Best story or series of stories in any medium on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques
Award Year: 2024
Award Name: The Kim Wall Award 2024
Recipients: Joseph Dyke, Rowena De Silva, Nathan Walker and Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen, Sanjana Varghese and Staff
Affiliation: Airwars
Honored Work: “Cutting-Edge Open-Source Investigations into Harm in Gaza”
Airwars’ cutting-edge, open-source investigation into the war in Gaza represents excellence in digital storytelling by creating the world’s largest public database of civilian harm. The project speaks directly to the watchdog mission of journalism, while the visually stunning interactive breaks down an overwhelming amount of data into a digestible presentation. The goal is simple yet powerful: Showing us the human cost of war.
Links to the winning work:
One Name, Two Lists
The Killings They Tweeted
Israel and Gaza 2023
Airwars Citations
Citation for Excellence:
Serene Cheong, Clara Ferreira Marques, Weilun Soon, Krishna Karra and Yasufumi Saito
Bloomberg News
“The Clandestine Oil Shipping Hub Funneling Iranian Crude to China”