DATA JOURNALISM
The winning team illustrates the extent to which non-traditional capabilities like programming and data visualisation are powerful tools in the hands of skilled journalists. Most significantly, it shows how data that has been available for a long time can be revisited to extract new meaning, understanding and insights in order to bring new perspective to a burning issue. Thanks to this investigation of data, through using data tools, and striking visual treatment, education activists found themselves with a powerful new resource. In the fast-emerging field of data journalism, this set of stories set a new benchmark in both the exploration and representation of buried information. The winners are Alastair Otter and Laura Grant of Media Hack.
CSI/SUSTAINABILITY
Fracking has been a major debate across South Africa in recent years as energy demands conflict with environmental protection ideals and ecotourism. Now this push for new energy sources has expanded to the ocean. Offshore exploration rights have been quietly and almost clandestinely handed to big energy interests with little attention to legal environmental safeguards. The winning entry was well researched, clear and direct, using good statistics, examples, interviews and great visuals. The winner is Julie Laurenz from Nguni TV.
PHOTOGRAPHY
This photographer captures the shocking moments when a father stripped of his dignity and hope flings his baby daughter from the roof of his illegal shack in the hope of stalling a forced eviction. Almost doll like the one-year-old baby lands safely in the arms of an anxious policeman cushioning her fall. The winner is Theodore Jephta from Die Son.
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