Best use of video, interactive graphics and slideshows to report on international news
AWARD DATE: 2012
AWARD NAME: Best Multimedia News Presentation 2012
AWARD RECIPIENT: Thomas Jennings, Sabrina Shankman, Travis Fox, James Milward, Pietro Gagliano, Ryan Andal, Ashlee Lougheed, Sam Bailey, Andrew Golis Based on reporting by Sebastian Rotella of ProPublica
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: WGBH/Frontline & Secret Location
AWARD HONORED WORK: “A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal”
This entry’s use of video, documents, photographs and news articles was unlike any other project submitted for this year’s awards. The entry combines an excellent narrative with a compelling presentation that includes raw simplicity and sophisticated technology, pointing the way to a truly new form of multimedia storytelling. It gets bonus points for employing a new kind of technology – Popcorn.js, a new HTML5 / Javascript media toolkit created by Mozilla. Its presentation was fresh and arresting. The narrative is excellent, and all the breaking points in the story are very well put together.