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StartupRealities No 141 StoryPrize  awards annual prizes for the best stories that occur and are reported during a year in a dozen categories, including the news media, scientific research, education, medicine, engineering, politics, business, the environment, art and culture. CEO QUOTE "Truth is stranger than fiction. Among all our StoryPrize categories, only two categories is fiction - literature and film. All other stories have to be real. We nominate and recognise the most striking and surprising sequences of events that take place in a year. Our prizes encourage the use of stories and storytelling in education and public communication by building a database of impressive and creative stories in the public domain," said StoryPrize founder and CEO Stormy Pritzker. Trophy cup (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 125 Storypedia is an online publisher which produces collections of the world's most interesting non-fiction stories. The company has a range of publications of the format "Top 100 Most Fascinating Stories in ...": History, Nature, Science, Art, Politics, Business; as well as of a similar format: "Top 100 Hidden Stories in ...". A key part of the successful storytelling format is the length of each story, which does not exceed half a page. CEO QUOTE "Everybody knows Cinderella and Snow White. Which is why we don't include banal fiction stories like this in our collections. We aim to educate and inspire our readers, not bore them to death. However, we do incorporate some mythological stories where the line between history and fiction has been blurred. Our primary objective is to surprise you, to tell you something new, to reveal a world of wonder," said Storypedia founder and CEO Stormie Pedralbes. Medieval encyclopedis...