Congratulations to all the winners of the One World Media Awards 2024! Celebrating the best journalism from the global south, more than 60 judges from 18 countries have chosen this year’s winners from more than 500 entries.
Presenting the Winners:
Congratulations to all the winners of the One World Media Awards 2024! Celebrating the best journalism from the global south, more than 60 judges from 18 countries have chosen this year’s winners from more than 500 entries.
Presenting the Winners:
The One World Media Awards are made possible thanks to the generous support of our partners:

Watch the 36th One World Media Awards. The event took place on 19 June at Curzon Soho, London, hosted by Ronke Phillips, Senior Correspondent at ITV News London.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sponsored by 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
Ballet and Bullets: Dancing Out of the Favela – VICE
Boko Haram Huntress – Al Jazeera English, Witness
Georgia’s Rave Revolution – BBC
ISIS Children – Maraya Media
Korean Lovers in Baghdad – Al 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
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
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
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
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
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.
The $5 Forests | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Drew Ambrose
Favela vs. Covid | Outriders | Priscila Pacheco & Alexandre de Maio.
Living in the Unknown | Al Jazeera | Viktorija Mickute
Motherhood in Crisis | Al Jazeera | Laurence Ivil, Alicia Prager & Samuel Iwunze
No Epicentro | Lupa | Natália leal
Ophir & The Colonial Syndrome | Olivier Pollet & Alexandre Berman
TESTRIS – The Positive Rate Game | Outriders | Lola García-Ajofrín
The Continent | Mail & Guardian | Simon Allison & Simon Mkina
The price women and girls are paying for Ethiopia’s war | Devex | Sara Jerving
Violated in quarantine | Factual | Ketzalli Rosas Cervantes
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.
COVID-19 and Irregular Employment | Masaha Podcast | Rana Daoud
‘Everything I do is for my son’: how mothers in Bangladesh are starting their own businesses | The Guardian | Thaslima Begum
How Women-led Agribusinesses are Boosting Nutrition in Africa | IPS | Busani Bafana
I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali
My hands are my tractor: Urban gardens take root in Johannesburg | Thomson Reuters Foundation News | Kim Harrisberg
Smart Money | BBC Africa | Joice Etutu
The Energy to Stay: Senegal’s village of women | Al Jazeera | Carlotta Dotto
The female Indian entrepreneurs who have overcome gender barriers | Financial Times | Amy Kazmin
Women Make Science: Ecuador’s Hidden Treasure | Al Jazeera | Ana Naomi De Sousa
Women who feed Lagos: How lack of education robs fish traders of booming digital market | The Cable | Taiwo Adebulu
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.
Coronavirus Crisis: Europe’s Migrant Camps | Panorama, BBC | Said Reza Adib
Dafa Metti (Difficult) | Tal Amiran
Death in the Alps | Unreported World, Channel 4 | Tom Cross
Inside the smuggler’s warehouse: Africa’s 21st-century slave trade | Irish Times | Sally Hayden
Rohingya Brides Thought They Were Fleeing Violence. Then They Met Their Grooms | Vice | Pari Saikia
Surviving in the ruins of Moria | Al Jazeera English | Florian Elabdi
Teranga – We Dance to Forget | BBC Africa Eye | Sophia Seymour, Daisy Squires & Lou Marillier
What happens to migrants forcibly returned to Libya? | The New Humanitarian | Mat Nashed
When Can We Really Rest? | California Sunday Magazine | Nadja Drost
You’ll die at sea: The story of a migrant poet | Middle East Eye | Maria Pullicino
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.
Agricultoras Violentadas | Record TV | Mariana Ferrari
Assam: My country, my home | 101 East, Al Jazeera | Mandakini Gahlot
A Thousand Cuts | Frontline PBS | Ramona S. Diaz
China Undercover | Frontline PBS | Robin Barnwell
Fiji’s High Tide | SBS Australia | Evan Williams
O Meu Sangre é da Cor do Teu | Rádio e Televisão de Portugal | Mafalda Gameiro
Return from Isis: A Family’s Story | Panorama, BBC | Joshua Baker
Self-harm: The Pandemic of Youth | RT Documentary Channel | Vitaly Buzuev
The Schools that Chain Boys | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kelly & Fath Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani
The Search for Assad’s Executioners | Al Jazeera | Mahmoud Al-Ken
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.
Amazon Undercover | Pindorama Filmes | Estêvão Ciavatta
Black Beaches | ARIJ network | Eman Mounir
Mercury, chasing the quicksilver | InfoAmazonia | Bram Ebus
Our Mothers’ Land | The Gecko Project & Mongabay | Leo Plunkett
Silent killer: Oil pollution continues to kill Nigerians in Delta region | International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) | Kelechukwu Iruoma & Ruth Olurounbi
South Africa’s Dirty Secret: Coal | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Nicky Milne
The Linesman | Encompass Films | Dominic Gill
The Plastic Nile | Sky Documentaries and Sky News | Alex Crawford
The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon | The Guardian | Phoebe Weston
The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia | BBC Africa Eye | Umaru Fofana
For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
Five Years North | Chris Temple and Zach Ingraci
I Am Belmaya | Dartmouth Films | Sue Carpenter & Belmaya Nepali
I Am Samuel | We are not the machine | Pete Murimi
Showgirls of Pakistan | Other Memory Media | Saad Khan
Softie | LBx Africa | Sam Soko
The Accused: Damned Or Devoted? | Mohammed Ali Naqvi
The Art of Living in Danger
The Fifth Story | Majaz Production | Ahmed Abd
Writing With Fire | Black Ticket Films | Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
Your Mother’s Comfort | Megamot Media | Adam Golub
For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.
Bel Trew | The Independent
Diana Cariboni | openDemocracy
Drew Ambrose | Al Jazeera English
Fabio Teixeira | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Katie McQue | Freelance
Nawal Al-Maghafi | BBC
Fisayo Soyombo | Foundation for Investigative Journalism
Suadad Al-Salhy | Middle East Eye
Thaslima Begum | The Guardian
Timour Azhari | Al Jazeera and Newlines Magazine
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.
On the Frontlines of the Fighting in Azerbaijan | VICE | Hind Hassan
Climate ravage: Sea swallows parts of Senegal’s UNESCO World Heritage Site | Al Jazeera | Nicolas Haque
From naked protests to challenging Museveni: Uganda’s ‘rudest feminist’ on the campaign trail | The Guardian | Alice McCool
Inside Kashmir’s ‘Invisible’ Transgender Community | Business Insider Today | Robert Leslie
Iran & Covid-19 | BBC | Behrang Tajdin
Is Brazil the new epicentre of the coronavirus crisis? | ITV News | Juliet Bremner
Poor forced to collect Covid corpses for work in Peru | Channel 4 News | Guillermo Galdos
New evidence of Uighur forced labour in China’s cotton industry | BBC | John Sudworth
Why we care about India’s farmers’ protests | BBC | Monika Plaka
Yemen: Sky News’ Alex Crawford investigates the killing of nine women and children | Sky News | Alex Crawford
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.
Fateh Al Rahman Al-Hamdani | BBC News Arabic
Grace Ekpu | BBC
Liz Oliva Fernandez | Belly of the Beast
Lou Ferreira | openDemocracy
Nandini Archer | openDemocracy
Nermina Kuloglija | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rakan Abed El Rahman | Middle East Eye
Tatsiana Yanutsevich | Freelance
Wale lawal | The Republic
Zecharias Zelalem | Freelance
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.
