‘The Long Night’ Selected as a Finalist in the 2015 Dart Awards

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The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia Journalism School, today announced the winners of the 21st annual Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. The Long Night was named one of eight finalists.

This year, The Long Night has garnered recognition from three major photojournalism industry awards, including the Picture of the Year International (POYi) Documentary Project of the Year, the National Press Photographers Association 2015 Best of Photojournalism Best Use of Multimedia award and First Place Long Form Documentary Feature in the World Press Photo Multimedia Contest. It has also been nominated for the 19th Annual Webby Awards under the People’s Voice category for Online Film & Video: Drama: Individual Short or Episode.

The annual Dart Awards recognize outstanding reporting in all media that portrays traumatic events with accuracy, insight and sensitivity, while illuminating the effects of violence and tragedy on victims’ lives. The 2015 winners include The Texas Observer with The Guardian US for “Beyond the Border,” The Huffington Post for “Moral Injury” and The Post and Courier for “Till Death Do Us Part.” An honorable mention went to The Baltimore Sun.

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists. View the full list here.