The One World Media Awards has announced its final selection of this year’s nominees for its award.
The One World Media Awards celebrates underreported stories that break down stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people from different cultures.
To make the final selection of this year’s nominees, more than 60 of the industry’s most distinguished journalists, filmmakers and media professionals gathered from every corner of the world for an Online Jury Day.
From hundreds of entries, from over 60 countries, there are now three final nominees across all 15 awards categories.
The winners will be announced at the online awards exhibition on Thursday, June 18, 2020.
See below for the nominees in each category:
Children in Conflict Reporting Award sponsored by Save the Children
- Inside Idlib: Kids scavenging trash for food in Idlib, Syria – Channel 4 News
- Iraq: A State of Mind – BBC Four
- Lost Children of the Caliphate – BBC News Arabic
Digital Media Award sponsored by Google.
- Generation Gulag – Coda Story
- SHELL SHOCKED – The Intercept
- Treasure Hunters: The lost coins of Alexander the Great – BBC News Arabic
Environmental Impact Award
- Logging is corrupting these islands. One village fights back—and wins – National Geographic
- Rainforest on Fire – The Intercept
- Silent Forests – Mariah Wilson for House Tiger Productions
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Feature Documentary Award
- Defying the Cutting Season – Giselle Portenier for Defying Destiny Films Inc
- The Letter – Maia Lekow for Circle & Square Films
- Trial of Ratko Mladic – Henry Singer and Rob Miller for Sandpaper Films Production
International Journalist of the Year Award
- Alex Crawford – Sky News
- Fisayo Soyombo – The Cable
- John Sudworth – BBC News
News Award
- The targeting of ambulances in Idlib – Channel 4 News
- Uighur Families – BBC News
- Working the nightshift on malaria’s frontline in Sierra Leone – BBC News Digital
New Voice Award
- Naseh Shaker – Freelance
- Oscar Lopez – Freelance
- Shatha Hammad – Middle East Eye
Popular Features Award
- In Refugee Settlements in Uganda, Survivors Grapple With How to Raise Children Born of Rape – Glamour Magazine
- Stacey Dooley Investigates: Nigeria’s Female Suicide Bombers – BBC Three
- Thailand’s Rebel Artists – Al Jazeera
Print Award
- 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
- WWF’s Secret War – Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker for Buzzfeed
Radio and Audio Award
- AfroQueer Podcast – AQ Studios
- Mothers of Invention – Doc Society
- The Undercover Migrant – BBC World Service
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Refugee Reporting Award sponsored by British Red Cross
- Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: ‘The plants were more valuable than my life’ – The Guardian
- “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
Short Film Award
- Lawaris: Karachi’s Unidentified Dead – Owen Kean for Vice
- The Nightcrawlers – Alexander A. Mora for Genius Loki Films & Violet Films
- Somali Night Fever – Rachel Clara Reed & Megan Iacobini de Fazio for The Guardian
Special Award
- Agência Pública – Brazil
- Mail & Guardian – South Africa
- Rappler – The Philippines
Student Award
- Isle of Us – National Film and Television School
- Miss Curvy – National Film and Television School
- Separation – MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UC
Special Mention: The Fish You (Don’t Know You Eat) – University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism
Television Documentary Award published by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- The Beast – Record TV
- Undercover with the Clerics: Iraq’s Secret Sex Trade – BBC News Arabic
- The Yazidis Secret Children – BBC Persian