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The Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2012 were opened in December 2012, [1] the short-list was published 25 April 2012 [2] and the awards announced 29 May 2012. [3]
In total, there were 12 awards made in the categories of Digital Media, Documentary, The Gaby Rado Memorial Award, International TV and Radio, Magazine (Consumer), Magazine (Newspaper Supplement), National Newspaper, Nations and Regions, Photojournalism, Radio, Student Human Rights Reporter Award and TV News.
The awards ceremony was hosted by Dermot Murnaghan. [4]
The winners and runners up were:
2012 | |||||
Category | Title | Organisation | Journalists | Refs | |
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Digital media | |||||
Deaths in custody: a case to answer | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | Iain Overton, Angus Stickler, Dan Bell, Charlie Mole | [5] [6] [7] | ||
The Execution of Troy Davis | The Guardian | Ed Pilkington, Guardian Digital Team | [8] [9] [10] [11] | ||
Voices from Dark Places: Exposing the Crimes of the Assad Regime | Al Jazeera | Annasofie Flamand, Hugh Macleod | |||
Judges: Anna Doble, Wesley Johnson, Sam Strudwick, Jody Thompson | |||||
Documentary | |||||
Enemies of the People (Voices from The Killing Fields) | More4 | Rob Lemkin, Stefan Ronowicz, Thet Sambath | [12] [13] | ||
Give up Tomorrow | BBC4 Storyville | Michael Collins, Nick Fraser, Eric Daniel Metzgar, Marty Syjuco | [14] [15] [16] | ||
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields | ITN Productions for Channel 4 | Callum Macrae, Chris Shaw, Jon Snow | [17] [18] [19] | ||
Judges: John Amaechi, Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Alison Rooper, Kim Sengupta | |||||
Gaby Rado Memorial Award | |||||
Horror in Homs | Channel 4 News | Mani [20] [21] | [18] [22] [23] | ||
"Midnight's Children"; "Kenya is on the Brink of its own Disaster"; "'Bridenapping': A Growing Hidden Crime" | Independent on Sunday | Emily Dugan [24] | [25] [26] [27] | ||
Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic; Uganda's Miracle Babies; Honduras: Diving into Danger | Channel 4 Unreported World | Jenny Kleeman | [28] [29] [30] | ||
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Janet Murray, Louis Rado, Ritula Shah, Jon Snow | |||||
International TV and Radio | |||||
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark | Al Jazeera English | Jon Blair, May Ying Welsh | [31] [32] | ||
Assignment: Blasphemy – A Matter of Life and Death | BBC World Service | Caroline Finnigan, Bridget Harney, Jill McGivering, Bushra Taskeen | [33] [34] [35] | ||
Death in the Desert: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary | CNN | Sheri England, Mohamed Fahmy, Tim Lister, Earl Nurse, Frederik Pleitgen | [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] | ||
Judges: Jane Corbin, Mark Galloway, Flora Hunter, Sean Ryan, Thomas Schultz-Jagow | |||||
Magazines: Consumer | |||||
Nature's defenders | New Internationalist | Vanessa Baird [41] | [42] [43] [44] | ||
The Art Issue: "Art or Vandalism?" Russia's Robin Hood "China's New Deal" | Index on Censorship | Yasmine El Rashidi, Nick Sturdee Nick Sturdee Simon Kirby | [45] [46] [47] [48] | ||
Judges: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood | |||||
Magazines: Newspaper supplements | |||||
The rape of men | Observer Magazine | Will Storr | [49] [50] [51] [52] | ||
1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad | Mail on Sunday Live Magazine | Evan Williams | [53] | ||
Judges: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood | |||||
National Newspapers | |||||
"In Europe's last dictatorship all opposition is mercilessly crushed"; "'My husband phoned to say he was going to the sauna ... we never saw him again'" RBS Helped Bankroll Europe's Last Dictatorship | The Independent | Jerome Taylor | [54] [55] [56] | ||
Investigation into Undercover Policing of Protest | The Guardian | Paul Lewis, Rob Evans | [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] | ||
We live in fear of a massacre | The Sunday Times | Marie Colvin | [63] [64] [65] | ||
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Jemima Khan, Iain Overton, Michelle Stanistreet, Joel Taylor | |||||
Nations and Regions | |||||
Gaddafi's Secret Policemen Came to Talk to Me | Sunday Herald | David Pratt [66] | |||
Torso in the Thames | ITV London Tonight | Ronke Phillips, Faye Nickolds | [67] [68] [69] | ||
Women of the World's Slums | Sunday Herald | David Pratt [66] | [70] | ||
Judges: David Cornock, Helena Drakakis, Mike Gilson, Shabnum Mustapha, Naresh Puri | |||||
Photojournalism | |||||
A place to stay – Dale Farm | The Times | Mary Turner [71] | [72] [73] [74] | ||
Human Rights Abuses in Egypt | NUJ Egyptian revolution exhibition | Lewis Whyld [75] | |||
The Rattle Of War And The Pain Of Hunger | The Guardian | Robin Hammond [76] | |||
Judges: Stuart Freedman, Colin Jacobson, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Paterson, Kelly Preedy | |||||
Radio | |||||
Afghanistan: Counting the Cost | BBC Radio 4 Today and The World Tonight | Nina Manwaring, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson | |||
Victoria Derbyshire in Guantanamo Bay | BBC Radio 5 Live | Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton | [77] [78] [79] [80] | ||
Judges: Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Henry Bonsu, Mariella Frostrup | |||||
Student Human Rights Reporter Award | |||||
The curious case of John Oguchuckwu | The Glasgow Guardian | Amy Mackinnon | [81] [82] | ||
Democracy Criminalised in East Jerusalem | Brig Newspaper (Stirling University's Online Student Voice) [83] | Boel Marcks Von Wurtemberg | [84] | ||
Living in Exile | Life 360: Cardiff University's International Journalism Magazine [85] | Paul Dharamraj | [86] | ||
Judges: Nes Cazimoglu, Sean Coughlan, Guy Gunaratne, Hannah Livingstone, Sophie Mei Lan, Yasser Ranjha, Hannah Shaw | |||||
Television News | |||||
Battle for Misrata | ITV News | John Irvine, Arti Lukha, Sean Swan, Tim Singleton, Deborah Turness | [87] [88] | ||
Horror in Homs | Channel 4 News | Agnieszka Liggett, "Mani", Jonathan Miller, Nevine Mabro, Teresa Smith | [89] [90] [18] [91] [22] [20] [23] [21] | ||
Undercover in Homs | BBC Newsnight | Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Amanda Gunn | [92] [93] | ||
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Lyse Doucet, Julie Etchingham, Tim Miller, Mike Radford | |||||
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