Shortlist 2024

A CNN visual investigation into the deterioration of medical facilities in northern Gaza has found that at least 20 out of 22 hospitals were damaged or destroyed in the first two months of Israel’s war against Hamas, from October 7 to December 7.

CNN’s analysis is drawing from dozens of satellite images and hundreds of videos from the ground, as well as interviews with doctors, eyewitnesses, and humanitarian organizations. Fourteen hospitals were directly hit. Several, including Gaza’s largest hospitals, Al-Shifa and Al-Quds, appeared to have been attacked by Israel. To provide a window into how Gaza’s hospitals became battlegrounds, CNN took an in-depth look at the deterioration of Al-Shifa and Al-Quds, using 3D modelling and map graphics.

On 14th June 2023, a heavily overcrowded fishing trawler carrying up to 750 people capsized off the coast of Greece. The passengers – men, women and children from Syria, Pakistan and beyond – were fleeing conflict and poverty, hoping to start safer and more prosperous lives in Europe.

Only 104 people were saved. More than 600 were feared drowned making this the deadliest disaster for a decade in Europe’s ongoing migration crisis.

This film, broadcast within 5 days of the sinking, used a series of OSINV techniques to pose serious questions about the official account given by the Greek authorities.

BBC Eye Investigations uncovers an ugly network of websites selling thousands of videos of men sexually abusing women in public transport across East Asia. They’re run by a shadowy figure known as ‘Uncle Qi’.

But who is he?

The hunt leads us to Japan, where sexual assault in public is known as ‘Chikan’.

We take you inside this dark and twisted world to hear from the perpetrators of these horrendous crimes and meet the women who are fighting back. And we go undercover to expose the identity of the men running these websites who are cashing in on sexual violence.

Thousands of grenades, Molotov cocktails, and dozens of injured: on March 25, 2023, in western France, a demonstration against a large water reservoir turned into a clash between police and protesters. At least two demonstrators, including Serge Duteuil-Graziani, a 32-year-old activist, were seriously injured. What happened?

Dozens of hours of video footage captured that day and testimonies collected by Le Monde show that the demonstrator was probably hit by an illegal tear gas grenade shot from one of the areas where the gendarmes were positioned. Our investigation also reveal that at least one other illegal shot was made by the gendarmery that day.

After officers waited 77 minutes to confront a gunman who killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., The Washington Post set out to use open-source combined with traditional reporting methods to investigate how such a deadly delay could have occurred. The examination reviewed hours of body camera and other publicly released footage, audio from dispatch communications and exclusive law enforcement records to reveal that supervising officers remained on the job a year later.

Russia has been using the Olenivka prison, located in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast, as a camp for POWs and civilian hostages from Mariupol. Thousands of Ukrainians, including servicemen from the Azov Brigade, have been held captive there. Those who returned from captivity spoke about the inhumane conditions of detention, hunger, and torture in this prison. For six months, the Kyiv Independent team has been working on recreating a picture of the events that took place in Olenivka. We were able to identify the people who were involved in the systematic abuse of the defenders of Mariupol.