List of Amnesty International UK Media Awards winners
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This page lists the winners of the Amnesty International UK Media Awards
for each year since 2002. These awards are given by the UK section of Amnesty International
to journalists who have made a significant contribution to the UK public's greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
Amnesty International UK Media Awards
The Amnesty International Media Awards are a set of awards for human rights journalism awarded annually by the UK section of Amnesty International...
for each year since 2002. These awards are given by the UK section of Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
to journalists who have made a significant contribution to the UK public's greater awareness and understanding of human rights issues.
Award winners
| Category | Title | Journalist | Organisation |
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| National newspaper | 10-year-old Qwadrat takes his final painful breath | Anton Antonowicz | Daily Mirror |
| Periodical | The school of assassins that the US army has tried to hide | Christine Toomey | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... Magazine |
| Photojournalism | War crimes in Kosovo | Gary Knight Gary Knight Gary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham, England and was raised in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands. He attended Arden School and Solihull Sixth Form College. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East... |
Newsweek International |
| Radio | Crossing Continents Crossing Continents Crossing Continents is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary programme, focusing on foreign affairs issues through on-location journalism and interviews from various parts of the world... - Israel/Palestine |
Lucy Ash | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | Kids behind bars | Kate Blewett Kate Blewett Kate Blewett is a documentary film-maker in the United Kingdom. She is best known for her documentaries on human rights abuses, such as The Dying Rooms.- Life :... / Brian Woods Brian Woods Brian Woods is a BAFTA award-winning British documentary film-maker, who founded and currently runs True Vision, an independent production company, which concentrates mainly on human rights-related subjects... |
True Vision Productions for the BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... |
| Television news | Slobodan Milosevic War Crimes Trial | Gaby Rado Gaby Rado Gaby Rado was a British television journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion.... |
ITN / Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... |
| 2003 | |||
| National newspaper | Inside the world of the Palestinian suicide bomber; The informer who could not escape; On patrol with the killer Israel dreads | Hala Jaber Hala Jaber Hala Jaber is a Lebanese-British journalist. She was born in West Africa and currently writes for The Sunday Times. Jaber was awarded the Amnesty International Journalist of the Year Award in 2003. She won Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005 and 2006 for her... |
Sunday Times |
| Periodical | Land of the damned | Ann McFerran | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... Magazine |
| Photojournalism | Looking Aids in the face | Gideon Mendel | Corbis Corbis Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that licenses the rights to photographs, footage and other visual media... / Guardian Weekend The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| Radio | Today Today programme Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks... - Sale of illegal landmines |
Andrew Gilligan Andrew Gilligan Andrew Paul Gilligan is a British journalist best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme in which he said a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction had been 'sexed up', a claim that ultimately led to a public inquiry that criticised Gilligan... |
BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | Panorama Panorama (TV series) Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme, which was first broadcast in 1953, and is the longest-running public affairs television programme in the world. Panorama has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby... - A licence to murder |
John Ware | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... |
| Television news | Guinea: sex for food | Sorious Samura Sorious Samura Sorious Samura is a Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown and Exodus from Africa . The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city . The film won, among other... |
Insight News Television / Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... / CNN CNN Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States... |
| Global human rights journalism | Invisible casualties of war | Belma Becirbasic / Dzenana Secic | Start magazine, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Hassan Bility | Analyst newspaper, Liberia Liberia Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open... |
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| Regional media | Series of articles on refugees and asylum seekers | Alexander Robertson / Sam Bartlett / Liam McDougall | The Big Issue The Big Issue The Big Issue is a street newspaper published in eight countries; it is written by professional journalists and sold by homeless individuals. It was founded by John Bird and Gordon Roddick in September 1991... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
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| National newspaper | The People The Law Forgot | James Meek James Meek (author) James Meek is a British writer and journalist. He was born in London and grew up in Dundee, Scotland.Meek spent several years living in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s and now resides in London. He has published four novels and two short story collections. In 2004 he was named Foreign... |
The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| Periodical | The Bitterest Betrayal | Vikram Dodd / Tania Branigan | Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... Weekend Magazine |
| Photojournalism | Ghosts of the Apocalypse | Philip Blenkinsop | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... Magazine |
| Radio | Crossing Continents Crossing Continents Crossing Continents is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary programme, focusing on foreign affairs issues through on-location journalism and interviews from various parts of the world... - India |
