FPA MEDIA AWARDS
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WINNERS OF FPA AWARDS 2021
The winners of the #FPAawards21 are highlighted in yellow.
To find out more, please head over to our dedicated awards website
Winners' pictures (by Douglas Fry)
- FPA Member Story of the Year in a Foreign Language:
Yannis Andritsopoulos
Johnson Douses Greek Hopes for Return of Parthenon Marbles
Ta Nea - Greece
Niklaus Nuspliger, Natalie Wenger (Graphics)
Glasgow, die Drogenhölle Europas (Glasgow, Europe’s Drug Hell)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Switzerland
Dagmar Seeland with Tessa Bunney (Photos)
Schatz im Schlick (Treasure in the Mud)
Stern Magazine, Germany
- Environment Story of the Year:
Drew Ambrose, Michael Beran, Craig Hansen & team
101 East - Birds on the Brink
Al Jazeera English
Ivana Kottasová, Swati Gupta, Helen Regan
The Pandemic Gave the World a Golden Opportunity to Fix the Climate Crisis, We’re About to Waste It.
CNN
Alex Thomson, Lawrence Carter, Nanette van der Laan, Damian Kahya
ExxonMobil’s Lobbying War on Climate Change Legislation
Channel 4 News and Unearthed
Clarissa Ward, Tim Lister, Sebastian Shukla, Darya Tarasova, Jeff Kehl, Christian Streib, Michael Pohl, Oscar Featherstone
Investigation Into the Poisoning of Alexey Navalny
CNN and Bellingcat
Secunder Kermani, Mahfouz Zubaide, Fred Scott
Meeting the Taliban
BBC News
Robert Moore, Mark Davey, Sophie Alexander
Storming of the Capitol
ITV News
- Print & Web Story of the Year:
Ed Caesar
Rocket Men
The New Yorker - USA
Tahir Hamut Izgil (translated by Joshua Freeman)
One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
The Atlantic - USA
Shaun Turton
Cyber Slavery: Inside Cambodia’s Online Scam Gangs
Nikkei Asia
Josh Baker
I’m Not a Monster
BBC Panorama, PBS Frontline
Basia Cummings, Matt Russell, Claudia Williams
Left to Die: Escape from the Amarula
Tortoise Studios
Nicky Woolf, Gary Marshall, Joanna Humphries, Tom Kinsella
Finding Q: My Journey Into Q'Anon
Audible and Tortoise Media
- Story about Britain by a Full FPA Member:
Matthieu Boisseau
Sands United
France TV - France 2
Olivia Konotey-Ahulu
How London’s Property Boom Left Black Britons with Nothing
Bloomberg Equality + Wealth
Paola Totaro
Their Finest Hour: UK’s Volunteer Army
The Weekend Australian News Corporation
- Travel & Tourism Story of the Year:
Fuchsia Dunlop
What I Discovered on my Quest to Meet China’s Most Influential Female Chef
FT Weekend Magazine
Richard Quest, Victoria Brown and Alasdair Skene
Quest’s World of Wonder: Cappadocia
CNN
Samira Shackle
How Western Travel Influencers got Tangled Up in Pakistan’s Politics
Guardian Long Read
- Financial/Economic Story of the Year:
John Arlidge
Carlos Ghosn Exclusive Interview
Sunday Times
Jonathan Nunn
Gulp! The Secret Economics of Food Delivery
1843 Magazine
Ian Wishart, Alberto Nardelli and Tim Ross
How Brexit Talks Overcame Suspicion, Resentment and Fish
Bloomberg News
- TV Documentary Story of the Year:
Josh Baker
Return From Isis - A Family’s Story
BBC Panorama, PBS, Mongoose Pictures
Richard Bentley, Sam Forsdike
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
Postcard Productions for Channel 4
Robert Moore, Mark Davey, Sophie Alexander
Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story
ITV News
- Arts & Culture Story of the Year:
Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya, Reem Haddad and Fiona Lawson-Baker,
Witness – Reckoning with Laughter
Soc Doc Studios for Al Jazeera English
Alex Perry
The Plot to Kill the Olympics
Outside Magazine
Florence Phillips, Meenakshi Ravi, Daniel Turi
The Listening Post - The Battle for the BBC
Al Jazeera English
- Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year:
Tatiana Pardo Ibarra, Colombia
Freelance, Mongabay Latam/Dialogo Chino
1) Where Does the Beef that Causes Deforestation go?
