Award of Excellence: The New York Times
The spirit of this category is to recognize the best in visual editing by a media organization across all platforms. Judges will recognize excellence in use of photojournalism, video, interactive design, user experience, and multimedia storytelling.
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Old World Young Africa
University students played near the water at Yoff Beach in Dakar, Senegal's capital. The Median age on the African continent is 19. InIndia, the world's most populous country, it is 28. In China and theUnited States, it is 38.
Africa has the fastest-growing, youngest population of any continent.
By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/28/world/africa/africa-youth-population.html
Meaghan Looram / The New York Times