Lucy Ash | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | This World - Access To Evil | Olenka Frenkiel | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... |
| Television news | Equitorial Guinea | Lindsey Hilsum Lindsey Hilsum Lindsey Hilsum is an English television journalist. She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, and Granta.... |
Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... |
| Global human rights journalism | Slaves of the 21st Century | Raphael Gomide | O Dia O Dia O Dia is a major daily newspaper from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its sales are slightly higher than its main rival, O Globo.... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people... |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Kifle Mulat | Lissane Hizeb (Voice of the People), Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2... |
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| Regional media | Asylum Seeking Children | Lorna Martin | The Herald The Herald (Glasgow) The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
| Gaby Rado award | Reports from Democratic Republic of Congo | James Astill | The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... / The Observer The Observer The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,... / Newsnight Newsnight Newsnight is a BBC Television current affairs programme noted for its in-depth analysis and often robust cross-examination of senior politicians. Jeremy Paxman has been its main presenter for over two decades.... |
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| National newspaper | London - the world in one city | Leo Benedictus | The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| Periodical | America's Gulag | Stephen Grey Stephen Grey Stephen Grey is an award-winning British investigative journalist and author best known for revealing details of the CIA's program of 'extraordinary rendition.' He has also reported extensively from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.-Early career:Grey was educated at the British School of... |
New Statesman New Statesman New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s.... |
| Photojournalism | Flames of Desperation | Nicola Kurtz | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... Magazine |
| Radio | Bhopal | Susan Roberts | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | Panorama Panorama (TV series) Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme, which was first broadcast in 1953, and is the longest-running public affairs television programme in the world. Panorama has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby... - The New Killing Fields |
Darren Kemp / Hilary Andersson | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... |
| Television news | Falluja Forensics | Tara Sutton Tara Sutton Tara Sutton is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker whose work in conflict zones has received many awards. She is one of only a handful of international television correspondents that both produce and shoot their own reports also known as "video journalism".... |
Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... Independents' Fund / Guardian Films The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Marielos Monzón | Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast... |
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| Regional media | Fascism in Russia | Billy Briggs | The Herald The Herald (Glasgow) The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions... Magazine on Saturday, Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
| Gaby Rado award | Ali A Fadhil | Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... Independents' Fund / Guardian Films The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
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| National newspaper | Iraq special report | Peter Beaumont | The Observer The Observer The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,... |
| Periodical | Beasts of prey | Christine Toomey | The Sunday Times The Sunday Times The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times... Magazine |
| Photojournalism | Rwanda - facing the virus | Stuart Freedman | Positive Lives Positive Lives Positive Lives was a HIV charity set up by two well-known gay businessmen, David Bridle and Kelvin Sollis, and three other trustees, William Curry, Simon Brycesson and Glyn Maddocks, in 1996.... / Panos Panos Institute The Panos Institutes are a network of independent non-governmental organisations working to ensure that information is effectively used to foster public debate, pluralism and democracy... |
| Radio | Reports from rural China | Rupert Wingfield Hayes / Alistair Burnett | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | Asylum | Amanda Richardson / Peter Gordon / Edwina Vardey / Nicola Clemens | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... |
| Television news | Conflict - tin: Congo's tin soldiers | Elizabeth C Jones / Jonathan Miller / Mike Radford | Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... / ITN |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Stanislav Dmitrievskiy / Oksana Chelysheva | Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... |
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| Regional media | Tales from the edge, the Glasgow girls | Lindsey Hill / Simon Parsons / Rhiannon Brady / Emma Green McInnes | BBC Scotland BBC Scotland BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who... |
| Gaby Rado award | Human rights in the Former Soviet Union | Nick Paton Walsh | The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| 2007 | |||
| National newspaper | Congo's Tragedy | Johann Hari Johann Hari Johann Hari is an award winning British journalist who has been a columnist at The Independent, the The Huffington Post, and contributed to several other publications. In 2011, Hari was accused of plagiarism; he subsequently was suspended from The Independent and surrendered his 2008 Orwell Prize... |
The Independent The Independent The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily... |
| Periodical | The Big Steal | Jonathan Watts | Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... Weekend Magazine |
| Photojournalism | Acid attacks in Bangladesh | Andrew Testa | Foto 8 Magazine |
| Radio | Dispatches from Gaza | Alan Johnston Alan Johnston Alan Graham Johnston is a British journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip, and is currently the correspondent in Rome... |
BBC News BBC News BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online... Gaza Bureau |
