FPA Media Awards

Chair of the Judges 2022:

Alessandro Allocca, La Repubblica, Italy
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The FPA is grateful to our External Judges for our 2022 edition:

MICHAEL CRICK has been a journalist for more than 40 years. He was a founder member of Channel 4 News, where he was later Washington Correspondent (1988-90) and Political Correspondent (2011-19). At the BBC he has been a reporter for Panorama; and for Newsnight, where he was Political Editor (2007-11). He has also made scores of films for the website MailPlus.

Crick's first book was Militant (1984), about the Trotskyist Militant tendency. His subsequent works have included biographies of Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine,Sir Alex Ferguson and most recently Nigel Farage. In 2018 he published Sultan of Swing, a biography of the distinguished Oxford psephologist Sir David Butler.

He won Royal Television Society [RTS] awards in 1989 and 2002, and was the RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year in both 2014 and 2018. Also in 2018, Crick was given the Charles Wheeler/British Journalism Review award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism. `

STRYKER McGUIRE is an Anglo-American journalist living in London. He spent 30 years at Newsweek, where he was a correspondent, bureau chief, senior editor and chief of correspondents. He ran the London bureau from 1996 until he retired from the magazine in 2008 and in 2000 he won the FPA's Best Foreign Reporting Award. In 2010, Stryker was retained by the London School of Economics and Political Science to create a magazine, LSE Research, that highlighted the work of university's academics. In 2011, he became a senior editor at Bloomberg Markets magazine; he retired last year. He continues to write occasionally for The Washington Post, The New European and other publications.

MEGHA MOHAN is the BBC World Service's first global gender and identity correspondent. She covers issues concerning race and ethnicity, women's rights and LGBT communities for the BBC's 41 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents and secured exclusive interviews with Finland's all-women coalition government and Samoa's first woman Prime Minister. Megha is a deployment journalist who files longform original features for BBC World TV, radio, online and social media.

2022 FPA Awards Shortlists for each category:

Story of the Year by a Full Member of the
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Yannis Andritsopoulos
Revealed:In 1986 letters to Greek minister, Boris Johnson
denounced UK government fornot returning Parthenon
Marbles.
‍Ta Nea, Greece
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Gabi Biesinger with Sabine Wachs in Paris
Boat refugees in the English Channel - A small war on the
edge of Europe
‍ARD German Radio
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2022 Winner
Diana Zimmermann
Poor King Kingdom
‍ZDF GermanTelevision

ENVIRONMENT Story of the Year

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2022 Winner
Dan Edge, Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin
Barnwell
Big Oil vs the World
‍BBC, MongoosePictures and PBS Frontline

Ciara Nugent
New Lithium Mining Technology Could Give Argentina a
Sustainable Gold Rush
‍TIME

‍Jamal Osman, Girish Juneja
The Toxic Cost of Going Green
‍Unreported World, Channel 4

TV News Story of the Year

‍2022 Winner
Alex Crawford, Jake Britton, Chris Cunningham, Artem Lysak
Ukraine War - Time running out for Lysychansk
Sky News

Yogita Limaye, ImogenAnderson, Sanjay Ganguly
Sexual Crimes
‍BBC News at Ten

‍Nick Springate, Orla Guerin, Ahmed Edroughi, Dave Bull
Libya’s Forgotten
BBC News

Print & Web News Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Joel Gunter
Collecting the Dead in Bucha
BBC News

Andrew North, Paula Bronstein
‍Afghanistan nightmare: a humanitarian crisis that threatens
to dwarf all others
‍Nikkei Asia
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Billy Perrigo
‍InsideFacebook’s African Sweatshop
‍TIME

Radio/Podcast of the Year

‍2022 Winner
Alex Barker, Patricia Nilsson
Hot Money: porn, power and profit podcast
‍Financial Times

Katie Gunning, Paul Caruana Galizia
Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power
Tortoise Media

Tim Whewell
The Accordian Wars of Lesotho
Assignment, BBC World Service

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

Josh Glancy
‍How the Falkland Islands became one of the world's most
affluent places,
The Sunday TimesMagazine

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‍2022 Winner
Ahmed Madi, Florence Phillips, Haim Litani
The ListeningPost - Destination Damascus
Al Jazeera English

Samanth Subramanian
The lost Jews of Nigeria
‍Guardian Long Read

Financial/Economic Story of the Year

Sophie Elmhirst
Super-primemover: Britain's most successful estate agent
‍Guardian Long Read

Andy Verity, Sarah Bowen
The Lowball Tapes
BBC Radio 4
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2022 Winner
Isobel Yeung, Belle Cushing
‍Undercover in Guyana
‍VICE News

TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Fergal Keane, Alice Doyard
I call him by his name
‍BBC Our World

Richard Bilton, Hannah O’Grady & Team
‍Panorama's investigation into British Special Forces killings in
Afghanistan
BBC Panorama

