Wilson Chapman editorThe Peabody Awards will announce winning projects from its new digital and interactive storytelling awards on March 24, the awards body announced Monday.
The Peabody Awards first unveiled its new interactive storytelling categories last June, as a way of recognizing how online storytelling forms have advanced and grown in the last few years.
The awards body also announced the creation of a new interactive board that will screen projects for the awards categories, which will honor exemplary achievements in gaming, interactive journalism, interactive documentary, virtual reality, augmented reality, social video and transmedia storytelling.
In addition to the date announcement, the Peabody Awards have added four new members to its Interactive Board: Gabriel J.X Dance, the deputy investigations editor for the New York Times, who reports on privacy and safety online; Yasmin Elayat, co-founder of immersive filmmaking company Scatter; Navid Khonsari, whose company iNK Stories produces games, virtual reality and immersive experiences; and Opeyemi Olukemi, executive director of the Center of Documentary Studies in Dunham, N.C.
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