From Outrage to Opportunity, which Luba Kassova authored, has been awarded the prestigious Communicator Award for Excellence in the social impact category from the US Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts. “The Communicator Awards honors work that transcends craft — work that made a lasting impact” and the award is given "to those entrants whose ability to communicate positions them as the best in the field”. 

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This is the third report in the multi-award-winning Missing Perspectives of Women in News series commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and hosted by Internews, which was described by The Guardian as “an unprecedented analysis of newsrooms and news stories". Highlighting the impact of race for women in news leadership and coverage in multi-racial populations, Luba  adopts a solutions-focused perspective to explore how this sector can include the long-standing missing perspectives of women of all colours.

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Jessica Lauretti, Managing Director of The Anthem Awards wrote: “This is an important moment. It is a remarkable honor and an extraordinary achievement to be among the inaugural class of Anthem winners. Selection as a winner means your work not only demonstrates world class talent, insight, leadership, and execution, it is also a best in class example of the work leading the way in the Impact Industry." 

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In this podcast  Luba explores the news media's role in bridging division in societies to create much needed unity in the world. How newsmakers frame the news and whose stories they tell, is critical for who is heard and who is left out from the news. To facilitate intercultural exchange the news has to give voice to different groups equitably. But does it? To ponder these questions the Aspen Institute UK brought together distinguished thinkers based in the UK and asked Luba to moderate the discussion.

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This article which Luba co-authored with the head of news at the Ukrainian Public Broadcaster Suspilne Angelina Kariakina, shone a light on the plight of millions of invisible elderly women in Ukraine who have been forgotten or abandoned and who are often trapped, unable to evacuate. They are mostly left out of news coverage too. These elderly women require urgent support from the strained state health and social system, from international institutions and NGOs, yet the existing structural ageism across institutions and the media lets them down.

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The Web Report award for the most impressive facts-based piece of journalism was granted by Dir.bg, Bulgaria’s biggest news aggregator, for the article “How Bulgaria is Sacrificing its Elderly Generation” published on clubz.bg

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