The duty stands out once again this year at the Awards for Excellence in Digital Publication. It is among the most often cited media with no fewer than eight nominations, including one in the General Excellence in Digital Publication: Large Publication category.
The Digital Publishing Excellence Awards is a pan-Canadian competition rewarding the achievements of digital content creators. The nominees were announced Thursday morning.
The duty thus won a nomination in the category Best thematic report: climate change with Going up in smoke: Summer 2023, the start of the rest of our lives by journalist Sarah Boumedda. The report returns – maps and multitudes of supporting data – to the forest fires which took on great proportions in the summer of 2023, officially designated as the hottest ever recorded on Earth.
Journalist Sarah Boumedda is also nominated in the Best Feature Article category with her colleague Sandrine Vieira for Mother tongues in danger – Why do children of immigrants lose their mother tongue? In this report, they give the floor to four people from immigrant backgrounds in Quebec who testify to the way in which their mother tongue has been erased over time, French having taken over, and the consequences of this loss on their identity.
In the Best Feature Article — Long Format category, the work of journalist Magdaline Boutros and photographer Valérian Mazataud earned a nomination. To realize From Khorgos to Samarkand – Travel diary on the new silk roads They traveled through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to understand how Beijing’s influence extends in these former Soviet republics, which have become key players in the new Silk Roads.
On the video side, production Threatened by climate change, will Route 132 have to be moved? was selected in the Best Online Video — Long Format category. Jasmine Legendre, Jean Balthazard and Laurence Thibault document the decline of Route 132, which notably allows you to tour the Gaspésie surrounded by breathtaking landscapes, as well as the solutions to protect this emblematic road.
The video report Supervised inhalation centers to save lives is nominated in the Best Online Video — Mini-Documentary category. In this one, Améli Pineda, Stéphanie Vallet and Guillaume Levasseur focus on the supervised inhalation centers that have emerged in Gatineau, Laval and Quebec. They offer a safe place to better regulate the consumption of stimulants, the most popular and deadliest drugs in Quebec.
In the Best Digital Design category, it is the interactive report How would you manage Hydro-Québec? who was nominated. Presented in the form of a game, it invites readers to step into the shoes of the CEO of Hydro-Québec and make the best possible decisions in order to stay on track with the Legault government’s climate targets. that is to say, to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050.
Finally, the story Behind the scenes of a war: immersion through Telegram is nominated in the Best Single and Out-of-Category Story category. The report offers to relive the first days of the invasion in Ukraine through online exchanges available to the general public.
“Thanks to extraordinary creativity and commitment, the writing of the Duty and its teams dedicated to digital formats succeed in putting innovation at the service of the public interest. I am particularly proud of the work accomplished and take my hat off to all those who contributed a little, a lot or passionately to the content that caught the attention of the juries,” declared Marie-Andrée Chouinard, the editor-in-chief of the daily .
“This is the fourth time that The duty is nominated in the “general excellence” category in this competition, notes the director of the newspaper, Brian Myles. The competition is still as tough as ever, proof of the resilience and professionalism of the Quebec and Canadian media. We welcome these nominations as recognition of the rigorous work of our teams to offer original digital content. »
The winners will be announced on June 7, during the awards ceremony at Arcadian Court in Toronto.