Shortlist


Broadcast Journalist of the Year

Mike Thomson - Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Jonathan Miller - ITN for Channel 4
Emma Hurd - Sky News

Radio Documentary

Calls Across the Wall - Jeremy Grange, BBC Wales for BBC Radio 4
Lost in Translation - John Waite, Karen Pirie, and Andrew Smith, BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts
Desperate Dreams (The Monday Documentary) - Jenny Cuffe and David Ross, BBC World Service

TV Documentary

Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville for BBC 2
Please Vote for Me - Weijun Chen and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville for BBC 4
War on Democracy - John Pilger, Chris Martin, Wayne Young, Michael Watt, and Joe Frost, ITV

Press Award

Asda, Primark, and Tesco Accused - Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Fruitless in Gaza - Donald MacIntyre, The Independent
Inside a Nest of Suicide Bombers - Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times

New Media Award

Burma Coverage - BBC News and Media
Why Democracy - Don Edkins and Mette Heide, Steps International; Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville
Katine: It Starts with a Village - Katine Project, Guardian News and Media

Popular Features

14 in One Room - Lucy Bailey, Guy Littlemore, Pete Drinkwater; Comic Relief, BBC Bristol for BBC1
Seeing is Believing - AA Gill, Sunday Times Magazine
This is Baba - Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond, Observer Sport Monthly

Local Media Award

Changing Lives, The Fair Trade Story - Carole Green, ITV Wales                                                                                                         Time to Stop the Human Traffic - Rebecca Lowe, South Wales Evening Post
A History of Violence - Lucy Adams, The Herald Tribune

MDGs Award

EU El Dorado - Louise Williams for Newstalk, 106-108, Dublin                                                                                                 
Iron Ladies of Liberia - Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson, and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville                                                               
The Unluckiest Baby in the World - Katherine Butler, The Independent

Children's Rights Award

The Cotton Curse: Child Labour in Uzbekistan - Simon Ostrovsky, Therese Randall, Sara Afshar; Insight News Television/BBC for BBC 2, Newsnight
China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special - Jezza Neumann, Sky Zeh, Kate Blewett, Brian Woods, Channel 4
KS3 Citizenship: Child Labour
- Rosa Rogers, Mark Galloway, Harvey Woolfe, Evans Woolfe Media for Teachers TV, in association with Plan UK

Environment Award

Carbon Offset - Business Daily Team, BBC World Service                                                                         
The Biofuel Time Bomb - Jonathan Green, Live, Mail on Sunday                                                                                              
Sold Down the River - John Vidal, The Guardian

International Premiere

A Jihad for Love - Parvez Sharma, Halal Films
End of the Rainbow - Robert Nugent, Mitzi Goldman, Jean Pierre Gibrat, and Michel Zwecker; Looking Glass Pictures and Trans Europe Film
War/Dance - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; Fine Films, Think Films

Special Award for Development Media

IWPR (Institute for War & Peace Reporting) Journalism Training and Reporting Project in Helmand Province (Southern Afghanistan)
Al Mirbad Radio, Iraq
Urunana Development Communication: “Urunana” radio soap opera
AURA (Artistes Unis pour le Rap Africain)
Democratic Voice of Burma
CAMFED: Rural Women Filmmakers Lead Social Change in Africa

"They are the awards the media really want to win, a unique set of awards that recognise commitment, originality and verve."

Jon Snow, Channel 4 News