FPA Media Awards 2023

Chair of the Judges 2023:

Elodie Goulesque, RTBF, Belgium

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Chair of the Judges 2023:

Elodie Goulesque, RTBF, Belgium

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The FPA is grateful to our External Judges for our 2022 edition:

MICHAEL CRICK has been a journalist for more than 40 years. He was a founder member of Channel 4 News, where he was later Washington Correspondent (1988-90) and Political Correspondent (2011-19). At the BBC he has been a reporter for Panorama; and for Newsnight, where he was Political Editor (2007-11). He has also made scores of films for the website MailPlus.

Crick's first book was Militant (1984), about the Trotskyist Militant tendency. His subsequent works have included biographies of Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine,Sir Alex Ferguson and most recently Nigel Farage. In 2018 he published Sultan of Swing, a biography of the distinguished Oxford psephologist Sir David Butler.

He won Royal Television Society [RTS] awards in 1989 and 2002, and was the RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year in both 2014 and 2018. Also in 2018, Crick was given the Charles Wheeler/British Journalism Review award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism. `

STRYKER McGUIRE is an Anglo-American journalist living in London. He spent 30 years at Newsweek, where he was a correspondent, bureau chief, senior editor and chief of correspondents. He ran the London bureau from 1996 until he retired from the magazine in 2008 and in 2000 he won the FPA's Best Foreign Reporting Award. In 2010, Stryker was retained by the London School of Economics and Political Science to create a magazine, LSE Research, that highlighted the work of university's academics. In 2011, he became a senior editor at Bloomberg Markets magazine; he retired last year. He continues to write occasionally for The Washington Post, The New European and other publications.

MEGHA MOHAN is the BBC World Service's first global gender and identity correspondent. She covers issues concerning race and ethnicity, women's rights and LGBT communities for the BBC's 41 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents and secured exclusive interviews with Finland's all-women coalition government and Samoa's first woman Prime Minister. Megha is a deployment journalist who files longform original features for BBC World TV, radio, online and social media.

2022 FPA Awards Shortlists for each category:

Story of the Year by a Full Member of the
FPA (ForeignLang):‍

Yannis Andritsopoulos
Revealed:In 1986 letters to Greek minister, Boris Johnson
denounced UK government fornot returning Parthenon
Marbles.
‍Ta Nea, Greece
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Gabi Biesinger with Sabine Wachs in Paris
Boat refugees in the English Channel - A small war on the
edge of Europe
‍ARD German Radio
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2022 Winner
Diana Zimmermann
Poor King Kingdom
‍ZDF GermanTelevision

ENVIRONMENT Story of the Year

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2022 Winner
Dan Edge, Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin
Barnwell
Big Oil vs the World
‍BBC, MongoosePictures and PBS Frontline

Ciara Nugent
New Lithium Mining Technology Could Give Argentina a
Sustainable Gold Rush
‍TIME

‍Jamal Osman, Girish Juneja
The Toxic Cost of Going Green
‍Unreported World, Channel 4

TV News Story of the Year

‍2022 Winner
Alex Crawford, Jake Britton, Chris Cunningham, Artem Lysak
Ukraine War - Time running out for Lysychansk
Sky News

Yogita Limaye, ImogenAnderson, Sanjay Ganguly
Sexual Crimes
‍BBC News at Ten

‍Nick Springate, Orla Guerin, Ahmed Edroughi, Dave Bull
Libya’s Forgotten
BBC News

Print & Web News Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Joel Gunter
Collecting the Dead in Bucha
BBC News

Andrew North, Paula Bronstein
‍Afghanistan nightmare: a humanitarian crisis that threatens
to dwarf all others
‍Nikkei Asia
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Billy Perrigo
‍InsideFacebook’s African Sweatshop
‍TIME

Radio/Podcast of the Year

‍2022 Winner
Alex Barker, Patricia Nilsson
Hot Money: porn, power and profit podcast
‍Financial Times

Katie Gunning, Paul Caruana Galizia
Londongrad: How the Lebedevs partied their way to power
Tortoise Media

Tim Whewell
The Accordian Wars of Lesotho
Assignment, BBC World Service

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

Josh Glancy
‍How the Falkland Islands became one of the world's most
affluent places,
The Sunday TimesMagazine

