The Guardian has won three WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards at a ceremony in Glasgow (Saturday 2 June).
The WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards showcase best-practice innovation in digital publishing worldwide, with winners drawn from 2018 Digital Media Award winners across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and South Asia.
The Guardian won the coveted Best News Website or Mobile Service category with the judges commenting that ‘the Guardian continues to pave the way in its delivery of the highest quality experiential journalism’.
Guardian US won Best Data Visualization for ‘Bussed Out: How America moves its homeless’, which the judges praised as ‘stunning’ and ‘both informative and visually appealing’.
Guardian US also triumphed in the Best Reader Revenue Initiative for ‘This Land is Your Land’ project, which highlights how America’s public lands are in danger. The judges described it as “a great example of what newsrooms and commercial teams can achieve when they work together using data to guide their decision-making”.
A full list of winners can be found here.