2) The DNA Test to Tackle the Endangered Shark Fin Trade
3) Nukak-Maku Indigeneous People Cornered by Palm, Coca and Criminal Gangs
Mahima Jain, India
Freelance Online/Multimedia, Article 14/Suno India
1) ’No-One Knows About Me’: India’s Left-Behind Women
2) Climate Emergency
3) The Silent Pandemic of Violence Against India’s Women
Kai Hui Wong, Malaysia
Online/Multimedia Journalist, Malaysiakini
1) Company Linked to Royalty in Lynas’s Waste-Disposal Site Project
2)’Why Are We Moving Backwards?’: Erased Trans Healthcare Rights in Malaysia
3) Home to Tapirs and Elephants or Mining Site for Pahang Royals?
Madlen Davies, Rosa Furneaux, Iván Ruiz, Jill Langlois, Chrissie Giles, Ben du Preez
‘Held to Ransom’: Pfizer Demands Governments Gamble with State Assets to Secure Vaccine Deal
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Dr Sanjay Gupta, Samantha Bresnahan & Team
Vital Signs with Dr Sanjay Gupta: Venom-Derived Medicine
CNN
Paola Totaro
What Makes Sense?
The Australian Newspaper and Weekend Magazine
Robert Moore - ITV News
Judges’ Meeting 2021 (image Fernanda Zaffari)
The FPA's External Judges for our 2021 edition #FPAawards21:
L-R:
Dr ZAHERA HARB is director of MA International Journalism and MA Media and Globalisation programs at City University, London.
She has published widely on Journalism and Politics in the Arab region.
She is co-editor of Middle East Journal and an Associate editor of the academic journal Journalism Practice.
Dr Harb was one of the main news anchors at Tele Liban. At New TV she hosted the main daily political show (Al Hadath) and at Future TV (Pan Arab satellite channel) she produced and presented her own socio-political program. She is a trustee of the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), and works as trainer and consultant with the Thomson Foundation UK.
Sir CLIVE JONES is a journalist and a champion of humanitarian causes. He was Chief Executive of ITV News and Regions until 2007 and the longest serving senior executive in ITV. During his career he was Managing Director of the ITV Network, CEO of the Carlton Television Group, MD of Central TV and MD of London News Network. He is now a trustee of the Thomson Foundation, chair of trustees of the Runnymede (UK’s leading independent race equality think tank), and Chair of Sightsavers, a charity that works to prevent avoidable blindness worldwide. He was knighted in 2019.
DOUG WILLS is Editor Emeritus of the London Evening Standard and The Independent. He has been with the Evening Standard for 30 years, 15 as managing editor and 10 of those as Group Managing Editor, including of the Independent. Doug trained with Thomson Regional Newspapers in Berkshire before joining the Western Daily Press in Bristol, becoming political correspondent. Doug moved to London in the mid-80s with the Mirror Group for the launch of the London Daily News. He then joined the Evening Standard.
He is also on the board of the Society of Editors and is chair of The London Press Club.
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External Judges 2020:
Seyi Rhodes
Sarah Sands
John Lloyd
Previous Winners of the Journalist of the Year Award:
2020 Maria Ressa, Rappler
2019 Namak Koshnaw, BBC Arabic
2018 Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters
2017 Daniel Taylor, The Guardian
2016 Marcel Mettelsiefen, Channel 4
2015 Martin Chulov, The Guardian
2014 Ed Caesar, New Yorker
2013 Anthony Loyd, The Times
2012 Paul Wood, BBC
Special posthumous award to Marie Colvin, Sunday Times
2011 Nick Davies, The Guardian
2010 Anthony Thomas, Mentorn & HBO and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian
2009 Martin Hickman, The Independent
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
In previous years, our Guests of Honour and Keynote Speakers have included:
- Hon Fabien Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
- Senator Mario Monti, Former Prime Minister of Italy
- HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan
- HRH the Prince of Wales
- HM King Felipe VI of Spain
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson (when Mayor of London)
- Rt Hon Carwyn Jones, former First Minister of Wales
- Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of RSF
(Reporters Without Borders)
- three former British Foreign Secretaries
- the former US Ambassador Matthew Barzun
- Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize Winner and first ever Indian President of the Royal Society.
HM Queen Rania of Jordan is, to date, the only-ever recipient of the FPA Humanitarian of the Year Award, which she received in 2016 (see here).
Every year, the guest list for the Awards is made up of around 350-400 influential members of the British and International media, UK politicians, business leaders, foreign government representatives and other leading opinion makers.
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