Amnesty International UK has announced finalists of the Amnesty Media Awards 2022, a prestigious set of awards that have now been running for 30 years.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a ceremony in London, hosted by Krishan Guru-Murthy on Wednesday 4 May 2022.
The 11 award categories celebrate excellence in human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists and editors who sometimes put their lives on the line to report on vital human rights issues.
The judging panels were made up of high-profile UK journalists, past award winners and Amnesty representatives
The finalists:
Investigation
- Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera Investigations: All the Prime Minister’s Men - BBC
Three Killings in Kampala - BBC News Arabic, BBC World News
Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries – Inside the Wagner Group - Tortoise Media
Hidden Homicides
Features
- BBC News Arabic, BBC Digital News
The Lost Tablet - inews.co.uk and i
The Plight of LGBT people in Afghanistan - The Guardian/Saturday
The Great Sperm Heist - The Sunday Times
Our floating hell: the incredible story of a crew stranded at sea in the Gulf
The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist
- Rosa Furneaux
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - Murray Jones
Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) & The Byline Times - Ben van der Merwe
New Statesman - Zecharias Zelalem
Freelance
Student Journalist
- Mohamed Boteen
National Film And TV School - Israel Campos
City University of London - Kimi Chaddah
Durham University - Udit Mahalingam
King’s College London
Radio & Podcasts
- Audible UK
The Bias Diagnosis – Episode 3: Thought - BBC Radio 4
Kaleidoscope: Lights Out - BBC World Service Radio
“Document everything. Trust no one” - The Guardian
The Pegasus Project / Today In Focus
Broadcast News
- BBC iPlayer + BBC News at Ten + BBC online
The Execution of Lisa Montgomery - BBC News: BBC News at Ten, Radio 4 Today, World Service Newshour, BBC Online
Afghan Women - BBC Ten O’Clock News, BBC1
Libya’s forgotten migrants - Sky News
Sky News Meets the Middlemen Smuggling Thousands Across the Channel
Best Use of Digital Media
- Airwars
Gaza: mapping the civilian toll - Al Jazeera English
State of Fear - BBC World Service
Channel migrants tragedy: Terrifying final hours of their fatal journey - The Guardian
Countdown to the airstrike: the moment Israeli forces hit al-Jalaa tower, Gaza
Written News
- Al Jazeera English Online
In Spain’s strawberry fields, migrant women face sexual abuse - Al Jazeera English Online, Al Jazeera Digital
“A Tigrayan womb should never give birth”: Rape in Tigray - The Daily Telegraph / www.telegraph.co.uk
Hilton hotel to be built in Xinjiang after China bulldozes mosque - The Times
Taliban Purge
Nations and Regions
- BBC Northern Ireland
BBC NI Spotlight Covid & Care: Searching for Answers - BBC One Scotland
Desperately Seeking Asylum - BBC Scotland
Covid-linked deaths in Scotland’s care homes - BBC Two / BBC One Wales
A Killing In Tiger Bay
Photojournalism
- Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
Inner Light: The children surviving conflict in DR Congo - Alessio Mamo
Children in the Game - Andrew Testa
Modern Slavery Unit - Harsha Vadlamani
See how rural India has been overrun by the pandemic’s second wave
Documentaries
- BBC 4
Collective: Unravelling a Scandal - BBC One and BBC iPlayer
Subnormal: A British Scandal - Channel 4
Undercover in Africa’s Secret State - ITV
Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin
