USC Annenberg student Kaidi Ruby Yuan and professor Robert Hernandez were in New York to represent the entire JOVRNALISM team that produced The Deported.
The project, which launched after the Spring 2018 semester, was given the People’s Voice Award in the student category.
As part of The Webby Awards tradition, the JOVRNALISM team had to come up with a 5-word acceptance speech.
We all agreed on “Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable,” but that was six words. After much debate, we decided to go with “Comfort the afflicted. Fight on!”
There were several celebrities on hand receiving awards for their work, ranging from Issa Rae to Gritty.
They also created several social media shareable moments, like this bullet time video:
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