Between Borders | Texas Observer | Anna-Catherine Brigida, Acacia Coronado, Morena Perez Joaquin, Emily Kinskey
Dance Around The World | Channel 4 | Ben Cook
Eyes in the Sky | Rest of World | Monica Jha
Female Genital Cutting Is on the Rise During COVID in Kenya | Vice | Neha Wadekar
In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones | Undark | Sarah Sax
Saving mums and their unborn babies | People Fixing The World, BBC World Service | Bara’atu Ibrahim
Skate Gal Club | Refinery29 | Shelby Wilder
The all-women law firm helping prisoners get justice in Nigeria | Al Jazeera English | Nosmot Gbadamosi
The War on Cuba | Belly of the Beast | Liz Oliva Fernández
To Fight Locusts, Historic Rivals India and Pakistan Team Up | Undark | Lou Del Bello
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.
Asia’s prisons are filling up with women. Many are victims of the war on drugs | CNN | Preeti Jha
Imprisoned under the cover of Covid | TBIJ | Madlen Davies
Inside Nigeria’s illegal backstreet abortion clinics | Al Jazeera | Ope Adetayo
Invisible labor: The trauma of Facebook’s outsourced graphic content moderator workforce | Rest of World | Tekendra Parmar & Vittoria Elliott
Mama Boko Haram’s story | The Guardian | Chika Oduah
Mothers of the Revolution | The New Internationalist | Lucy Provan & Alice Rowsome
Nepal’s sexual violence | Global Press Journal | Shilu Manandhar
Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment | Washington Post | Katie McQue
The next chapter for African genomics | Nature | Amy Maxmena
Uganda’s Hidden Children | Al Jazeera | Beau Donelly
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.
Africa Science Focus (ep. 17) | SciDev.Net | Njenje Chizu
All the Prime Minister’s Men (part 3) | Al Jazeera Investigations Unit | Will Thorne
Cry Like a Boy (ep. 12) | Euronews | Lillo Montalto Monella
Essex Lorry Deaths: The Journey of 39 Vietnamese Migrants | The Fourcast | Paraic O’Brien
Exodus: Uncovering a cult in KwaZulu-Natal | News24 | Nokuthula Manyathi
Finding Closure | Royal FM 95.1 | Babatunde Okunlola
I’m Not a Monster (ep. 8) | BBC Sounds | Joshua Baker
On China’s New Silk Road (ep. 9) | Global Reporting Centre | Mary Kay Magistad
Studying and Surviving the Pandemic’s Collective Trauma | Undark | Elna Schütz
23419 | Anchor FM | Chioma Onyenwe
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.
Building Baku: Modern Slavery in the Heart of Azerbaijan | OCCRP | Miranda Patrucic & Madeleine May
Call Center Blues | Multitude Films | Geeta Gandbhir
Come over for a drink, kanchhi | Sikuma Rai
Dead Woman’s Pass | Witness, Al Jazeera English | Lali Houghton
India’s Acid Attack Survivors | Close Up, Al Jazeera English | Jihan Hafiz
Last Chance for Justice | BBC World News | Marina Shupac
Mother | Try Hard Films & Naga Productions | Jas Pitt & Kate Stonehill
My Brother’s Keeper | The Guardian | Laurence Topham
Syria: A Family’s Fight Against The Virus | BBC Our World | Katie Arnold
War, Lies & Hashtags | Witness, Al Jazeera English | Hasham Cheema
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.
CONNECTAS | Colombia
IWACU | Burundi
Kloop | Kyrgyzstan
La Maison Des Reporters | Senegal
La Voie Originale | Côte d’Ivoire
Myanmar Now | Myanmar
Peoples Gazette | Nigeria
Sowt | Jordan
The Republic Knowledge Company | Nigeria
Tuko Media | Kenya
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.
Desert Roots | UCL | Jingya Zhao
Golden Wedding | UCL | Chenghui Huang
House of Light | University of West Scotland | Mahmud Hasan Kayesh
Last Chance for Justice | UCL | Marina Shupac
No Going Back | Edinburgh Napier University | Brendan Duggan
On Tour | UCL | Wen Huang
The Power of Choice | Cardiff University | Bii Carolyne Chepkoech
The Seven Villages | FAMU | Farah Abou Kharroub
Two Square Meters | National Film & TV School | Mohamed Shalaby
Youth leadership on the edge of Bogotá | Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano | Carlos Antonio Mayorga Alejo
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.
Climate Migrant Megacity | Sky | Katerina Vittozzi
Inaccessible Cities | Al Jazeera Digital & AJ Contrast | Viktorija Mickute
KUSUNDA | NowHere Media | Gayatri Parameswaran
Maharaja’s children. A brave bunch in India | Nil Desperandum Foundation | Tomasz Stankiewicz
Seven Grams | Lucid Realities | Karim Ben Khelifa
The Global Gig Workers | Rest of World | Peter Guest and Youyou Zhou
Vaccinegate: The Power Connections | Salud con lupa | Fabiola Torres
Visa to Nowhere | Outriders | Jakub Górnicki
Visualising the Afghan War | Al Jazeera Digital | Mohammed Haddad
What’s Happening in Myanmar | NHK | Masaru Zenke
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.
Colombia’s indigenous form ‘mini-governments’ to save Amazon | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Anastasia Moloney
Crude bargain: How an unknown Canadian firm with no drilling tools scored a major oil deal in Guyana | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Chris Arsenault
Electric vehicles in the Philippines: a mottled green solution | Eco-Business | Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez
Ethiopian Nomads struggle for survival on the climate crisis frontline | ITN/Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman
Floating Swarm | Voice of America | Jaime Moreno
Junkyard of the West | Outriders | Tadeusz Michrowski
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
Troops | Freelance/fiftytwo | Monika Mondal
For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
Ait Atta: Nomads of the High Atlas | Karma Motion | Eda Elif Tibet
Critical Juncture | Zoomin | Alessia Barbiero
Dying to Divorce | Dying to Divorce Ltd | Chloe Fairweather
Lebanon – Explosion of Anger | Vision House Productions | Krzysztof Dzieciolowski
My Childhood, My Country | Seventh Art Productions | Phil Grabsky
Sing, Freetown | Insight TWI Films | Clive Patterson
Street Dreams: Dancing to Survive | BBC Africa Eye | Nick Wambugu
The Last Shelter | STEPS | Ousmane Samassékou
The Weight of Water | Neelima Vallangi and Deej Phillips
This Stained Dawn | Other Memory Media | Anam Abbas
For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.
Zaki Daryabi and Elyas Nawandish | Afghanotes
Alex Crawford | Sky News
Bel Trew | The Independent
Fabiola Torres | Salud con lupa
Hendia Alashepy | Egab
Jamal Osman | Channel 4 News
Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times
Miranda Patrucic | OCCRP
Suadad al-Salhy | Middle East Eye
Yogita Limaye | BBC News
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.
