Shortlist for Amnesty's Media Awards 2013 announced
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Posted: 22 April 2013 Amnesty International UK has announced the shortlist for its prestigious annual Media Awards for 2013 The shortlists are announced in eleven categories, covering print, broadcast and online journalism. The Gaby Radio Memorial Award will be made to a journalist who has been covering human rights issues for less than five years and a Student Award will be made for those even newer to human rights journalism. (For full details of the shortlisted entries, see below). Amnesty’s Media Awards, now in their 22nd year, recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant contribution to the UK public’s awareness and understanding of human rights issues. The winners of this year’s Amnesty International UK Media Awards will be announced in a ceremony at the BFI in central London on Tuesday 11 June. Amnesty International UK Media Director Mike Blakemore said: “With the fall-out from phone hacking, journalism has had a difficult year, but this shortlist is a reminder of what the best journalism is all about. “The shortlist is packed with a huge variety of work from some of the best journalists in their field. “It will be fascinating to see who wins out in each category, but the real point is that human rights journalism is very much alive and kicking in this country. Well done to everyone who’s made the shortlist.” Last year’s Media Awards went to The Sunday Times’ Marie Colvin, Radio 5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Ronke Phillips and Faye Nickolds, Channel 4 News / “Mani”, ITN Productions for Channel 4, Mary Turner, BBC Newsnight, Will Storr, Al Jazeera, Vanessa Baird, and Amy Mackinnon. Previous winning journalists have included Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lucy Ash, Andrew Gilligan, Lindsey Hilsum, Alan Johnston, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Eamonn McCann, Jonathan Miller, Gaby Rado and Mike Thomson. More information at: www.amnesty.org.uk/mediaawards THE SHORTLIST: DIGITAL INNOVATION No Go Britain: A social media-led investigation into public transport for disabled people in the year of the Paralympics - Channel 4 One Iranian Lawyer’s fight to save Juveniles from Execution - The Guardian JUDGES: Liz Hazleton, Sunny Hundal, Owen Jones, Jody Thompson, Mary Whittaker
Kashmir’s Torture Trail - True Vision for Channel 4 Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished - ITN Productions for Channel 4 JUDGES: Steven Barnett, Homa Khaleeli, James Rogan, Alison Rooper, Emma Shore
Slavery’s Last Stronghold - CNN International Syrian Girls ‘Sold’ into Forced Marriages; Syria’s Desperate Refugees now living in Caves on the side of Cliffs; Aleppo Executions: 79 bodies pulled from Syria river - The Telegraph JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Deborah Haynes, Jon Manel, Tom Rado, Jon Snow
The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh - BBC World News The Secret Drone War - Panorama/ BBC World TV JUDGES: Mark Galloway, Phil Harding, Flora Hunter, Naresh Puri, Thomas Schultz-Jagow
Seven Days in Syria - Granta JUDGES: Hannah Lack, Maggie Paterson, Lisa Smosarski, Emma Tucker
The day I saw 248 girls Suffering Genital Mutilation - Observer Magazine JUDGES: Hannah Lack, Maggie Paterson, Lisa Smosarski, Emma Tucker
Greek Police send Crime Victims to Neo-Nazi ‘protectors’; Greeks take an Axe to the Forests to stave off a Bitter Winter; ‘My Job is to Tell the Truth’ - The Guardian India’s Lost Boys Plucked from the Hands of the Slave Traders - The Observer JUDGES: Jamie Grierson, Helen Lewis, Maggie Paterson, Michelle Stanistreet, Joel Taylor
Where Termites have more to eat than Toddlers - The Sunday Herald Witchcraft: Congo to London - ITV News London JUDGES: Ian Cobain, Patrick Corrigan, Marc Mallett, Bethan Williams, Ruth Wishart
Crying Meri. Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea - No Borders Magazine Goodbye My Chechnya - The Sunday Times JUDGES: Stuart Freedman, Susan Glen, Maggie Paterson, Kelly Preedy, Fiona Rogers
No Country for Old Women - BBC World Service Russia: Waiting for Justice - BBC World Service JUDGES: Jane Anderson, Andrew Bailey, Mike Blakemore, Anna Doble, Ronke Phillips
Russia: Get Rich or Die Trying - Redbrick, University of Birmingham newspaper ‘A Visitor In My Homeland’ - Gair Rhydd, Cardiff University newspaper JUDGES: Vicky Baars, Daisy Baldwin, Ursula Kenny, Tracey McVeigh, Kem Sawyer, Hannah Shaw, Matthew Tennant
Rape in Detention in Syria - BBC News South Africa: Marikana massacre - Channel 4 News JUDGES: Mark Austin, Mike Blakemore, Huw Edwards, Nevine Mabro, Tim Miller |