The Peabody Awards on Thursday unveiled 12 winning digital and interactive projects and four special awardees as part of the organization’s inaugural Digital and Interactive Storytelling honors.The winners, voted on by the Peabody Awards Interactive Board of Jurors, span virtual and augmented reality, gaming, interactive journalism, social video, interactive documentary and transmedia storytelling among other forms.
The honorees constitute a legacy class, recognized for their impact on their fields up to now, and setting the standard for winners going forward.Special awards were bestowed on Phil Yu, who received the Trailblazer Award for his Angry Asian Man blog; Nonny de la Peña received the Field Builder Award for her contributions to advancements in VR and immersive journalism; The computer program ELIZA, developed in 1964-66, was honored with the Foundational Award; and Forensic Architecture received an Institutional Award for its evidentiary techniques known as “counter-forensics” to expose crimes of magnitude.See the full list of winners below.
The projects are now featured on the Peabody Awards’ website here.“By honoring these legacy projects and creative innovators, we celebrate dynamic stories that push the limit of what we know storytelling to be across all mediums,” said Diana Williams, chairwoman of the Peabody Interactive Board. “And we also continue to uphold the Peabody’s mission of supporting visionaries who tell stories that illuminate the world around us and can perhaps evoke societal change.”The first entry submission window for new projects will open in late June, with future winners to be revealed with the rest of the Peabodys, the annual awards given for stories that reflect the pressing social
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