The Denver Post has won the prestigious 2015 National Murrow Award for overall excellence, the Radio Television Digital News Association announced Wednesday.

Competing against online news organizations including The New York Times and The Washington Post and others, The Denver Post won for overall work.

The RTDNA site illustrates the win with the video/photo/editorial/graphic/multimedia package “State of Hope,” about Colorado’s role as a destination for a liquid form of marijuana to heal sick children failed by conventional medicine, representative of the year’s work.

The Post also won in two other categories, news series and sports reporting.

The Post was honored for best news series for “Mental Health in Colorado” about the broken mental health system, videos by Mahala Gaylord and the Denver Post video staff; and best sports reporting for “Bridal Veil Falls Ascent,” video by Helen Richardson, edited by Eric Lutzens, about paraplegic climber Sean O’Neill’s ascent of the frozen falls.

The Post has won national Murrow honors before, but this is its first overall excellence award.

At a time of shrinking newsroom staff and budgets, The Post managed to beat much larger online news outlets.

“This is an incredible performance and validation of the leadership, hard work and strategy that has gone into our multimedia efforts,” Editor Greg Moore wrote in a congratulatory note to the staff.

The awards, traditionally regarded as broadcasting’s version of the Pulitzer Prize, have been a coveted honor since 1971. The 2015 Murrow Awards will be distributed officially at a gala in New York in October.