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.
#FPAawards20
Entries will open on 1 July 2020.
Please upload your entry forms and links to our dedicated FPA Awards website:
Categories for FPA Media Awards 2020:
Open to FPA Members only:
- FPA Member Story of the Year on Britain
- FPA Member Story of the Year on Britain in a Foreign Language
Opent to all journalists:
- Print & Web Story of the Year
- TV News Story of the Year
- Financial/Economic Story of the Year
- Arts & Culture Story of the Year
- TV Documentary of the Year
- Radio/Podcast Story of the Year
- Environment Story of the Year
- Science Story of the Year
- Travel & Tourism Story of the Year
- Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year
Here are the WINNERS of the #FPAawards19
- FPA Member TV & Radio Story of the Year:
Nima Elbagir
Made in America, lost in Yemen.
CNN
John Sudworth, Kathy Long, Lulu Luo, Wang Xiqing
Uigher families separated
BBC News
- Radio/Podcast Story of the Year:
Anna Cavell, Kate West, Gail Champion
The Orphanage Business
BBC File on 4
- FPA Member Print & Web Story of the Year:
Elodie Goulesque
The forgotten death of Dawn Sturgess
Explicite, France
- Print & Web Story of the Year:
Louise Callaghan
Inside Syria: doctors who risk death every day
The Sunday 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
- TV Documentary Story of the Year:
Namak Khoshnaw, Tom Roberts, Kai Lawrence, Christopher Mitchell, Tim Awford
Iraq: a state of mind
BBC Arabic
- Science & Environment Story of the Year:
Jonathan Watts
Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth
Guardian Cities
- Arts & Culture Story of the Year:
Leo Robson
After Darkness
1843 Magazine, 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
- Best Foreign Language Story about Britain:
Stefanie Bolzen
My family at war
Welt am Sonntag, Germany
Tom Lamont
Dulwich Hamlet FC: the tale of a tiny football club that lost its home and won it back
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
- Journalist of the Year:
NAMAK KOSHNAW
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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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)