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Amnesty International Media Awards 2009

Winners and Shortlist

The winners of the 18th annual Amnesty International UK Media Awards were

announced at a ceremony at the British Film Institute, London, on Tuesday 2 June

2009, hosted by broadcaster Mishal Husain.

GABY RADO MEMORIAL AWARD (for a journalist at the start of their career):

Winner: Aleem Maqbool, BBC News

Shortlist:

• Ramita Navai, Channel 4 / Quicksilver Media / More4 News / ITN

• Thomas Bell, The Daily Telegraph

Judges: Mike Blakemore, Libby Brooks, Andrew Macdonald, Tom Rado, Jon Snow

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION AND RADIO:

Winner: World's Untold Stories: The Forgotten People, CNN - Dan Rivers, Kit

Swartz, Sheri England, Anthony Whaley

Shortlist:

• Assignment: Africa's Guantánamo, BBC World Service - David Edmonds,

Jeremy Skeet, Rob Walker

• Outlook: Dr Abuelaish, BBC World Service - Deiniol Buxton, Gavin Poncia,

Simon Tillotson, Lucy Ash

Judges: Anita Anand, Dorothy Byrne, Susanna Flood, Naresh Puri, Tim Singleton

NATIONS AND REGIONS:

Winner: The Fight for Justice, The Herald Magazine - Lucy Adams

Shortlist:

• Eòrpa, BBC Scotland - Hedda MacLeod, Catriona MacKinnon, Colin

MacLeod, Annie Cheape, Iain Macinnes,

Darren Laing, Alasdair Fraser

• Spotlight: Prisoner B2970, BBC Belfast - Darragh MacIntyre, Paul Lindsay,

Gwyneth Jones

Judges: Patrick Corrigan, William Crawley, Jenifer Johnston, Tomos Livingstone,

Jon Manel

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NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS:

Winner: MI5 and the Torture Chambers of Pakistan, The Guardian - Ian Cobain

Shortlist:

• Britain's New Resistance Fighters: How Neighbours are Uniting to Save

Asylum Seekers from Deportation, Guardian G2 - Rachel Stevenson, Harriet

Grant

• Israel's Rain of Fire on Gaza, The Times - Sheera Frenkel, Michael Evans

Judges: Jack Doyle, Sarfraz Manzoor, Maggie Paterson, Alison Philips, Julie Tomlin

NEW MEDIA:

Winner: Kenya: The Cry of Blood - Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances,

Wikileaks - Julian Assange

Shortlist:

• A Day In The Life: Afghanistan, Sky News Online- Alex Crawford, Hugh

Westbrook, Stuart Ramsay

• Kenyan, Burnt Out, Displaced And Forgotten, duckrabbit - Benjamin

Chesterton, Dolphine Emali, Yasuyoshi Chiba, Eliza Barclay

Judges: Sara Ashton, Peter Barron, Sunny Hundal, Martha Lane Fox, Danielle Long

PERIODICALS - CONSUMER MAGAZINES:

Winner: The 'No Place for Children' campaign, New Statesman - Sir Al Aynsley

Green, Gillian Slovo, Alice O'Keefe

Shortlist:

• 'Crisis In Gaza: The Conflict Within Hamas' and 'The Killings, Shootings and

Checkpoints are our Children's Curriculum', New Statesman - Edward Platt

• Was it like this for the Irish? London Review of Books - Gareth Peirce

Judges: Jeremy Dear, Maggie Paterson, John Mulholland, Anne Penketh, Sigrid

Rausing

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PERIODICALS - NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS:

Winners: Why do the Italians Hate Us? The Observer Magazine - Dan McDougall,

Robin Hammond

Shortlist:

• The Dirty Secrets of Your NHS, Live Magazine (Mail on Sunday) - Jonathan

Green

• The Hell Of Being An Asylum Seeker, The Observer Magazine - Mark

Haddon

Judges: Jeremy Dear, Maggie Paterson, John Mulholland, Anne Penketh, Sigrid

Rausing

PHOTOJOURNALISM:

Winner: No One Much Cares, Newsweek - Eugene Richards

Shortlist:

• Gaza Aftermath, Associated Press, Lefteris Pitarakis

• Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery, Foto 8, Jim Goldberg

Judges: Simon Bainbridge, Sophie Batterbury, Camilla Brown, Maggie Paterson,

Carlos Reyes-Manzo

RADIO:

Winner: Forgotten: The Central African Republic, BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme

Edward Main, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson

Shortlist:

• Gay in JA; The Catch Up, BBC Radio 1 - Newsbeat & 1Xtra News / Somethin'

Else - Joby Waldman, Debbie Ramsay

• Liberia: Children for Sale, BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents - Bill Law,

Maria Balinska, Nadene Ghouri

Judges: Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Ian Collins, Anna Doble, Alan Johnston

TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY:

Winner: Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children, Channel 4 / Red Rebel Films /

Southern Star Factual - Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul

Woolwich

Shortlist:

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• Panorama: China's Secret War, BBC - Robin Barnwell, Sandy Smith, Hilary

Andersson

• Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children, Channel 4 / Red Rebel Films /

Southern Star Factual - Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper,

Paul Woolwich

• The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Channel 4 / TalkbackThames - Barney

Reisz, Rowan Joffe

Judges: Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Cait Fitzsimons, Tim Marshall,

Hugh Williamson

TELEVISION NEWS:

Winner: Kiwanja Massacre: Congo, Channel 4 News / ITN - Ben De Pear, Jonathan

Miller, Stuart Webb, Robert Chamwami

Shortlist:

• Ethiopian government accused of downplaying scale of drought, Channel 4

News / ITN - Nick Sturde, Jamal Osman, Jonathan Rugman

• What Happened in Jabaliya, BBC News - Christian Fraser, Robbie Wright,

Hamada Abu Qammar, Rushdi Abu Alouf, Youssef Shomali

Judges: Mike Blakemore, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Caroline Hurford, Ben Rayner,

Julian Worricker

SPECIAL AWARD (for a human rights journalist under threat):

Winner: Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani - Al-Shora

The Amnesty International Special Award for Journalism Under Threat, recognises

the courage of journalists around the world who pursue their legitimate journalistic

work at great personal risk to themselves.

This year's recipient, was unable to collect the award in person. Following years of

harassment by the Azerbaijani authorities, newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev is

serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence, having been convicted on politically

motivated charges. John Mulholland, editor of The Observer newspaper, accepted

the award on Eynulla's behalf.