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
Life in a town taken by the Taliban in Afghanistan | BBC | Secunder Kermani
Mozambicans fleeing IS-affiliated insurgents feel failed by government, exploited by big business | Freelance/PBS | Neha Wadekar
Across The Balkans: Serbia’s Lithium Mine Controversy | Bulgaria-North Macedonia Breakthrough? | TRT | Aksel Zaimovic
The Americas: A deep dive into the stories from Latin America and the Caribbean | NBC News NOW | Tom Llamas
Trapped in a war zone: On the ground in Gaza | Middle East Eye | Rakan Abed El Rahman
‘They Came Here to Attack Arabs.’ Welcome to Life in Israel’s ‘Mixed Cities’ | AJ + | Angie Nassar
Yemen: The boy who saved his sister from a sniper | BBC | Orla Guerin
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.
Aakash Hassan | Freelance
Andrei Popoviciu | Freelance
Asser Khattab | New Lines Magazine
Harriet Barber | The Telegraph
Ibrahim Adeyemi | Freelance
Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu | openDemocracy
Monika Mondal | Freelance
Prakhar Deep Jain | Insider
Sara Cincurova | Freelance
Zecharias Zelalem | Freelance
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.
BBC 100 Women Team | Urgent letters from Afghanistan: ‘I hope the world will not forget us’ | BBC World Service | Valeria Perasso
Exodus | Freelance/Guernica Magazine | Zahra Hankir
How Bangladesh beat Europe at fighting floods | DW Deutsche Welle | Ajit Niranjan
Hundreds of casualties on both sides in world capital of human-elephant conflict | Freelance/Earth Journalism | Mubina Akhtar
In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot | Freelance/The Guardian | Roy Cohen
The COVID-19 spraying scandal initiated by President Akufo-Addo | Media Foundation for West Africa | Manasseh Azure Awuni
The Day My Wartime Cat Went Missing | New Lines Magazine | Rasha Elass
The Ghost Village | Freelance/In These Times magazine | Khalid Bencherif
The Dictator’s Last Calls | BBC News Arabic | Emir Nader
Welcome to BrazilVenezuelan workers exploited under aid program | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Fabio Teixeira
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.
A Night with Palestine’s Defenders of the Mountain | The Nation | Mohammed El-Kurd
A Whale in the Desert: Tracing Paths of Migration in Turkana | Freelance/Emergence Magazine | Tristan McConnell
As winter closes in on Afghanistan, a 12-year-old tries to save his family | Freelance/1843 Magazine | Andrew North
Dalit Scientists Face Barriers in India’s Top Science Institutes | Freelance/Undark magazine | Ankur Paliwal
How US Abortion Politics Distort Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones | Freelance/New York Review | Jill Filipovic
Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective | The Guardian Long Reads | Meaghan Beatley
India’s Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Has Torn Apart Families and Locked Up Hundreds. 1.9 Million People Fear They Could Be Next | Freelance/TIME | Neha Thirani Bagri
Inside Nigeria’s unregulated human egg industry | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Mariam Adetona
Schooling for displaced students in the Sahel: The cross and the banner to resist obscurantism | Sidwaya | Souaibou Nombre
She was trafficked into a giant brothel. Now she runs it | Freelance/1843 Magazine (produced in partnership with The Fuller Project) | Corinne Redfern and Ali Ahsan
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.
Africa Science Focus: From security gates to the operating room | SciDevNet | Fiona Broom
Hello Hallyu | The Swaddle | Nirupama V & Sadhana Chathurvedula
Ep. 57: In Lagos, Vulnerable Communities Buried by Urbanization | Undark Magazine | Maggie Andresen
False Idol | Religion of Sports | Tim Rohan
Gone to the dogs: Rabies control and street dog welfare in India | Suno India | Mahima Jain
Is Germany’s genocide apology to Namibia enough? | Al Jazeera Digital | Malika Bilal
My Only Story: Back to School | Media24 | Deon Wiggett
Scrolls & Leaves | Freelance | Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Too Many Enemies | Volume | Paul McNally
What’s the isiZulu for dinosaurHow science neglected African languages | Springer Nature | Nick Petrić Howe
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.
ADRIFT: Venezuelan migration and mental health | Inquire First – Historias sin Fronteras | Maria Laura Chang, Héctor Villa and Jhoanna Osorio
Escaping Oblivion | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Eric Hoover
He told the world about his brutal torture in Syria. Then, mysteriously, he went back | The Washington Post | Liz Sly
How US Abortion Politics Distort Women’s Lives in Conflict Zones | Freelance/New York Review | Jill Filipovic
Is Europe turning its back on Belarusians fleeing Lukashenko’s regime? | Freelance/Euronews | Alina Yanchur
Norway’s Afghan Sons | Al Jazeera English | Preethi Nallu
She Migrates | Futuro Media | Marta Martinez
Terror in Tigray: The Ethiopian Refugee Crisis | Voice of America | Heather Murdock
The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe | The Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina
When Europe turns a blind eye: Life and Death in the Mediterranean | France 24 | Emmanuelle Chaze
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.
City Girls | Chambal Media | Priya Thuvassery
Life at 50 C: Fleeing the shifting sands of the Sahara desert, due to climate change | BBC News Arabic | Monica Garnsey
Freedom Swimmer | No Thing Productions (Australia) & Sacrebleu Productions (France) | Olivia Martin-McGuire
The Doll | Elahe Esmaili
The Exiles: A generation’s story | Middle East Eye | Khaled Shalaby and Hossam Sarhan
The Great Abandonment | Cave Pictures | Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya
The Haiti is in Canbuci (O Haiti e No Cambuci) | Playplus
Witness | Mariane Salerno
Pattani Calling | Black Squirrel Productions | Vijitra Duangdee
Russia’s banned youth | Al Jazeera Digital | Olga Khrustaleva
Manila Lockdown: One of the longest COVID lockdowns in the world | Al Jazeera English | Ditsi Carolino
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.
Foundation for Investigative Journalism | Nigeria
InfoNile Geojournalism Project | Uganda
Macaranga Media | Malaysia
Salud con Lupa | Peru
Syrian Anonymous Journalists | Syria
Project Multatuli | Indonesia
The Better India | India
The Republic | Nigeria
Tinyhand | Turkey
TOLOnews | Afghanistan
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.
3 Promises | National Film and Television School | Mohamed Shalaby
Beyond School | University of British Columbia | Students of the Global Reporting Program
Harvesting Our Tea | London College of Communication, LCC | Sheida Kiran
South African Police Are Undertrained, Uncontrolled, and Deadly | University of the Witwatersrand | Patrick Egwu
The Forbidden Love | International Center of Photography (ICP) | Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
The Violence Between Us | National Film and Television School | Camila Guerreiro
The Dream | University College London | Lucia de la Torre
The Molasses Mills | The School Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) at AUC | Dalia Mohamed Gaber El-Akkad
Toofaan | University College London | Mehr Singh
Where We Stand | University of Sussex | Moon Hwan Lee
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.
Afghanistan: Inside The Taliban’s Emirate | France 24 | Catherine Norris Trent, Sonia Ghezali and Romeo Langlois
Black Axe: Nigeria’s Mafia Cult | BBC Africa Eye | Peter Macjob
Blood on our Side: Mexico’s Forensic Investigators | Muzungu Producciones | Rodrigo Hernandez & Elpida Nikou
Selling surrogates: wombs for hire in Georgia | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp
Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries: Inside the Wagner Group | BBC News Arabic | Nader Ibrahim
Love in Sao Paulo’s Crackland – Episode 1 (O Amor Na Cracolandia-Parte 1) | Record TV | Aldrich Kanashiro
Morocco’s Youtube Migrants | BBC | Stephanie Hegarty and Katie Arnold
Undercover in Africa’s Secret State | Freelance/Channel 4 / PBS Frontline | Evan Williams
Under the Shadow of Iran | BBC | Nafiseh Kohnavard
Child sexual abuse in Pakistan: Zainab’s Legacy | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Owen Kean
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.
