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
 

"I'm so pleased to have this accolade - there's nothing to match a One World Media Award. And this one recognises that you can still get complex stories about developing world issues to new audiences."

Alex Renton, journalist and writer