Awards 2009
The 2009 One World Media Awards took place at The Brewery on Chiswell Street in London, presented for the first time by Fergal Keane. Once again, over 400 figures from the media industry, international development sector, and government were in attendance to celebrate the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world over the last year.
The 2009 One World Media Awards ceremony was presented for the first time by Fergal Keane, who paid tribute to the "brave and great reporting recognised by tonight's awards," adding that "these awards are among the most coveted anywhere."
Among the winners were Joe Berlinger, the acclaimed director of Crude, which took away the International Documentary Award; Jonathan Miller, the veteran Channel 4 News correspondent who was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year; and the team behind Iran and the West, which won the TV Documentary Award.
The new Drama Award was won by Under the Bombs, directed by Philippe Aractingi. Meanwhile, the Children's Rights Award, which was judged for the first time by a specially selected Youth Jury, went to Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children.
The Special Award went to B'Tselem, a pioneering media initiative that distributes cameras and runs video training activities for Palestinian men, women and children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Read more about their project here.
The ceremony was filmed and broadcast by BBC World News channel.
Winners
Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Jonathan Miller - Channel 4 News / ITN
Radio Documentary
Crossing Continents: Dharavi - Mukul Devichand, John Murphy, Maria Balinska; BBC Radio Current Affairs - BBC Radio 4
TV Documentary
Iran and the West programme two: The Pariah State - Norma Percy, Brian Lapping, Delphine Jaudeau, Paul Mitchell, Dai Richards; Brook Lapping for BBC 2
Press Journalist of the Year
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark - Guardian Weekend Magazine
New Media Award
Traces of Hope - British Red Cross
Drama Award
Under the Bombs - Philippe Aractingi, Michel Léviant, Hervé Chabalier, François Cohen Séat, Paul Raphael
Local Media Award
Canfod Hedd (Finding Peace) - Neville Hughes, Arwyn Evans; Cwmni Da for S4C
Popular Features Award
Lush Paddy Fields as Far as the Eye Can See - Alex Renton, Observer Food Monthly
Children's Rights Award
Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children - Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich; Red Rebel Films and Oxford Scientific Films for Channel 4
Environment Award
From producers to consumers: how rice farmers face catastrophe - Jonathan Watts, Dan Chung, Harriet Sherwood; The Guardian
International Documentary Award
Crude - Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. DeLeon, Richard Stratton
Special Award
B'Tselem (Israel) - read more