101 East: The Widows of Everest | Al Jazeera English | Sreya Banerjee and Rojita Adhikari
On the White Nile: A South Sudan businesswoman | Al Jazeera English | Akuol de Mabior
An unlikely band of water defenders fights chronic shortages in El Salvador | Freelance/National Geographic | Anna-Catherine Brigida
Barn Short Docs: The Care Box designed to save lives | Neolight Productions Limited | Jake Sirma
HER – Women in Asia| DW Deutsche Welle | Bettina Thoma-Schade
I am a Leader of my House | The New Humanitarian | Sabiha Faiz, Fahmida Azim, Sara Wong and Irwin Loy
Lebanese Women Fight Period Poverty with eco-friendly alternatives | Egab/The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun
Meet Maggie, the Malawian Musician turned Lockdown Hero | Evening Standard | Thoko Chikondi
Shadow Pandemic: Covid 19, Women and Girls in Nigeria | The Republic | Cynthia Igodo
Women’s Rights and the Pandemic | Global Press Journal | Khorloo Khukhnokhoi
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.
Coal Oligarchs: The Game | Project Multatuli | Viriya Singgih
Game of Votes – Colombian Elections 2022 | Cuestión Pública | Claudia Báez
Last stand in the Amazon | Nature | Jeff Tollefson
Occupy to survive: Brazilian squatters fight for housing rights | Freelance/Al Jazeera | Mia Alberti
Reconstructing the “Melilla Massacre” | Lighthouse Reports | Klaas van Dijken & Maud Jullien
Rehab in Yerevan. How is Armenia Healing its New Generation of Men after Nagorno-Karabakh War | Outriders | Lola García-Ajofrín
THE BANALITY OF BRUTALITY 33 days under siege in Block 17, Bucha, Ukraine | Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) | Elena Loginova & Yana Korniychuk
The Night Raids | ProPublica | Lynzy Billing
WhatsApp, Lebanon? | The New Humanitarian | Annie Slemrod
You Destroy. We Create | The war on Ukraine’s culture | NowHere Media | Gayatri Parameswaran
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.
A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick | The Fuller Project | Louise Donovan & Moraa Obiria
Climate change is forcing Kenyan women to leave their homes behind | gal-dem & Unearthed | Michelle Buky
Fears of ‘subprime’ carbon assets stall crypto rainforest mission | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Fabio Teixeira
‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village | Freelance/The Guardian | Ankur Paliwal
Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan | Mongabay | Keith Anthony S. Fabro
Identity Crisis | Freelance/FiftyTwo | Deepa Padmanaban
In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes | Thanh Nien Newspaper and Mekong Eye | Lê Đình Tuyển
The Airstrips of Destruction | Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting | Hyury Potter
The extraordinary benefits of a house made from mud | Freelance/National Geographic | Peter Schwartzstein
The Gulf: Killer Heat | BBC News | Ceci Golding & Pramod Acharya
For a feature-length (over 40 minutes) documentary film that deals with stories, topics or issues in, about or related to the global south.
African Moot | STEPS | Shameela Shedat
Ana’s trial | Chai Khana | Tamara Mshvenieradze & Mariam Jachvadze
BLACK MAMBAS | Karbe Film GmbH | Lena Karbe
Children of the Taliban | Moondogs films | Marcel Mettelsiefen
From the Shadows #Missingirls | Filament Pictures | Miriam Chandy Menacherry
No Simple Way Home | Lightbox Limited | Akuol de Mabior
No U-Turn | STEPS | Ike Nnaebue
President | Cinephil | Camilla Nielsson
The Radical | GOOD WORK | Richard Finn Gregory
UÝRA – The Rising Forest | Mama Wolf | Juliana Curi
For a filmmaker or journalist working in any medium who has made the most outstanding contribution to international journalism during the past year.
Alex Crawford | Sky News
Ankita Anand | Unbias the News
Bel Trew | The Independent
Damilola Ayeni | Foundation for Investigative Journalism
David Pilling | Financial Times
Mohammed Amin | Middle East Eye
Oscar Lopez | The New York Times
Philip Obaji Jr. | Freelance/The Daily Beast
Vince Chadwick | Devex
Varsha Bansal | Freelance
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.
Americans in Jerusalem are kicking out Palestinians | AJ+ | Angeline Nassar
Captagon: How Syria became a narco state | Agence France-Presse (AFP) | Dylan Collins
Drought and famine in Somalia | Deutsche Welle TV | Mariel Müller
Haiti on the verge of an Abyss | BBC News | Orla Guerin
Inside Al-Shabaab | Channel 4 News | Jamal Osman
Journalists of Tijuana, Mexico, confront danger to keep the city safe | Voice of America | Cristina Caicedo Smit
Kenya’s policing epidemic | VICE News | Julia Steers
Pakistan: Flood defences breached in Sindh Province | Sky News | Saima Mohsin
Russian soft power in The CAR | Découpages | Carol Valade, Clément Di Roma
Ukraine’s frontline rescuers | Channel 4 News | Jack Losh
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.
Ceci Golding | BBC News
Harriet Barber | The Telegraph
Lynzy Billing | ProPublica
Mariel Mueller | Deutsche Welle TV
Reha Kansara | BBC
Runako Celina | BBC World Service
Salma Niazi | The Afghan Times
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.
Bitter tales of Salima Sugar Company | Zodiak Broadcasting Station | Innocent Kumchedwa
Course Correction | Doha Debates | Nelufar Hedayat
El viaje de Estuardo (Estuardo’s journey) | CUIR: Historias disidentes | Erick Yáñez Navarro
GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land | Mongabay-India | Mayank Aggarwal
I will not grow old here | Radio Workshop | Mary-Ann Nobele
Slick: The story of oil, Shell and Nigeria | BBC World Service | Mayeni Jones
The Outlaw Ocean Podcast | The Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina
The Take – Climate change: Leaving Pakistan out to dry | Al Jazeera Digital | Amy Walters
Undercurrents: Tech, tyrants, and us | Coda Story | Isobel Cockerell
Ukrainecast | BBC | Vitaly Shevchenko
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.
Children of Ukraine | Renegade Pictures | Shahida Tulaganova
East of Maruipol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia | 1843 magazine The Economist | Wendell Steavenson
Ghosts of Moria | Freelance/Guardian | Michael Graversen & Florian Elabdi
Keeping the music alive – Playing in exile | Freelance/CNA | Mandakini Gahlot
Migrant parents losing babies during perilous boat crossings to Europe | i | Molly Blackall
Name Me Lawand | Pulse Films | Edward Lovelace
New York’s first Afghan Mosque became a refuge for children who fled without their families as Kabul fell | Freelance/Time | Jazzmin Jiwa
The Essence of Memories | Freelance/Arte & CBC | Melanie Gouby
The Guardian Long Read : Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda | Guardian News & Media | Samira Shackle
When Does the Journey EndThe lasting trauma of a child refugee in Europe | Outriders | Tina Xu
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.