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‍2022 Winner
Ahmed Madi, Florence Phillips, Haim Litani
The ListeningPost - Destination Damascus
Al Jazeera English

Samanth Subramanian
The lost Jews of Nigeria
‍Guardian Long Read

Financial/Economic Story of the Year

Sophie Elmhirst
Super-primemover: Britain's most successful estate agent
‍Guardian Long Read

Andy Verity, Sarah Bowen
The Lowball Tapes
BBC Radio 4
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2022 Winner
Isobel Yeung, Belle Cushing
‍Undercover in Guyana
‍VICE News

TV Documentary/Feature Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Fergal Keane, Alice Doyard
I call him by his name
‍BBC Our World

Richard Bilton, Hannah O’Grady & Team
‍Panorama's investigation into British Special Forces killings in
Afghanistan
BBC Panorama

Al Jazeera I-Unit
The Truth Illusion
Al Jazeera

ARTS & CULTURE Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Stuart McGurk
We're going to disrupt - a year inside GB News
New Statesman

Neil Munshi
‍In 'Touriste', heroic Russians save the Central African
Republic. The truth is even stranger
Financial Times

Arthur Nazaryan, Mike Shum, Reem Haddad, Poh Si Teng,
Fiona Lawson-Baker
‍Witness - My Eternal Art
DEC8 Productions for AlJazeera English

Thomson Foundation Young Journalist

Carlos Raúl Kestler Molina, Guatemala
Journalist, PrensaLibre / Guatevisión
1. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 1
2. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 2
3. Brokenconnectivity: Episode 3

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‍2022 Winner
Yashraj Sharma, India
Freelance reporter, Guardian/NBC
1. Families want a son at any cost.
2. Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India
3. Across the border from Myanmar, someavoid the fight
while others sign up for it.

Jyoti Yadav, India
Senior Correspondent, ThePrint
1. Gangraped in teens, visiting courts as grandmothers
2. A rape forgotten.
3. Long waitfor nursing dream.

SCIENCE Story of the Year

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‍2022 Winner
Simar Bajaj
‍Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready
for it?
The Guardian

BBC News Arabic investigations team
with BBCWorld Service
Beauty's Ugly Truth
BBC News

Imogen West-Knights
The queen of crime-solving,
Guardian Long Read

JOURNALISTOF THE YEAR

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‍2022 Winner
Isobel Yeung
VICE News

WINNER

JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

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Isobel Yeung

VICE News

Judges comment:

The judges decided the award for 2022 FPA Journalist of the Year should go to the journalist about whom one of the judges said “ If I was setting up a television news station anywhere in the world I would choose this person as the star and I would pay them a huge amount of money.” A brilliant interviewer, exemplary in challenging people in positions of power, incredibly cool, good in every area of journalism and social media and whose story tonight was a great piece of work.

WINNER

SCIENCE STORY OF THE YEAR

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Simar Bajaj

Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready for it?

The Guardian

Judges comment:

The judges felt this was one of the most scientific nominations tonight and liked the strong personal narrative that drove it with its many focuses. A fascinating story that followed up on the first pig-heart transplant that took place in January this year and looked at what it means for the future of human longevity. It was a first-rate analysis of the science, history and ethics of pig heart transplantation and looked at the uncertainties around them.

WINNER

THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST

fpa Media Awards 2022

Yashraj Sharma, India

1. Families want a son at any cost. 2. Instagram has largely replaced Tik Tok in India 3. Across the border from Myanmar, some avoid the fight while others sign up for it.

Freelance reporter, Guardian/NBC

Judges comment:

Yasraj’s very good writing skills with the ability to do many different things extremely well in many ways impressed the judges. At 22 years old the panel thought this was the work of someone twice his age. “The sheer variety of his stories is just fantastic – what’s he going to be doing by the time he’s 42!” “This entry includes three excellent articles from difficult territories leading with the shocking story about the abortion of female foetuses in India.

