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The Shortlist: Current Affairs & Politics

Discover each shortlisted piece in the Current Affairs & Politics category, for pieces on current affairs, news, society, politics, finance or economics.

 

North Korea Interactives

By Reuters - Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Jin Wu, Christian Inton & Wen Foo

 

The Electoral College misrepresents every state, but not as much as you may think

By Washington Post - Denise Lu

 

One Angry Bird

By Periscopic

 

On Their Way: the Journey of Foreign Fighters

By DensityDesign - Serena Del Nero, Marco Mezzadra, Alessandro Zotta & team

 

Why does the US lead the world in incarceration?

By The Pudding - Matt Daniels

 

How popular is Donald Trump?

By Five Thirty Eight - Aaron Bycoffe, Dhrumil Mehta, Nate Silver

 

The US Foreign-aid Budget, Visualized

By The Washington Post - Max Bearak, Lazaro Gamio

 

10,000 words ranked according to their Trumpiness

By Quartz  - Nikhil Sonnad & Keith Collins

 

A Matter of Time

By Urban Institute - Leigh Courtney, Sarah Eppler-Epstein, Elizabeth Pelletier, Ryan King & team

 

All the government barbecues

By Rodrigo Menegat Schuinski & Vinícius Sueiro

 

Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local

By The Guardian - Aliza Aufrichtig, Lois Beckett, Jan Diehm & Jamiles Lartey

 

Terror’s daily reality

By LA Times Graphics - Braden Goyette & Priya Krishnakumar

 

50/30/20 - Income & Financial Stability in America

By Amy Cesal & Daniel Doherty

 

Fenced Out

By Washington Post - Samuel Granados, Zoeann Murphy, Kevin Schaul & Anthony Faiola

 

How the opioid epidemic became America's worst drug crisis ever

By Vox - German Lopez, Sarah Frostenson

 

The Platinum Patients

By Polygraph- The Atlantic - Russell Goldenberg

 

:: See the full 2017 Shortlist

 

Discover each category...

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Current affairs & politics

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Humanitarian / global

People, language & identity

Science & technology

Sports, games & leisure

Unusual

 

...and vote for your favourite

  • Hit the grey "VOTE" button on the right
  • You can only vote once in each category
  • once you’ve voted that’s it - you can't change your mind
  • voting closes Fri 27 Oct 11.59pm PST 

The public vote gets added to the decisions from our 20+ panel of expert judges. Each category has three prizes - gold, ($1,000), silver ($500) and bronze ($250) - plus numerous special awards. All winners receive a trophy.

 

I'm shortlisted - what happens next?

Share your entry with your social media contacts and encourage them to vote, adding the hashtag #iibawards. If you mention our Twitter (@infobeautyaward) and Facebook we'll try to RT and share as much as we can. 

We'll be emailing all shortlistees with next steps including invites to the London ceremony on Tues 28 Nov. If you're shortlisted but haven't heard from us by Fri 27 Oct, it's probably because we don't have up-to-date contacts for you – so drop us a line

Not shortlisted but want to find out the results live - and brush shoulders with the winners - at the London ceremony? For the first time we’re making available a limited number of tickets (including canapés and a welcoming drink) - book here

Want us to change the image / text / credit / link? Have other questions? Check the housekeeping notes on our Longlist before emailing us with your query.

 

:: How to vote on the shortlist (deadline Sun 29 Oct, 11.59pm PST)

:: Brush shoulders with the winners at our London ceremony Tues 29 Nov

:: View the Shortlist in full

 

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