The Denver Post has won a prestigious national digital journalism award for its coverage of the legalization of marijuana in 2014.
The Online News Association awarded The Post the top prize for topical reporting among large news organizations Saturday at its 15th annual conference in Los Angeles.
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The Postap entry included a , who left North Carolina for Colorado in the hopes of helping the boy’s debilitating seizures with CBD, an oil extract of marijuana. The entry also included , the website that covers cannabis news and culture in Colorado.
included NPR, National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times.
The Post was last a finalist at ONA in 2010 in the multimedia feature presentation category for medium sites for its project, which chronicled 18-year Ian Fisher’s journey from enlistment to war and back. That project .
In 2004, The Post was a finalist for its “” project in the enterprise journalism category for large outlets.
