Two lessons can be learned from the presentation of the Grimme Online Award, the most important prize for online journalism. First, podcasts dominate the information category. And, secondly, older men can also win audience awards from young online users: Gert Scobel, 62, produces videos that are clicked on primarily to prepare for class tests. His 3sat YouTube channel “Scobel” is particularly popular with the young target group for precisely this reason.
Three projects were honored in the “Information” category on Thursday evening. The audio production “Cui Bono: WTF happened to Ken Jebsen?” traces the path of former radio host Ken Jebsen to becoming a conspiracy ideologue. The twelve-part NRD podcast “Slahi – 14 Years Guantanamo” was also awarded. In it, a longtime prisoner meets his former torturers. Also the data project “environment in East Germany” by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk convinced the jury.
A Tiktok channel also wins a Grimme Online Award
The online documentation “Nuclear Games – The nuclear threat” about the dangers of nuclear power wins in the “Knowledge and Education” category. With graphic novels, videos and texts, the format tells of the threat to humanity posed by eight decades of nuclear technology. The RBB Tiktok channel “safespace.official” is also Excellent educational offer.
The multimedia reportage awarded in the category “Culture and Entertainment”Kandvala” tells about people from Afghanistan and Pakistan who are trying to get to the EU via Bosnia-Herzegovina. The second Grimme Online Award in this category goes to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. In the project “In the dark – a glow” the viewer controls a digital flashlight with a cursor and thus discovers detail by detail drawings by the Jewish artist Fred Uhlmann (1901-1985). A special prize went to the research network “Correctiv.Lokal”, which wants to initiate and enable investigative research in the local area.