FPA MEDIA AWARDS
The FPA is delighted to announce that the 2020 edition of the FPA Media Awards will be held on 23 November 2020 either virtually or in person, depending on Covid19 restrictions at the time.
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Entries will open on 1 July 2020.
Please upload your entry forms and links to our dedicated FPA Awards website:
Info and videos of the last edition can also be found there.
Here are the WINNERS (in bold and yellow) of the #FPAawards19
- FPA Member TV & Radio Story of the Year:
Nima Elbagir
Made in America, lost in Yemen.
CNN
Birgit Maass
Great Britain: Victims of youth violence
Deutsche Welle, Germany
Sergio Utsch, Sergio Gilz
Bolsonaro turns Brazil right in Israel
SBT, Brazil
John Sudworth, Kathy Long, Lulu Luo, Wang Xiqing
Uigher families separated
BBC News
John Sparks, Garwen McLuckie
Shamima speaks
Sky News
Ivan Watson, Sandi Sidhu, Hilary Whiteman
Saudi sisters risk everything to flee oppression
CNN
- Radio/Podcast Story of the Year:
Anna Cavell, Kate West, Gail Champion
The Orphanage Business
BBC File on 4
Joel Gunter, Josephine Casserly, Bridget Harney
The Undercover Migrant
Assignment - BBC Radio Current Affairs
Chloe Hadjimatheou, Mobeen Azhar, Richard Knight
FATWA Podcast
BBC Current Affairs for Radio 4
- FPA Member Print & Web Story of the Year:
Elodie Goulesque
The forgotten death of Dawn Sturgess
Explicite, France
Nick Miller
'I decided to die standing still': The moment that began the end of the Cold War
The Age, Australia
Judith Mora
Los viñetistas británicos, al borde del ataque de nervios (British cartoonists on the edge of a nervous breakdown)
Agencia Efe, Spain
- Print & Web Story of the Year:
Louise Callaghan
Inside Syria: doctors who risk death every day
The Sunday Times
Tobias Jones, Ayo Awokoya
Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?
The Guardian Long Read
Barney Jopson
Life on the edge at Trump's border
Financial Times
- Financial/Economic Story of the Year:
Samanth Subramanian
Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprising dirty fight for the right to dry your hands
The Guardian Long Read
Gavin Finch
The old daytime-drinking, sexual-harassing ways are thriving at Lloyd's
Bloomberg Businessweek
Sam Wollaston, Antonio Olmos
We want a better deal': talking Brexit aboard a fishing trawler
Guardian Weekend Magazine
- TV Documentary Story of the Year:
Namak Khoshnaw, Tom Roberts, Kai Lawrence, Christopher Mitchell, Tim Awford
Iraq: a state of mind
BBC Arabic
Al Jazeera Investigations
How to sell a massacre
Al Jazeera Media Network
Amy Richardson, Katie Rice
Child of Mine
True Vision for Channel 4
- Science & Environment Story of the Year:
Jonathan Watts
Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
Guardian Cities
Cori Crider, Sanjiev Johal
The Big Picture: The World according to AI
Al Jazeera English
Leslie Hook, John Reed
Why the world's recycling system stopped working
Financial Times
- Arts & Culture Story of the Year:
Leo Robson
After Darkness
1843 Magazine, The Economist
Lois Beckett
Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels
The Guardian Long Read
Sarah Esther Maslin
Giving up the ghosts
The Economist
- Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year:
Meiryum Ali, Pakistan
Producer/Correspondent, Soch Videos
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How money laundering works
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Evictions and Slum clearance
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Empress Market
Damilola Banjo, Nigeria
Investigative Reporter, Sahara Reporters
Sarita Santoshini, India
Independent Journalist
- Best Foreign Language Story about Britain:
Stefanie Bolzen
My family at war
Welt am Sonntag, Germany
Antonello Guerrera
A 499-km journey along the border of Brexit
La Repubblica, Italy
Oyvind Nyborg, Johan E. Bull
Knife Crime in London
NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Tom Lamont
Dulwich Hamlet FC: the tale of a tiny football club that lost its home and won it back
The Guardian Long Read
Al Jazeera Investigations
Cricket’s Match Fixers – The Munawar files
Al Jazeera Media Network
Sophie Elmhirst
Field of Dreams: heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships
The Guardian Long Read
- Travel & Tourism Story of the Year:
Margaret Simons, Dave Tacon
Sex Tourism- 'Do you ever think about me?'- the children sex tourists leave behind
The Guardian Weekend Magazine
Stephen Bleach
Hell is other people
The Sunday Times
Tom Robbins
Glamping in Greenland: the ultimate getaway
Financial Times
- Journalist of the Year:
NAMAK KOSHNAW
Previous Winners of the Journalist of the Year Award:
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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The FPA is grateful to our External Judges for our 2019 edition:
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IAIN OVERTON is an investigative journalist and author of The Price of Paradise: How the Suicide Bomber Shaped the Modern World and Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of the Gun.
He runs the London-based Charity Action on Armed Violence. Iain was the first director of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and has won a Scottish BAFTA, a Peabody Award and was voted Best Broadcast Journalist at the Bar Council Awards in 2006.
FRANCINE LACQUA is an is an Italian journalist, television anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. She is fluent in English, Italian and French. She has won Television Personality of the Year in 2013, awarded by the Association of International Broadcasters and an OPEC Award for Public Interest Broadcasting. Last year Francine was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (equivalent of a dame/knighthood) for services to broadcasting.
ED STOURTON is a BBC broadcaster and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Sunday, and a frequent contributor to the Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters. He is the author of six books, most recently Blind Man's Brexit: How the EU took control of Brexit. Ed won the Amnesty International Award for Best TV Documentary in 2001.
Chair of the Judges 2019:
Marco Varvello - Rai TV Public broadcasting (Italy)
External Judges 2019:
Francine Lacqua, Bloomberg TV
Iain Overton, Action Against Armed Violence
Ed Stourton, BBC
Internal Judges 2019 - *** denotes Head Judge:
Patrick Anderson - MidDay Media (International)
Angela Antetomaso - CNBC Class (Italy)
Martin Benedyk - AP (USA)
Victoria Craw***- News.com.au (Australia)
Henriette Engbersen - SRF TV Public Broadcasting (Switzerland)
Carlos Fresneda - El Mundo (Spain)
Chloe Goudenhooft - RTBF Public Broadcasting (Belgium)
Eric Gui***- Xinhua News Agency (China)
Yukiko Kishimoto - Nippon TV (Japan)
Alex Khabarov*** - RTR TV (Russia)
Aditi Khanna - Press Trust of India (India)
Bruno Manteigas - Lusa News Agency (Portugal)
Nestor Marin - Prensa Latina (Cuba)
Kate McCure*** - Freelance (Australia)
Mark MacKinnon*** - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
Helena Nogueira*** - M-Net (South Africa)
Charlotte Potts - Deutsche Welle (Germany)
Tayfun Salci - Anadolu News Agency (Turkey)
Yasmeen Serhan*** - The Atlantic (USA)
Annamari Sipila*** - Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
Alexander Smotrov - Global Council (formerly RIA Novosti, Russia)
Nadia Turki - 7D News (UAE)
Patrick Van IJzendoorn - de Volkskrant (Netherlands)
Hans Van Leeuwen - The Australian Financial Review (Australia)
Fernanda Zaffari - TV Bandeirantes (Brazil)
Antonella Zangaro - La7 TV (Italy)