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
FPA (ForeignLang):‍

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

CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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Midori Tanioka

Border Resisters: Myanmar

Judges comment:

A new and different human story from Myanmar. Extremely high quality, self-shot film which was a testament to the quality of instruction at City. Very well put together. One of the judges joked that with this calibre of talent coming up, they’d be out of a job soon.

WINNER

THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST

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Reporter, The Afghan Times

Judges comment:

A very human report in great depth and gathered with huge difficulty and risk of retribution. Her work stood out because of the difficulties she worked under and the quality of her journalism. Reporting from within Afghanistan carries huge risks so the bravery needed to produce stories of this calibre is immense.‍

WINNER

ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR

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Rosamund Urwin, Charlotte Wace, Paul Morgan-Bentley

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse

The Sunday Times/The Times

Judges comment:

A joint investigation with the Dispatches team, into this massive story, the impact that it had was enormous. Really impressive work by a talented team whose painstaking research over 3 years demonstrated a pattern of behaviours from Russell Brand. Clearly a bigger story than just one erring celebrity, a fantastic story really well told.

WINNER

ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR

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Esella Hawkey, Alice McShane, Florence Kennard, Alistair Jackson, Imogen Wynell-Mayow

Dispatches: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight

Hardcash Productions / Channel 4

Judges comment:

Tremendously interesting in how it reveals so much about the culture within the entertainment industry; a fascinating and substantial story really well told. The standout story of the year. One judge was glued to their couch watching this!

WINNER

FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC STORY OF THE YEAR

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Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, Alex Longley, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain

Russia’s Shadow Fleet

Bloomberg

Judges comment:

A punchy dramatic and well researched video that shows the general failure of sanctions. A big complex story, told very well to explain the different aspects of Russia’s efforts to circumvent Western sanctions clearly and without getting too bogged down in the detail. Great footage of two tankers transferring oil just off Greece’s shoreline.

WINNER

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

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Sue-Lin Wong

The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard

1843 Magazine

Judges comment:

A very well told story about a cruise holiday to the Spratly Islands, in the South China Sea, that highlights the absurdity of marketing a tropical getaway in a contested zone. A very interesting tale about the madness of this awful experience with a sidelong look at the strategic implications for international relations. A little gem.

WINNER

RADIO/PODCAST OF THE YEAR

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Chloe Hadjimatheou, Claudia Williams, Hannah Varrall, Gary Marshall, Jasper Corbett

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

Judges comment:

A podcast that grabs you from the beginning and keeps you wanting to hear more. This investigation of the European individuals and companies who profited from the Iran-Iraq chemical war gave an original and unique perspective on the global plot to send chemicals to Iran.

WINNER

PRINT & WEB NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Neggeen Sadid

Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls

1843 Magazine

Judges comment:

Stunning - a beautiful and originally told story and where the journalist took many risks to get access and where great care had also to be taken to protect sources. A great piece of investigative journalism that shows exactly what happens to men and women who dare to defy the Taliban. At times it’s like a thriller as the fear and suspense is ever present.

WINNER

TV NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Yousef Hammash

Inside the Gaza Siege

Channel 4 News

Judges comment:

A shocking, necessary story, full of chilling images about an explosion where every victim was someone he knew. The judges praised the timeliness and bravery involved in getting those desperate early images. Huge credit should go to Channel 4 for getting such an inside view, so early in this conflict.

WINNER

ENVIRONMENT & science Story of the Year

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Callum Macrae, Mark Williams

People & Power – A Crude Mistake?

Al Jazeera English

Judges comment:

A difficult story very well done, which captured the dilemmas of development and environment. An excellent piece of journalism by a great filmmaker which offered a clear explanation for complex issues and meticulously documented all the stages and perspectives to create a comprehensive and in-depth picture.

WINNER

Print & web Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA

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Mark MacKinnon

The Fearless

The Globe & Mail, Canada

Judges comment:

An amazing piece of work - more like a book than an article. A very complex, well written tale about a team of special forces fighters in Ukraine and their thoughts about the unfolding war. Extremely well researched and very human.

WINNER

tv & Radio Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA

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Daniele Hamamdjian, Kieron O’Dea, Marc D’Amours

Inside the ‘Little Gaza’ of the West Bank, &Living under Israeli Lockdown in Hebron

Global News, Canada

Judges comment:

Brilliant. Extraordinary access in a very dangerous area opened a rare and timely window onto the reality of life under occupation. A piece which really broke new ground with its early access in Jenin and Hebron and its interviews with Hamas.