Al Jazeera I-Unit
The Truth Illusion
Al Jazeera

ARTS & CULTURE Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Stuart McGurk
We're going to disrupt - a year inside GB News
New Statesman

Neil Munshi
‍In 'Touriste', heroic Russians save the Central African
Republic. The truth is even stranger
Financial Times

Arthur Nazaryan, Mike Shum, Reem Haddad, Poh Si Teng,
Fiona Lawson-Baker
‍Witness - My Eternal Art
DEC8 Productions for AlJazeera English

Thomson Foundation Young Journalist

Carlos Raúl Kestler Molina, Guatemala
Journalist, PrensaLibre / Guatevisión
1. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 1
2. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 2
3. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 3

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‍2022 Winner
Yashraj Sharma, India
Freelance reporter, Guardian/NBC
1. Families want a son at any cost.
2. Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India
3. Across the border from Myanmar, someavoid the fight
while others sign up for it.

Jyoti Yadav, India
Senior Correspondent, ThePrint
1. Gangraped in teens, visiting courts as grandmothers
2. A rape forgotten.
3. Long waitfor nursing dream.

SCIENCE Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Simar Bajaj
‍Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready
for it?
The Guardian

BBC News Arabic investigations team
with BBCWorld Service
Beauty's Ugly Truth
BBC News

Imogen West-Knights
The queen of crime-solving,
Guardian Long Read

JOURNALISTOF THE YEAR

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‍2022 Winner
Isobel Yeung
VICE News

WINNER

JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

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Robin Barnwell

Judges comment:

An outstanding documentary. Harrowing and intense but essential viewing.

WINNER

Science Story of the Year 2023

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‍Samanth Subramanian

Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

Guardian Long Read

Judges comment:

So clearly and succinctly told and gave the reader a genuine insight into the difficulties of dealing with nuclear energy.

WINNER

CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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Maya Saad

Lebanon Tragedy at Sea

Judges comment:

The story had excellent access to individuals and the families directly affected – which was dealt with great sensitivity. Maya is not from Lebanon but managed to get all the right interviewees to produce a well balanced and topical report which showed great humanity.

WINNER

THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST 2023

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Yara El Murr, Lebanon

Journalist, The Public Source

Judges comment:

The story about the missing was a tragic first-hand account, described as compelling , chilling and beautifully written. The other two on disaster preparedness and climate change were well researched and written.

WINNER

Arts & Culture Story of the Year 2023

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Jonathan Miller, Nick Blakemore, Yousef Hammash, Claire Pringle, Andy Lee, Ed Fraser

Gaza: Daring to Dream

Unreported World, Channel 4

Judges comment:

A charming, gentle story from Gaza. The film explored the underground art scene where young Gazans were trying to express themselves in the face of both an Israeli blockade and the censors of the Islamist government. The judges said it was really effective story-telling and beautifully shot.

WINNER

Financial/Economic Story of the Year 2023

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Harry Wallop

The Banana Unpeeled

The Sunday Times Magazine

Judges comment:

A brilliant example of how to tell a complex story with wit and verve and that economic stories can reach a wider audience.

WINNER

TV Documentary of the Year 2023

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Robin Barnwell, Darren Kemp, Hilary Andersson, Serhiy Solodko, Taras Shumeyko

Mariupol: The People’s Story

BBC /Top Hat Productions /Hayloft Productions

Judges comment:

A unique, visceral and deeply moving picture of the destruction of a European city and the suffering of its citizens. It exposed the reality of war from the moments of extreme terror down to the mundanity of makeshift nappies and overpacked cars.

WINNER

Travel & Tourism Story of the Year 2023

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‍Matt Rudd

Airbnb

‍The Sunday Times Magazine

Judges comment:

An excellent investigation, well researched with lots of new information. A thorough piece that illustrates how pervasive Airbnb has become in many of Britain’s most popular tourist areas.

WINNER

Radio/Podcast Story of the Year 2023

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Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat, Joe Kent, Jonathan Aspinwall, Emma Rippon

‍The Shamima Begum Story(Series 2 of I’m Not A Monster)

‍BBC News Long Form Audio for BBC Sounds/5Live

Judges comment:

An absolutely gripping piece of audio that showed such dogged persistence in investigation. There were genuine revelations about what happened to the 3 British schoolgirls who left to join ISIS in 2014.

WINNER

Print & Web Story of the Year 2023

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Zachary Mider, Swati Gupta, Modou Joof

Poisoned cough syrup killed kids

‍Bloomberg News

Judges comment:

A great example of how a story about business can have human interest at its heart. They found the story was very moving because it touched on a product so readily available to children.

WINNER

TV News Story of the Year 2023

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Quentin Sommerville, Darren Conway

On Zero Line Ukraine

BBC News

Judges comment:

The judges said this was exquisite film-making with incredible camera work that gave the story a filmic quality rather than just a story for a news bulletin.

WINNER

Environment Story of the Year 2023

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