FPA MEDIA AWARDS
Here are the WINNERS, highlighted in yellow for this year - #FPAawards20
For all winners' clips, comments by the judges and more, head over to our dedicated awards website
- FPA Member Story of the Year in a Foreign Language:
Alessandro Allocca
Taking Giulio Regeni's Bike Home from Cambridge to Italy.
La Repubblica - Italy
Simone Filippetti
In the Ruins of Lincolnshire: the Rise and Fall of the British Steel Industry
Il Sole 24 Ore - Italy
Namak Khoshnaw, Emir Nader, Rebecca Way, Tom Roberts
London Lockdown
BBC News Arabic Documentaries
Birgit Maass
A Football Club for Grieving Fathers
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Arwa Damon and Team
Idlib: Forced to Flee Again
CNN
Gabriel Gatehouse, Jack Garland, Warwick Harrington
Hong Kong: the Battle of PolyU
BBC Newsnight
Clive Myrie, David McIlveen, Sam Piranty
Ethnic Minority Health Workers
BBC News
Audrey Gillan, Dan Maudsley, Rory Auskerry, Shelley Jofre
On the Ground
BBC Scotland for BBC 5 Live and BBC Sounds
Helena Merriman
Tunnel 29
BBC Radio 4
Nicolas Pelham, Anne McElvoy, Amica Sciortino Nowlan
Trapped in Iran
Economist Radio
- Story about Britain by a Full FPA Member:
Phil Black, Barbara Arvanitidis
A Deadly Business: the Other Frontline Workers
CNN - USA
Daniel Faitaua
The Kiwi Nurse who Helped Save the UK Prime Minister’s Life from Coronavirus
TV NZ1 News - New Zealand
Hans van Leeuwen
Britain’s Broken Heartland
The Australian Financial Review - Australia
- Print & Web Story of the Year:
Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Katie Polglase
How a Catholic Order Dedicated to Protecting Children Failed Them
CNN
Stephen Grey, Andrew MacAskill
Johnson Listened to his Scientists about Coronavirus – but They Were Slow to Sound the Alarm.
Reuters
Anthony Loyd
ISIS Time Bomb Jail Packed with 5,000 Fighters
The Times
- Financial/Economic Story of the Year:
Ed Caesar
The Rock – The Woman Shaking up the Diamond Industry
The New Yorker
Sophie Elmhirst
Tampon Wars: The Battle to Overthrow the Tampax Empire
The Guardian Long Read
Michael Peel
Moscow on the Med: Cyprus and its Russians
FT
- TV Documentary Story of the Year:
Sasha Joelle Achilli
Italy's Frontline: A Doctor's Diary
BBC, PBS, Mongoose Pictures
Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
For Sama
Channel 4 News and ITN Productions Film for Channel 4 and Frontline PBS
Adam Brown
Into the Storm
BBC Storyville
- Environment Story of the Year:
Alex Crawford, Toby Sculthorp, Kevin Sheppard, Katie Child, Kenneth Stewart, Anna Drury
The Plastic Nile
Sky News
Ana Naomi de Sousa and Kata Karath
Women Make Science – Ecuador's Hidden Treasure,
Al Jazeera English
Ciara Nugent
A Revolution's Evolution: Inside Extinction Rebellion's Attempt to Reform Its Climate Activism
Time
- Arts & Culture Story of the Year:
Gehad Abbas, Ahmed El Shamy, Kai Lawrence, Kate Hardie Buckley
Behind the Mask: Tutankhamun's Last Tour
BBC News Arabic Documentaries
Sally Rubin, Ashley York
Witness – Hillbilly
Al Jazeera English
Vernon Silver
Life in Italian Lockdown after a Tragic Coronavirus Denial
Bloomberg Businessweek
- Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year:
Kabir Adejumo, Nigeria
Investigative Reporter, Premium Times
Martín Leandro Amaya Camacho, Peru
Journalist, Revista Nube Roja
Anna Myroniuk, Ukraine
Staff Writer, Kyiv Post Newspaper
Jenny Agg
My Four Miscarriages: Why is Losing a Pregnancy so Shrouded in Mystery?
Guardian Long Read
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The Man in the Iron Lung
Guardian Long Read
Bianca Nobilo
Coronavirus has Stolen Our Most Meaningful Ways to Connect
CNN
San San F. Young
Women Make Science – Kyrgyzstan's Space School
Al Jazeera English
- Travel & Tourism Story of the Year:
Joshua Hunt
The Coronavirus Cruise: on Board the Diamond Princess
1843 Magazine
Philip Oltermann, Lois Hoyal
Everyone was Drenched in the Virus
The Guardian Weekend
Shaun Walker
The Last of the Zoroastrians
Guardian Long Read
- Journalist of the Year 2020:
Maria Ressa
The FPA is grateful to our External Judges for our 2020 edition:
L-r:
SEYI RHODES is a British television presenter and investigative journalist of Nigerian descent. He has worked for the BBC, Channel 4, Five Television and Current TV. From 2008, he has been the in-vision presenter and reporter for Channel 4's Unreported World documentary series, produced by Quicksilver Media. He is a former winner of the FPA Media Awards.
SARAH SANDS is a British journalist and author. She has recently stepped down as editor of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 which she has edited since 2017. She became the first female editor of The Sunday Telegraph, a consultant editor on the Daily Mail, and the editor of the Evening Standard. Sands sits on the board of Index for Censorship and is the author of 3 novels.
JOHN LLOYD is an award-winning journalist and author and is currently contributing editor to the Financial Times. He has worked for the FT for over 20 years and has also been editor of The New Statesman and a columnist for The Times. He co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and sits on the editorial board of Prospect, the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies, and is a columnist for daily newspaper La Repubblica, Italy.
Chair of the Judges 2020:
Marco Varvello - Rai TV Public broadcasting (Italy)
External Judges 2020:
Seyi Rhodes
Sarah Sands
John Lloyd
Internal Judges 2020 - **denotes Head Judge:
Yannis Andritsopoulos - Ta Nea (Greece)
Victoria Craw**- News.com.au (Australia)
Stefanie Bolzen - Die Welt (Germany)
Henriette Engbersen - SRF TV Public Broadcasting (Switzerland)
Johann Harscoet - L'Echo (Belgium)
Catherine Ilic - SRF (Switzerland)
Alex Khabarov** - RTR TV (Russia)
Aditi Khanna - Press Trust of India (India)
Yukiko Kishimoto** - Nippon TV (Japan)
Bruno Manteigas - Lusa News Agency (Portugal)
Richard Place - Radio France (France)
Sabrina Provenzani** - L'Espresso/Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy)
Tayfun Salci - Freelance (Turkey)
Anna Senkara - TVN (Poland)
Yasmeen Serhan** - The Atlantic (USA)
Annamari Sipila** - Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
Alexander Smotrov** - Global Counsel (formerly RIA Novosti, Russia)
Thomas Spickhofen - ARD Radio (Germany)
Loveena Tandon - India Today (India)
Fernanda Zaffari - TV Bandeirantes (Brazil)
Carsten Volkery - Handelsblatt (Germany)
Paul Waldie - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
Previous Winners of the Journalist of the Year Award:
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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