For the fifth time, Digital Stories is among the big winners of Bulgaria’s most hotly contested and well-established journalism competition, the Web Report awards, organized for the seventh year running by the Bulgarian news portal Dir.bg. The honor means a great deal because of the respected jury and the stiff competition: more than 700 pieces of journalism were entered!
Digital Stories has been among the winners every single year since the project began. The 2024 award is in the True Stories category, for the piece “Jesus: The Programmer Who Came Out of the Ghetto.” This time a second piece was also among the three nominees: “How to Generate Yourself an Influencer”, in the Technology and Innovation category.
More about the competition is here. About its previous edition, here.
Awards also went to:
- Culture and Art: Kaloyan Konstantinov of KlinKlin
- Economy: Mihail Mishev of KlinKlin
- Technology and Innovation: Maya Dimitrova of Bulgarian National Television (BNT)
- Sports: Petar Georgiev of BNT
- Society: Anna Karadakova of Nova Television
Special categories:
- Master of the Word: Rayko Baychev of Actualno.com (an interview with him is here)
- Video Report: Stanimira Atanasova of bTV
- Photo Report: Yulian Petrov of Lap.bg
- Podcast: Konstantin Mravov of Bulgarian National Radio
- Young Author: Angelina Angelova of School Media
- Green Pen: Svilena Velcheva of Eco Varna
- Hot Spot: Petar Nanev of bTV
- Investigative Journalism: from bTV
