Shortlist 2009

Broadcast Journalist of the Year

Jonathan Miller - Channel 4 News / ITN
Alex Crawford - Sky News
Nadene Ghouri - Freelance (BBC Radio 4, BBC World News)

Radio Documentary

Crossing Continents: Dharavi - Mukul Devichand, John Murphy, Maria Balinska; BBC Radio Current Affairs, BBC Radio 4
Assignment: Africa's Guantanamo - Rob Walker, David Edmonds, Helena Selby, Jeremy Skeet; BBC World Service
Why They're Dying in Congo - Mark Doyle, Rob Walker, Bridget Harney; BBC World Service

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
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
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry - Tom Roberts, Jeremy Williams, Paul Carlin; October Films/Taglicht Media for Storyville, BBC 4

Press Journalist of the Year

Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark - Guardian Weekend Magazine
Jonathan Green - Live - Mail on Sunday
Barney Jopson - Financial Times

New Media Award

Traces of Hope - British Red Cross
BBC World Class - BBC Audio and Music
Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project - Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Drama Award

Under the Bombs - Philippe Aractingi, Michel Léviant, Hervé Chabalier, François Cohen Séat, Paul Raphael
El baño del Papa (The Pope's Toilet) - César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Persepolis - Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Local Media Award

Canfod Hedd (Finding Peace) - Neville Hughes, Arwyn Evans; Cwmni Da for S4C
It's as if they raped my mind - Lucy Adams, The Herald
Put a family back together - Tara Greaves, Eastern Daily Press

Popular Features Award

Lush Paddy Fields as Far as the Eye Can See - Alex Renton, Observer Food Monthly
Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts - Tim Quicke, Mark Rubens, Ricochet; Harry Lansdown, BBC 3
Dirty Ali - Nadene Ghouri, Live Magazine - Mail on Sunday

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
India's Trafficked Girls
- Ramita Navai, Iain Overton, Bernard Lyall; More4 News / ITN
The Children's Ward
- Paolo Santolini, Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Nick Fraser, Jo Lapping; BBC Storyville for BBC 4

Environment Award

From producers to consumers: how rice farmers face catastrophe - Jonathan Watts, Dan Chung, Harriet Sherwood; The Guardian
One Planet: Carbon Trading - Mark Gregory, David Edmonds, Jeremy Skeet; BBC World Service
Unreported World: Paraguay's Painful Harvest - Andrew Carter, Tanya Datta, Siobhan Sinnerton; Quicksilver Media for Channel 4

International Documentary Award

Crude - Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. DeLeon, Richard Stratton
Burma VJ - Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller, Jan Krogsgaard
Waltz with Bashir - Ari Folman, Yael Nahlieli, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul

Special Award

B'Tselem (Israel)
Aswat al-Iraq
(Iraq)
Dalan Tele-serial (Nepal)
Kids' Waves (West Africa)
Makutano Junction (Kenya)
Rien que la Vérité (Congo)
Youth, music and HIV prevention in post-war Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)

 

"Of all the awards to get, it's the one that we as journalists value most, because it's not just other journalists judging it, it's also the people from NGOs that do amazing work overseas."

Jonathan Miller, Channel 4 News