Boubé of the Fulani | STEPS | FÉLICIEN ASSOGBA
Finding My Torturer | BBC | Victoria Arakelyan
Guatemala’s past unearthed | Al Jazeera English | Paula Monaco Felipe
Iran: Catching a killer | BBC | Omid Montazeri
Lady of the Gobi | The Guardian | Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig
ROT54: Armenia’s forgotten space giant | Freelance/Al Jazeera English | Marta Miskaryan
Stay Up | STEPS | AÏSSATA OUARMA
The Essence of Memories | Freelance/Arte & CBC | Melanie Gouby
The Leopard’s Tribe | Freelance/Miriam Chandy Menacherry
The ‘Spider-man’ of Sudan | The Guardian | Phil Cox & Rafa Renas
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.
Health in the Amazon: Local communities protect the rainforest, but lack adequate healthcare | Freelance/Nature | Sofia Moutinho
How a British special forces raid went wrong, and a young family paid the price | BBC | Hannah O’Grady and Joel Gunter
In lockdown with their rapist | Passblue | Damilola Banjo
Kenyans are dying to work in Saudi Arabia | Freelance/The Continent | Maurice Oniang’o
‘My bladder keeps slipping out of the vagina – but I can’t seek treatment’ | Freelance/Scroll.In | Romita Saluja
My money or your life: the bank robbers of Beirut | 1843 magazine, The Economist | Wendell Steavenson
Off Balance | Fifty Two | Ankur Paliwal
The Baby Broker Project | Finance Uncovered | Simon Bowers, Malia Politzer & Naipanoi Lepapa
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
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.
Africa Direct – The Adventures of Boubacar | Al Jazeera English | Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou
A Matter of Honor | The Atavist Magazine | Sarah Souli
Brazil’s National Museum deals with its colonial past | Freelance/New York Times | Mariana Lenharo, Meghie Rodrigues
How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed | New Lines Magazine | Ugur Ungor
How the Shipping Industry Sails through Legal Loopholes | Hakai magazine | Paul Tullis
Myanmar: Soldiers admit atrocities | BBC | Ko Ko Aung
Sense of Community – Iten | Al Jazeera English | Michael Onyiego
The Nigerian school with a radical idea: Teaching Boko Haram’s kids | Prime Progress Media & Christian Science Monitor | Innocent Eteng
UXO: Lethal Legacy | Honolulu Civil Beat | Thomas Heaton
What’s Eating My Mind | LBx Africa & BBC | Noella Luka
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.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnia and Herzegovina
Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) | Nigeria
Laboratorio de Periodismo y Opinión Pública | Mexico
La Voie Originale | Côte d’Ivoire
Lupa | Brazil
Mongabay-India | India
Project Multatuli | Indonesia
Radio Al-Salam | Iraq
STEPS | South Africa
The Continent | South Africa
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.
A Song of Resistance | University College London | Bazla Samin
Cadáver | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel
Dear Daughter | University College London | Yuqi Tang
Green Country | National Film and Television School | Sophia Seymour
Khayelitsha (Our new home) | National Film and Television School | Pieter Genee
Oubaki | University Of The Arts London: Central Saint Martins | Joe Jordan
Pakistan Floods: The Human Cost | De Montfort University | Safiyyah Choudry
Promised Land | National Film and Television School | Frank Eli Martin
The Blue Fig | Falmouth University | Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Utopia | University of the Arts London | Yinzi Zeng
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.
BBC Panorama – SAS Death Squads Exposed | BBC | Hannah O’Grady
Fault Lines – The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh | Al Jazeera English | Kavitha Chekuru
Modern Day Slaves of Thailand | Open Secrets | Fat Stone Films & Vice | Naruemon Chaingam
Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution | Evan Williams Productions & Channel 4 | Katie Arnold
Teen Mums: Pregnant and Trapped | Channel 4 News | Anja Popp
The cost of being an atheist | BBC Africa Digital | Yemisi Adegoke
Ukraine: Life under attack | Basement Films & Channel 4 | Mani Benchelah and Patrick Tombola
Under Poisoned Skies | BBC News Arabic | Jess Kell and Owen Pinnell
Untold: Inside The Shein Machine | Zandland & Channel 4 | Ally Roberts
Women at war: Afghanistan | Sky News | Alex Crawford
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
Africa’s first chief heat officer | Freelance/CNN | Amelia Hemphill
A Sense of Community – Iztapalapa | Al Jazeera English | Drew Ambrose
BBC People Fixing the World – Jobs for girls | BBC | Farhana Haider
For this Somali refugee, beauty has a purpose | National Geographic | Neha Wadekar
How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women | Freelance/MIT Technology Review | Sanket Jain
How one small Syrian NGO is tackling period poverty, one pad at a time | The New Humanitarian & Egab | Safaa Sallal
India’s women are building an alternative to toxic masculinity | Freelance/Reasons To Be Cheerful | Safina Nabi
La pantalla andina (The Andean Screen) | Carmina Balaguer
Mujeres contra las rejas (Women against bars) | Proceso Magazine & International Women’s Media Foundation | Neldy San Martín, journalist
Witness – Yuli | Al Jazeera English | Ip Kar-Man
(formerly the Digital Media Award)
For innovative screen based media that covers a story or topic from the global south. The Award recognises creative and innovative techniques and content that extends knowledge and understanding of the topic, and engages with audiences. Entries should be using new technologies and platforms, such as TikTok, gaming, data, VR, AR, XR or AI.
A Woman’s World: Creating spaces for joy, leisure, and resistance in South and Southeast Asia | Kontinentalist | Mariyam Haider in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya
A Year of Survival: Life inside the Turkey-Syria earthquake zone | The Take | Al Jazeera | Miranda Lin
APU – The weeping gods | Chouette Films | Remi Sowa
China: The Superpower of Seafood | Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina
Corruption & Punishment | Cuestion Publica | Claudia Báez
Cambodia’s new cabinet is steeped in nepotism | Radio Free Asia | Amanda Weisbrod
Green Goldrush: The Offset Odyssey | Earth Journalism Network | Louis Lugas Wicaksono
GAWI | Dansker Digital | Myriam Hernandez Vazquez
Lazos de Amor Mariano: radical Catholicism in politics | Cerosetenta and Manifiesta Media | Natalia Arenas Chaves
The Twin Quakes: the stories behind the seismic activity that shook Turkey and Syria in February 2023 | Outriders | Produced by the Outriders international team
For media that explores the relationship between people and the planet in the global south. The Award recognises impact and creativity in telling an environmental story. Entries should cover at least one of these areas: urban development, climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film
Tuvalu: Losing Paradise | Channel 4 News | Tilly Cowan
Amazônia Viva | Iniciativa Inter-religiosas pelas Florestas Tropicais / Interfaith Rainforest Initiative | Estêvão Ciavatta
The spongy creatures cleaning Zanzibar’s oceans | BBC | Frank Papushka
Exposed! Indonesian Companies and The Greenwashing that Deceived Europe | Narasi | Aqwam F Hanifan
Climate Displacement: The Invisible Migration | N+Focus | Saúl Sánchez Lemus and Alberto Pradilla
Making peace with nature | Zoe Gelber and Myra Anubi | BBC – People Fixing the World
How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality | CNN | Bernadette Tuazon, Taiwo Aina, Saiyna Bashir, Lisa Marie David, Khadija Farah, Fabeha Monir, Victoria Razo and Adriana Zehbrauskas
Arts in time of crisis: Drawing Derna | The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun
How America’s War Devastated Afghanistan’s Environment | New Lines Magazine and Inside Climate News | Lynzy Billing
Impact of hydropolitics in Asia | Nikkei Asia | Kiran Sharma, Pak Yiu
For a feature-length documentary film that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be more than 40 minutes long.
