Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2012

The Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2012 were opened in December 2012,^[1] the short-list was published 25 April 2012^[2] and the awards announced 29 May 2012.^[3]

In total there were 12 awards made in the categories of Digital Media, Documentary, The Gaby Rado Memorial Award, International TV and Radio, Magazine (Consumer), Magazine (Newspaper Supplement), National Newspaper, Nations and Regions, Photojournalism, Radio, Student Human Rights Reporter Award and TV News.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Dermot Murnaghan.^[4]

2012 Awards

The winners and runners up were:

2012
Category	Title	Organisation	Journalists	Refs
Digital media
	Deaths in custody: a case to answer	The Bureau of Investigative Journalism	Iain Overton, Angus Stickler, Dan Bell, Charlie Mole	[5][6] [7]
	The Execution of Troy Davis	The Guardian	Ed Pilkington, Guardian Digital Team	[8][9] <ref name="[10][11]
	Voices from Dark Places: Exposing the Crimes of the Assad Regime	Al Jazeera	Annasofie Flamand, Hugh Macleod
	Judges: Anna Doble, Wesley Johnson, Sam Strudwick, Jody Thompson
Documentary
	Enemies of the People (Voices from The Killing Fields)	More4	Rob Lemkin, Stefan Ronowicz, Thet Sambath	[12][13]
	Give up Tomorrow	BBC4 Storyville	Michael Collins, Nick Fraser, Eric Daniel Metzgar, Marty Syjuco	[14][15] [16]
	Sri Lanka's Killing Fields	ITN Productions for Channel 4	Callum Macrae, Chris Shaw, Jon Snow	[17][18] [19]
	Judges: John Amaechi, Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Alison Rooper, Kim Sengupta
Gaby Rado Memorial Award
	Horror in Homs	Channel 4 News	Mani[20][21]	[18][22] [23]
	Midnight’s Children; Kenya is on the Brink of its own Disaster; ‘Bridenapping’: A Growing Hidden Crime	Independent on Sunday	Emily Dugan[24]	[25][26] [27]
	Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic; Uganda’s Miracle Babies; Honduras: Diving into Danger	Channel 4 Unreported World	Jenny Kleeman	[28][29] [30]
	Judges:Mike Blakemore, Janet Murray, Louis Rado, Ritula Shah, Jon Snow
International TV and Radio
	Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark	Al Jazeera English	Jon Blair, May Ying Welsh	[31][32]
	Assignment: Blasphemy: A Matter of Life and Death	BBC World Service	Caroline Finnigan, Bridget Harney, Jill McGivering, Bushra Taskeen	[33][34] [35]
	Death in the Desert: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary	CNN	Sheri England, Mohamed Fahmy, Tim Lister, Earl Nurse, Frederik Pleitgen	[36][37] [38][39] [40]
	Judges: Jane Corbin, Mark Galloway, Flora Hunter, Sean Ryan, Thomas Schultz-Jagow
Magazines: Consumer
	Nature's defenders	New Internationalist	Vanessa Baird[41]	[42][43] [44]
	The Art Issue: Art or Vandalism? Russia's Robin Hood China’s New Deal	Index on Censorship	Yasmine El Rashidi, Nick Sturdee Nick Sturdee Simon Kirby	[45][46] [47][48]
	Judges: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood
Magazines: Newspaper supplements
	The rape of men	Observer Magazine	Will Storr	[49][50] [51][52]
	1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad	Mail on Sunday Live Magazine	Evan Williams	[53]
	Judges:Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood
National Newspapers
	In Europe’s last Dictatorship all Opposition is Mercilessly Crushed; ‘My Husband Phoned to Say he was Going to the Sauna ... We Never Saw Him Again’ RBS Helped Bankroll Europe's Last Dictatorship	The Independent	Jerome Taylor	[54][55] [56]
	Investigation into Undercover Policing of Protest	The Guardian	Paul Lewis, Rob Evans	[57][58] [59][60] [61][62]
	We live in fear of a massacre	The Sunday Times	Marie Colvin	[63][64] [65]
	Judges:Mike Blakemore, Jemima Khan, Iain Overton, Michelle Stanistreet, Joel Taylor
Nations and Regions
	Gaddafi’s Secret Policemen Came to Talk to Me	Sunday Herald	David Pratt[66]
	Torso in the Thames	ITV London Tonight	Ronke Phillips, Faye Nickolds	[67][68] [69]
	Women of the World’s Slums	Sunday Herald	David Pratt[66]	[70]
	Judges:David Cornock, Helena Drakakis, Mike Gilson, Shabnum Mustapha, Naresh Puri
Photojournalism
	A place to stay - Dale Farm	The Times	Mary Turner[71]	[72][73] [74]
	Human Rights Abuses in Egypt	NUJ Egyptian revolution exhibition	Lewis Whyld[75]
	The Rattle Of War And The Pain Of Hunger	Guardian	Robin Hammond[76]
	Judges:Stuart Freedman, Colin Jacobson, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Paterson, Kelly Preedy
Radio
	Afghanistan: Counting the Cost	BBC Radio 4 Today and The World Tonight	Nina Manwaring, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson
	Victoria Derbyshire in Guantanamo Bay	BBC Radio 5 Live	Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton	[77][78] [79][80]
	Judges:Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Henry Bonsu, Mariella Frostrup
Student Human Rights Reporter Award
	The curious case of John Oguchuckwu	The Glasgow Guardian	Amy Mackinnon	[81][82]
	Democracy Criminalised in East Jerusalem	Brig Newspaper (Stirling University’s Online Student Voice)[83]	Boel Marcks Von Wurtemberg	[84]
	Living in Exile	Life 360: Cardiff University’s International Journalism Magazine[85]	Paul Dharamraj	[86]
	Judges:Nes Cazimoglu, Sean Coughlan, Guy Gunaratne, Hannah Livingstone, Sophie Mei Lan, Yasser Ranjha, Hannah Shaw
Television News
	Battle for Misrata	ITV News	John Irvine, Arti Lukha, Sean Swan, Tim Singleton, Deborah Turness	[87][88]
	Horror in Homs	Channel 4 News	Agnieszka Liggett, “Mani”, Jonathan Miller, Nevine Mabro, Teresa Smith	[89][90] [18][91][22] [20][23][21]
	Undercover in Homs	BBC Newsnight	Sue Lloyd-Roberts, Amanda Gunn	[92][93]
	Judges:Mike Blakemore, Lyse Doucet, Julie Etchingham, Tim Miller, Mike Radford

See also

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External links

• Amnesty International UK (AIUK) website
• Amnesty International UK Media Awards at the AIUK Website
• Amnesty International Website