The Associated Press has won the 2025 Innovative Storytelling Award from the National Press Foundation for its visual feature on the flurry of push alerts from the first 100 days in office of the second Trump administration.

Journalists Humera Lodhi, Maya Sweedler, Sara Burnett and Linda Gorman produced the project illustrated by Annie Ng.

The interactive presentation color codes the alerts by type of news, including direct action taken by the administration, lawsuits or other opposition actions, court reversals, and public reaction or fallout. Alerts are also visually grouped by topics such as federal cuts, foreign policy, tariffs, and immigration.

“This was a creative way to make sense of a time when the public was being bombarded with an overwhelming amount of information in the modern medium of push alerts,” said the NPF judges. “By pulling everything together and providing much-needed context to this tumultuous period, this project demonstrates innovative storytelling at its best.”

The award comes with a $5,000 cash prize.

The Innovative Storytelling Award was created in 2015 to recognize digital journalism of the highest quality that reinvents the way stories are told. Judges take into consideration originality, how delivery vehicles enhanced the audience’s understanding of the underlying journalism and creativity in applying tools or technologies.

Recent Innovative Storytelling Award winners include The New York Times for its hour-by-hour reconstruction of the Lahaina fire on Maui, The Washington Post in 2023 for its series showing the bodily impact of AR-15s, and Aleszu Bajak and Ramon Padilla of USA Today in 2022 for a data visualization measuring a decade of growing partisanship in Congress on Twitter.