The One World Media Awards celebrate the media’s best coverage of the global south, spotlighting underreported stories that break stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people across cultures.

60 judges. From 23 countries. Across 10 meetings. In 5 hours.

To decide this year’s winners and nominees, some of the industry’s most distinguished journalists, filmmakers and media professionals gathered online across multiple time zones for a power packed jury day. We are thrilled to present the 2023 shortlist in 15 award categories, selected out of a record number of more than 600 entries from 110 countries!

The One World Media Awards are made possible thanks to the generous support of our partners:

Children in Conflict Reporting Award

Sponsored by Save the Children

Save the Children

Afghanistan Civilian Casualties – Vice News

Auto Repair Shop Jump-Starts Ugandan Child Soldiers into New Lives – The Thomson Reuters Foundation

Central African Republic Child Brides – Vice News

Cubs of the Caliphate – Sky News

In Limbo: ‘Isis Children’ in Prison – Mail & Guardian

IS Fighter Orphans in Libya – BBC News

Lost Generation – Vice News

A Man Made War Paid for by Women and Children – The GroundTruth Project

The Palestinian Kids Fighting Israel’s Occupation – AJ+

South Sudan’s Child Soldiers – Sky News

The Vulnerability Contest – News Deeply

Yemen Air-Strikes: Made in America – CNN

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Digital Media Award

Sponsored by Google

China’s Muslim Internment Camps – BBC News

Coding Like a Girl – Al Jazeera English

El Helicoide: The Shopping Mall that Became a Torture Prison – BBC World Service

The Final Frontier: Who Owns the Oceans and their Hidden Treasures? – The Thomson Reuters Foundation

How Nigeria’s Fear of Child ‘Witchcraft’ Ruins Young Lives – Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division

The Last Generation – The GroundTruth Project/ Frontline PBS

Made in America: Shrapnel in Yemen ties US Bombs to Civilian Deaths – CNN

Sex and the Sugar Daddy – BBC Africa Eye

Stealing the Kingdom: The Sacking of Wau Shilluk – African Defence Review

Yemen’s Skies of Terror – Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division

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Environmental Reporting Award

The Amazonian Tribe Defending their Land with Technology – Al Jazeera Media Network, Digital Division

Brazil Dam Collapse: Bodies Pulled from Toxic Mud as Hope Fades for Survivors – The Guardian

Climate Change Creates a New Migration Crisis for Bangladesh – National Geographic

Critically Endangered Giant Fish on Menu at Luxury Restaurants – National Geographic

Day Zero: Cape Town – Vice News

The Defenders – The Guardian

Earthrise – Eco-cremation – Al Jazeera English

Gambians Fight Chinese Fishmeal Factory as Fish Prices Soar, Stocks Fall – News Deeply

How Climate Change is Plunging Senegal’s Herders into Poverty – IRIN News

A New Weapon In The War Against Plastic Waste – NPR

Unreported World – World’s Dirtiest Air – Channel Four Television

Voices of Paracatu and Bento – VideoFilmes and GloboNews

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Feature Documentary Award

Freedom Fields – Huna Productions

Hebron: A Weapon of Life – BBC Arabic

Insha’Allah Democracy – 64th Street Media, LLC

In The Name Of Your Daughter – Defying Destiny Films

The Judge – Idle Wild Films, Inc.

Our Man in Tehran – PBS FRONTLINE

Soyalism – Elliot Films

A Thousand Girls Like Me – Afghanistan Doc House

Under the Wire – Arrow Media

Unsettling – Iris Zaki

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International Journalist of the Year Award

Anas Aremeyaw Anas – Freelance

Bel Trew – The Independent

Guillermo Galdos – Channel 4 News

Inna Lazareva – Freelance

John Ray – ITV News

Mary Ann Jolley – Al Jazeera English

Mehdi Hasan – Al Jazeera English

Nima Elbagir – CNN

Orla Guerin – BBC News

Rina Chandran – Thomson Reuters Foundation

Thaslima Begum – Freelance

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New Voice Award

Ali Alibrahim – Verité Production

Jack Losh – Freelance

Kemi Busari – Premium Times

Kieran Guilbert – Thomson Reuters Foundation

Madlen Davies – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Melissa Fajardo – NowThis Media

