WEBSITE CATEGORY WINNERS AND FINALISTS

Best Daily Newspaper Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

The Boston Globe for Bostonglobe.com

Best Weekly or Non-daily Newspaper Website (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Las Vegas Weekly for Lasvegasweekly.com

Best Magazine Website (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Authorlink.com

Best Sports News Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

ESPN Digital Media for ESPN.COM Finalists: CNN for Cnnsports.com and ESPN for Espncricinfo.com

Best Online-only News (1 million or more unique visitors)

Block Club Chicago for Blockclubchicago.org

Best Online-only News (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Calmatters for Calmatters.org Finalist: The City for Thecity.org

Best Local TV News Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

KSAT for KSAT.COM Finalist: Clickorlando.com

Best Local TV News Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

WSLS for WSLS.COM

Best Local Radio News Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

Minnesota Public Radio for Mprnews.org

Best Business/finance Website (1 million or more unique visitors)

CNBC for CNBC.COM

Finalist: CNN for CNN Business

Best Business/finance Website (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Growthspotter for Growthspotter.com

Best Entertainment/ Cultural News Website (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Religion Unplugged for Religionunplugged.com Finalist: Onmilwaukee for Onmilwaukee.com

Best Mobile News App (1 million or more unique visitors)

CNN Digital for CNN: Breaking US & World News

Best Mobile News App (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

STAT for The Stat APP

Finalist: Shaw Local News Network for The Shaw Local App

CONTENT CATEGORY WINNERS AND FINALISTS Best Investigative/ Enterprise Feature (1 million or more unique visitors)

ESPN Investigative UNIT/ESPN Features Unit for “Death at the U: Who killed Bryan Pata?”

Finalists: Bostonglobe.com for “Behind the Shield” and The Kansas City Star for “The Promised Land”

Best Investigative/ Enterprise Feature (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Calmatters for “Waiting for Justice” Finalists: Irpimedia, OCCRP for “The ‘Ndrangheta’s Little Kiss’: Inside an Organized Crime Clan” and Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY for “How New York Bungled Pandemic Medical Supply Purchase”

Best Collaborative Investigative/ Enterprise Reporting (1 million or more unique visitors)

OCCRP, Le Monde, IRPI, Mcclatchy/ Miami Herald/el Nuevo Heraldm Istories, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, KRIK,

Bivol, Investigace.cz, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Soir, Woxx, Piaui, Tempo, Armando.info, La Nacion, Inkyfada (Tunisia) for “Openlux”

Finalists: NBC News, Inside Climate News and the Texas Observer for “Super Threats” and The Marshall Project, USA TODAY Network, Arizona Republic for “US Marshals Act Like Local Police with More Violence and Less Accountability”

Best Collaborative Investigative/ Enterprise Reporting (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

THE CITY, Type Investigations and Columbia Journalism Investigations for “NYC Nursing Home Gave Dozens of Veterans Experimental COVID-19 Treatments”

Finalists: Wisconsin Watch, TMJ4 News for “Thousands await jobless aid as Wisconsin leaders blame each other” and Religionunplugged.com and Newsreel Asia, Harshita Rathore and Vishal Arora for “Talking Religion at the Dinner Table”

Best News or Event Feature (1 million or more unique visitors)

The Tennessean / USA TODAY Network for “The Christmas Day Bombing”

Finalists: CNN Digital for “Running as Equals: The Elite Athletes Fighting for Acceptance” and CNN Digital for “Assault on Democracy: Paths to Insurrection”

Best News or Event Feature (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Religionunplugged.com, Julia Duin, Hamil Harris, Kimberly Winston for “The Religious Roots of an Attempted Insurrection”

Finalists: Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Josefa Velasquez for “Deliveristas” and STAT for “STAT Exposes Huge Gaps in Access”

Best Business Reporting (1 million or more unique visitors)

Buzzfeed News, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners for “The FINCEN Files.”

Finalists: Fortune for “Fortune: Crypto at a Turning Point” and CNET for

“Why your iphone may never be made in America.”

Best Business Reporting (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

STAT for “Groundbreaking Coverage of Momentous Alzheimer’s Drug Approval” Finalists: THE CITY for “New York in Job Hunt as City Seeks Economic Comeback from COVID” and STAT for “Epic’s AI Algorithms, Shielded from Scrutiny”

Best Business/finance Blog (fewer than 1 million unique visitors)

Investmentnews for “Mary Beth Franklin On Retirement”

Finalist: STAT for “Ed Silverman’s enormously popular Pharmalot blog.”

Best News/political Blog (1 million or more unique visitors)

Inside for “Insider’s Washington Bureau”

Best Use of Data/infographics (1 million or more unique visitors)

The Straits Times for “Three Million masks every minute: How Covid-19 is choking the planet.”

