Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, delivering the keynote speech at the FPA Media Awards in 2024
FPA MEDIA AWARDS
The Foreign Press Association Media Awards celebrate excellence in journalism.
British and international entries are welcome from all the world's major broadcasters, newspapers, digital news and magazines.
The winners of "Best Story of the Year" in different categories are selected by external judges and an FPA internal jury shorlisting the entries
Known as the "Oscars of Journalism", the annual Foreign Press Association Media Awards are among the most prestigious awards ceremonies in the world.
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FPA MEDIA AWARDS 2025
Watch the gala ceremony held at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane on Monday 24th November 2025
FPA AWARDS 2025 - THE WINNERS
TV & RADIO STORY OF THE YEAR BY A FULL MEMBER OF THE FPA
Ambroise Bouleis, Charline Madini, Léna Soudre 🥇
Inside Britain’s grooming gang scandal
France Télévisions
Azusa Suzuki, Yukiko Kishimoto, Simon Bradley
Run as you are
Nippon TV, Japan
Wolf-Christian Ulrich, Joe Evans, Sarah Prietzsch, Jörg Ellmers
London: Stadt der Spione/City of Spies
ZDF, Germany
PRINT & WEB STORY OF THE YEAR BY A FULL MEMBER OF THE FPA
Fleur Launspach
Aberdeen struggles with energy transition
Trouw, Netherlands.
Tessa Szyszkowitz, Florian Klenk 🥇
Pursued by Putin's hunters
Falter, Austria
Julie Zaugg
London’s use of facial recognition is surging
Le Monde, France
ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE STORY OF THE YEAR
Jenny Kleeman
You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
The Guardian Long Read
Sophie McBain 🥇
Look they’re getting skin!: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
The Guardian Long Read
Anna Meisel, Paul Kenyon, Carl Johnston Jess Staufenberg, Atika Rehman, Leigh Baldwin
The Tyre Scandal
BBC and Source Materia
TV NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR
Jeremy Bowen
Settler violence
BBC News
Cathy Newman 🥇
The Case against the Archbishop (Welby interview)
Channel 4 News
John Sparks, Ameera Harouda, Celine Alkhaldi, Doaa Mohammad, Mahmoud Mashharawi
Inside Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
Sky News
PRINT & WEB NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR
Manisha Ganguly
A deadly scheme
The Guardian
Jenny Kleeman 🥇
Inside Israel's fight to make fathers of its dead soldiers
Financial Times
Natalie Obiko Pearson, Jessica Brice
The Egg: A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity
Bloomberg Businessweek
RADIO / PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Simon Maybin, China Collins
Currently: One week in Gaza
BBC
Kevin Hirten, Tamara Khandaker, Craig Pennington, Will Thorne 🥇
Uprising in Bangladesh
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit
Gareth Brown, Sam Colbert, Gemma Newby, Weidong Lin
The hunt for Austin Tice
The Economist
TRAVEL / TOURISM STORY OF THE YEAR
William Lee Adams, Phil Clarkson, Dawn Lake, Mike London, Karolina Mottram
Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market
The Travel Show, BBC
Atul Dev 🥇
Life in a 'sinking nation': Tuvalu's dreams of dry land
The Guardian Long Read
David Pilling
Deep into the Sahara, on a Mauritanian adventure
Financial Times
FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC STORY OF THE YEAR
Steve Boggan
Flipping Hell: How did a group trafficked from eastern Europe end up working as slaves in a car wash, a bread factory - and a branch of McDonald's?
Sunday Times Magazine
Tom Burgis 🥇
How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
The Guardian Long Read
Juliette Garside, Manisha Ganguly, Ariane Lavrilleux, Harrison Taylor, Hans-Martin Tillack, Thaer Aabed
European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza
The Guardian, Disclose, Follow the Money
ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR
Miles Johnson
The Fugitive Prince
FT Weekend Magazine
Sam Knight
Under the hammer
New Yorker
Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, and Esella Hawkey 🥇
Inside China: The Battle for Tibet
ITV / Frontline PBS / Hardcash Productions
THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST
Tracy Bonareri Onchoke, Kenya 🥇
Video/Multimedia Journalist, Africa Uncensored
1. Blocked at the Bar
2. The Karatu Stadium Story.
3. Conversion therapy in Mombasa
Godwin Asediba, Ghana
Video Journalist, TV3
1. The Troubled Morgue
2. Trapped in War
3. Hooked on Red: The Red Opioid Crisis
Wangu Kanuri, Kenya
Print, The Daily Nation
1. Classrooms or Ovens? The price of schooling under a scorching sun.
2. Weight loss at what cost? Nairobi pharmacies now selling Ozempic illegally.
3. Shocking confessions of notorious practitioner who abandoned FGM
CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Georgia de Gidlow
Copper Mountain Mine Project
Video
Pauline Nasri
Syrians returning from Turkey
Video
Jenna Legge
Swimming
Audio
Joseph Watt 🥇
To catch a virtual predator
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