Nawal Al-Maghafi – BBC Arabic

Oscar Lopez – Freelance

Simon Allison – Mail & Guardian

Yen Duong Do Bao – Freelance

Yousra Elbagir – Channel 4 News

Zia Weise – Freelance

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News Award

Bloodshed at Gaza’s border – Channel 4 News

Cape Town Is Running Out Of Water – AJ+

Democratic Republic of Congo: The Forgotten Tragedy – Sky News

El Salvador: Deportees Return to a Gang-Ravaged Homeland – CNN

Fighting Ebola in a DR Congo warzone – France 24

Inside Venezuela’s Healthcare Crisis – Sky News

Mexico’s Drug Wars – BBC News

The Most Occupied City in the World? – AJ+

Mosul Destroyed – ITV News

No Crisis Here: Venezuela’s Health Catastrophe – TRT World

Undercover with Nigeria’s Pushermen – CNN

Venezuela Markets – BBC News

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Popular Features Award

7 Portraits of Young People Travelling in the Migrant Caravan – Teen Vogue

Climate Change is Creating a New Atmosphere of Gender Inequality for Women in Malawi – Teen Vogue

The Feminist DJs in Uganda Taking Back the Night – CNN

Gaza: Three Generations Under Occupation – TRT World

Going the Distance – Rookie Mag

King of the Arena – Clouded Vision

The Muslims Who Want to Save Octopuses – The Atlantic

The Papier-Mâché Wizards of Mexico – Roads and Kingdoms

Rebels with a Cause – Elle UK x The Fuller Project for International Reporting

The Rising Voices of Women in Pakistan – National Geographic

Sex and the Sugar Daddy – BBC Africa Eye

Things Fall Apart – The Atavist Magazine

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Radio & Audio Award

Supported by EBU

“The 77 Percent”: Music and Politics in Africa – DW

Colorism in South Sudan – Al Jazeera, The Take

From the Ground Up – BBC World Service

Gaza Outside Broadcast – BBC Today Programme

Indian Rave – BBC Radio 4

Mongolian Desert, Middle of the Summer – Czech Radio

Nigeria’s Patient Prisoners – BBC World Service

Niger’s Trafficking Trade – BBC Today Programme

The Number One Ladies’ Landmine Agency – BBC World Service

Poking the Establishment – CTVC

Singing for Survival in Cucuta – BBC World Service

A US Corporation Wants to Raze a Gold-Rich Mountain in Peru. Meet the Woman who Stands in its Way – PRI’s The World

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Refugee Reporting Award

Sponsored by British Red Cross

British Red Cross

Another News Story – Wislocki Films Ltd

Britain’s Refugee Children – Channel 4

Dangerous Exit: Who Controls How Syrians in Lebanon Go Home – Refugees Deeply

Destination Europe – IRIN

Escaping Europe – BBC News

Faultlines – No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border – Al Jazeera English

Fleeing Hate: LQBTQ+ Migrants on the Caravan – NowThis Media

From Refugee to Commodity – The Weather Channel

From the Killing Fields to Exile Without Hope – The National

Rohingya One Year – VICE News

Tanzania Granted the Largest-Ever Mass Citizenship to Refugees. Then What? – The Christian Science Monitor

