Journalistic Quality Criteria under the Magnifying Glass: A Content Analysis of the Winning Stories of World Press Photo Foundation’s Digital Storytelling Contest

This study explores aspects of journalistic quality in complex digital stories. Based on a tailored overview the potentials online journalism and long form stories for quality, all available award-winning subcategory Interactive World Press Photo’s Digital Storytelling Contest from 2011 to 2021 (n = 31) are examined according their structure criteria using Grounded Theory. The findings add ongoing research history communication studies question what entails can be used as basis further analyses focusing technological structural nature high-quality journalism. analysis revealed differentiation between linear chapter with elements. While multimedia nature, continuous text video content prevailed both forms, they differed terms complexity well certain expressions criteria. Gamification immersion emerged new yet debatable