FPA MEDIA AWARDS
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WINNERS
FPA AWARDS 2025
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TV & Radio Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA
Ambroise Bouleis, Charline Madini, Léna Soudre
Inside Britain’s grooming gang scandal
France Télévisions
Azusa Suzuki, Yukiko Kishimoto, Simon Bradley
Run as you are
Nippon TV, Japan
Wolf-Christian Ulrich, Joe Evans, Sarah Prietzsch, Jörg Ellmers
London: Stadt der Spione/City of Spies
ZDF, Germany
Print & web Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA ​
Fleur Launspach
Aberdeen struggles with energy transition
Trouw, Netherlands.
Tessa Szyszkowitz, Florian Klenk
Pursued by Putin's hunters
Falter, Austria
Julie Zaugg
London’s use of facial recognition is surging
Le Monde, France
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Environment&Science Story of the Year
Jenny Kleeman
You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?
The Guardian Long Read
Sophie McBain
Look they’re getting skin!: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?
The Guardian Long Read
Anna Meisel, Paul Kenyon, Carl Johnston Jess Staufenberg, Atika Rehman, Leigh Baldwin
The Tyre Scandal
BBC and Source Materia
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TV News Story of the Year
Jeremy Bowen
Settler violence
BBC News
Cathy Newman
The Case against the Archbishop (Welby interview)
Channel 4 News
John Sparks, Ameera Harouda, Celine Alkhaldi, Doaa Mohammad, Mahmoud Mashharawi
Inside Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
Sky News
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Print&Web News Story of the Year
Manisha Ganguly
A deadly scheme
The Guardian
Jenny Kleeman
Inside Israel's fight to make fathers of its dead soldiers
Financial Times
Natalie Obiko Pearson, Jessica Brice
The Egg: A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity
Bloomberg Businessweek
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Radio/Podcast of the Year
Simon Maybin, China Collins
Currently: One week in Gaza
BBC
Kevin Hirten, Tamara Khandaker, Craig Pennington, Will Thorne
Uprising in Bangladesh
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit
Gareth Brown, Sam Colbert, Gemma Newby, Weidong Lin
The hunt for Austin Tice
The Economist
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Travel/Tourism Story of the Year
William Lee Adams, Phil Clarkson, Dawn Lake, Mike London, Karolina Mottram
Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market
The Travel Show, BBC
Atul Dev
Life in a 'sinking nation': Tuvalu's dreams of dry land
The Guardian Long Read
David Pilling
Deep into the Sahara, on a Mauritanian adventure
Financial Times
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Financial/Economic Story of the Year
Steve Boggan
Flipping Hell: How did a group trafficked from eastern Europe end up working as slaves in a car wash, a bread factory - and a branch of McDonald's?
Sunday Times Magazine
Tom Burgis
How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won
The Guardian Long Read
Juliette Garside, Manisha Ganguly, Ariane Lavrilleux, Harrison Taylor, Hans-Martin Tillack, Thaer Aabed
European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza
The Guardian, Disclose, Follow the Money
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Arts&Culture Story of the Year
Miles Johnson
The Fugitive Prince
FT Weekend Magazine
Sam Knight
Under the hammer
New Yorker
Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, and Esella Hawkey
Inside China: The Battle for Tibet
ITV / Frontline PBS / Hardcash Productions
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Thomson Foundation young journalist
Tracy Bonareri Onchoke, Kenya
Video/Multimedia Journalist, Africa Uncensored
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Blocked at the Bar
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The Karatu Stadium Story.
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Conversion therapy in Mombasa
Godwin Asediba, Ghana
Video Journalist, TV3
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The Troubled Morgue
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Trapped in War
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Hooked on Red: The Red Opioid Crisis
Wangu Kanuri, Kenya
Print, The Daily Nation
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Classrooms or Ovens? The price of schooling under a scorching sun.
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Weight loss at what cost? Nairobi pharmacies now selling Ozempic illegally.
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Shocking confessions of notorious practitioner who abandoned FGM
CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Georgia de Gidlow
Copper Mountain Mine Project
Video
Pauline Nasri
Syrians returning from Turkey
Video
Jenna Legge
Swimming
Audio
Joseph Watt
To catch a virtual predator
EXTERNAL JUDGES
FPA AWARDS 2025
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Michael Jermey
Journalist and Broadcast News executive.
Chair, Disasters Emergency Committee
Michael Jermey is Chair of the Disasters Emergency Committee, a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and an Honorary Visiting Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. He was previously Director of News and Current Affairs at UK Public Service Broadcaster, ITV and in 2025 received the Royal Television Society’s Outstanding Contribution award.
As ITV’s Director of News and Current Affairs Michael led the organisation for 16 years, overseeing coverage of five UK General Elections, seven Prime Ministers, three US presidencies, the Covid pandemic, Brexit, the death of Queen Elizabeth and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
He commissioned the historically important first leaders’ debate at the 2010 UK general election for ITV and oversaw TV debates at every subsequent election, helping to ensure that they became a permanent feature in UK politics
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Dawn Alford
Chief Executive of the Society of Editors
Dawn Alford is the Chief Executive of the Society of Editors, a campaigning organisation representing editorial leaders across the UK news industry. A recognised authority on journalism and media freedom, she regularly provides expert commentary in newspapers, on television and radio.
