FPA Media Awards

Chair of the Judges 2022:

Alessandro Allocca, La Repubblica, Italy
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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

CITY UNIVERSITY MA STUDENT FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

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Joseph Watt

To catch a virtual predator

Judges comment:

This was the unanimous choice of the judges. An excellent piece of investigative journalism – well researched, international in scope and very well written. A standout piece that one of judges couldn’t stop thinking about. Calm, precise storytelling which let the victims’ voices speak for themselves.

WINNER

THOMSON FOUNDATION YOUNG JOURNALIST

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Tracy Bonareri Onchoke, Kenya

Judges comment:

Tracy was the clear winner for her versatility, vibrancy and commitment to good journalism. A very engaging all-rounder who tells hard hitting stories about Kenyan life without sensationalism and in a very human and brave way.

WINNER

ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR

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Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, and Esella Hawkey

Inside China: The Battle for Tibet

ITV / Frontline PBS / Hardcash Productions

Judges comment:

The panel thought this was as good as documentaries get – fantastic, absolutely brilliant TV with so much they didn’t know. A clear winner and the strongest finalist. The panel found it particularly relevant that the Chinese Embassy in London called for the broadcast of the programme to be cancelled.

WINNER

FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC STORY OF THE YEAR

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Tom Burgis

How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad – and won

The Guardian Long Read

Judges comment:

Deeply disturbing, this investigation should lead to institutional reform. In a close contest, this was another win for the Guardian Long Read as it really had the edge. A massive story, grippingly written and revealed layer by layer.

WINNER

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

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Atul Dev

Life in a 'sinking nation': Tuvalu's dreams of dry land

The Guardian Long Read

Judges comment:

The reporting was grounded and thorough and reflected the time and effort the journalist had spent in this really challenging environment to fully grasp what was at stake.

WINNER

RADIO/PODCAST OF THE YEAR

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Kevin Hirten, Tamara Khandaker, Craig Pennington, Will Thorne

Uprising in Bangladesh

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit

Judges comment:

This was so close that once again the Chairman’s casting vote was needed. In a very strong field, this hair-raising story from Bangladesh shows the importance of the live element. The powerful act of witness of Abu Sayed’s death illustrates that a single individual can alter the course of a nation – but without the coverage, his death would have passed unnoticed. Told with great immediacy as the recordist was also shot, this was the example of a death that was not in vain.

WINNER

PRINT & WEB NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Jenny Kleeman

Inside Israel's fight to make fathers of its dead soldiers

Financial Times

Judges comment:

A very engaging story with compelling subject matter that shows strong narrative and character-driven reporting. The interviews are thorough and shed light on an issue about which most people were previously unaware. It explores the theme of grief and issues confronted when dealing with the death of loved ones.

WINNER

TV NEWS STORY OF THE YEAR

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Cathy Newman

The Case against the Archbishop (Welby interview)

Channel 4 News

Judges comment:

The judges thought this was a master class in interviewing and a beautiful example of the craft. They praised the calm and resolute tone and the lengthy Investigation which preceded it. The interview sent shockwaves through Britain and shortly afterwards provoked the resignation of the Archbishop. A huge achievement.

WINNER

ENVIRONMENT & science Story of the Year

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Sophie McBain

Look they’re getting skin!: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

The Guardian Long Read

Judges comment:

A comfortable winner. A beautiful piece about the human side of a social problem that can affect almost everyone. It strikes at the very meaning of life. For anyone who had been affected by premature birth, this was hard to read but very important.

WINNER

Print & web Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA

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Tessa Szyszkowitz, Florian Klenk

Putins jagd auf wiener politiker polizisten und reporter / Pursued by Putin's hunters

Falter, Austria

Judges comment:

In a very close contest that needed the Chairman’s casting vote, this tightly structured and solidly evidenced story that reveals the fragility of Europe’s security system, just made it over the line. Ambitious and fascinating – the judges thought it also achieved a rare balance between dramatic tension and public significance.

WINNER

tv & Radio Story of the Year by a Full Member of the FPA

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Ambroise Bouleis, Charline Madini, Léna Soudre

Agressions sexuelles: Le scandale qui fait trembler le Royaume-Uni Inside Britain’s grooming gang scandal

France Télévisions

Judges comment:

This was a clear winner and praised as an effective account of a very important and complex story told in a strong way. A genuine new story, perfectly put together that brought vital attention to a subject long overlooked by the outside world.