CHANNEL 4 WINS AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARY ‘SRI LANKAN’S KILLING FIELDS’

The Amnesty International Media Awards were established in 1992 to recognise and celebrate the best in human rights journalism.

These awards recognise the breadth and quality of human rights reporting across the media.

Over the past two decades the awards have grown in prestige, recognising excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledging journalism’s significant contribution to the public awareness of human rights issues.

The 12 categories recognise newspaper, magazine, radio, TV, digital and student journalism. Each is judged by an independent panel.

THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS:

DOCUMENTARY
ITN Productions for Channel 4 (Callum Macrae, Chris Shaw, Jon Snow) – Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields

JUDGES: John Amaechi, Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Alison Rooper, Kim Sengupta

DIGITAL MEDIA
Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Dan Bell, Iain Overton, Stuart Griffiths, Charlie Mole, Rachel Oldroyd, Angus Stickler) – Deaths in Custody: A Case to Answer

JUDGES: Anna Doble, Wesley Johnson, Sam Strudwick, Jody Thompson

GABY RADO MEMORIAL AWARD
“Mani”, Channel 4 News – Horror in Homs

JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Janet Murray, Louis Rado, Ritula Shah, Jon Snow

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION & RADIO
Al Jazeera (May Ying Welsh, Jon Blair) – Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark

JUDGES: Jane Corbin, Mark Galloway, Flora Hunter, Sean Ryan, Thomas Schultz-Jagow

MAGAZINES – CONSUMER
Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist – Nature’s Defenders

JUDGES: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood

MAGAZINES – NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS
Will Storr, Observer Magazine – The Rape of Men

JUDGES: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood

NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Marie Colvin, Sunday Times – We Live in Fear of a Massacre

JUDGES: Jemima Khan, Iain Overton, Maggie Paterson, Michelle Stanistreet, Joel Taylor

NATIONS & REGIONS
ITN for ITV London Tonight (Ronke Phillips, Faye Nickolds) – Torso in the Thames

JUDGES: David Cornock, Helena Drakakis, Mike Gilson, Shabnum Mustapha, Naresh Puri

PHOTOJOURNALISM
Mary Turner, Times – A Place to Stay – Dale Farm

JUDGES: Stuart Freedman, Colin Jacobson, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Paterson, Kelly Preedy

RADIO
BBC Radio 5 Live Victoria Derbyshire in Guantánamo Bay (Louisa Compton, Victoria Derbyshire, Rob Halon)

JUDGES: Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Henry Bonsu, Mariella Frostrup

STUDENT AWARD
Amy Mackinnon, Glasgow Guardian – The Curious Case of John Oguchuckwu

JUDGES: Nes Cazimoglu, Sean Coughlan, Guy Gunaratne, Hannah Livingstone, Sophie Mei Lan, Yasser Ranjha, Hannah Shaw

TELEVISION NEWS
BBC Newsnight (Amanda Gunn, Sue Lloyd Roberts) – Undercover in Homs

JUDGES: Mike Blakemore, Lyse Doucet, Julie Etchingham, Tim Miller, Mike Radford

Source: www.amnesty.org.uk