Fisayo Soyombo, other journalists unveiled as nominees for One World Media Awards

The One World Media Awards has unveiled the full list of nominees for the 2020 edition of the awards.

The awards aim to celebrate the industry’s best media coverage of developing countries.

The 2020 edition of the awards received entries from over 60 countries.

Information available on the awards’ website says: “This year we were thrilled to receive entries from over 60 countries and we are delighted to announce the longlists across all 15 categories for this year’s awards!

“The final three nominees in each category will be announced later this month, and the winners will be presented at the online awards ceremony on Thursday 18 June 2020.”

Nigeria’s undercover journalist, Fisayo Soyombo is the only African among the 10 journalists who made the longlist for International Journalist of the Year category.

Below is the longlist in each category of the awards:

Children in Conflict Reporting Award sponsored by Save the Children

• Abuse and Scandal in the Catholic Church: The Case of the Predator Priest – CNN
• Dreaming of my Homeland – NHK World
• Inside Idlib: Kids scavenging trash for food in Idlib, Syria – Channel 4 News
• Iraq: A State of Mind – BBC Four
• A Jerusalem hospital where Palestinian babies die alone – The Guardian
• Lost Children of the Caliphate – BBC News
• The orphans of ISIS: Innocent children forsaken in ‘hellish’ Syrian camps – N World
• Palestinian conflict: Diaries of childhood in Israeli military detention – BBC World
• Tiny Souls – Dina Naser for MADD moshawash
• Unreported World: Schools Under Siege – Channel 4

Digital Media Award sponsored by Google.

• China Cables – ICIJ
• Could mega-dams kill the mighty River Nile? – Al Jazeera
• Determined for Hope: Manal al Amal – Al Jazeera, Contrast
• Generation Gulag – Coda Story
• Luanda Leaks – ICIJ
• Mexico’s Murdered Daughters – Channel 4 News, Uncovered
• Sahel in Flames – The New Humanitarian
• SHELL SHOCKED – The Intercept
• Treasure Hunters: The lost coins of Alexander the Great – BBC News Arabic
• Velvet Sketches

Environmental Impact Award

• Could mega-dams kill the mighty River Nile? – Al Jazeera
• Fewer children, fewer climate risks? Niger ponders a controversial option – Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Le Lac – DOK Leipzig
• Logging is corrupting these islands. One village fights back—and wins – National Geographic
• On Assignment: The Ghazipur Landfill – ITV News
• OPERATION AMAZON REDUX – The Intercept
• The Problem with India’s Man-Eating Tigers – BBC Future
• Rainforest on Fire – The Intercept
• Silent Forests – Mariah Wilson for House Tiger Productions
• Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest – Vox
• The villages in Malawi that prepared for the floods – and survived – Mail & Guardian

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Feature Documentary Award

• Children of the Snowland – Zara Balfour and Marcus Stephenson for Picture on the Wall Productions & Mayfly TV
• Defying the Cutting Season – Giselle Portenier for Defying Destiny Films Inc
• For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts for Channel 4
• Hutchinson: Shunted – Eric Miller
• Indian Space Dreams – Sue Sudbury for Sequoia Films
• The Letter – Maia Lekow for Circle & Square Films
• Mother – Kristof Bilsen for Limerick Films, Man’s Films Productions & HALAL docs
• Of Land and Bread – Ehab Tarabieh for B’Tselem
• On the President’s Orders – Olivier Sarbil and James Jones for Mongoose Pictures
• Restless – Gel Santana for Santa Luzia Filmes
• Silent Forests – Mariah Wilson for House Tiger Productions
• Trial of Ratko Mladic – Henry Singer and Rob Miller for Sandpaper Films Production

International Journalist of the Year Award

• Alex Crawford – Sky News
• Bel Trew – Independent
• Drew Ambrose – Al Jazeera English
• Fisayo Soyombo – The Cable
• Hind Hassan – Vice News
• Isobel Yeung – Vice News
• John Sudworth – BBC News
• Mehdi Hasan – Al Jazeera English
• Namak Khoshnaw – BBC Arabic
• Rina Chandran – Thomson Reuters Foundation

News Award

• All Hail The Algorithm – ‘Like Me’ – The Popularity & Power of Big Tech – Al Jazeera English
• Desperate Venezuelans Cross the Border Seeking Medical Treatment – CNN
• The Forced Confession – BBC Persian
• God or the Gang – BBC News
• Inside ISIS’ Final Fight – Vice News
• Inside Sudan’s Brutal Drive to Quell the Anti-Government Protests – CNN
• Lesbos: Migrants in Limbo – France 24
• The targeting of ambulances in Idlib – Channel 4 News
• Uganda: Orphanage Inc – Vice News
• Uighur Families – BBC News
• Working the nightshift on malaria’s frontline in Sierra Leone – BBC News Digital

New Voice Award

• Amanda Audi – The Intercept
• Areeb Ullah – Middle East Eye
• Hiba Barakat – Freelance
• Jacob Kushner – The New York Times
• Maziar Motamedi – Al Jazeera
• Naseh Shaker – Freelance
• Oscar Lopez – Freelance
• Paulo Victor Ribeiro – The Intercept
• Sandra Gathmann – Al Jazeera
• Shatha Hammad – Middle East Eye

