Media Awards 2010

The Amnesty International media awards recognise excellence in human rights journalism that makes a significant contribution to the UK public's understanding of human rights.

The awards, established in 1992, celebrate the breadth of reporting across different media and acknowledge the risks journalists take while reporting the stories that might otherwise remain untold.

The winners of this year's media awards were announced on 1 June 2010. The awards ceremony, hosted by ITV newscaster Katie Derham, presented ten awards for the very best human rights journalism over the past year spanning the full spectrum of broadcast, print and digital journalism.

In an unprecedented move this year's special award for journalists under threat went not to an individual or single organisation, but instead to all independent media working in Burma.

The special award recognises the courage of journalists working in Burma, who pursue their legitimate work at great personal risk to themselves.

Find out more about our campaign in support of the people of Burma

Amnesty International Media Awards 2010 Winners

GABY RADO MEMORIAL AWARD  
Jamal Osman, Channel 4 News
 
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & RADIO
People and Power: Ingushetia - A Second Chechnya?, Al Jazeera
Antony Butts, Dom Rotheroe, Mike Chamberlain
 
NATIONS & REGIONS
Discrimination: Migrant Workers Rental Block, BBC Look North
Guy Lynn, Mark Hayman, David Weller
 
NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
The Dark Side of Dubai, The Independent
Johann Hari
 
DIGITAL MEDIA
Chinese Petitioners, Financial Times
Jamil Anderlini, Edward Cheng
 
PERIODICALS - CONSUMER MAGAZINES
Congo: The Horror, GQ
Ed Caesar, Susan Schulman
 
PERIODICALS - NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS
The Return of the Bloody Diamonds, Live Magazine
Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond
 
PHOTOJOURNALISM
Toxic Jeans, Sunday Times
Robin Hammond

RADIO
Zimbabwe: What Mugabe Didn't Tell Us, BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme
Mike Thomson, Edward Prendeville, Ceri Thomas
 
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY & DOCUDRAMA
Burma VJ, More 4 / Magic Hour Films (JOINT WINNER)
Lise-Lense Moller, Anders Ostergaard
 
Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War, Channel 4 / October Films (JOINT WINNER)
Tom Roberts, Peter Lindley, Najibullah Razaq
 
TELEVISION NEWS
The End of Sri Lanka's War, Channel 4 News / ITN
Jonathan Miller, Nick Paton Walsh, Nevine Mabro, Bessie Du, Matt Jasper, Ben de Pear.

Further information and queries

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