Eat Bitter | Ningyi Sun and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
Hong Kong Mixtape | Younger Productions and Tigerlily Productions | San San F. Young
Lucélia | Record TV | Mariane Salerno
Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha | Record TV | Mariana Castagna Ferrari
Silent Deportation | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Czechia | Dmytro Dzhulay
Escaping My Family | BBC | Zlata Onufrieva
Witness – A Second Shot | Moondogsfilms for Al Jazeera English | Marcel Mettelsiefen
Bantay Bukid | Pia Duran
The Sky is Mine | Ayoub Naseri
For a young filmmaker or journalist who has made a substantial contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises impactful storytelling that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants should be 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2024 and can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Angelina de Los Santos Huelmo | openDemocracy
Arlette Bashizi | The New Humanitarian
Bisan Owda | AJ+
Freddie Clayton | Freelance
Gabriela Barzallo | Freelance
Nilesh Christopher | Freelance
Parth MN | Freelance
Ridwan Karim Dini Osman | Freelance
Sanket Jain | Freelance
Yousef Hammash | Channel 4 News
For a written, audio or video news report that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises exclusive content or an investigation that led the news agenda. Entries can be online, broadcast or in print.
Yemen’s Children | BBC | Orla Guerin
Babies behind bars. Convicted since birth | Connectas | Mariela Castañón
Darien Gap: ‘Hell on Earth’ | Channel 4 News | Guillermo Galdos
Gaza grandmother shot and killed by Israeli sniper as child waved white flag | Middle East Eye | Mohammed al-Hajjar
Gaza’s tech ‘window to the world’ shattered by Israel-Hamas war | Context | Nazih Osseiran
Kisangani Killings | TV5Monde | Simon Rodier
The Redut Ruse Inside Russia’s Fake Private Mercenary Company Fighting In Ukraine | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Valeriya Yegoshyna
Left Behind | Lighthouse Reports | May Bulman, Fahim Abed
Narcobanano | TC Television | Alina Manrique
On Assignment: The Enyobeni Tavern Tragedy | ITV | Rohit Kachroo
For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, and stories that have a compelling narrative. Entries should be broadcast on radio or online.
Country of Dust -We don’t talk about the future | Country of Dust | Nyree Abrahamian
Iraq Generation Invasion | BBC World Service | Rebecca Kesby
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children | The Guardian | Thaslima Begum & Rosie Swash
Women at the forefront of wildlife preservation | SBS Radio | Ruth Kadide Keah
This coal life | Radio Workshop NPC | Dhashen Moodley
Diaries of the war on Gaza | Al Jazeera English | Ney Alvarez
Rasberry Visa | BBC World Service | Bhrikuti Rai, Fabian Federl
The Republic podcast | The Republic | Wale Lawal
(formerly the Special Award. This Award is free to enter and open only to organisations)
For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award recognises 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.
(Please note that that former category ‘Popular Features’ has now merged with the Print Award)
For a feature article published in print or online that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content or new perspectives. Entries must be articles of 750 words or longer.
Chilean mothers’ long search for babies stolen during Pinochet’s dictatorship | openDemocracy | Naomi Larsson Piñeda
Slaughter in El Geneina | Reuters | Maggie Michael and Ryan McNeill
Afghan women take their own lives as despair grows under Taliban rule | The Fuller Project/Zan Times/The Guardian | Zahra Nader
Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras’ abortion ban | Associated Press | María Verza and Ginnette Riquelme Quezada
The Del Monte deaths: shocking claims of violence at pineapple plantation | TBIJ.com, The Guardian, Mail&Guardian | Edwin Okoth, Matthew Chapman and Emily Dugan
Investigation: Nigeria’s War With Boko Haram May Have Killed Thousands of Innocent People | New Lines Magazine and HumAngle | ‘Kunle Adebajo
Return to ChinaXing would rather die in the jungle | 1843 magazine, The Economist | Shawn Yuan
Sisters foster healing for survivors and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s civil war | Global Sisters Report | Doreen Ajiambo
The Kusiong Story Project | Rappler | Raizza P. Bello, Rappler Investigative team
Widowed by Europe’s Borders | Unbias The News | Gabriela Ramirez and Tina Xu
For media that tells stories about people’s experience as refugees, migrants or when seeking asylum. The Award recognises compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Alone and Exploited | The New York Times | Hannah Dreier
How I rescue people caught in Sudan’s war | Al Jazeera Digital | Tierney Bonini
Russia’s war won’t stop me becoming chess grandmaster | Al Jazeera Digital | Tierney Bonini
Children of War | Fresh Start Media | Chris Rogers
Traces Left Behind | BBC | Thomas Naadi
Trafficking Inc. | ICIJ | Pramod Acharya
The Rohingya fled genocide. Now, violence stalks them as refugees | The Washington Post | Rebecca Tan
Ethiopian Facebook for migrant workers enables human trafficking, forced labour in Saudia Arabia, advocates say | Zecharias Zelalem
The Vanishing diaspora of Syria’s Physicians | The New Arab | Mark Lee Hunter
Europe’s Nameless Dead | Lighthouse Reports
For media, produced by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises creative and compelling storytelling.
Rush | University of the Arts London | Shuai Yang
New-Gen Migrant Workers | University College London | Chunlin Wu
Cancer Kitchen | University College London | Weili Xi
Burnt Country | National Film and Television School | Kirsten Slemint
Do you see me in the camera | University of the Arts London | Yixin Li
Hungry for freedom | National Film and Television School | Rachata Thongruay
Multimedia Series on food security in Southeast Asia | Global Reporting Centre | Fellows and Faculty of the Global Reporting Program in partnership with Mongabay
Knife’s Edge | National Film and Television School | Rodrigo Andrés Durán Osorio
Goodnight, Mister Stalin | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel
Just to Reach you | University of the Arts London | Gemma Fan
Sponsored by
For media that explores women’s solutions in the global south. The Award recognises empowering stories of girls and women who successfully tackled challenges faced by women and society at large, such as: women’s financial and economic inclusion, addressing the impact of the climate crisis, increasing access to education, healthcare or democracy. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
‘Women bear the biggest brunt of climate change’ says climate scientist Susan Chomba | Guardian/The Fuller Project | Neha Wadekar
101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters | Al Jazeera | Rudraneil Sengupta & Sreya Banerjee
The Indigenous Women’s Brigade in the Amazon | Deutsche Welles | Nádia Pontes
Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo | BBC | Ria Utari
Dhye Dreams | Express News Pakistan | Shanta Nepali
Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC | The Guardian | Mélanie Gouby
Money clubs help displaced Nigerians create their own safety nets | The New Humanitarian | Zubaida Baba Ibrahim
Why Samsung factory workers in Vietnam are becoming beauticians | Rest of World | Lam Le
Healing the body, the land and the territory: the commitment of the women of Agua Caliente to manage their health | Zona Docs | Mariana Mora
Breaking taboos: Papuan women embrace collective care to end period poverty | Project Multatuli | Narriswari
For a short documentary film that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be under 40 minutes.
