News & Awards
The Appeal Named Finalist for Best Non-Traditional News Source
The Appeal was proud to receive an honorable mention for Best Non-Traditional News Source from the American Journalism Online Awards.
“Among the dozens of interesting nominations for Best Non-Traditional News Organization, The Appeal deserves a mention,” said the judges. “It is … organized around an issue rather than a region, and unpacks the typical “crime” beat into stories around policing, prosecution, pretrial (a critical part of the system almost invisible in the traditional press), and so on. At a time when policing, bail, criminalization, prison conditions and other aspects of the criminal legal system are being rethought, The Appeal publishes a range of stories it is hard to find in the traditional press.”