Judges described “The Other Disappeared” as a “tour de force,” reported with “incredible depth, rigor and compassion.”
The annual Dart Awards recognize outstanding reporting in all media that portrays traumatic events with accuracy, insight and sensitivity while illuminating the effects of violence and tragedy on victims’ lives.
AP received the Dart Award for “The Other Disappeared” (Christopher Sherman, reporter; Eduardo Castillo, reporter; Dario Lopez-Mills, still photographer and video; Alba Mora Roca, multimedia producer; Roque Ruiz, interactive producer; Ricardo Lopez, video producer.)
On September 26, 2014, 43 students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero vanished. While the incident sparked an outpouring of international attention, hundreds of other families around Iguala had lost mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children to kidnappings and killings, living in a purgatory of silence for years. This comprehensive, interactive multimedia series in Spanish and English tells the stories of these families, and their quest for answers and justice.
They also remarked on how “both the finished product and reporting process exemplifies everything the Dart Award stands for.”
Judges described “The Other Disappeared” as a “tour de force,” reported with “incredible depth, rigor and compassion.” They called the scope of the project “astounding,” the writing “sweeping” and “detailed,” the photographs “haunting” and “evocative,” and the multimedia presentation “powerful” and “heartbreaking.” Judges commended the series for “illuminating the diverse ways that people cope with trauma” and for “giving voice to the voiceless in the truest, least clichéd sense of that phrase.” They also remarked on how “both the finished product and reporting process exemplifies everything the Dart Award stands for.”
LINKS TO THE SERIES ELEMENTS:
Interactive: The Other Disappeared
Thousands of Mexican Families Mourn the ‘Other Disappeared’
30 Lives Extinguished, But No Regrets: A Killer’s Story
In Mexico, Fear as Victims Vanish at Hands of Police
A Grandmother’s Ordeal in the Hands of Mexican Kidnappers
Mexicans Search for Remains of Loved Ones in Countryside
After Students Disappear, A Mexican City Tries to Turn Page
All the information about the award here.