Guardian wins Amnesty media award for best use of digital media

Award given for the interactive reconstruction of the moment Israeli forces hit a residential tower block in GazaThe Guardian has won a prestigious Amnesty media award for the interactive reconstruction Countdown to the airstrike: the moment Israeli forces hit al-Jalaa tower, Gaza, showing the race to evacuate residents of a block of flats before their homes were turned to rubble.The Best Use of Digital Media award was given to the Guardian’s Global Development reporter Kaamil Ahmed and interactive designer Garry Blight, Airwars’ Joe Dyke and the Gaza-based journalist Anas Baba for their use of video, images and audio captured by the residents of al-Jalaa tower in the hour after Israeli forces called to tell them it would be demolished. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-05-06 10:11:30 UTC ]
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