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HuffPost Highline

Longform digital storytelling that stays with you

Over 2015-2020 Gladeye partnered with the team at Highline HuffPost to create one of the most admired bodies of work in digital journalism.

From pharmaceutical scams to millennial nuns, from human smuggling to lottery loopholes, HuffPost shone a light into the darker places of our culture.

Client

Category

Storytelling

Date

2015 - 2020

Highline x Gladeye

Highline's executive editors Rachel Morris and Greg Veis felt constrained by their internal team and platforms, they wanted to create work on par with Snowfall by NY Times, which had begun to set a new standard for how digital design could enhance traditional journalism.

After a few small articles, we leapt into "America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker", a 15-part, 55,000 word epic that blew open corporate malfeasance at Johnson & Johnson causing teenage gynecomastia in pursuit of off-label profit.

Over the next five years we created all of their regular articles plus the annual "tent-pole" epics including "FML - Millennials are Screwed" and "21st Century Gold Rush".

21st Century Gold Rush

A multi-award-winning story for Huffington Post's Highline revealing the criminal masterminds, pencil-pushers and low-flying vultures profiting from the biggest refugee crisis in recorded history.

From Sub-Saharan Africa to Italy and Germany, the authors trace the paths of both refugees and smugglers - showing their lives and the larger forces at work.

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A masterstroke in high-end digital storytelling.

Judging panel

The American Society of News Editors

Highline breaks through the noise.

Columbia Journalism Review

FML Millennials Are Screwed

A complex, beautifully written story about the eroding economy that created a generation of over-worked under-achievers.

We transformed it into an unwinnable game of life with a bright visual direction that's charming, unsettling and smashed visitor records.

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Even though it's been up for less than a week, more minutes have been spent reading this piece than any story on all of HuffPost for the entire year.

Rachel Morris

Executive Editor, Huffington Post Highline

America's Most Admired Lawbreaker

In 2015, HuffPost Highline and bestselling author Steven Brill imagined “a new kind of experience for readers: one that combines the comprehensiveness of a book with the interactivity and immediacy of the web.”

We co-created it with them.

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The gorgeous, innovative design on our Highline story on Johnson & Johnson is by Gladeye

Arianna Huffington

Founder, The Huffington Post
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Project Awards

The Webby Awards

Winner - Best Individual Editorial Experience

The Webby Awards

Nominee - Best Individual Editorial Experience

The One Show

Merit - Design

Society of Publication Designers (SPD)

Gold Medal - Innovative Practice

Society of Publication Designers (SPD)

Gold Medal - Web Animation

Society of Publication Designers (SPD)

Gold Medal - Web Feature Design

Society of Publication Designers (SPD)

Gold Medal - Single Screen Design

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

Punch Sulzberger Award - Online Storytelling

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

Punch Sulzberger Award - Online Storytelling

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

Finalist - Digital Innovation

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

Finalist - Public Interest

American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)

Winner - Multimedia

EPPY Awards

Winner - Innovation

Front Page Award

Winner - Multimedia

National Press Photographers Association

Winner - Best Multimedia

Overseas Press Club Award

Winner - Best Digital Reporting on International Affairs

PDN Storytellers

Winner - Multimedia

Best Design Awards

Gold Pin - Large Scale Websites

Best Design Awards

Gold Pin - Small Scale Websites

Best Design Awards

Silver Pin - Large Scale Websites

Best Design Awards

Finalist - Design Craft

Best Design Awards

Finalist - Small Scale Websites

Best Design Awards

Finalist - Small Scale Websites

w3 Awards

Gold - Publishing

w3 Awards

Silver - Visual Appeal

Pixel Awards

Winner - News and Publications

Awwwards

Site of the Day - January 19, 2017

Awwwards

Site of the Day - December 26, 2017

Awwwards

Site of the Day - January 19, 2016

The FWA

Site of the Day - December 23, 2017

The FWA

Site of the Day - January 10, 2017

CSS Design Awards

Site of the Day - December 24, 2017

CSS Design Awards

Site of the Day - January 10, 2017

CSS Design Awards

Site of the Day - January 24, 2016

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