Data Journalism Awards shortlist announced

The shortlist for the Data Journalism Awards, which are run by the Global Editors' Network and supported by Google, were announced today.

The annual awards, running for the second time, received more than 300 applications. The 72 shortlisted entries from across the world were revealed at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia today.

Out of those, 15 were for data journalism projects by media outlets in the UK, including the Guardian, Media Wales, the Financial Times, the BBC, The Detail and Kiln.

The BBC projects included entries by both News and Global News, as well as work by the broadcaster's new visual journalism team which was set up last year and is headed by editor Amanda Farnsworth.

Last year - which was the first year of the awards - the Guardian was one of six winners, awarded the large media award in a data visualisation and storytelling category for the Riot Rumours interactive. Honourable mentions were also given to the BBC and The Detail.

Winners of this year's awards - which will be announced at the Global Editors Network conference in June - will receive prize money of €2,000, as well as a certificate and "digital medal".

The awards now cover four categories, broken down into small and large media outlet entries. The categories are for a data journalism website or section, data storytelling, data-driven applications and data-driven investigative journalism.

More details of the full shortlist can be found on the awards website.

The site also features interesting data on the projects entered into the awards, such as the longest time period dedicated to a project, which was seven years, compared to an average time period of five months, 10 days.

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