Amnesty International UK Media Awards finalists and host announced

20 Mar 2023, 02:27pm

Finalists span 10 award categories celebrating exceptional human rights journalism over the past year

BBC presenter Maryam Moshiri will host the ceremony in London on April 26

Amnesty International UK has announced the full list of finalists for the 2023 Amnesty Media Awards.

The 10 awards categories celebrate excellence in human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists who have shone a light on human rights issues in their work - often putting their lives at risk in doing so.

The winners of this year's awards will be announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday April 26, 2023. The ceremony, held at Amnesty's Human Rights Action Centre, will be hosted by journalist and BBC presenter Maryam Moshiri.

Maryam has been a presenter on the BBC's World News channel for almost four years, where she has presented many of the flagship programmes, including Outside Source, The Context, Impact, Global and Newsday.

Maryam has reported on some of the biggest stories of the past two decades -from the impact of the 9/11 attacks to the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. She was recently announced as being one of five chief presenters to make a new line-up on the BBC's News Channel, which will launch next month.

The Media Awards judging panels are made up of high-profile UK journalists, past award winners and Amnesty representatives.

The finalists:

​​​Investigation

• BBC News Arabic

Under Poisoned Skies

• DM Productions for ITV's Exposure

The Crossing

• BBC Eye

Finding My Torturer

• 1843 magazine, The Economist

"The family secret": How rape is hushed up in Britain's armed forces

Features

• BBC Online

Greenland's Lost Generation

• Al Jazeera

"Walking reminders of atrocities"

• The Guardian

"If you decide to cut staff, people die": how Nottingham prison descended into chaos

• The Sunday Times Magazine

"I made a mistake. Why should my son pay?"

The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist

• Liz Cookman

The Sunday Times

• Ghoncheh Habibiazad

The Guardian

• Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

The Women's Peace Movement in Congo

• Elisabeth Mahase

The BMJ

Student Journalist

• Alexander Tuck Meng Sampson

University of Bristol

• Maximilian Jenz

University of Sheffield

• Sarah Green

City, University of London

• Tane Rogers-Eirug

Cardiff University

Radio & Podcasts

• RTÉ

RTÉ Documentary On One: Blackrock Boys

• BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service Radio & BBC Sounds

The Man Who Came Back from the Dead

• Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio 4

Please Protect Abraham

• BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds

Isobel's Story

Broadcast News

• ITV News

Afghanistan

• Sky News

Life and death in Afghanistan's poorest province

• ITV News

Bucha War Crimes Investigation

• Channel 4 News

Ukraine Frontline Rescuers

Best Use of Digital Media

• BBC Online

The Faces From China's Uyghur Detention Camps

• BBC News Africa

Tunisia's Ben Ali: The Dictator's Last Calls

• The Guardian

Ukraine destruction: how the Guardian documented Russia's use of illegal weapons and crimes against civilians

• CNN

How Iran's security forces use rape to quell protests

Written News

• The Independent

The horrors of Bucha: mass graves, bodies 'left to rot in bags like rubbish' and the 89-year-old shot dead in bed

• BBC Online

Haiti: Inside the capital city taken hostage by the brutal gangs

• The Guardian

Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters

• BBC Online

Collecting the Dead in Bucha

Photojournalism

• Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

The Women's Peace Movement in Congo

• Alessio Mamo

Crimes against civilians: documenting the scale of abuse in Ukraine

• Mads Nissen

Sangre Blanca - The Lost War on Cocaine

• Tommy Trenchard

Lethal Legacy - Angola's decades-long struggle with landmines

Nations and Regions

• UTV

Home Terror

• The Detail

PSNI strip searching of under-18s 'deeply shocking'

• BBC Scotland

Locked in the Hospital

• BBC Northern Ireland

Police, WhatsApp & Whistleblowers