Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2012 explained

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

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.

2012 Awards

The winners and runners up were:

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Digital media
Deaths in custody:
a case to answer
Iain Overton, Angus Stickler,
Dan Bell, Charlie Mole

The Execution of Troy Davis The Guardian
Voices from Dark Places: Exposing the Crimes of the Assad Regime Annasofie Flamand, Hugh Macleod
Judges: Anna Doble, Wesley Johnson, Sam Strudwick, Jody Thompson
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Documentary
Rob Lemkin, Stefan Ronowicz, Thet Sambath
Give up Tomorrow Michael Collins, Nick Fraser, Eric Daniel Metzgar,
Marty Syjuco

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
Judges: John Amaechi, Mike Blakemore, Clemency Burton-Hill, Alison Rooper, Kim Sengupta
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Gaby Rado
Memorial Award
Horror in Homs Mani
"Midnight's Children"; "Kenya is on the Brink of its own Disaster"; Bridenapping': A Growing Hidden Crime" Independent on Sunday Emily Dugan
Nigeria: Sex, Lies and Black Magic; Uganda's Miracle Babies; Honduras: Diving into DangerChannel 4 Unreported WorldJenny Kleeman
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Janet Murray, Louis Rado, Ritula Shah, Jon Snow
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International TV
and Radio
Jon Blair,
May Ying Welsh
Assignment: Blasphemy – A Matter of Life and Death Caroline Finnigan, Bridget Harney, Jill McGivering, Bushra Taskeen
Death in the Desert: A CNN Freedom Project DocumentaryCNN

Judges: Jane Corbin, Mark Galloway, Flora Hunter, Sean Ryan, Thomas Schultz-Jagow
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Magazines:
Consumer
Nature's defenders New Internationalist Vanessa Baird
The Art Issue: "Art or Vandalism?"
Russia's Robin Hood
"China's New Deal"
Index on CensorshipYasmine El Rashidi, Nick Sturdee
Nick Sturdee
Simon Kirby

Judges: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood
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Magazines:
Newspaper supplements
The rape of men Observer Magazine Will Storr
1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad Mail on Sunday
Live Magazine
Evan Williams [1]
Judges: Richard Horton, Maggie Paterson, Rod Stanley, Emma Tucker, Jenny Wood
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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
Investigation into Undercover
Policing of Protest
The Guardian Paul Lewis, Rob Evans

We live in fear of a massacre The Sunday Times
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Jemima Khan, Iain Overton, Michelle Stanistreet, Joel Taylor
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Nations and Regions
Gaddafi's Secret Policemen
Came to Talk to Me
Sunday HeraldDavid Pratt
Torso in the Thames Ronke Phillips,
Faye Nickolds

Women of the
World's Slums
Sunday HeraldDavid Pratt
Judges: David Cornock, Helena Drakakis, Mike Gilson, Shabnum Mustapha, Naresh Puri
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Photojournalism
A place to stay – Dale Farm The Times Mary Turner
Human Rights Abuses in Egypt NUJ Egyptian revolution exhibition Lewis Whyld
The Rattle Of War And The Pain Of Hunger The Guardian Robin Hammond
Judges: Stuart Freedman, Colin Jacobson, Jenny Matthews, Maggie Paterson, Kelly Preedy
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Radio
Afghanistan: Counting the Cost BBC Radio 4 Today and The World Tonight Nina Manwaring, Ceri Thomas, Mike Thomson
Victoria Derbyshire in
Guantanamo Bay
Victoria Derbyshire,
Louisa Compton

Judges: Jane Anderson, Mike Blakemore, Henry Bonsu, Mariella Frostrup
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Student Human Rights
Reporter Award
The curious case of
John Oguchuckwu
The Glasgow Guardian Amy Mackinnon
Democracy Criminalised in East Jerusalem Brig Newspaper (Stirling University's Online Student Voice) Boel Marcks Von Wurtemberg
Living in Exile Life 360: Cardiff University's International Journalism Magazine Paul Dharamraj
Judges: Nes Cazimoglu, Sean Coughlan, Guy Gunaratne, Hannah Livingstone, Sophie Mei Lan, Yasser Ranjha, Hannah Shaw
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Television News
Battle for Misrata John Irvine, Arti Lukha,
Sean Swan, Tim Singleton, Deborah Turness
Horror in HomsChannel 4 NewsAgnieszka Liggett, "Mani", Jonathan Miller, Nevine Mabro, Teresa Smith

Undercover in Homs Sue Lloyd-Roberts,
Amanda Gunn
Judges: Mike Blakemore, Lyse Doucet, Julie Etchingham, Tim Miller, Mike Radford
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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amnesty magazine by Maggie Paterson - Issuu.