Shortlist 2025

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Innovative Storytelling Award

(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

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Environmental Reporting Award

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

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Feature Documentary Award

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

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New Voice Award

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

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News Award

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

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Podcast & Radio Award

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

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Press Freedom Award

(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.

Foundation for Investigative Journalism

Mexicanos contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad

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Print Award

(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

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Refugee Reporting Award

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

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Student Award

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

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Women’s Solutions Reporting Award