Unreported World: Venezuela’s Lost Children – Channel 4

Venezuela’s Refugee Crisis – The Financial Times

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Short Film Award

Ballet and Bullets: Dancing Out of the Favela – VICE

Boko Haram HuntressAl Jazeera English, Witness

Georgia’s Rave Revolution – BBC

ISIS Children – Maraya Media

Korean Lovers in BaghdadAl Jazeera English, Witness

Little Pyongyang – Roxy Rezvany

Marielle and Monica – The Guardian

Nirvana – Dir: Jess Kohl / PrettyBird

Not With Fire But With Paint – Molly Manning Walker

Riding ‘The Death Train’ to America’s Border – Channel 4 News

Through Our Eyes: Syria – NowThis Media

Venezuela: Smuggling Dreams – Al Jazeera English, Witness

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Special Award

Africa Uncensored – Kenya

Bihus.Info – Ukraine

Bulatlat – Philippines

Medyascope TV – Turkey

Nawaat – Tunisia

Radio Fresh – Syria

Radio Inzamba – Rwanda

Rappler – Philippines

Salam Afghanistan Media Organization – Afghanistan

Tiempo Argentino – Argentina

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Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

 

After the Fall – VICE

Crossing the Line: Colombia’s Rebels – TRT World

Democracy Now! Special: Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony – Democracy Now!

Hotspots: On The Frontline- In The DRC, Ukraine and Libya – Sky

Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq – BBC

Myanmar’s Killing Fields – Channel 4

Nigeria’s Stolen Daughters – BBC Two

Sweet Sweet Codeine – BBC Africa Eye

The UN Sex Abuse Scandal – Channel 4

Where Childhood Died – RT

Who Cares About Israel’s Thai Workers? – BBC News

Witness – Back to Kinshasa – Al Jazeera English

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Print Award

A Suicide in Gaza – Sarah Helm for The Guardian

Ballots and Bloodshed: The Militarization of Local Politics in South Africa – Christopher Clark for Guernica

Can Peace-Builders End the War with Boko Haram? – Hazel Healy for New Internationalist

Dividing Lines  – Jack Losh for Granta

How to Topple a Dictator: the Rebel Plot that Freed the Gambia – Philip Róin and Mikkel Danielsen for The Guardian

Meet the Female Activists Standing Up To Fundamentalism In Eastern Yemen – Georgina Stubbs for The Sunday Times Magazine

Men Kill Women Because They Can’: Inside El Salvador’s Devastating Femicide Crisis – Louise Donovan for ELLE UK

Niger: Europe’s Migration Laboratory – Daniel Howden and Giacomo Zandonini for News Deeply

Socotra Island: The Unesco-Protected ‘Jewel of Arabia’ Vanishing Amid Yemen’s Civil War – Bethan McKernan and Lucy Towers for The Independent

The Disco Diva of Saigon – Simon Stanley for Roads and Kingdoms

The Gangbusters of El Salvador – Sarah Esther Maslin for 1843

The Medicis in the Desert – Nicolas Pelham for 1843

Why Water is a Growing Faultline Between Turkey and Iraq – Erika Solomon and Laura Pitel for The Financial Times

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Student Award

Absent – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

After the Silence – National Film and Television School

Anak Malaysia – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

Fake News Fairytale – National Film and Television School

Fantasia Warriors – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

On the Move – University of the West of Scotland

On the Wave of Life – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

Part of the Family – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

The Country Clinic – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

The Kingdom of Men – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

Unearthed – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL

When Saving Lives Becomes a Crime – Goldsmiths, University of London

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Women Entrepreneurs Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s entrepreneurship in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful female entrepreneurs, the challenges women face in trying to grow their businesses, and/or the critical role that women entrepreneurs play in economic development by boosting growth and creating jobs.

 

Winner:
🏆 The Energy to Stay: Senegal’s village of women | Al Jazeera | Carlotta Dotto

 

Nominees:
I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali

Women Make Science: Ecuador’s Hidden Treasure | Al Jazeera | Ana Naomi De Sousa & Kata Karáth

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Refugee Reporting Award

Sponsored by British Red Cross

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that covers refugee and asylum-seeker issues by telling compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly.

