Amnesty Media Awards Shortlist 2009

The 2009 Media Awards recognised excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledged journalism's significant contribution to the UK public's awareness and understanding of human rights issues.

The media plays a vital role in protecting human rights. Good journalism exposes atrocities and injustice - without it Amnesty couldn't do its job.

Below are the winners and nominees in 2009's twelve categories. The entries in the Photojournalism, National Newspapers and New Media categories are available now on ProtectTheHuman.com

GABY RADO MEMORIAL AWARD

WINNER - Aleem Maqbool, BBC News

Nominee - Ramita Navai, Channel 4 / Quicksilver Media / More4 News / ITN

Nominee - Thomas Bell, The Daily Telegraph

JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Libby Brooks, Andrew Macdonald, Tom Rado, Jon Snow

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & RADIO

WINNER - World's Untold Stories:  The Forgotten People, CNN, Dan Rivers and Mary Rogers

Nominee - Assignment: Africa's Guantánamo, BBC World Service, David Edmonds, Jeremy Skeet and Rob Walker

Nominee - Outlook: Dr Abuelaish, BBC World Service, Deiniol Buxton, Gavin Poncia, Simon Tillotson and Lucy Ash

JUDGES: Anita Anand, Dorothy Byrne, Susanna Flood, Naresh Puri, Tim Singleton

NATIONS & REGIONS

WINNER - The Fight for Justice, The Herald Magazine by Lucy Adams

Nominee - Eòrpa, BBC Scotland, Hedda MacLeod, Catriona MacKinnon, Colin MacLeod, Annie Cheape, Iain Macinnes, Darren Laing and Alasdair Fraser

Nominee - Spotlight: Prisoner B2970, BBC Belfast, Darragh MacIntyre, Paul Lindsay and Gwyneth Jones

JUDGES: Patrick Corrigan, William Crawley, Jenifer Johnston, Tomos Livingstone, Jon Manel

NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS

WINNER - MI5 and the Torture Chambers of Pakistan, The Guardian by Ian Cobain

Nominee - Britain's New Resistance Fighters: How Neighbours are Uniting to Save Asylum Seekers from Deportation, Guardian G2 by Rachel Stevenson and Harriet Grant

Nominee - Israel's Rain of Fire on Gaza, The Times, Sheera Frenkel by Michael Evans

JUDGES: Jack Doyle, Sarfraz Manzoor, Maggie Paterson, Alison Philips, Julie Tomlin

NEW MEDIA

WINNER - Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances, Wikileaks, Julian Assange

Nominee - A Day In The Life: Afghanistan, Sky News Online, Alex Crawford, Pia Heikkila, Stuart Ramsay and Hugh Westbrook

Nominee - Kenyan, Burnt Out, Displaced And Forgotten, duckrabbit, Benjamin Chesterton, Dolphine Emali, Yasuyoshi Chiba and Eliza Barclay

JUDGES: Sara Ashton, Peter Barron, Sunny Hundal, Martha Lane Fox, Danielle Long

PERIODICALS  - CONSUMER MAGAZINES

WINNER - The 'No Place for Children' campaign, New Statesman, Sir Al Aynsley Green, and Gillian Slovo

Nominee - Crisis In Gaza: 'The Conflict Within Hamas' and 'The Killings, Shootings and Checkpoints are our Children's Curriculum', New Statesman, Edward Platt

Nominee - Was it like this for the Irish? London Review of Books, Gareth Peirce

JUDGES: Jeremy Dear, Maggie Paterson, John Mulholland, Anne Penketh, Sigrid Rausing 

PERIODICALS  - NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS

WINNER - Why do the Italians Hate Us? The Observer Magazine, Dan McDougall and Robin Hammond

Nominee - The Dirty Secrets of Your NHS, Live Magazine (Mail on Sunday), Jonathan Green

Nominee - The Hell Of Being An Asylum Seeker, The Observer Magazine, Mark Haddon

JUDGES: Jeremy Dear, Maggie Paterson, John Mulholland, Anne Penketh, Sigrid Rausing

PHOTOJOURNALISM

WINNER - No One Much Cares, Newsweek, Eugene Richards

Nominee - Gaza Aftermath, Associated Press, Lefteris Pitarakis

Nominee - Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery, Foto 8, Jim Goldberg

JUDGES: Simon Bainbridge, Sophie Batterbury, Camilla Brown, Maggie Paterson, Carlos Reyes-Manzo

RADIO

WINNER - Forgotten: The Central African Republic, BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme
Edward Main, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson

Nominee - Gay in JA; The Catch Up, BBC Radio 1 - Newsbeat & 1Xtra News / Somethin' Else, Joby Waldman and Debbie Ramsay 

Nominee - Liberia: Children for Sale, BBC Radio 4  - Crossing Continents, Bill Law, Maria Balinska and Nadene Ghouri

JUDGES: Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Ian Collins, Anna Doble, Alan Johnston

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY & DOCUDRAMA

WINNER - Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children, Channel 4 / Red Rebel Films / Southern Star Factual, Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich

Nominee - Panorama: China's Secret War, BBC, Robin Barnwell, Sandy Smith and Hilary Andersson

Nominee - The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Channel 4 / TalkbackThames, Simon Block, Charles Furneaux, Rowan Joffe and Barney Reisz

JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Cait Fitzsimons, Tim Marshall and Hugh Williamson

TELEVISION NEWS

WINNER - Kiwanja Massacre: Congo, Channel 4 News / ITN, Ben De Pear, Jonathan Miller, Stuart Webb and Robert Chamwami

Nominee - Ethiopian government accused of downplaying scale of drought, Channel 4 News / ITN/
SMI Production, Nick Sturdee, Jamal Osman and Jonathan Rugman

Nominee - What Happened in Jabaliya, BBC News, Christian Fraser, Robbie Wright, Hamada Abu Qammar, Rushdi Abu Alouf and Youssef Shomali

JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Caroline Hurford, Ben Rayner, Julian Worricker