| Television documentary | Execution of a Teenage Girl | Paul Hamann / Monica Garnsey / Lucy Hetherington | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... / Wild Pictures |
| Television news | China Organ Transplants | Rupert Wingfield-Hayes / Bessie Du / Al Go | BBC Ten O'Clock News |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Dina Meza | Revistazo, Honduras Honduras Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize... |
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| Regional media | Haunted | Lucy Adams | The Herald The Herald (Glasgow) The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions... Magazine, Scotland |
| Gaby Rado award | Tea and Kidnapping; You go a bit crazy when you see little body after little body coming up out of the ground; The Jihad now is against the Shias not the Americans | Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion and has written for The Guardian and Washington Post and published photographs in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times , and other media outlets... |
The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
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| National newspaper | Iraqi interpreters series | Deborah Haynes | The Times The Times The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International... |
| Periodical | Newspaper supplement: Selling soccer into slavery |
Jonathan Green Jonathan Green (journalist) Jonathan Green is an English journalist and author, born in Bury St Edmunds, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife.Green has written for the New York Times, Men's Journal, Esquire, GQ, The Financial Times, Men's Health, and The Mail on Sunday, among others... |
Live (Mail on Sunday magazine) |
| Consumer magazine: Russian media freedom |
Fatima Tlisova / Sergei Bachinin / Alexei Simonov | Index on Censorship Index on Censorship Index on Censorship is a campaigning publishing organisation for freedom of expression, which produces an award-winning quarterly magazine of the same name from London. The present chief executive of Index on Censorship, since 2008, is the author, broadcaster and commentator John Kampfner, former... |
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| Photojournalism | Congo unrest | Cédric Gerbehaye Cédric Gerbehaye Cédric Gerbehaye is a Belgian journalist and photographer who has specialized in the Middle East and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.-Career:... |
Newsweek Newsweek Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence... / Agence VU |
| Radio | Today Today programme Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks... - Where there's muck: Mike Thomson in the Congo |
Pascale Harter / Ceri Thomas / Mike Thompson | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... |
| Television documentary | Storyville - The Devil Came on Horseback The Devil Came on Horseback The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary film by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg illustrating the continuing Darfur Conflict in Sudan. Based on the book by former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle and his experiences while working for the African Union, the film version had its premiere at film... |
Gretchen Steidle Wallace / Jane Wells / Annie Sundberg / Ricki Stern / Nick Fraser / Brian Steidle Brian Steidle Brian Steidle is a former Marine Captain, military and security operations expert, and author who had worked on publicizing the Darfur conflict in Sudan... |
BBC Four BBC Four BBC Four is a British television network operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable.... / Break Thru Films / Global Grassroots |
| Television news | Too young to die - Children of the frontline | Chris Rogers / Deborah Turness / Tony Hemmings | ITV News ITV News ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. Since 1955, ITV's news bulletins have been produced by Independent Television News . The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the... / ITN |
| Human rights journalism under threat | Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani | Al-Shora, Yemen Yemen The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east.... |
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| Regional media | Congo to Motherwell | Fiona Walker / Dorothy Parker / Matt Pinder / Hilary McCusker-Thompson | BBC Scotland BBC Scotland BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who... |
| Gaby Rado award | Africa's secret - the men, women and children 'vanished' in the war on terror | Xan Rice | The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| International television and radio | The lost tribe - Secret army of the CIA | Eunice Lau / Stephanie Scawen / Tricia Tan / Tony Birtley | Al Jazeera English |
| New media | "Honour killing" sparks fears of new Iraqi conflict | Sahar Al-Haideri | Institute for War and Peace Reporting Institute for War and Peace Reporting Institute for War & Peace Reporting is an international media development charity, established in 1991. It runs major programmes in Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, the Balkans, Congo DRC, Tunisia and Uganda... |
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| Gaby Rado memorial award | Aleem Maqbool | BBC News BBC News BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online... |
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| International Television & Radio | World's Untold Stories: The Forgotten People | Dan Rivers Dan Rivers Dan Rivers is a British television journalist, for CNN International.He studied Social Sciences at Durham University, and Broadcast Journalism at Falmouth College of Arts.He was the Crime Correspondent for ITV News.He reported on Cyclone Nargis in Burma.... , Kit Swartz Kit Swartz Kit Swartz is a television producer, for CNN.He was a soundman at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 with Cynde Strand.He was a cameraman for "Europe on the Brink", which won a 1992 CINE Golden Eagle award.-Awards:*2009 George Polk Award... , Sheri England, Anthony Whaley |
CNN CNN Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States... |
| Nations & Regions | The Fight for Justice | Lucy Adams | The Herald Magazine |
| National Newspapers | MI5 and the Torture Chambers of Pakistan | Ian Cobain | The Guardian The Guardian The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... |
| New Media | Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances | Julian Assange Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material... |