 

Winner:
🏆When Can We Really Rest? | California Sunday Magazine | Nadja Drost

 

Nominees:
Coronavirus Crisis: Europe’s Migrant Camps | Panorama, BBC | Said Reza Adib

Dafa Metti (Difficult) | Tal Amiran

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Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆Agricultoras Violentadas
| Record TV | Mariana Ferrari

 

Nominees:
China Undercover | Hardcash Productions & Frontline PBS | Robin Barnwell

The Search for Assad’s Executioners | Al Jazeera | Mahmoud Al-Ken

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Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.

 

Winner:
🏆Amazon Undercover | Pindorama Filmes | Estêvão Ciavatta

 

Nominees:
Mercury, chasing the quicksilver | InfoAmazonia | Bram Ebus

The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia | BBC Africa Eye | Umaru Fofana

 

Special Mention:
Our Mothers’ Land | The Gecko Project & Mongabay | Leo Plunkett

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Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆 Softie
| LBx Africa | Sam Soko

 

Nominees:
The Art of Living in Danger

Writing With Fire | Black Ticket Films | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

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International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

 

Winner:
🏆 Drew Ambrose | Al Jazeera English

 

Nominees:
Fisayo Soyombo | Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Suadad Al-Salhy | Middle East Eye

 

Special Mention:
Bel Trew | The Independent

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News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆 New evidence of Uighur forced labour in China’s cotton industry | BBC | John Sudworth

 

Nominees:
On the Frontlines of the Fighting in Azerbaijan | Vice News | Hind Hassan

Yemen: Sky News’ Alex Crawford investigates the killing of nine women and children | Sky News | Alex Crawford

 

Special Mention:
Climate ravage: Sea swallows parts of Senegal’s UNESCO World Heritage Site | Al Jazeera | Nicolas Haque

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New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2021, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

 

Winner:
🏆 Fateh Al Rahman Al-Hamdani | BBC News Arabic

 

Nominees:
Liz Oliva Fernandez  | Belly of the Beast

Rakan Abed El Rahman | Middle East Eye

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Popular Features

For a piece of media, including broadcast, digital, audio, print or film, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south through creative treatment of an issue. The media should reach a wider audience potentially less familiar with global south and help to provide a more accurate, balanced perspective.

 

Winner:
🏆 The War on Cuba | Belly of the Beast | Liz Oliva Fernández

 

Nominees:
Saving mums and their unborn babies | People Fixing The World, BBC World Service | Bara’atu Ibrahim

The all-women law firm helping prisoners get justice in Nigeria | Al Jazeera English | Nosmot Gbadamosi

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Print Award

For a feature article (750 words or longer) published in print or online that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. This may include specialist features such as sport, music, food and health.

 

Winner:
🏆 Uganda’s Hidden Children | Al Jazeera | Beau Donelly

 

Nominees:
Imprisoned under the cover of Covid | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | Madlen Davies

The next chapter for African genomics | Nature | Amy Maxmena

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Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆 Exodus: Uncovering a cult in KwaZulu-Natal | News24 | Nokuthula Manyathi

 

Nominees:
Africa Science Focus (ep. 17) | SciDev.Net | Njenje Chizu

On China’s New Silk Road (ep. 9) | Global Reporting Centre | Mary Kay Magistad

 

Special Mention:
All the Prime Minister’s Men (part 3) | Al Jazeera Investigations Unit, Al Jazeera English | Will Thorne

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Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

 

Winner:
🏆 Last Chance for Justice | BBC World News | Marina Shupac

 

Nominees:
Call Center Blues | Multitude Films | Geeta Gandbhir

Come over for a drink, kanchhi | Sikuma Rai

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Special Award

For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award seeks to recognise and encourage outstanding reporting that informs the public, provides an outlet for local people’s voices, creates a space for critical information and holds those in power to account.

 

Winner:
🏆 Myanmar Now | Myanmar

 

Nominees:
CONNECTAS | Colombia

IWACU | Burundi

 

Special Mention:
The Republic Knowledge Company | Nigeria

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Student Award

For a piece of media, including film, radio, digital or print, made by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆 Last Chance for Justice
| UCL | Marina Shupac

 

Nominees:
On Tour
| UCL | Wen Huang

The Power of Choice | Cardiff University | Bii Carolyne Chepkoech

 

Special Mention:
The Seven Villages
| FAMU | Farah Abou Kharroub

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Digital Media Award

Sponsored by Google News Initiative

For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.

