The IV API Awards for Investigative Journalism rewarded with a special mention in the Data category the “Floodable Spain” project, an investigation by elDiario.es which reveals that more than a million homes in Spain are located in areas at risk of flooding, produced by Pau Rodríguez, Victòria Oliveres and Raúl Sánchez. The awards, organized by the Association of Investigative Journalists (API), also awarded the main prize to the report “Health Radiography in Spain”, prepared by DatosRTVE, RTVE’s data and visual storytelling team.
The “Flood-prone Spain” research highlights the growing threat that flooding poses to the Spanish territory, through a comprehensive approach that combines rigorous data, interactive visualizations and testimonies from people affected by these extreme floods. The jury underlined that the work “puts on the table a subject which does not appear on the public agenda and highlights the weight of the information it contains, as well as the value of the sources used and the story used” .
By analyzing the locations of more than 12 million buildings, the research shows that at least 4.3% of Spanish homes are at risk of flooding. Furthermore, it denounces how the lack of regulation has facilitated the urban development of thousands of homes in areas at risk of flooding throughout the country, which has generated a compensation bill of 7 billion euros in three decades.
In this IV edition of the API Awards, around thirty media works were evaluated for the different categories.
The project “La España Inundable” has already received the second prize of the Vicente Verdú Awards for Journalism and Innovation and was a finalist of the Climate Journalism Awards for climate journalism, awarded by the European Journalism Center and supported by Google News Initiative.
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