Shortlist 2012

All the entries listed below go through to the next round of judging, where three nominations in each category will be decided. Nominees will be announced in mid-March and the winners will be announced at the annual Awards ceremony in May.
Journalist of the Year Award

Alex Crawford - Sky News
Alex Thomson 
- Channel 4
Anas Aremeyaw Anas 
- Al Jazeera
Dan Rivers - CNN International
Felicity Lawrence - The Guardian
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad - The Guardian
Hala Jaber - The Sunday Times
Jack Shenker - The Guardian
Jamal Osman - ITN for Channel 4
Sue Lloyd Roberts - BBC Newsnight

Radio Award

A Child to Sponsor - BBC Political Programmes
Afghanistan: Fighting Back 
- BBC Radio 4
Assignment - Haiti Cholera Epidemic 
 - BBC World Service
BBC Africa Have Your Say Questions Paul Kagame - BBC World Service
Business Daily: China Property - BBC World Service
In Touch - BBC Radio 4
Takoradi Oil City - BBC World Service
The Blood Telegram - BBC Radio 4
The Boy with the Violin - BBC World Service
The Number One Detective Forensic Agency - BBC Radio 4
World Routes: Harri Sivanesan in Jaffna - BBC Radio 3 

Television Award

Africa Investigates - Sierra Leone: Timber! - Al Jazeera English
Newsnight: Ethiopia 
- BBC Two
Channel 4 News: Somalia 
- Channel 4
HARDtalk on the road in Egypt: Part 2 - The Economy - BBC News/ BBC World News
HARDtalk on the road in southern Yemen - BBC News/ BBC World News
Panorama: Land of Anarchy - BBC One
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - ITN for Channel 4 News
Syria's Torture Machine - Channel 4
The Fall of Tripoli - Sky News
Tunisia: Death of Fear - Al Jazeera English
Unreported World: Undercover Syria - Quicksilver Media for Channel 4
World's Untold Stories: Locked Up and Forgotten - CNN International 

Documentary Award

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark - Al Jazeera English
Blood in the Mobile - Chili Film
De corpo e alma (Body and Soul) - MEETINGS
How to Start a Revolution - TVF Media
Libya: Through the Fire - Al Jazeera English
Putin, Russia & The West - BBC Two
Marathon Boy One Horse Town Productions & Renegade Pictures for BBC Storyville
Soka Afrika - Masnomis Ltd
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - ITN for Channel 4 News
The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan - More 4
The Invasion of Lampedusa - Ronachan Films for BBC
The Witches of Gambaga - Fadoa Films

New Media Award

Al Jazeera: Egypt Campaign - Al Jazeera
BBC World Class 2012 - BBC
Development Data on The Guardian Datastore 
- The Guardian
HIGHRISE - One Millionth Tower - National Film Board of Canada
Lendwithcare.org - CARE International in association with The Co-operative and Bluefrog
Masika - Studio 9 Films
openDemocracy 50.50: Our Africa - openDemocracy
Our Africa - SOS Children's Villages
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (bespoke website) - Channel 4
Stigma Under the Lens - Christian Aid 

News Award

Abbas is punished by $200m cut in aid from US - The Independent
Andaman Islands tribe threatened by lure of mass tourism - The Observer
Benghazi Under Attack - Daily Mail
Child Sacrifice - BBC One
China in talks over Panama Canal rival - Financial Times
East Africa Drought - BBC One
Hagadera Hospital - ITN for ITV News 
Famine in Somalia - ITN for Channel 4 News
Mexico's Missing Migrants - Channel 4
Nato units left 61 migrants to die of hunger and thirst - The Guardian
Revealed - The Full Horror of Misrata - Sunday Times
The £6bn trade in animal smuggling - The Independent on Sunday
Zawiyah - Sky News

Drama Award

Achele - Clara Kraft Isono, London Film School
Flying Fish - Sapushpa Expressions
Miss Bala - Metrodome
Otelo Burning - Otelo Burning Films
Seven Acts of Mercy - La Sarraz Pictures
Shuga: Sex, Love & Money - The Bomb and MTV Base
Stolen - BBC One
The Song of the Rain - Aygul Bakanova, London Film School
Why is the Sky So Blue? - BBC World Service

