We were recognised in the INN 2024 Awards for “Audience Engagement and/or Capacity Building”, promoted by Obi.media – Observatório de Inovação nos Media, a Portuguese Media Observatory of the NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH).
This award category evaluated innovative solutions, projects and products that contribute to audience engagement in media (or other creative/cultural industries) activities, promote media, cultural and creative literacy and/or fight desinformation.
We see this award as a validation of the innovative capacity building programme that is being implemented and the uniqueness of the approach to news articles that the XQ – The News platform has been carrying out since its inception.
Other categories awarded included: Innovative Journalistic Narratives; Journalistic Products and Projects; Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility; Use of Digital Media in Artistic, Cultural and Creative Contexts; and Solutions for Media Sustainability (not awarded this year).
The INN 2024 Awards were presented at the end of the INN 2024 – II International Conference on Media Innovation, where we were also part of an oral communication panel dedicated to “Questions, Experiences and Directions of Media and Journalism”.