WikiLeaks Wikileaks WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more... |
| Periodicals - Consumer Magazines | The 'No Place for Children' campaign | Sir Al Aynsley Green, Gillian Slovo Gillian Slovo Gillian Slovo is a South African born novelist, playwright and memoirist.Her novels were at first predominantly of the crime and thriller genres, including a series featuring the detective Kate Baeier but she has since written more literary fiction... , Alice O'Keefe |
New Statesman New Statesman New Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s.... |
| Periodicals - Newspaper Supplements | Why do the Italians Hate Us? | Dan McDougall Dan McDougall Dan McDougall is a Scots foreign correspondent. A former New Delhi-based South Asia Correspondent for The Observer Newspaper he has filed reportage from over 50 countries including India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Lebanon and the Palestinian territories... , Robin Hammond |
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| Photojournalism | No One Much Cares | Eugene Richards Eugene Richards Eugene Richards is a noted American documentary photographer.During the 1960s, Richards was a civil rights activist and VISTA volunteer... |
Newsweek Newsweek Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence... |
| Radio | Forgotten: The Central African Republic | Edward Main, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... - Today Programme |
| Television Documentary & Docudrama | Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children | Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich | Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel... / Red Rebel Films / Southern Star Factual |
| Television News | Kiwanja Massacre: Congo | Ben De Pear, Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE is a British theatre and opera director, author, physician, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and... , Stuart Webb Stuart Webb Stuart Webb is a former professional rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons in the Australian National Rugby League competition. He previously played for the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. His position of choice is at hooker... , Robert Chamwami |
Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... / ITN |
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| Special Award 2010 | All the independent media workers of Burma | ||
| Gaby Rado Memorial Award | Jamal Osman | Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... |
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| International Television & Radio | People and Power: Ingushetia - A Second Chechnya? | Antony Butts, Dom Rotheroe, Mike Chamberlain | Al Jazeera Al Jazeera Al Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar... |
| Nations & Regions | Discrimination: Migrant Workers Rental Block | Guy Lynn Guy Lynn Guy Lynn is a British correspondent for the BBC. He has won three Royal Television Society "RTS Reporter of the Year" awards, two bronze BBC Ruby TV journalism awards and an Amnesty International media award for reporting on human rights.- Biography :... , Mark Hayman, David Weller David Weller David Weller is a retired Jamaican track cyclist.Weller won a bronze medal in 1000 metres time trial at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, becoming the first Jamaican to win an Olympic medal in another sport than athletics .At the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1984, Weller finished... |
BBC Look North BBC Look North BBC Look North is a name used by the BBC for its local regional news programme in three regions in the North of England:*BBC Look North for the BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire region*BBC Look North for the BBC Yorkshire region... |
| National Newspapers | The Dark Side of Dubai | Johann Hari Johann Hari Johann Hari is an award winning British journalist who has been a columnist at The Independent, the The Huffington Post, and contributed to several other publications. In 2011, Hari was accused of plagiarism; he subsequently was suspended from The Independent and surrendered his 2008 Orwell Prize... |
The Independent The Independent The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily... |
| Digital Media | Chinese Petitioners | Jamil Anderlini, Edward Cheng | Financial Times Financial Times The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City.... |
| Periodicals - Consumer Magazines | Congo: The Horror | Ed Caesar, Susan Schulman | GQ |
| Periodicals - Newspaper Supplements | The Return of the Bloody Diamonds | Dan McDougall Dan McDougall Dan McDougall is a Scots foreign correspondent. A former New Delhi-based South Asia Correspondent for The Observer Newspaper he has filed reportage from over 50 countries including India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Lebanon and the Palestinian territories... , Robin Hammond |
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| Photojournalism | Toxic Jeans | Robin Hammond | Sunday Times |
| Radio | Zimbabwe: What Mugabe Didn't Tell Us | Mike Thomson, Edward Prendeville, Ceri Thomas | BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the... - Today Programme |
| Television Documentary & Docudrama | Burma VJ (JOINT WINNER) Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War (JOINT WINNER) |
Lise-Lense Moller, Anders Ostergaard Tom Roberts Tom Roberts Thomas William Roberts , usually known simply as Tom, was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.-Life:... , Peter Lindley, Najibullah Razaq |
More 4 / Magic Hour Films Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel... / October Films October Films October Films was an American independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film Life Is Sweet... |
| Television News | The End of Sri Lanka's War | Jonathan Miller Jonathan Miller Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE is a British theatre and opera director, author, physician, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and... , Nick Paton Walsh Nick Paton Walsh Nick Paton Walsh , is an award-winning British journalist, who is an international correspondent with CNN, currently serving as their Kabul Correspondent. He has been an Asia and foreign affairs correspondent for the UK's Channel Four News, and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. He is... , Nevine Mabro, Bessie Du, Matt Jasper, Ben de Pear |
Channel 4 News Channel 4 News Channel 4 News is the news division of British television broadcaster Channel 4. It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since the broadcaster's launch in 1982.-Channel 4 News:... / ITN |