This award honors exceptional efforts in telling stories through digitally focused immersive media and emerging technology. This can include storytelling that uses virtual reality, artificial intelligence, AI chatbots, augmented reality, mixed reality, 360 video or other emerging media. Judges will consider the journalism behind the project, overall production quality, and innovative use of storytelling techniques. Judges also will give special attention to the handling of ethical considerations and successful audience engagement efforts on digital and mobile platforms.
