Digital Stories has earned impressive recognition at the sixth edition of the Web Report journalism awards. In recent years the competition has established itself as the leading and most prestigious journalism contest in Bulgaria. Its jury brings together proven names from the world of media and communication.
This year, Georgi Karamanev and Digital Stories won the award in the Art and Culture category for the experiment “‘Sometimes I’ll Come…’: How AI Painted 10 Classic Poems”. The prize was presented by the minister of culture, the conductor Nayden Todorov, one of the most memorable guests of Digital Stories.
A total of 185 journalists took part in the competition’s six categories.
The award is a special recognition also because Digital Stories is among the winners for the third year in a row, after the awards in 2022 and 2021 came in the Technology and Innovation category. Georgi Karamanev also holds one more distinction, from 2019, as an author for 8 Magazine.
Another text from the site made it into the top three—the story of Ai-Da and the lords in the Technology and Innovation category.
This year Digital Stories also won the journalism prize at the awards of BAIT, the Bulgarian Association of Information Technologies, presented under the patronage of President Rumen Radev. And so the most prestigious awards from the worlds of journalism and information technology came together.
This year the Web Report awards ceremony also coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Dir.bg portal.
Here are the other winners in the competition:
- Society: Marieta Nikolaeva, NOVA: “The Drug Kids”
- Economy: Anina Santova, Capital: “A Ten-Year Web of Connections Worth Millions in Sofia’s Public Tenders: From Vidin via Cyprus”
- Technology and Innovation: Rosen Tsvetkov, bTV: “5G—Beyond the Myths”
- True Stories: Gergana Venkova, bTV: “The Song of Salvation”: A Father and Daughter, Embracing for 105 Hours Under the Rubble
- Sport: Stanimira Atanasova, bTV: “The Other Champions: A Letter to YOU”
- Hot Spot: Beste Sabri and Ivan Georgiev, bTV: “The bTV Reporters Devoted to the Earthquake in Turkey”
- Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence: Bogdana Lazarova, BNT (Bulgarian National Television): “Call Centers and the Fatal Consequences for the Young Bulgarians Who Work in Them”
- Photo Report: Lyubomir Asenov, LAP: “24 Hours of the Nürburgring”
- Video Report: Aleksandar Markov, BNT: “The War in Ukraine: A Few Stories Later”
- Podcast: Gergana Hrischeva, Bulgarian National Radio: “Transplanted for the Transplants: The State Abdicates!”
- Young Author: Rosen Razpopov, Scoolmedia: “The Fight for Cultural Monuments with a Whiff of Tobacco”
