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Place Name: First Place
Contestant Name: BBC Travel
Entry Title: Massimo Bottura’s new “Not Barbecue” restaurant
Entry Credit: Eva Sandoval, Carmine Benincasa, Anne Bressanin
Judge Comment: Through dramatic photos, high-quality editing and creative writing, this piece helps readers escape to Italy. Conversational phrases such as “breaking rules, breaking boundaries” tie to the personalities highlighted throughout this beautiful piece about a restaurant that is much more than food, and the chef who is redefining barbecue.

Place Name: Second Place
Contestant Name: Marriott Bonvoy Traveler
Entry Title: THE ‘CAT PEOPLE’ OF ATHENS, GREECE
Entry Credit: Valerie Conners, Chelo Segear, Loulou d'Aki
Judge Comment: Sunbathing, plopped, cozying, frolicking — these adjectives could describe only cats. This multimedia photo essay is a well-rounded firsthand story of multiple neighborhoods in Athens, Greece, and the cats and their owners who live there. With a balance of short videos, photos and text throughout, it fully explores the city through the eyes of felines.

Place Name: Third Place
Contestant Name: The Oregonian
Entry Title: Meet Oregon’s cranberry capital, where you can find cranberry anything
Entry Credit: Samantha Swindler
Judge Comment: In a state known for its trees and wine, Samantha Swindler travels to the southern coast of Oregon to highlight the history of cranberries. A cinematic video beautifully contrasts the bright red cranberries against the gray skies. The writing goes in-depth into the long lineage of cranberries in Oregon, and we meet the harvesters in the video. This beautiful piece showcases a part of Oregon that isn’t well known.

Place Name: Honorable Mention
Contestant Name: BBC Travel
Entry Title: Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world
Entry Credit: Anna Bressanin
Judge Comment: Capturing art through history back to the 15th century isn’t easy. Through an informative video, beautiful photos and an interesting story with historical context, this piece provides all angles of Mappa Mundi: the greatest medieval map in the world. A person standing in front of the map, while explaining the measurements and zooming and panning, really shows the size and details of this remarkable piece of art.

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