The winners will be announced at an
evening awards ceremony at BAFTA, London, on Thursday 22 May 2003, to be
hosted by journalist and broadcaster Charles Wheeler.
The Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by Pci: Live,
recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge the
significant contribution made to the UK public's awareness and
understanding of human rights issues.
Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Stephen Bowen said:
"At a time when the world's attention has been focused on Iraq, there is a
grave danger that human rights abuses elsewhere will get overlooked. The
range and quality of the shortlist reminds us of the critical role
journalists can play in drawing attention to events in Israel, Zimbabwe,
Guinea and the Former Yugoslavia Republic for example."
The shortlisted entries are:
National Newspapers
- No place like home; Promises, promises; The asylum lottery, Ann
Treneman, The Times
- This woman lost everything in a US air raid. A year on, she is
still living amid the rubble; Dawn raids stoke fires of resentment, Rory
McCarthy, The Guardian
- Inside the world of the Palestinian suicide bomber; The informer
who could not escape; On patrol with the killer Israel dreads, Hala
Jaber, The Sunday Times
Judges: Will Self (writer, journalist and broadcaster), Martha Kearney
(broadcaster and journalist), David Aaronovitch (writer, journalist and
broadcaster), George Alagiah (broadcaster and journalist), Madeleine
Bunting (journalist), Maggie Paterson (Head of Publishing, Amnesty
International)
Television News
- Guinea: Sex for food, Sorious Samura, Insight News TV for Channel
4 News
- Jenin, Lindsey Hilsum for ITN - Channel 4 News
- Peru, forced sterilisations, Juliana Ruhfus, Insight News TV for
Channel 4 News
Judges: Geeta Guru-Murthy (BBC News correspondent), Kate Sanderson
(presenter and reporter), Joan Bakewell (writer, broadcaster and
columnist), Moira Stuart (broadcaster), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (journalist,
writer and broadcaster), Lesley Warner (Head of Press, Amnesty
International)
Photojournalism
- Three Gorges Dam, Ian Berry, Magnum, Telegraph Magazine
- Modern Day Slaves, Alex Smailes, Colors magazine
- Looking Aids in the Face, Gideon Mendel, Corbis, Guardian Weekend
Judges: Colin Jacobson (photo editor and lecturer), Mary McCartney Donald (photographer), Mark Sealy (Director of Autograph), Neil Burgess (Director, NB Pictures), Chris Boot
(publisher), Maggie Paterson (Head of Publishing, Amnesty International)
Radio
- Zimbabwe, Grant Ferrett, for File on 4, BBC Radio 4
- Sale of illegal landmines, Andrew Gilligan, for Today, BBC Radio 4
- Bosnia, Ian Muir-Cochrane, for File on 4, BBC Radio 4
Judges: Krishnan Guru-Murthy (broadcaster and presenter of Channel 4
News), Andy Kershaw (journalist, broadcaster and DJ), Nick Clarke (writer
and broadcaster), Fi Glover (broadcaster), John Peel (broadcaster), Lesley
Warner (Head of Press, Amnesty International)
Periodicals
- Land of the damned, Ann McFerran, The Sunday Times Magazine
- Middle East mutineers, Philip Jacobson, The Sunday Times Magazine
- We've been here before, Anne Karpf, Guardian Weekend
Judges: Jeremy Harding (writer and journalist), Francesca Klug (Senior
Research Fellow, LSE), Richard Holloway (columnist, author and former
Bishop of Edinburgh), Richard Bunting (Media Consultant) Will Hutton
(Chief Executive, The Work Foundation), Maggie Paterson (Head of
Publishing, Amnesty International)
Television Documentaries
A licence to murder, BBC Panorama (John Ware, reporter; Eamon
Hardy, producer director; Mike Robinson, editor)
The fall of Milosevic, Brook Lapping Productions for the BBC (Dai
Richards, producer & director; Norma Percy, producer)
Palestine is still the issue, Carlton Television for ITV1 (John
Pilger, presenter, reporter, writer; Christopher Martin, producer; Tony
Stark, director)
State of terror, Mentorn Barraclough Carey for Dispatches, Channel
4 (Deborah Davies, reporter; Eamonn Matthews, executive producer; Stephen
Finnigan, producer/director)
Judges: Sheena McDonald (broadcaster and journalist), David Hare (playwright),
Belinda Giles (film maker), Susan Richards (Managing Editor,
openDemocracy), Paul Hamann (Creative Director, factual, Shine), Lesley
Warner (Head of Press, Amnesty International)
Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
Northern Ireland: People for sale, Spotlight, BBC Northern Ireland (Andrew Martin,
producer; Declan Lawn, Reporter)
Judges: Ciaran McKeown (Senior Director, Ulster Television), Malachi
O'Doherty, (Editor, Fortnight magazine), Paddy Sloan, (Chief Executive, NI
Human Rights Commission), Patrick Corrigan, (Programme Director, Northern
Ireland, Amnesty International)
Scotland: Series of articles on refugees and asylum seekers, Alexander Robertson,
Sam Bartlett and Liam McDougall, The Big Issue in Scotland
Judges: Joyce McMillan (writer and theatre critic), Magnus Linklater
(writer and broadcaster), Bashir Maan (councillor and race equality
campaigner), Rosemary Burnett (Programme Director, Scotland, Amnesty
International)
Wales: The forgotten holocaust; The real wild west; War and peacekeepers, Jack Hanauer, The Big Issue Cymru
Judges: Professor Terry Threadgold (Professor in journalism at Cardiff
University School of Journalism), Stephen Thomas (Director of the Welsh
Centre for International Affairs), Sue West (Director, Big Issue Cymru),
Eleanor White, (Programme Director, Wales, Amnesty International)
The winners of two international awards will also be announced on 22 May:
- The Global Award for Human Rights Journalism which recognises
excellence in human rights journalism in the written media anywhere in the
world
- The Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat, made
every year to a journalist from anywhere in the world who is putting
themselves at risk by reporting on the human rights situation in their own
country
For further information on the awards, please contact: Annabel Harris,
Media Awards Co-ordinator, Amnesty International UK, Tel: 020 7814 6278 annabel.harris@amnesty.org.uk
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