The Last Harvest | New Lines Magazine | Jon Lowenstein
Age of Learning | The Third Eye & Hawapani Nepal production | Shuvangi Khadka
An Unkown Summer | 92×26 Films & Little Bit More | Bhaskar Jyoti Das
Birdsong | The Guardian | Sparsh Ahuja
Can I Hug You? | Elahe Esmaili & Jumping Ibex
Imelda is Not Alone | Heredia Pictures LLC | Paula Heredia
The Medallion | Ruth Hunduma
The Takeover | Field of Vision | Anders Hammer
Nairobi Hotline | Voice of America | Daphne Matziaraki
The Ugandan Quidditch Movement | Atlas Obscura | Ben Garfield
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a freelance filmmaker or journalist who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a filmmaker or journalist working for a media organisation who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Dánae Vílchez | openDemocracy
Abdi Latif Dahir | The New York Times
Prue Lewarne | SBS TV Australia
Secunder Kermani | Channel 4 News
Asami Terajima | The Kyiv Independent
(formerly the Television Documentary Award)
Supported by
For a film, programme or investigation that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content and considered analysis of a current affairs issue. Entries can include a specific episode of a strand or a topical, news-led documentary.
Coal Slaves | Record TV | Rodrigo Favero Carvalho De Castro
Fault Line – The Confession | Al Jazeera English | Jeremy Raff
Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys | Channel 4 | Vladimir Sevrinovsky
The Zuko NonXuba Story | Carte Blanche | Tarryn Crossman
The Body In The Woods | The Independent | Bel Trew
Ukraine’s Stolen Children | Renegade Stories | Shahida Tulaganova
Inside Iran: the fight continues | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Martin Elhage Smiley
Lawless: Gangs of Haiti | CGTN America / MediaLinks TV LLC | Jason Motlagh
The Last Hospital | Sky News | Stuart Ramsay
The Trap: India’s Deadliest Scam | BBC | Poonam Agarwal
(formerly the Digital Media Award)
For innovative screen based media that covers a story or topic from the global south. The Award recognises creative and innovative techniques and content that extends knowledge and understanding of the topic, and engages with audiences. Entries should be using new technologies and platforms, such as TikTok, gaming, data, VR, AR, XR or AI.
APU – The weeping gods | Chouette Films | Remi Sowa
A Woman’s World: Creating spaces for joy, leisure, and resistance in South and Southeast Asia | Kontinentalist | Mariyam Haider in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya
A Year of Survival: Life inside the Turkey-Syria earthquake zone | The Take | The Take | Al Jazeera Digital | Amy Walters
Special Mention: China: The Superpower of Seafood | Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina
For media that explores the relationship between people and the planet in the global south. The Award recognises impact and creativity in telling an environmental story. Entries should cover at least one of these areas: urban development, climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Making peace with nature | Zoe Gelber and Myra Anubi | BBC – People Fixing the World
The spongy creatures cleaning Zanzibar’s oceans | BBC | Frank Papushka
Tuvalu: Losing Paradise | Channel 4 News | Tilly Cowan
Special Mention: Arts in time of crisis: Drawing Derna | The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun
For a feature-length documentary film that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be more than 40 minutes long.
Eat Bitter | Ningyi Sun and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
Hong Kong Mixtape | Younger Productions and Tigerlily Productions | San San F. Young
The Sky is Mine | Ayoub Naseri
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a freelance filmmaker or journalist who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Special Mention: Nicola Kelly
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a filmmaker or journalist working for a media organisation who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Abdi Latif Dahir | The New York Times
Prue Lewarne | SBS TV Australia
Secunder Kermani | Channel 4 News
Special Mention: Dánae Vílchez | openDemocracy
For a written, audio or video news report that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises exclusive content or an investigation that led the news agenda. Entries can be online, broadcast or in print.
Babies behind bars. Convicted since birth | Connectas | Mariela Castañón
Left Behind | Lighthouse Reports | May Bulman, Fahim Abed
On Assignment: The Enyobeni Tavern Tragedy | ITV | Rohit Kachroo
Special Mention: Darien Gap: ‘Hell on Earth’ | Channel 4 News | Guillermo Galdos
For a young filmmaker or journalist who has made a substantial contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises impactful storytelling that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants should be 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2024 and can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Angelina de Los Santos Huelmo | openDemocracy
Bisan Owda | AJ+
Yousef Hammash | Channel 4 News
Special Mention: Nilesh Christopher | Freelance
For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, and stories that have a compelling narrative. Entries should be broadcast on radio or online.
Country of Dust -We don’t talk about the future | Country of Dust | Nyree Abrahamian
Diaries of the war on Gaza | The Take | Al Jazeera Digital | Ney Alvarez
This coal life | Radio Workshop NPC | Dhashen Moodley
For media that tells stories about people’s experience as refugees, migrants or when seeking asylum. The Award recognises compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Alone and Exploited | The New York Times | Hannah Dreier
The Rohingya fled genocide. Now, violence stalks them as refugees | The Washington Post | Rebecca Tan
Trafficking Inc. | ICIJ | Pramod Acharya
Special Mention: How I rescue people caught in Sudan’s war | Al Jazeera Digital | Tierney Bonini
For a short documentary film that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be under 40 minutes.
Can I Hug You? | Jumping Ibex | Elahe Esmaili & Hossein Behboudi Rad
The Medallion | Ruth Hunduma
The Ugandan Quidditch Movement | Atlas Obscura | Ben Garfield
Special Mention: Age of Learning | The Third Eye & Hawapani Nepal production | Shuvangi Khadka
(formerly the Special Award. This Award is free to enter and open only to organisations)
For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award recognises 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.
For media, produced by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises creative and compelling storytelling.
Hungry for freedom | National Film and Television School | Rachata Thongruay
Knife’s Edge | National Film and Television School | Rodrigo Andrés Durán Osorio
Rush | University of the Arts London | Shuai Yang
Special Mention: Goodnight, Mister Stalin | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel
(formerly the Television Documentary Award)
Supported by
For a film, programme or investigation that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content and considered analysis of a current affairs issue. Entries can include a specific episode of a strand or a topical, news-led documentary.
Fault Lines – The Confession | Al Jazeera English | Jeremy Raff
Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys | Channel 4 | Vladimir Sevrinovsky
Inside Iran: the fight continues | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Martin Elhage Smiley
Special Mention: The Last Hospital | Sky News | Stuart Ramsay
Sponsored by
For media that explores women’s solutions in the global south. The Award recognises empowering stories of girls and women who successfully tackled challenges faced by women and society at large, such as: women’s financial and economic inclusion, addressing the impact of the climate crisis, increasing access to education, healthcare or democracy. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Breaking taboos: Papuan women embrace collective care to end period poverty | Project Multatuli | Narriswari
101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters | Al Jazeera | Rudraneil Sengupta & Sreya Banerjee
Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC | The Guardian | Mélanie Gouby
(Please note that that former category ‘Popular Features’ has now merged with the Print Award)
For a feature article published in print or online that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content or new perspectives. Entries must be articles of 750 words or longer.