Popular Features Award

• Emerging from ISIS genocide, Yazidis open religion’s largest ever temple – Independent
• Hong Kong: Behind the Frontline – SBS
• In Refugee Settlements in Uganda, Survivors Grapple With How to Raise Children Born of Rape – Glamour Magazine
• The Kings of Kabul – BBC Persian
• La Reina – Nowness
• MTV Shuga In Real Life: Young Moms – MTV Base
• New Workers of the World – Bloomberg
• Stacey Dooley Investigates: Nigeria’s Female Suicide Bombers – BBC Three
• Thailand’s Rebel Artists – Al Jazeera
• War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut’s Emerging Alt-Comix Scene – Atlas Obscura

Print Award

• The Balance of Power: India’s most powerful woman – Sonia Faleiro for 1843 magazine
• Congo Ebola crisis: To fight disease, an anthropologist heals distrust – Ryan Lenora Brown for The Christian Science Monitor
• How to save a country from snakebite – Yao-Hua Law for Mosaic
• I Can No Longer Continue to Live Here – Jill Filipovic for Politico Magazine
• In Syria’s latest exodus, local citizens become frontline aid workers – Sofia Barbarani for The New Humanitarian
• ‘I’ve seen death in this city, but nothing as sad as this’: how a ferry disaster exposed the corruption devastating Iraq – Ghaith Abdul-Ahad for The Guardian
• A Jerusalem hospital where Palestinian babies die alone – Oliver Holmes and Hazem Balousha for The Guardian
• Schooling behind bars – Athandiwe Saba for Mail & Guardian
• Shiraz Protests: Agents Shot and Killed Demonstrators – Shahed Alavi for IranWire
• My Brush With Death – Arrey Bate for ArreyB Media
• WWF’s Secret War – Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker for Buzzfeed

Radio and Audio Award

• AfroQueer Podcast – AQ Studios
• Beyond the Headlines: Politics, protests and partying on the streets of Lebanon – The National
• Climate Change in Uttarakhand – Earth Journalism
• Escaping China’s religious prison camps – BBC World Service
• Morocco’s Hash Trail to Europe – BBC World Service
• Mothers of Invention – Doc Society
• My Father the Killer – The Documentary
• My Only Story – News24.com
• Stories from the New Silk Road – BBC World Service
• Sudan’s Muted Massacre – Al Jazeera
• The Undercover Migrant – BBC World Service

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Refugee Reporting Award sponsored by British Red Cross

• Despite U.S. asylum ban, Honduran women fleeing violence remain undeterred – The Intercept
• The Displaced – BBC News
• Dying to Cross the Channel – ITV News
• Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: ‘The plants were more valuable than my life’ – The Guardian
• Full of promise? Refugees in Ethiopia impatient for right to work – Thomson Reuters Foundation
• The Invisibles… Life through the eyes of an ‘invisible’ migrant – Channel 4 News
• “I will not leave this place.” Refusing to become a refugee and other reflections from the heart of Congo’s ongoing conflict – Global Press Journal
• Libya: The Infernal Trap – France 24
• Rohingya Woman May Soon Become First In India To Attend College – Religion Unplugged
• #RojavaDiary – Outride.rs
• A Shelter from Home – AJE Shorts

Short Film Award

• Birdwatching with Farc – Tristan Martin and Faye Planer for National Geographic
• Guarding the Forest – Max Baring for Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Lawaris: Karachi’s Unidentified Dead – Owen Kean for Vice
• Lazarus – David Darg for RYOT
• A Life of Her Own – Tamar Mshvenieradze for Chai Khana
• The Nightcrawlers – Alexander A. Mora for Genius Loki Films & Violet Films
• Somali Night Fever – Rachel Clara Reed & Megan Iacobini de Fazio for The Guardian
• Two Tractors Outside Rivne, Ukraine – Matt Sarnecki for UA: First Channel
• A Ukrainian Love Story – Ross Domoney for Coda Story
• Unreported World: Girls Behind Bars – Datshiane Navanayagam for Channel 4
• The War on Afghan Women – Karishma Vyas for Al Jazeera English

Special Award

• Agência Pública – Brazil
• Bihus.Info – Ukraine
• Chai Khana Media – Georgia
• Corresponsal de Paz – Mexico
• Mail & Guardian – South Africa
• Rappler – The Philippines
• Tuko.co.ke – Kenya
• Zan TV Network – Afghanistan

Student Award

• The Burning Field – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL
• The Fish You (Don’t Know You Eat) – University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism
• Fonja – Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
• Isle of Us – National Film and Television School
• Miss Curvy – National Film and Television School
• Scratching The Surface – University of the West of England
• In Search Of Miao – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL
• Separation – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL
• They whisper but sometimes scream – Goldsmiths, University of London
• While Seeking Help – University of Westminster

Television Documentary Award published by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

• All Hail The Algorithm – ‘Click Me’ – The Algorithm Made Me Do It – Al Jazeera English
• The Beast – Record TV
• Bolland Green Kaitu’u: Change Maker – Pacific Media Assistance Scheme Facebook
• Censored – Channel 4
• The Husband School – Al Jazeera, Witness
• India: The Child Sex Highway – Al Jazeera English
• In the Prisons that Don’t Exist – RTHK Channel 31
• Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade – BBC News Arabic
• War Crimes Scandal Exposed – BBC Panorama
• The War on Afghan Women – Al Jazeera English
• The Yazidis Secret Children – BBC Persian