 

Winner:
🏆 Violated in quarantine | Factual | Ketzalli Rosas Cervantes

 

Nominees:
The $5 Forests | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Drew Ambrose

The price women and girls are paying for Ethiopia’s war | Devex | Sara Jerving

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Digital Media Award

Sponsored by Google News Initiative

For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.

 

Nominees:

Inaccessible Cities | Al Jazeera Digital & AJ Contrast | Viktorija Mickute 

Seven Grams | Lucid Realities | Karim Ben Khelifa

Visa to Nowhere | Outriders 

 

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Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.

 

Nominees:
Nicaragua’s Forgotten Deforestation Crisis | OCCRP, Confidencial, Onda Local, InfoLibre, La Voz de Guanacaste | Sasha Chavkin

Oceans Inc | The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) | Multiple journalists

The Return | The Guardian | Eriberto Gualinga

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Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Dying to Divorce | Dying to Divorce Ltd | Chloe Fairweather

Sing, Freetown | Insight TWI Films | Clive Patterson

The Last Shelter | STEPS | Ousmane Samassékou

 

Special mention:

Street Dreams: Dancing to Survive | BBC Africa Eye | Nick Wambugu

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International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

 

Nominees:
Fabiola Torres | Salud con lupa

Jamal Osman | Channel 4 News

Miranda Patrucic | OCCRP

 

Special Mention:
AfghanNotes | Zaki Daryabi and Elyas Nawandis

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News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:
Eating shoes – surviving Madagascar’s famine | AFP | Gaelle Borgia

‘I just want a bone’: Mexico’s search for 95,000 missing | AFP | Paula Vilella

101 East: India’s COVID Warriors | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Prashun Mazumdar

 

Special mention:
The Americas: A deep dive into the stories from Latin America and the Caribbean | NBC News NOW | Tom Llamas

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New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2022, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

 

Nominees:

Aakash Hassan | Freelance

Andrei Popoviciu | Freelance

Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu | openDemocracy

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Popular Features

For a piece of media, including broadcast, digital, audio, print or film, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south through creative treatment of an issue. The media should reach a wider audience potentially less familiar with global south and help to provide a more accurate, balanced perspective.

 

Nominees:

Exodus | Freelance/ Guernica Magazine | Zahra Hankir

How Bangladesh beat Europe at fighting floods | DW Deutsche Welle | Ajit Niranjan

The Ghost Village | Freelance/ In These Times magazine | Khalid Bencherif

 

Special mention

The Dictator’s Last Calls | BBC News Arabic | Emir Nader

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Print Award

For a feature article (750 words or longer) published in print or online that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. This may include specialist features such as sport, music, food and health.

 

Nominees:

A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana | Freelance/Emergence Magazine | Tristan McConnell

Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective | The Guardian Long Reads | Meaghan Beatley

She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it | Freelance/1843 Magazine, The Economist (produced in partnership with The Fuller Project) | Ali Ahsan & Corinne Redfern 

 

Special mention

How US Abortion Politics Distort Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones | Freelance/New York Review | Jill Filipovic

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Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Hello Hallyu | The Swaddle | Nirupama V & Sadhana Chathurvedula

My Only Story: Back to School | Media24 | Deon Wiggett

Too Many Enemies | Volume | Paul McNally

 

Special mention

Gone to the dogs: Rabies control and street dog welfare in India | Suno India | Mahima Jain

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Refugee Reporting Award

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that covers refugee and asylum-seeker issues by telling compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly.

