Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Criteria

Any news publisher globally. This category recognises high-quality journalism which is enhanced by digital story-telling techniques. The judges are looking for a great story well told.

When entering, you will need to explain in up to 500 words how the entry meets the following awards criteria:

  • Technical proficiency: slickness of delivery and ease of access to information for the audience
  • Quality of design
  • Journalistic excellence: rigour, revelation and investigation
  • Commercial sustainability: is this work which helps create a sustainable future for quality journalism in the digital age?
  • Readership: the judges are looking for meaningful engagement with the target audience

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Criteria

Any news publisher globally. This category recognises high-quality journalism which is enhanced by digital story-telling techniques. The judges are looking for a great story well told.

When entering, you will need to explain in up to 500 words how the entry meets the following awards criteria:

  • Technical proficiency: slickness of delivery and ease of access to information for the audience
  • Quality of design
  • Journalistic excellence: rigour, revelation and investigation
  • Commercial sustainability: is this work which helps create a sustainable future for quality journalism in the digital age?
  • Readership: the judges are looking for meaningful engagement with the target audience

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WINNERS

The Times (News UK) – DVLA staff off work on full pay amid application backlog crisis

Paul Morgan-Bentley worked undercover at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency amid complaints from millions of people about delays in processing applications. He found that hundreds of staff at the DVLA had done no work on full pay for significant periods of the pandemic, while managers joked of watching Netflix at the public’s expense.