<!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ --></p> <p>From <a href=""https://calmatters.org/author/sonya-quick/"" title=""Posts" by="" sonya="" quick="" class=""author" url="" fn="" rel=""author"">Sonia quickly</a>Calmness</p> <figure> <img decoding="async" width=""1200"" height=""800"" src=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/060120_CalMattersStaff_LV__008-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1"" class=""attachment-post-thumbnail" size-post-thumbnail="" wp-post-image="" alt="""" decoding=""async"" srcset=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/060120_CalMattersStaff_LV__008-scaled.jpg?w=2560&ssl=1" https:="" sizes=""(max-width:"/><figcaption>Newsroom Calfatters on June 1, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/Catchlight Local</figcaption></figure> <p>This story was originally published by <a href=""https://calmatters.org/"">Calmatters</a>S <a href=""https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/"">Register</a> about their ballots.</p> <p>Calmatters is a finalist for <a href=""https://awards.journalists.org/entries/calmatters-3/"">Overall</a> and <a href=""https://awards.journalists.org/entries/calmatters-voter-guide-on-tiktok/"">Engaging social media</a> Among the average news halls in <a href=""https://awards.journalists.org/entries/calmatters-3/"">2025 Online News Awards</a>S</p> <p>In each size category, the Award for General Perfectness of the ONA “distinguishes a digitally focused news organization that successfully implements its editorial mission, effectively serves its audience, maximizes the use of digital instruments and platforms and is the highest journalistic standards.”</p> <p><strong>Calmatters is a finalist of General Excellence, along with Propublica, Mother Jones/Center for Investigation of Investigation and the Texas Tribune.</strong> CalMatters’ honor is for work, including our non -party efforts for voter information, an innovative digital democracy platform and reflecting every day, helping millions of people to make sense of California and how its government works.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Our stories and instruments made government actions and decisions, held the leaders responsible and provided the Californians with vital information to engage with their government – leading to impacts throughout the country.</strong> In journalism, the impact may take seconds or it may take years. When it coms to Big Issues We Bring Persistent, Accountability Coverage, and This Year, We’ve Seen That Result in Widespread Impact: A California State Audit (Triggered by 2023 Meant to Reveal Who Funds State Legislatory ‘Sponsored Travel Is Falling Short, State Legislarators Advanced A New Bill To Increase Homeless Shelter Oversight Homeless Shelters), and California’s political guard fines former MP 106,000 dollars for violations of campaign funding (after a history of Calletatters 2020). This is only part of <a href=""https://calmatters.org/category/impact/"">the impact we had</a>S</li> <li><strong>Our voter guide was a resource of a power plant that helped Californians understand how they wanted to vote.</strong> This year, we have reached our widest audience, meeting the voters where they were. We created Tiktok videos and filters, we started an interactive vote visualization tool, we partnered with local publications to show readers articles related to their voting, created magazine-style quizzes that hundreds of Californians used in the 4 events of the persons, printed for voters. trainers. One of five voters in California uses our guide.</li> <li><strong>Our digital democracy platform, launched in 2024, shows video and transcripts from each hearing, registers each vote, provides data on lobbyists and an easy way to track the bills. </strong>We have also trained journalists in 20+ news halls on how to use our AI tables generated. With the help of our keys, CBS News has partnered with us to reveal that the legislative power of supermism in California systematically avoids transparency and accountability by killing contradictory legislation without voting for the minutes. Digital democracy has two Emmy nominations and won the Poynte Institute Punch Sulzberger Award for journalism innovation. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Calmatters is a finalist for engaging social media among National Geographic, The Marshall Project and Baltimore Banner.</strong> CalMatters’ honor is for our non -party guide for Tiktok voters.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Made for gene z tiktoks: </strong>We have experimented a lot, <a href=""https://www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/video/7405275136397446442"">failure</a> <a href=""https://www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/video/7401271424230362410"">multitude</a> times before we find ours <a href=""https://www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/video/7407917636488564014"">First viral success</a> When we began to break California’s suggestions using a call center format. Our Gen Z policy reporter, Jenna Peterson and the engagement manager of the millennial audience, Anna Almendraral worked hand in hand, creating skits where Jenna plays both a confused voter and a call center expert. Tiktokers began to pay attention, and we continued, making and trying organic ways to reach young Tiktok voters.</li> <li><strong>Starting our own Tiktok filter: </strong>As in the previous elections, we have created online interactive quizzes that helped California voters find out where they are at each of the proposals across the country. But in 2024, after being inspired by the light -hearted beauty industry Tiktok filters who asked viewers to vote for makeup by tilting their heads, we created a series of Tiktok filters asking you if you think the rent is too devilish – and other similar questions – which could be able to do it. This year. (S)<a href=""https://www.tiktok.com/@calmatters/video/7429809720568925483"">Our demonstration</a>.) Our quiz filters have been used over 20,000 times in the two weeks before the election.</li> <li><strong>Working with California influencing: </strong>For the first time, Calmatters works with influencing to make sure that our voter guide has reached the young Tiktok voters. We have chosen six influents based on common criteria – they were in California, they usually posted lifestyle videos and considered young adults as one of their main audiences. We also asked them to reveal clearly that Calmatters sponsor their publication, to create videos in their own voice, and to tell their audience about our voter guide.</li> </ul> <p>While some winners of the online news awards have already been announced, the winners of common perfection and social media commitment will be announced in September at the New Orleans online news conference.</p> <p>Last year, Calmatters was also a finalist of General Excellence; And the mark, which is also part of our news organization, has won the same category for small news halls.</p> <p>This article was <a href=""https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/09/ona-finalists-2025/"">Originally Published on CalMatters</a> and was reissued under <a href=""https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Noderivatives</a> License.</p> <p> Copy HTML