WINNER

ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR

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Stuart McGurk

We're going to disrupt - a year inside GB News

New Statesman

Judges comment:

A deeply researched long read that charted the highs and lows of the first year of GB News. The judges thought this a wonderful story with humour and insight – so well written with beautiful use of language. A great piece of journalism. Some judges particularly admired the audio version of this story on podcast which was considered “outstanding, exquisitely done and really added something to the story itself through the quality of the narration”ì

WINNER

TV DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

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Fergal Keane, Alice Doyard

I call him by his name

BBC Our World

Judges comment:

“Beautiful storytelling with a specific and strong angle letting the bereaved women do their talking” The judges praised Director/Producer Alice Doyard, for her great film making and incredible interviews on the ground in Ukraine and Fergal Keane for a brilliant script, superbly delivered. Most of the judges said they had been in tears. In a crowded field of stories about Ukraine, this one was felt to be extraordinary.

WINNER

FINANCIAL / ECONOMIC STORY OF THE YEAR

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Isobel Yeung, Belle Cushing

Undercover in Guyana

VICE News

Judges comment:

The judges were very impressed that Isobel Yeung went undercover in this fresh and extraordinary piece of journalism to expose how corruption in Guyana goes to the very top of government and how she then fearlessly confronted the Guyanese Vice-President on camera about his own apparent corrupt dealings on huge multinational projects. The undercover nature of this story was sometimes scary to watch but the payoff at the end was astonishing. One judge said, “One of the best TV investigative reports I’ve ever seen”.

WINNER

TRAVEL & TOURISM STORY OF THE YEAR

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Ahmed Madi, Florence Phillips, Haim Litani

The Listening Post - Destination Damascus

Al Jazeera English

Judges comment:

“ A striking report which lifts the lid on the perils of travel journalism and modern social media. Are travel bloggers journalists – or are they being manipulated by the Syrian regime into promoting Damascus as an attractive travel destination?” This interesting, fresh and timely look at the Travel bloggers flocking to Syria despite the war explored the ethical question of travelling to Syria with objectivity and impartiality. Judges felt it “showed the conflict between helping the area by showing it’s not all war – and on the other hand ignoring the war and helping a dictator.”

WINNER

RADIO/PODCAST OF THE YEAR

fpa Media Awards 2022

Alex Barker, Patricia Nilsson

Hot Money: porn, power and profit podcast

Financial Times

Judges comment:

“A compelling report on a world rarely explored by financial journalists – the worldwide multi-billion-dollar porn industry.” The judges thought this podcast was really good and they very much liked the faster style double-handed presentation. They praised the dogged persistence in tracking down the mysterious anonymous figures involved which really did reveal the huge role played by Visa and Mastercard as porn regulators.

WINNER

PRINT & WEB NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Joel Gunter

Collecting the Dead in Bucha

BBC News

Judges comment:

The judges thought this was so well done and had voices in it that were very carefully filtered against each other. The young journalist behind this piece was very impressive and the calibre of his work worth highlighting. It really took them to the place with words and images that made them feel they were there, seeing and feeling what he felt.

WINNER

TV NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Alex Crawford, Jake Britton, Chris Cunningham, Artem Lysak

Ukraine War - Time running out for Lysychansk

Sky News

Judges comment:

The judges found this was brilliant war reporting, done in very difficult circumstances; very powerful with beautiful pictures. In a field where it is hard to stand out, this was felt to be a complete story that really demonstrated the craft of storytelling.

WINNER

ENVIRONMENT STORY OF THE YEAR

fpa Media Awards 2022

Dan Edge, Jane McMullen, Gesbeen Mohammad, Robin Barnwell

Big Oil vs the World

BBC, Mongoose Pictures and PBS Frontline

Judges comment:

An epic documentary that tells the appalling story of how the oil industry – and Exxon in particular- fooled the world into downplaying the dangers of climate change. The judges praised the astonishing archive material and revealing interviews with former employees which showed how the oil giants knew forty years ago that climate change was real and dangerous. The panel thought this was investigative history in the making.

WINNER

STORY OF THE YEAR BY A FULL MEMBER OF THE FPA (FOREIGN LANG)

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Diana Zimmermann

Poor King Kingdom

ZDF German Television

Judges comment:

This documentary was praised by the panel as “an excoriating portrait of Britain in 2022” that “dived deep into many social issues and really explored important aspects of British society .” They thought lots of hard work and excellent research had gone into this thorough and very refreshing portrait of Britain which would also help a foreign audience understand the degree of poverty in this country.