With an extensive career as a national newspaper journalist, columnist and executive, Dawn has held senior roles across the media and has edited numerous magazines and digital content platforms. She is a leading voice on issues including press freedom, open justice, journalist safety and the future of news, and works closely with industry, regulators and policymakers to champion high standards of journalism and protect the public’s right to know
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Tanya Gold
Tanya Gold is an award-winning freelance journalist. She writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, Unherd and Harper’s Magazine.
Tanya won the FPA Media Awards Arts & Culture Story of the Year in 201
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Chair of the Judges:
Gabi Biesinger
ARD Radio, Germany
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WINNERS
FPA AWARDS 2024
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TV&RADIO Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA
Gabi Biesinger
85 years of “Kindertransport” to Great Britain
ARD, German Radio
Daniele Hamamdjian, Kieron O’Dea, Marc D’Amours 🥇
Inside the ‘Little Gaza’ of the West Bank, & Living under Israeli Lockdown in Hebron
Global News, Canada
Tiziana Prezzo
Child Slavery in the UK
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PRINT&WEB Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA
Mark MacKinnon 🥇
The Globe & Mail, Canada
Michael Neudecker
Die Wut der Abgehängten (The anger of those left behind)
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Niels Posthumus, Merlin Daleman
'De brexit heeft een aanzuigende werking op bootmigranten' ('Brexit has a pull effect on boat migrants')
Trouw, Netherlands
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ENVIRONMENT&SCIENCE Story of the Year
Jenny Kleeman
Why are so many young people getting cancer?
The Sunday Times Magazine
Callum Macrae, Mark Williams 🥇
People & Power – A Crude Mistake?
Al Jazeera English
Grace Malie
Tuvalu: Losing Paradise
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TV NEWS Story of the Year
Yousef Hammash 🥇
Channel 4 News
Stuart Ramsay, Toby Nash, Dominique Van Heerden
The struggle to reach America
Sky News
Darshna Soni
Undercover inside Reform UK's campaign
Channel 4 News
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PRINT&WEB News Story of the Year
Will Coldwell
A teenaged migrant piloted a dinghy that sank in the Channel. Then he was charged with manslaughter
Prospect
Stephen Grey, Maayan Lubell, Ryan McNeill
Hunted by Hamas
Reuters
Neggeen Sadid 🥇
Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls
1843 Magazine
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RADIO/PODCAST of the Year
Chloe Hadjimatheou, Claudia Williams, Hannah Varrall, Gary Marshall, Jasper Corbett 🥇
Tortoise Media
Fiona Hamilton, David Collins, Stephen Drill
Cocaine Inc.
The Times, The Sunday Times & News Corp Australia
Poonam Taneja
Bloodlines
BBC Asian Network, BBC Sounds, CBC Podcasts
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TRAVEL/TOURISM Story of the Year
Miles Johnson
What happened to Russia's seized superyachts?
Financial Times
David Rose
11,000 metres from daylight -- the inside story of the remotest ever cave dive
The Sunday Times Magazine
Sue-Lin Wong 🥇
The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard
1843 Magazine
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FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC Story of the Year
Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, Alex Longley, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain🥇
Bloomberg
David Collins, Will Roe
Cocaine Inc: how British drugs cash is turned into solid gold in Dubai
The Sunday Times Magazine
Amanda Chicago Lewis
Secrets of a ransomware negotiator
1843 Magazine
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Fatima Lianes, Fanon Kabwe, Diego Barrero, Fran Pigni
Dying Earth – Beyond the Oil Age
Al Jazeera English
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ARTS&CULTURE Story of the Year
Esella Hawkey, Alice McShane, Florence Kennard, Alistair Jackson and Imogen
Wynell-Mayow 🥇
Dispatches: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
Hardcash Productions / Channel 4
John Hooper
Why right-wing Italians love hobbits, pirates and talking seagulls
1843 Magazine
Ali Rae, Pierangelo Pirak, Ben Walker, Meenakshi Ravi
All Hail the Planet – Psychology: Why our brains block climate crisis
Al Jazeera English
Rosamund Urwin, Charlotte Wace, Paul Morgan-Bentley 🥇
Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse
The Sunday Times/The Times
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THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST
Reporter, Afghanistan 🥇
Online Mulitmedia Journalist, The Afghan Times
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Afghan women face serious challenges amid flooding
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The child labour crisis in Afghanistan.
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Taliban forces closure of women-only restaurants: the last haven for Afghan women workers under threat.
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Aisha Farrukh, Pakistan
Multimedia Journalist and Head of Content, Centrum Media (Digital news network)
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Pakistan’s Plastic Problem
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Bonded by brick
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Two nations under a flag
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Somaiyah Hafeez, Pakistan
Print, Online/multimedia, Freelance, Kontinentalist, New Line Magazine
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No justice for Balochistan’s disappeared
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Afghan refugees born in Pakistan are leaving their lives for the unknown
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After successive floods, Pakistan is forced to consider resilient housing
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CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Mauricio Alencar
Argentina’s economic crisis
Eliana Nunes
Illegal pushbacks: the heavy toll of seeking asylum in Europe.
Midori Tanioka 🥇
Border Resisters: Myanmar
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
The keynote speech at FPA Media Awards 2023 was delivered by H.M. Queen Camilla ​
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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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