Children's Rights Award

Africa Investigates: Spell of the Albino - InsightNewsTV for Al Jazeera English
BBC World Class 2012 - BBC
Child Marriage - Denying Girls' Rights, Perpetuating Poverty - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Children Raped in Paradise Island's Prison - Sunday Times
Exposing Bali's Orphanages - Assignment/Crossing Continents - BBC World Service/ BBC Radio 4
Hamedullah: The Road Home - Eastwest Productions
Marathon Boy - BBC Four
The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan - Seventh Art Productions
The Truth About Child Brides - BBC Three
Unreported World - Burundi: Boys Behind Bars - Channel 4
Unreported World: India's Child Savers - Channel 4

Press Award

Egypt: The Unfinished Revolution - FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
Joy vanished into Britain's child-sex trade. Why aren't we looking for her? - The Observer
Kidnap! Tales From The New India - GQ Magazine
Let The Good Times Roll - FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
Pakistan's Dirty Secret 
- G2, The Guardian
Rights and Wrongs - G2, The Guardian
Special report: Food Security (Hunger in the land of plenty) - The Guardian
The 1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad - Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday
The Children Who Don't Make a Sound - The Sunday Times Magazine
The Rape of Men - The Observer
They told us they would kill us if we didn't work  - The Herald Magazine
Treacherous Harvest - The Telegraph Magazine

Popular Features Award

A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby - Brazil - BBC Two
Ambition Impossible 
- The Sunday Times Magazine
Common Dreams: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary - CNN International
Famous, Rich and in the Slums - Love Productions for BBC One
Holding the Line - Al Jazeera English
Knitting in Tripoli - Your World - BBC World Service
Little Girl Found - FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
The 1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad - Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday
The Rape of Men - The Observer 
The World's Five Most Dangerous Countries for Women - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Toughest Place to be a Binman - BBC Two
World's Worst Place to be Gay? - BBC Three

Sustainable Development Award

Crowded Planet Series - Guardian News and Media
Nature's Defenders: Can Indigenous People Save the Planet? 
- The New Internationalist Magazine
One Planet - At the Edge of Capitalism - BBC World Service
Spellbound - The Herald Magazine
The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan - More 4
The Untold Story: Famine Avoided - Camerapix/A24 Media
There Once Was An Island - On the Level Productions
Unreported World - Honduras: Diving Into Danger - Channel 4
Unreported World: Indonesia's Wildlife Warriors - Channel 4
Up in Smoke - Notion Pictures Ltd for More 4
Vanishing Shangri-La - China Dialogue  

Student Award

Abuelas - Afarin Eghbal, National Film and Television School
Aid 20 - Mobile Africa: From the Roots Up - Clare Salisbury, University College Falmouth
Bagong Silang - Zena Merton, Giselle Santos & Stefan Werc, London College of Communication
Divided in Mind and Space: Exploring Bosnia's Ethnic Segregation  - Florence Davey Attlee, University of Westminster
Kung Fu Grandma - Jeong-One Park, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lost Voice in the Caribbean - Philip Saunders, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Shooting Freetown - Kieran Hanson, University of Manchester
The Changing Face of India - William Hartley, Salford University
The Doctor Who Dreamed - Lucy Laycock, University of Westminster
The High Price of Gold - Ross Domoney, Met Film School
Where is Billet? - Paul James Gomes, Edinburgh College of Art

Special Award

Companions of Change - Nepal
Gem TV - Ethiopia
Liberia Media Center - Liberia
LIVE UP: Love. Protect. Respect. - Barbados
Ma'an Network - Palestine
Nisaa FM - Palestine
Radio Ergo - Somalia
Rassd News Network - Egypt 
Salam Shabab - Iraq
Theatre for a Change - Malawi
Uks Radio Project - Pakistan
Video Volunteers - India
 

"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