Slaughter in El Geneina | Reuters | Maggie Michael, Ryan McNeill, Zohra Bensemra and El Tayeb Siddig
The Kusiong Story Project | Rappler | Raizza P. Bello, Rappler Investigative team
Widowed by Europe’s Borders | Unbias The News | Gabriela Ramirez and Tina Xu
(formerly the Digital Media Award)
For innovative screen based media that covers a story or topic from the global south. The Award recognises creative and innovative techniques and content that extends knowledge and understanding of the topic, and engages with audiences. Entries should be using new technologies and platforms, such as TikTok, gaming, data, VR, AR, XR or AI.
Winner:
A Woman’s World: Creating spaces for joy, leisure, and resistance in South and Southeast Asia | Kontinentalist | Mariyam Haider in collaboration with Khabar Lahariya
Nominees:
APU – The weeping gods | Chouette Films | Remi Sowa
A Year of Survival: Life inside the Turkey-Syria earthquake zone | The Take | The Take | Al Jazeera Digital | Amy Walters
Special Mention: China: The Superpower of Seafood | Outlaw Ocean Project | Ian Urbina
For media that explores the relationship between people and the planet in the global south. The Award recognises impact and creativity in telling an environmental story. Entries should cover at least one of these areas: urban development, climate crisis, energy, environmental health, environmental justice, food, water, wildlife and zero waste. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
Tuvalu: Losing Paradise | Channel 4 News | Grace Malie, Tilly Cowan, Sophie Larkin-Tannett, Louise Turner
Nominees:
Making peace with nature | Zoe Gelber and Myra Anubi | BBC – People Fixing the World
The spongy creatures cleaning Zanzibar’s oceans | BBC | Frank Papushka
Special Mention: Arts in time of crisis: Drawing Derna | The New Humanitarian | Zainab Chamoun
For a feature-length documentary film that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be more than 40 minutes long.
Winner:
Hong Kong Mixtape | Younger Productions and Tigerlily Productions | San San F. Young
Nominees:
Eat Bitter | Ningyi Sun and Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
The Sky is Mine | Ayoub Naseri
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a freelance filmmaker or journalist who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
Nominees:
Special Mention: Nicola Kelly
(formerly the International Journalist of the Year Award)
For a filmmaker or journalist working for a media organisation who has made the most outstanding contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises consistent, impactful reporting that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
Prue Lewarne | SBS TV Australia
Nominees:
Abdi Latif Dahir | The New York Times
Secunder Kermani | Channel 4 News
Special Mention: Dánae Vílchez | openDemocracy
For a written, audio or video news report that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises exclusive content or an investigation that led the news agenda. Entries can be online, broadcast or in print.
Winner:
On Assignment: The Enyobeni Tavern Tragedy | ITV | Rohit Kachroo
Nominees:
Babies behind bars. Convicted since birth | Connectas | Mariela Castañón
Left Behind | Lighthouse Reports | May Bulman, Fahim Abed
Special Mention: Darien Gap: ‘Hell on Earth’ | Channel 4 News | Guillermo Galdos
For a young filmmaker or journalist who has made a substantial contribution to stories from the global south during the year. The Award recognises impactful storytelling that brings a story to audiences in a compelling way. Entrants should be 32 years of age or under as of 16th February 2024 and can be working in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
Yousef Hammash | Channel 4 News
Nominees:
Angelina de Los Santos Huelmo | openDemocracy
Bisan Owda | AJ+
Special Mention: Nilesh Christopher | Freelance
(Please note that that former category ‘Popular Features’ has now merged with the Print Award)
For a feature article published in print or online that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content or new perspectives. Entries must be articles of 750 words or longer.
Winner:
Slaughter in El Geneina | Reuters | Maggie Michael, Ryan McNeill, Zohra Bensemra and El Tayeb Siddig
Nominees:
The Kusiong Story Project | Rappler | Raizza P. Bello, Rappler Investigative team
Widowed by Europe’s Borders | Unbias The News | Gabriela Ramirez and Tina Xu
For an audio feature, podcast, or single programme from a series, that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, and stories that have a compelling narrative. Entries should be broadcast on radio or online.
Winner:
This coal life | Radio Workshop NPC | Dhashen Moodley
Nominees:
Country of Dust -We don’t talk about the future | Country of Dust | Nyree Abrahamian
Diaries of the war on Gaza | The Take | Al Jazeera Digital | Ney Alvarez
For media that tells stories about people’s experience as refugees, migrants or when seeking asylum. The Award recognises compelling stories that generate empathy, understanding and are reported on accurately and fairly. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
Alone and Exploited | The New York Times | Hannah Dreier
Nominees:
The Rohingya fled genocide. Now, violence stalks them as refugees | The Washington Post | Rebecca Tan
Trafficking Inc. | ICIJ | Pramod Acharya
Special Mention: How I rescue people caught in Sudan’s war | Al Jazeera Digital | Tierney Bonini
For a short documentary film that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises impact and storytelling that is character-driven and creative. Entries must be under 40 minutes.
Winner:
Can I Hug You? | Jumping Ibex | Elahe Esmaili & Hossein Behboudi Rad
Nominees:
The Medallion | Ruth Hunduma
The Ugandan Quidditch Movement | Atlas Obscura | Ben Garfield
Special Mention: Age of Learning | The Third Eye & Hawapani Nepal production | Shuvangi Khadka
(formerly the Special Award. This Award is free to enter and open only to organisations)
For an independent media organisation based in the global south using media to address social, cultural, political and economic issues. The Award recognises 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:
Nominees:
For media, produced by a student as part of a journalism or filmmaking course at a university or film school that deals with stories or topics in the global south. The Award recognises creative and compelling storytelling.
Winner:
Knife’s Edge | National Film and Television School | Rodrigo Andrés Durán Osorio
Nominees:
Hungry for freedom | National Film and Television School | Rachata Thongruay
Rush | University of the Arts London | Shuai Yang
Special Mention: Goodnight, Mister Stalin | National Film and Television School | Benjamin Kodboel
(formerly the Television Documentary Award)
Supported by
For a film, programme or investigation that covers a story or topic in the global south. The Award recognises impact, exclusive content and considered analysis of a current affairs issue. Entries can include a specific episode of a strand or a topical, news-led documentary.
Winner:
Fault Lines – The Confession | Al Jazeera English | Jeremy Raff
Nominees:
Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys | Channel 4 | Vladimir Sevrinovsky
Inside Iran: the fight continues | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Martin Elhage Smiley
Special Mention: The Last Hospital | Sky News | Stuart Ramsay
Sponsored by
For media that explores women’s solutions in the global south. The Award recognises empowering stories of girls and women who successfully tackled challenges faced by women and society at large, such as: women’s financial and economic inclusion, addressing the impact of the climate crisis, increasing access to education, healthcare or democracy. Entries can be in any medium, including news, online, audio, print or film.
Winner:
101 East – India’s Women Combat Fighters | Al Jazeera | Rudraneil Sengupta & Sreya Banerjee
Nominees:
Breaking taboos: Papuan women embrace collective care to end period poverty | Project Multatuli | Narriswari
Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC | The Guardian | Mélanie Gouby