Public Radio for Insult to Injury: America’s Vanishing Worker Protections.

The awards are given by The Online News Association, the world’s largest association of online journalists.

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.