 

Nominees:

Escaping Oblivion | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Eric Hoover

She Migrates | Futuro Media | Marta Martinez

Terror in Tigray: The Ethiopian Refugee crisis | Voice of America | Heather Murdock

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Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

 

Nominees:

Freedom Swimmer | No Thing Productions (Australia) & Sacrebleu Productions (France) | Olivia Martin-McGuire

Life at 50 C: Fleeing the shifting sands of the Sahara desert, due to climate change | BBC News Arabic | Monica Garnsey

The Great Abandonment | Cave Pictures | Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya

 

Special mention:

The Doll | Elahe Esmaili 

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Special Award

For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award seeks to recognise and encourage outstanding reporting that informs the public, provides an outlet for local people’s voices, creates a space for critical information and holds those in power to account.

 

Nominees:
InfoNile Geojournalism Project | Uganda

Salud con Lupa | Peru

TOLOnews | Afghanistan

 

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Student Award

For a piece of media, including film, radio, digital or print, made by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Harvesting Our Tea | London College of Communication, LCC | Sheida Kiran

The Forbidden Love | International Center of Photography (ICP) | Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

The Violence Between Us | National Film and Television School | Camila Guerreiro

 

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Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Black Axe: Nigeria’s Mafia Cult | BBC Africa Eye | Peter Macjob

Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries: Inside the Wagner Group | BBC News Arabic | Nader Ibrahim

Undercover: Africa’s Secret State | Freelance/Channel 4 / PBS Frontline | Evan Williams

 

Special mention:

Child sexual abuse in Pakistan: Zainab’s Legacy | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Owen Kean

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Women's Solutions Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of successful initiatives by women or for women, of any scale, that help to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower women.

 

Nominees:

101 East: The Widows of Everest | Al Jazeera English | Sreya Banerjee and Rojita Adhikari

HER – Women in Asia | DW Deutsche Welle | Bettina Thoma-Schade

Women’s Rights and the Pandemic | Global Press Journal | Khorloo Khukhnokhoi

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Digital Media Award

For websites, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to extend knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the global south.

 

Nominees:

Coal Oligarchs: The Game | Project Multatuli | Viriya Singgih

Reconstructing the “Melilla Massacre” | Lighthouse Reports | Klaas van Dijken, Maud Jullien, Beatriz Ramalho Da Silva, Bashar Deeb & Jack Sapoch

The Banality of Brutality, 33 days under siege in Block 17, Bucha, Ukraine | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | Elena Loginova & Yana Korniychuk

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Environmental Impact Award

Sponsored by WaterBear Network

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that explores the relationship between people and the planet. In particular, we are interested in these areas: changing cities, the climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste.

 

Nominees:

A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick | The Fuller Project | Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria

‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village | Freelance/The Guardian | Ankur Paliwal

The Airstrips of Destruction | Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | Hyury Potter

 

Special mention:

Identity Crisis | Freelance/FiftyTwo | Deepa Padmanaban

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International Journalist of the Year Award

For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.

 

Nominees:

Bel Trew | The Independent

David Pilling | Financial Times

Philip Obaji Jr. | Freelance/The Daily Beast

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News Award

For a single television or online video news report or feature that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Inside Al-Shabaab | Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman

Kenya’s policing epidemic | VICE News | Julia Steers

Russian Soft Power in The CAR | Découpages | Carol Valade, Clément Di Roma

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New Voice Award

For a young filmmaker or journalist working in any medium, 32 years of age or under as of 9 February 2023, who has made a substantial contribution to international journalism during the year.

 

Nominees:

Lynzy Billing | ProPublica

Salma Niazi | The Afghan Times

Runako Celina | BBC World Service

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Podcast & Radio Award

For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, broadcast on radio or online, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

El viaje de Estuardo (Estuardo’s journey) | CUIR: Historias disidentes | Erick Yáñez Navarro

I Will Not Grow Old Here | Radio Workshop | Mary-Ann Nobele

The Outlaw Ocean Podcast | The Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina

 

Special mention:

Bitter Tales Of Salima Sugar Company | Zodiak Broadcasting Station | Innocent Kumchedwa

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Refugee Reporting Award

For a piece of media, including broadcast, online, audio, print or film, that covers refugee and asylum-seeker issues by telling compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly.

