Amnesty announces Media Awards finalists

Amnesty International UK has today announced finalists of the Amnesty Media Awards 2022, a prestigious set of awards that have now been running for 30 years.

The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a ceremony in London, hosted by Krishan Guru-Murthy on Wednesday 4 May 2022.

The 11 award categories celebrate excellence in human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists and editors who sometimes put their lives on the line to report on vital human rights issues.

The judging panels were made up of high-profile UK journalists, past award winners and Amnesty representatives

The finalists:

Investigation

• Al Jazeera
  
  Al Jazeera Investigations: All the Prime Minister's Men
• BBC
  
  Three Killings in Kampala
• BBC News Arabic, BBC World News
  
  Haftar's Russian Mercenaries - Inside the Wagner Group
• Tortoise Media
  
  Hidden Homicides

Features

• BBC News Arabic, BBC Digital News
  
  The Lost Tablet
• inews.co.uk and i
  
  The Plight of LGBT people in Afghanistan
• The Guardian/Saturday
  
  The Great Sperm Heist
• The Sunday Times
  
  Our floating hell: the incredible story of a crew stranded at sea in the Gulf

The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist

• Rosa Furneaux
  
  The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
• Murray Jones
  
  Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) & The Byline Times
• Ben van der Merwe
  
  New Statesman
• Zecharias Zelalem
  
  Freelance

Student Journalist

• Mohamed Boteen
  
  National Film And TV School
• Israel Campos
  
  City University of London
• Kimi Chaddah
  
  Durham University
• Udit Mahalingam
  
  King's College London

Radio & Podcasts

• Audible UK
  
  The Bias Diagnosis - Episode 3: Thought
• BBC Radio 4
  
  Kaleidoscope: Lights Out
• BBC World Service Radio
  
  "Document everything. Trust no one"
• The Guardian
  
  The Pegasus Project / Today In Focus

Broadcast News

• BBC iPlayer + BBC News at Ten + BBC online
  
  The Execution of Lisa Montgomery
• BBC News:  BBC News at Ten, Radio 4 Today, World Service Newshour, BBC Online
  
  Afghan Women
• BBC Ten O'Clock News, BBC1
  
  Libya’s forgotten migrants
• Sky News
  
  Sky News Meets the Middlemen Smuggling Thousands Across the Channel

Best Use of Digital Media

• Airwars
  
  Gaza: mapping the civilian toll
• Al Jazeera English
  
  State of Fear
• BBC World Service
  
  Channel migrants tragedy: Terrifying final hours of their fatal journey
• The Guardian
  
  Countdown to the airstrike: the moment Israeli forces hit al-Jalaa tower, Gaza

Written News

• Al Jazeera English Online
  
  In Spain's strawberry fields, migrant women face sexual abuse
• Al Jazeera English Online, Al Jazeera Digital
  
  "A Tigrayan womb should never give birth": Rape in Tigray
• The Daily Telegraph / www.telegraph.co.uk
  
  Hilton hotel to be built in Xinjiang after China bulldozes mosque
• The Times
  
  Taliban Purge

Nations and Regions                                   

• BBC Northern Ireland
  
  BBC NI Spotlight Covid & Care: Searching for Answers
• BBC One Scotland
  
  Desperately Seeking Asylum
• BBC Scotland
  
  Covid-linked deaths in Scotland's care homes
• BBC Two / BBC One Wales
  
  A Killing In Tiger Bay

Photojournalism

• Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
  
  Inner Light: The children surviving conflict in DR Congo
• Alessio Mamo
  
  Children in the Game
• Andrew Testa
  
  Modern Slavery Unit
• Harsha Vadlamani
  
  See how rural India has been overrun by the pandemic's second wave

Documentaries

• BBC 4
  
  Collective: Unravelling a Scandal
• BBC One and BBC iPlayer
  
  Subnormal: A British Scandal
• Channel 4
  
  Undercover in Africa's Secret State
• ITV
  
  Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin