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Jon Snow with Sharmeen Obaid-ChinoyThe 2007 One World Media Awards ceremony took place at a glittering ceremony at Porchester Hall, Bayswater, London. The ceremony itself was the most successful to date - it was attended by around 400 leading UK filmmakers, broadcasters, and NGO representatives.

You can read the full list of winners here. Some notable winners included the youngest ever Broadcast Journalist of the Year Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (right, with Jon Snow) who collected the award for her investigative journalism on the Unreported World series for Channel 4.

Exceptionally, the jury could not separate the two winners of the television documentary award, which went to Tea Boy of Gaza and The 12 Year Old Cocaine Smuggler, both from the BBC 2 strand 'This World'.

Mohan Bista, Radio SagarmathaThe 2007 Special Award went to Radio Sagarmatha, a community radio station in Nepal, and South Asia's first independent radio station. Mohan Bista (left) collected the award at the ceremony; he said:


''We would like to dedicate this award to the Nepali people who fought for freedom of expression and democracy, and thank them for their support through the good and bad times.”


The ceremony also featured an engaging keynote speech from Tariq Ramadan, President of the European Muslim Network - you can read a transcript of his speech here.

Jon Snow continued his tradition of arriving at the ceremony in a highly unconventional manner, this time by using a skateboard, direct from presenting the Channel 4 News. You can watch his journey on film here.

You can also view photos from the Awards night

You can look at the media coverage of the event, the Awards winners, and the shortlist

And find out who was on the different juries, and who sponsored the Awards in 2007