ABC NEWS richly awarded for digital journalism
ABC NEWS has been richly awarded at the prestigious international 2021 Society for News Design Awards, winning a string of prizes across two teams for journalistic, visual and technical excellence in online news design.
The Society for News Design recognises the best of the best visual storytelling across all mediums.
The Digital Story Innovations and Brisbane-based Story Lab teams won Silver and Bronze Awards and Awards of Excellence across categories including environment and science, health, sport, politics and use of animation, data, maps and illustration.
Designers Georgina Piper and Alex Palmer were recognised with individual awards for their portfolios of work.
Acting Director News Gavin Fang said the innovative and creative digital content was key in making a wide variety of stories and topics more accessible and engaging to audiences.
“The demand from audiences for high quality online journalism is huge and increasing,” he said.
“As these awards demonstrate, ABC NEWS is consistently producing visual storytelling that is as good as anything done anywhere in the world.”
Check out some of the award-winning work:
Silver
- Georgina Piper – portfolio
Bronze Awards include:
- ABC NEWS Story Lab — portfolio
- Alex Palmer – portfolio
- Is this me for life? When COVID becomes a potential life sentence
- Hooked (a collaboration with Four Corners)
- Can you score a dive like an Olympic judge?
Awards of Excellence include:
- Can we untangle the climate mess?
- Why the next 5 years can buy us time to solve climate change
- The digger from Shanghai
- The untold stories of the Ghost Train fire
- Australia Talks
- Anatomy of our battle against Covid-19
- Hitting the jackpot
- Lawless loggers
- A mega dam on the Great Bend of China
- Under the influence
Media contact: Sally Jackson | ABC Communications | jackson.sally@abc.net.au
