FPA MEDIA AWARDS
WINNERS
OF THE FPA AWARDS 2023
Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA
Daniele Hamamdjian, Marc D’Amours
Life under the Taliban for Afghan Women
CTV News, Canada
Birgit Maass 🥇
Public Order versus Civil Rights: Is Liberal Britain under threat?
Deutsche Welle, Germany
Joerg Schindler
Der Spiegel, Germany
Environment Story of the Year
Jess Kelly, Owen Pinnell, BBC Arabic Investigations 🥇
BBC News and BBC Arabic
Rebecca Henschke, Astudestra Ajeng, Kelvin Brown, Joel Gunter, Sam Piranty
BBC Eye/BBC World Service
Elisângela Mendonça, Andrew Wasley and Fábio Zuker
Collagen craze drives deforestation and rights abuses
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
TV News Story of the Year
Orla Guerin
The children of Yemen’s forgotten war
BBC News
Nima Elbagir
Hidden from view – Sexual abuse and torture in Iranian black sites
CNN Worldwide
Quentin Sommerville, Darren Conway 🥇
BBC News
Print & Web News Story of the Year
Paul Carsten, David Lewis, Reade Levinson, Libby George
Reuters
Stephanie Clifford, Jonathan Beckman, Abigail Fielding Smith
An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad's sofa. Then the FBI turned up
Economist
Zachary Mider, Swati Gupta, Modou Joof 🥇
Poisoned cough syrup killed kids
Bloomberg News
Radio/Podcast of the Year
Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat, Joe Kent, Jonathan Aspinwall, Emma Rippon 🥇
The Shamima Begum Story (Series 2 of I’m Not A Monster)
BBC News Long Form Audio for BBC Sounds/5 Live
Nicky Woolf, Max Johnston
The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome
Project Brazen / Goat Rodeo
Sahar Zand, Heidi Pett, Sarah Burke
Dirty Work: The Misuse of Interpol Red Notices
Sky News
TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year
Robin Barnwell, Dareen Kemp, Hilary Andersson, Serhiy Solodko, Taras Shumeyko, Guy Creasey,Toby Fitzpatrick 🥇
BBC /Top Hat Productions /Hayloft Productions
Majed Neisi, Sasha Joelle Achilli, Dan Edge
BBC Current Affairs/ Frontline PBS, / Passion Documentaries
Fault Lines Team
The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Al Jazeera English - Fault Lines
ITV Team
Inside Russia: Putin's War at Home
ITV and Hardcash Productions
Travel/Tourism Story of the Year
Stephen Bleach
Trail blazers: The holiday that changed the world
The Sunday Times Magazine
Matt Rudd 🥇
The Sunday Times Magazine
Sally Williams
Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy
The Guardian Long Read
Financial/Economic Story of the Year
Miles Johnson
Wagner Inc: a Russian warlord and his lawyers
Financial Times
Harry Wallop 🥇
The Sunday Times Magazine
Yifan Yu
The U.S.-China rare earths battle
Nikkei Asia
Arts & Culture Story of the Year
Mobeen Azhar, Megumi Inman
Predator: The secret Scandal of J-Pop
BBC Current Affairs
Sam Knight
The New Yorker
Jonathan Miller, Nick Blakemore, Yousef Hammash, Claire Pringle, Andy Lee, Ed Fraser 🥇
Unreported World, Channel 4
Jen Stout
New Humanist
Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year
Jamaima Afridi, Pakistan
Freelance Reporter / Filmmaker, Nikkei Asia/Asia Democracy Chronicles
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Afghan women fleeing to Pakistan
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Tribal women pursuing inheritance rights
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Land of the missing
Yara El Murr, Lebanon 🥇
Journalist, The Public Source
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Tripoli missing migrants
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Climate change agriculture.
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Lebanon disaster risk preparedness
Zuha Siddiqui, Pakistan
Labour x Tech reporting fellow, Vice/Rest of World/Unbias the News
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16 children died in Karachi toxic air factory.
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Pakistan internet outage
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Karachi fighting an unfolding climate apocalypse
Science Story of the Year
Ben Spencer
The Sunday Times Magazine
Samanth Subramanian 🥇
Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
Guardian Long Read
John Sudworth, Simon Maybin, Richard Vadon
Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin
BBC Radio 4
City University MA Future Foreign Correspondent
Neha Dhillon
Riots in Martinique
Polly Thomson
Louisiana Death Row
Maya Saad 🥇
Lebanon Tragedy at Sea
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Robin Barnwell 🏆
The FPA's External Judges for our 2023 edition #FPAawards23:
L-R:
ALAN RUSBRIDGER is the editor of Prospect and the former head of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He was Editor in Chief of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015, during which period he oversaw the digital transformation of the paper to a world-leading digital news organisation. Investigations into WikiLeaks, tax avoidance, phone hacking and the Snowden revelations won numerous awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service. He is the co-author of the BBC drama, Fields of Gold and wrote the books: Breaking News and News and How to Use it . He is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board. Together with Lionel Barber, he hosts the podcast Media Confidential on Prospect.
GLENDA COOPER is the deputy head of the journalism department and BA programme director at City University of London. She is the author of Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age (Routledge, 2018) and co-editor of Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (Peter Lang, 2015). Prior to City she worked as a staff editor and reporter at The Independent, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and as a correspondent for the BBC News Channel and Radio 4. She was the Laurence Stern Fellow at the Washington Post where she covered 9/11 and was the Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
PAUL DAVIES recently retired after a career spanning more than half a century in print,radio and television journalism. He is best known for 39 years as a senior correspondent with ITN, many of them spent reporting from the frontlines of the world's conflicts. His trademark was reporting from the heart of the story including from inside sieges in Bucharest and Dubrovnik. His work in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Romania and in the break up of former Yugoslavia was recognised with all of the industry's major awards. In 1993 he was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to broadcast journalism.
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Chair of the Judges:
Elodie Goulesquea - Freelance (France)
(previous winner of the FPA Awards in 2019)
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Previous Winners of the Journalist of the Year Award:
2022 Isobel Yeung, VICE News
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
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
The keynote speech at FPA Media Awards 2023 was delivered by H.M. Queen Camilla
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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