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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/20/guardian-nsa-files-online-journalism-awards

                     

According to the latest news published by Martin Pengelly, The Guardians won two online journalism awards for The National Security Agency’s Files reporting. One of this awards is the Gannett Foundation award for investigative journalism and the other the Gannett Foundation watchdog journalism award. The Online News Association awarded The Guardian for its work on the issue of NSA dragnet surveillance.

This association is a nonprofit membership organization for digital journalists, connecting journalism, technology and innovation, and awarded the Guardian at a ceremony in Atlanta on Saturday night.

In June of this year the history began when some documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The big revelation of this document was that the NSA had been collecting the telephone metadata of millions of Americans. Since that moment The Guardian has reported extensively on the scale and scope of the NSA's activities, leading to legislative moves in the US Congress to rein in the agency.

Janine Gibson, who is the editor in chief of Guardian US, said: "These awards are significant, not just to our team who have worked relentlessly for months on this story, but because they recognize the importance of difficult watchdog journalism in the public interest."

Other winners on Saturday night included the Boston Globe, which was honoured for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and other stories, the Texas Tribune and the New York Times.