 

Nominees:

Children of Ukraine | Renegade Pictures | Shahida Tulaganova

Name Me Lawand | Pulse Films | Edward Lovelace, Fleur Nieddu Lovelace, Sam Arnold, Beyan Taher, Neil Andres, Marisa Clifford

The Guardian Long Read : Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda | Guardian News & Media | Samira Shackle

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Short Film Award

For a short documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. The short film must be between 5 and 40 minutes.

 

Nominees:

Finding My Torturer | BBC | Victoria Arakelyan

The Leopard’s Tribe | Freelance/Miriam Chandy Menacherry

The ‘Spider-man’ of Sudan | The Guardian | Phil Cox & Rafa Renas

 

Special mention:

Lady of the Gobi | The Guardian | Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig

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Print Award

For a feature article (750 words or longer) published in print or online that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south. This may include specialist features such as sport, music, food and health.

 

Nominees:

Off Balance | Fifty Two | Ankur Paliwal

The drug was meant to save children’s lives. Instead, they’re dying | TBIJ | Rosa Furneaux, Laura Margottini, Chrissie Giles, Paul Eccles

‘You are not honourable anymore’: Shamed and trafficked into Iraq’s sex trade | Al Jazeera Digital | Simona Foltyn

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Popular Features

For a piece of media, including broadcast, digital, audio, print or film, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south through creative treatment of an issue. The media should reach a wider audience potentially less familiar with global south and help to provide a more accurate, balanced perspective.

 

Nominees:

How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed | New Lines Magazine | Uğur Ümit Üngör

Myanmar: Soldiers admit atrocities | BBC | Ko Ko Aung

What’s Eating My Mind | LBx Africa & BBC | Noella Luka

 

Special mention:

A Matter of Honor | The Atavist Magazine | Sarah Souli

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Special Award

For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award seeks to recognise and encourage outstanding reporting that informs the public, provides an outlet for local people’s voices, creates a space for critical information and holds those in power to account.

 

Nominees:

Laboratorio de Periodismo y Opinión Pública | Mexico

Lupa | Brazil

STEPS | South Africa

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Student Award

For a piece of media, including film, radio, digital or print, made by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Cadáver | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel

Khayelitsha (Our new home) | National Film and Television School | Pieter Genee

Utopia | University of the Arts London | Yinzi Zeng

 

Special mention:

Dear Daughter | University College London | Yuqi Tang

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Television Documentary Award

Sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

For a factual journalistic programme broadcast on television or online, either standalone or one episode from a series, that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution | Evan Williams Productions & Channel 4 | Katie Arnold

Ukraine: Life Under Attack | Basement Films & Channel 4 | Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola

Under Poisoned Skies | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kelly & Owen Pinnell

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Women's Solutions Reporting Award

Sponsored by the European Investment Bank

For media, including broadcast, digital, audio, film or print, that explores women’s solutions in the global south. Reporting can showcase stories of girls and women who successfully contributed to tackle challenges faced by women and society at large: solutions to improve women’s financial and economic inclusion, solutions that address the impact of climate change and protect the environment, solutions that increase access to education and health care, or solutions that empower girls and women.

Supported by Plan International 

 

Nominees:

BBC People Fixing the World – Jobs for girls | BBC | Farhana Haider

How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women | Freelance/MIT Technology Review | Sanket Jain

La pantalla andina (The Andean Screen) | Carmina Balaguer

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Feature Documentary Award

For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.

 

Nominees:

Black Mambas | Karbe Film GmbH | Lena Karbe

From the Shadows #Missingirls | Filament Pictures | Miriam Chandy Menacherry

UÝRA – The Rising Forest | Mama Wolf & Azores Filmes | Juliana Curi 

 

Special mention:

The Radical | GOOD WORK | Richard Finn Gregory

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