Finalists: Bloomberg News for “COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker” and CNN Digital for “The Southwest’s Most Important River is Drying Up”

The Las Vegas Weekly won the EPPY for the Best Weekly or Non-daily Newspaper Website with fewer than 1 million unique visitors and the Best Overall Website Design in the same class. The Las Vegas Weekly staff is pictured (left to right): Photographer Wade Vandervort, Photographer Christopher Devargas, Editor at Large Brock Radke, Senior Editor Geoff Carter, Staff Writer Amber Sampson, Editor Spencer Patterson, Staff Writer C. Moon Reed, Multimedia Manager Yasmina Chavez, Deputy Editor Evelyn Mateos, Designer Ian Racoma. (Photo provided.)

Doris Booth, CEO of Authorlink.com, and webmaster Ben Latham (left) celebrate their first-place win as Best Magazine Website with fewer than 1 million unique visitors. (Photo provided)

Block Club Chicago (Blockclubchicago.org) won the EPPY for the Best Online-only News, as well as the EPPYS for the Best Overall Website Design and Best Redesign/relaunch (1 million or more unique visitors for all). Jen Sabella, co-founder of Block Club Chicago, said, “Thank you, Editor and Publisher, for this incredible recognition. At a time of so much division and isolation, it's empowering to inform people, connect neighbors and strengthen communities through our boots-on-the-ground reporting — all thanks to our readers. From our investigations that hold those in power to account to our features highlighting neighborhood characters, our work reflects the strong, kind, resilient city we know and love. It also proves that if a news organization truly commits to serving the people, the people will support it back.” Pictured in the collage are (top row) Jen Sabella, Shamus Toomey, Stephanie Lulay, Maple Walker Lloyd, (second row) Jake Wittich, Dawn Rhodes, Maxwell Evans, Kelly Bauer, (third row) Jamie Nesbitt Golden, Mina Bloom, Pascal Sabino, Quinn Myers, (fourth row) Ariel Parrellaaureli, Alex Hernandez, Joe Ward, Colin Boyle, (fifth row) Hannah Bouffard, Hillary Flores, María Guerrero and Atavia Reed. (Photo provided)

Minnesota Public Radio won the EPPY for the Best Local Radio News Website with 1 million or more unique visitors. “The MPR News digital team is a mighty crew that continues to outdo itself. The team consistently seeks creative storytelling to display on the website and digital platforms. What helps MPR stand apart is the level of engagement the team has with our audience. At a time when covering the dueling pandemics could impact the quality of news reporting, MPR News continues to strive to serve the audience with journalism excellence. Our website is a central source of news and information for the communities we serve,” said Sarah Glover, MPR News Managing Editor. Duchesne Drew, President of Minnesota Public Radio, added, “MPRNEWS.ORG is a vital part of how we inform and connect with Minnesotans. We're committed to being more essential to more Minnesotans, and our website is central to fulfilling that mission. We aim to be a news outlet that helps Minnesotans see our region more clearly and value it more deeply. Our digital storytelling and interaction are at the heart of this work.” Pictured is an MPR mobile screenshot from the award-winning website. (Photo provided)

Religion Unplugged won two EPPYS — for the Best News or Event Feature for “The Religious Roots of an Attempted Insurrection” (with Julie Duin, Hamil Harris and Kimberly Winston named) and the Best Entertainment/cultural News Website with fewer than 1 million unique visitors. The site was also a finalist in six categories. Paul Glader, the executive editor of Religionunplugged.com, said upon winning the award, “We are grateful the judges recognized the innovative and creative work our team is doing in covering the religion beat.” Pictured is one of the stories by Hamil Harris during the January 6th insurrection in Washington DC, coverage of which earned Religionunplugged.com one of two EPPYS. (Photo provided)

CNBC won the EPPY for the Best Business/finance Website with 1 million or more unique visitors. Pictured is the CNBC team. From left to right: Dawn Kopecki, Jeff Nash, John Melloy, Elisabeth Cordova, Jeff Mccracken, Christina Cheddar-berk, Mike Calia, Jenna Goudreau, Matt Belvedere, Darla Mercado, Leah Ginsberg. (Photo provided)

Growthspotter Reporter Amanda Rabines and Editor Laura Kinsler won for Best Business/finance Website with fewer than 1 million unique visitors, representing its fourth EPPY award since its 2015 inception. Kinsler said, “Growthspotter has set a standard for excellence covering one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets thanks to the dedication of our staff and team of contributing writers. We’re so honored to be recognized by our peers for the fourth time.” (Photo provided)