Finalists span 10 award categories celebrating exceptional human rights journalism over the past year
BBC presenter Maryam Moshiri will host the ceremony in London on April 26
Amnesty International UK has announced the full list of finalists for the 2023 Amnesty Media Awards.
The 10 awards categories celebrate excellence in human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists who have shone a light on human rights issues in their work – often putting their lives at risk in doing so.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday April 26, 2023. The ceremony, held at Amnesty’s Human Rights Action Centre, will be hosted by journalist and BBC presenter Maryam Moshiri.
Maryam has been a presenter on the BBC’s World News channel for almost four years, where she has presented many of the flagship programmes, including Outside Source, The Context, Impact, Global and Newsday.
Maryam has reported on some of the biggest stories of the past two decades – from the impact of the 9/11 attacks to the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. She was recently announced as being one of five chief presenters to make a new line-up on the BBC’s News Channel, which will launch next month.
The Media Awards judging panels are made up of high-profile UK journalists, past award winners and Amnesty representatives.
The finalists:
Investigation
- BBC News Arabic
Under Poisoned Skies
- DM Productions for ITV’s Exposure
The Crossing
- BBC Eye
Finding My Torturer
- 1843 magazine, The Economist
“The family secret”: How rape is hushed up in Britain’s armed forces
Features
- BBC Online
Greenland’s Lost Generation
- Al Jazeera
“Walking reminders of atrocities”
- The Guardian
“If you decide to cut staff, people die”: how Nottingham prison descended into chaos
- The Sunday Times Magazine
“I made a mistake. Why should my son pay?”
The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist
- Liz Cookman
The Sunday Times
- Ghoncheh Habibiazad
The Guardian
- Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
The Women’s Peace Movement in Congo
- Elisabeth Mahase
The BMJ
Student Journalist
- Alexander Tuck Meng Sampson
University of Bristol
- Maximilian Jenz
University of Sheffield
- Sarah Green
City, University of London
- Tane Rogers-Eirug
Cardiff University
Radio & Podcasts
- RTÉ
RTÉ Documentary On One: Blackrock Boys
- BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service Radio & BBC Sounds
The Man Who Came Back from the Dead
- Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio 4
Please Protect Abraham
- BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds
Isobel’s Story
Broadcast News
- ITV News
Afghanistan
- Sky News
Life and death in Afghanistan’s poorest province
- ITV News
Bucha War Crimes Investigation
- Channel 4 News
Ukraine Frontline Rescuers
Best Use of Digital Media
- BBC Online
The Faces From China’s Uyghur Detention Camps
- BBC News Africa
Tunisia’s Ben Ali: The Dictator’s Last Calls
- The Guardian
Ukraine destruction: how the Guardian documented Russia’s use of illegal weapons and crimes against civilians
- CNN
How Iran’s security forces use rape to quell protests
Written News
- The Independent
The horrors of Bucha: mass graves, bodies ‘left to rot in bags like rubbish’ and the 89-year-old shot dead in bed
- BBC Online
Haiti: Inside the capital city taken hostage by the brutal gangs
- The Guardian
Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters
- BBC Online
Collecting the Dead in Bucha
Photojournalism
- Hugh Kinsella Cunningham
The Women’s Peace Movement in Congo
- Alessio Mamo
Crimes against civilians: documenting the scale of abuse in Ukraine
- Mads Nissen
Sangre Blanca – The Lost War on Cocaine
- Tommy Trenchard
Lethal Legacy – Angola’s decades-long struggle with landmines
Nations and Regions
- UTV
Home Terror
- The Detail
PSNI strip searching of under-18s ‘deeply shocking’
- BBC Scotland
Locked in the Hospital
- BBC Northern Ireland
Police, WhatsApp & Whistleblowers
