Digital Video Storytelling

This award honors strong and innovative work in telling stories through digital video, including animation. Read the full description and see how this category has changed.

2023

Long Form, Large Newsroom winner

Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum (Salmon People): A Native Fishing Family’s Fight to Preserve a Way of Life

Oregon Public Broadcasting, ProPublica

Finalists:

Exploited for decades, female bodybuilders speak out
The Washington Post
One day in Hebron
AJ+
Queer Egypt Under Attack
BBC World Service Investigations

Long Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

What New Zealand Can Teach us About Reparations

Vox Media

Finalists:

The Mother Trap
Mother Jones

Medium Form, Large Newsroom winner

How Russia is Smuggling Ukrainian Grain to Pay for Putin’s War

Associated Press, FRONTLINE

Finalists:

Buffalo: Healing from Hate — One Year Later
ABC News
‘I Cry Quietly:’ A Soldier Describes the Toll of Russia’s War
The New York Times

Medium Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former officer Kruythoff Forrester.

Videos Show NYPD Chiefs Intervened Before Voiding of Ex-Cop’s Gun Arrest

THE CITY

Finalists:

Meet the Woman Fighting for the Rights of Voters Who Can’t Read
ProPublica
To heal a forest: The fight for salmon parks
The Seattle Times

Series, Large Newsroom winner

Entire families in Pakistan work dangerous jobs at brick kilns to pay off snowballing debts to kiln owners.

Risky Business

Inc., Insider

Finalists:

Series, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making: John Boomer song

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Video Series

ProPublica

Finalists:

The Emancipator Video Commentary Series
The Emancipator

Short Form, Large Newsroom winner

Firefighters pulling bodies from the fire

‘I Heard Them Screaming:’ Witness Says Migrants Were Left to Die in Mexico Fire

The New York Times

Short Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

The Young People Who “Ran” out of China, Are Their Dreams Coming True?

歪脑 | WHYNOT by Radio Free Asia

Finalists:

Stories From The City
The San Francisco Standard

2022

Long Form, Large Newsroom winner

De-Escalate: The story of an intense protest on an Atlanta interstate

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Finalists:

Unlivable Oasis: A Family’s Housing Struggle on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
ProPublica

Long Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Greywater

The New Yorker

Finalists:

“Get Away from the Target”—Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard
Stephan Foxwell - Web & Data Editor, The Outlaw Ocean Project
Pulled Over / Pulled Under
AL.com, Reckon

Medium Form, Large Newsroom winner

The Healing Kitchen

South China Morning Post

Finalists:

Why Some White Evangelicals Are Rethinking Their Politics
ABC News, FiveThirtyEight

Medium Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

A man standing in an open doorway looking out

A Feast for Lost Souls

The Atavist Magazine

Finalists:

Hitting a High Note: Core Values and Love of Music Inspire this Talented SF Family Band
The San Francisco Standard

Series, Large Newsroom winner

Transnational

VICE World News

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In Real Life
Newsy, Scripps

Series, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

Neo-natzis hold torch rally Charlottesville

Extremism in America

Retro Report, The WNET Group

Finalists:

Proof of Concept
Grist

Short Form, Small/Medium Newsroom winner

How the .001% Use Retirement Accounts as Tax-Free Piggy Banks

ProPublica

2021

Long Form winner

The Story Of

VICE Media Group

Finalists:

Blood on Black Wall Street
NBC News Digital
Manhunt, Manitoba
The Globe and Mail

Medium Form winner

Siona: Amazon’s Defenders Under Threat

Pulitzer Center, The New Yorker

Finalists:

Prison Officials in Kansas Ignored the Pandemic. Then People Started Dying.
The Intercept

Series winner

China’s Rebel City: The Hong Kong Protests

South China Morning Post

Finalists:

Covid Confessions
Fischr Media
Stressed Election
The New York Times

Short Form winner

The Last Call

FRONTLINE, The New Yorker

Finalists:

Field Testing
Nieman Storyboard

2020

Long Form winner

Shoura

Voice of America

Finalists:

A Different Kind of Force—Policing Mental Illness
NBC News Group
Tutwiler
FRONTLINE, The Marshall Project

Medium Form winner

Where Are All The Bob Ross Paintings?

The New York Times

Finalists:

Adrift
ProPublica
‘It’s Mutilation’
The New York Times
The Clitoris, Uncovered
Scientific American
The Jessicas are turning 30
The Washington Post

Series winner

Vox Missing Chapter

Vox Media

Finalists:

All Hail The Algorithm
Al Jazeera English
We Are Witnesses: Chicago
Illinois Humanities, Kartemquin Films, The Marshall Project

Short Form winner

Helicoprion

National Geographic

2019

winner

Real America with Jorge Ramos: Immigration

Univision

finalist

Gone in a Generation

The Washington Post

finalist

Operation InfeKtion: Russian Disinformation from Cold War to Kanye

The New York Times

finalist

Uncovered

Channel 4 News

finalist

Visual Investigations

The New York Times

2011

Large Site winner

Caught in the Crossfire: Victims of Gang Violence

Los Angeles Times

Finalists:

Chasing the Swell
Los Angeles Times
Torn Apart
San Jose Mercury News
Video Portraiture
New York Times Magazine

Medium Site winner

Exile Without End: Palestinians in Lebanon

ALT Digital Design Studio, CBC News, Radio-Canada

Finalists:

Life on the Line
The Toronto Star

Small Site winner

Powering a Nation: Spilling Over

News21, UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media

Finalists:

Student winner

Haiti’s Lost Children

University of Miami School of Communication

Now What Argentina

UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Universidad Pontifica de Argentina

Finalists:

2010

Large Site winner

William and the Windmill

The Toronto Star

Finalists:

Krulwich on Science
NPR
Scene In Video Series
The Washington Post
Sudan Stories
TIME
Traumatic Brain Injury – The Battle For Care
NPR, ProPublica

Medium Site winner

Bottoming Out

Las Vegas Sun

Finalists:

Choosing Thomas
The Dallas Morning News
Death on Chipman Street
Knoxnews.com

Small Site winner

Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining

Yale Environment 360

Finalists:

Student winner

My Story, My Goal

Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami

Finalists:

The Fall Workshop
Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

Digital Video Storytelling

This award honors strong and innovative work in telling stories through digital video, including animation. Read the full description and see how this category has changed.

2023

Oregon Public Broadcasting, ProPublica

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Associated Press, FRONTLINE

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Inc., Insider

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2022

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Retro Report, The WNET Group

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2021

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Pulitzer Center, The New Yorker

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FRONTLINE, The New Yorker

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2020

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2019

2011

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ALT Digital Design Studio, CBC News, Radio-Canada

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News21, UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media

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UNC Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media, Universidad Pontifica de Argentina

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2010

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Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami

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2009

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