Solutions online comic on favela-led COVID response wins award

Outriders, a Warsaw-based nonprofit digital magazine published in Polish and English, was awarded first prize from the International Center for Journalists for a solutions project in the category of science and health reporting in English (https://www.icfj.org/news/journalists-icfj-network-honored-pandemic-coverage-five-languages). Outriders was honored for its online comic, “Favela vs. COVID-19,” which tells the story of the grassroots initiatives launched by the residents of three favelas in São Paulo to address problems caused or exacerbated by the pandemic (https://outride.rs/en/favela-vs-covid-19/intro/). The comic was produced by a team of journalists based in Brazil, Poland and Spain and was published in English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. It was also longlisted in the Digital Media category of the 2021 One World Media Awards (https://oneworldmedia.org.uk/awards/longlist-2021/).