FPA MEDIA AWARDS
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FPA MEDIA AWARDS 2023
Entries are now closed.
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The Awards Ceremony will be held in London in November.
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WINNERS OF THE FPA AWARDS 2022
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All the winners of #FPAawards22 are highlighted in yellow.
To find out more #FPAawards22, please head over to our dedicated awards website
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Best Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA
Yannis Andritsopoulos
Ta Nea, Greece
Gabi Biesinger, with Sabine Wachs in Paris
Boat refugees in the English Channel - A small war on the edge of Europe
ARD German Radio, Germany
Diana Zimmermann
ZDF German Television, Germany
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ENVIRONMENT Story of the Year
Dan Edge, Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin Barnwell
Big Oil vs the World
BBC & Mongoose Pictures
Ciara Nugent
New Lithium Mining Technology Could Give Argentina a Sustainable Gold Rush
TIME
Jamal Osman, Girish Juneja
The Toxic Cost of Going Green
Unreported World, Channel 4
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TV News Story of the Year
Alex Crawford, Jake Britton, Chris Cunningham, Artem Lisak
Ukraine War - Time running out for Lysychansk
Sky News
Yogita Limaye, Imogen Anderson, Sanjay Ganguly
Sexual Crimes
BBC News at Ten
Nick Springate, Dave Bull, Orla Guerin & Ahmed Edroughi
Libya’s Forgotten
BBC News
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Print & Web News Story of the Year
Joel Gunter
Collecting the Dead in Bucha
BBC News
Andrew North, Paula Bronstein
Afghanistan nightmare: a humanitarian crisis that threatens to dwarf all others
Nikkei Asia
Billy Perrigo
Inside Facebook’s African Sweatshop
TIME
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Radio/Podcast of the Year
Alex Barker, Patricia Nilsson
Hot Money: Porn, power and profit
Financial Times
Katie Gunning, Paul Caruana Galizia
Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power
Tortoise Media
Tim Whewell
The Accordian Wars of Lesotho
Assignment, BBC World Service
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Travel/Tourism Story of the Year
Josh Glancy
How the Falkland Islands became one of the world's most affluent places
The Sunday Times Magazine
Ahmed Madi, Florence Phillips, Haim Litani
The Listening Post - Destination Damascus
Al Jazeera English
Samanth Subramanian
The lost Jews of Nigeria
Guardian Long Read
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Financial/Economic Story of the Year
Sophie Elmhirst
Super-prime mover: Britain's most successful estate agent
Guardian Long Read
Andy Verity, Sarah Bowen
The Lowball Tapes
BBC Radio 4
Isobel Yeung, Belle Cushing
Undercover in Guyana
VICE News
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TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year
Fergal Keane, Alice Doyard
I call him by his name
BBC Our World
Richard Bilton, Hannah O’Grady & Team
Panorama's investigation into British Special Forces killings in Afghanistan
BBC Panorama
Al Jazeera I-Unit
The Truth Illusion
Al Jazeera
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Arts & Culture Story of the Year
Stuart McGurk
We're going to disrupt - a year inside GB News
New Statesman
Neil Munshi
In 'Touriste', heroic Russians save the Central African Republic. The truth is even stranger
Financial Times
Arthur Nazaryan, Mike Shum, Reem Haddad, Poh Si Teng, Fiona Lawson-Baker
Witness - My Eternal Art
DEC8 Productions for Al Jazeera English
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Thomson Foundation Young Journalist
Carlos Raúl Kestler Molina, Guatemala
Journalist, Prensa Libre / Guatevisión
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Broken connectivity: Episode 1
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Broken connectivity: Episode 2
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Broken connectivity: Episode 3
Yashraj Sharma, India
Freelance reporter, Guardian/NBC
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Families want a son at any cost.
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Instagram has largely replaced Tik Tok in India
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Across the border from Myanmar, some avoid the fight while others sign up for it.
Jyoti Yadav, India
Senior Correspondent, The Print
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Gangraped in teens, visiting courts as grandmothers
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A rape forgotten.
3. Long wait for nursing dream.
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SCIENCE Story of the Year
Simar Bajaj
Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready for it?
The Guardian
BBC News Arabic Investigations Team & BBC World Service
Beauty's Ugly Truth
BBC News
Imogen West-Knights
The queen of crime-solving,
The Guardian
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Journalist of the Year 2022
ISOBEL YEUNG
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The FPA's External Judges for our 2022 edition #FPAawards22:
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MICHAEL CRICK was a founder member of Channel 4 News, where he worked as Foreign Correspondent from Washington (1988-90) and Political Correspondent (2011-19). At the BBC he was a reporter for Panorama and Political Editor for Newsnight (2007-11). Crick's books include biographies of Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine, Sir Alex Ferguson and, most recently, Nigel Farage. He has won the Royal Television Society [RTS] awards in 1989 and 2002, and was the RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year in both 2014 and 2018. Also in 2018, Crick was given the Charles Wheeler/British Journalism Review award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.
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STRYKER MCGUIRE is an Anglo-American journalist living in London. He spent 30 years at Newsweek, where he was a correspondent, bureau chief, senior editor and chief of correspondents. He ran the London bureau from 1996 until he retired from the magazine in 2008. In 2000 he won the FPA's Best Foreign Reporting Award. In 2010, Stryker was retained by the London School of Economics to create a magazine, LSE Research, that highlighted the work of university academics. In 2011, he became a senior editor at Bloomberg Markets magazine; he retired last year. He continues to write occasionally for The Washington Post, The New European and other publications.
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MEGHA MOHANis the BBC World Service's first global gender and identity correspondent. She covers issues concerning race and ethnicity, women's rights and LGBT communities for the BBC's 41 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents and secured exclusive interviews with Finland's all-women coalition government and Samoa's first woman Prime Minister. Megha is a deployment journalist who files longform original features for BBC World TV, radio, online and social media.
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Chair of the Judges:
Alessandro Allocca - La Repubblica/Londra Italia (Italy)
(previous winner of the FPA Best Story on Britain in 2020)
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Previous Winners of the Journalist of the Year Award:
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2021 Robert Moore, ITV News
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
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
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In previous years, our Guests of Honour and Keynote Speakers have included:
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- 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.
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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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