CBC News missing and murdered indigenous women project wins digital award
CBC News | Posted: November 11, 2015 6:06 PM | Last Updated: November 11, 2015
Project looked at 240 cases going back 6 decades
CBC News has been recognized for the digital storytelling on its missing and murdered indigenous women project.
Handed out Tuesday evening at a presentation ceremony in Toronto, the Digi Awards honour top Canadian digital content in video, marketing, advertising and technology. The annual awards are put on by digital media conference organizer nextMEDIA.
The CBC News project compiled names, photos and histories of murdered and missing indigenous women and girls in Canada. It highlighted 240 cases covering six decades.
"Each one of those women is unique, each story is gut-wrenching. Yet reading these profiles together, you begin to see patterns emerging. The underlying causes associated with missing or murdered indigenous women become hard to ignore," wrote CBC journalist Connie Walker, who worked on the project.
The project took the Digi Award for best non-fiction interactive content.
The detective series Murdoch Mysteries, which airs on CBC Television, won the Digi Award for best fiction interactive content for The Infernal Device. It was produced by CBC in association with Shaftesbury/Smokebomb.
Some of the other Digi Award winners include:
- Do Not Track by Upian, Arte France, National Film Board of Canada and Bayerischer Rundfunk for best digital non-fiction series.
- Convos With My Two-Year-Old by CoCoMilk Productions for best digital fiction series.
- The Incredible Tales of Weirdwood Manor by All Play, No Work for best in mobile entertainment.