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Awards 2008 - the short list

 

Read below for the One World Media Awards 2008 short list. Winners will be announced at the ceremony on 12th June, at the New Connaught Rooms, London. To book tickets, click here.

 

Broadcast Journalist of the Year

Mike Thomson Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Jonathan Miller ITN for Channel 4
Emma Hurd Sky News

Radio Documentary

Calls Across the Wall Jeremy Grange, BBC Wales for BBC Radio 4
Lost in Translation John Waite, Karen Pirie, and Andrew Smith, BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts
Desperate Dreams (The Monday Documentary) Jenny Cuffe and David Ross, BBC World Service

TV Documentary

Taxi to the Dark Side Alex Gibney and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville for BBC 2
Please Vote for Me Weijun Chen and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville for BBC 4
War on Democracy John Pilger, Chris Martin, Wayne Young, Michael Watt, and Joe Frost, ITV

Press Award

Asda, Primark, and Tesco Accused Karen McVeigh, The Guardian
Fruitless in Gaza Donald MacIntyre, The Independent
Inside a Nest of Suicide Bombers Hala Jaber, The Sunday Times

New Media Award

Burma Coverage BBC News and Media
Why Democracy Don Edkins and Mette Heide, Steps International; Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville
Katine: It Starts with a Village Katine Project, Guardian News and Media

Local Media Award

Changing Lives, The Fair Trade Story Carole Green, ITV Wales
Time to Stop the Human Traffic Rebecca Lowe, South Wales Evening Post
A History of Violence Lucy Adams, The Herald

Popular Features Award

14 in One Room Lucy Bailey, Guy Littlemore, Pete Drinkwater; Comic Relief, BBC Bristol for BBC1
Seeing is Believing AA Gill, Sunday Times Magazine
This is Baba Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond, Observer Sport Monthly

MDGs Award

EU El Dorado Louise Williams for Newstalk, 106-108, Dublin
Iron Ladies of Liberia Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson, and Nick Fraser, BBC Storyville
The unluckiest baby in the world Katherine Butler, The Independent

Children's Rights Award

The Cotton Curse: Child Labour in Uzbekistan Simon Ostrovsky, Therese Randall, Sara Afshar; Insight News Television/BBC for BBC 2, Newsnight
China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special Jezza Neumann, Sky Zeh, Kate Blewett, Brian Woods, Channel 4
KS3 Citizenship: Child Labour Rosa Rogers, Mark Galloway, Harvey Woolfe, Evans Woolfe Media for Teachers TV, in association with Plan UK

Environment Award

Carbon Offset Business Daily Team, BBC World Service
The Biofuel Time Bomb Jonathan Green, Live, Mail on Sunday
Sold Down the River John Vidal, The Guardian

International Premiere

A Jihad for Love Parvez Sharma, Halal Films
End of the Rainbow Robert Nugent, Mitzi Goldman, Jean Pierre Gibrat, and Michel Zwecker; Looking Glass Pictures and Trans Europe Film
War/Dance Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; Fine Films, Think Films

Special Award for Development Media - read more about the short listed entries

IWPR (Institute for War & Peace Reporting) Journalism Training and Reporting Project in Helmand Province (Southern Afghanistan)
Al Mirbad Radio, Iraq
Urunana Development Communication: “Urunana” radio soap opera
AURA (Artistes Unis pour le Rap Africain)
Democratic Voice of Burma

CAMFED: Rural Women Filmmakers Lead Social Change in Africa