Amnesty Media Awards 2024 – Winners

• Awards hosted by comedian Nish Kumar
• BBC Africa Eye and Panorama took home award for best Broadcast Feature, while Sky News won Broadcast News
• Outstanding Impact Award dedicated to the journalists risking their lives to report in Gaza

The winners of Amnesty International UK’s prestigious Media Awards 2024 have been announced this evening at a ceremony held in London, hosted by comedian, presenter and political commentator Nish Kumar.

The annual Media Awards, which are now in their 32nd year, highlight excellence in human rights journalism, as well as the bravery of journalists who risk their lives to uncover human rights abuses around the world and hold power to account.

The awards span 10 categories and were open to all media outlets based in the UK. All entries were published or broadcast for the first time in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2023.

BBC Africa Eye and Panorama on the award for best Broadcast Feature for ‘Sex for Work: The True Cost of our Tea’ – a documentary on sexual exploitation on tea farms in Kenya. The winner of the Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist also went to Linda Ngari for her BBC Africa investigation into abortion access in Kenya.

Sky News took home the award in the Broadcast News category for ‘Myanmar’s Hidden War’, while ‘Murdered, tortured or in hiding from the Taliban: The special forces abandoned by Britain’ – a collaborative piece between the Independent and Lighthouse Reports – won the award for best Written News piece.

The Guardian won the Radio and Podcast category for ‘The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children’. Elsewhere, the Photojournalism award went to Hugh Kinsella Cunningham for his visual exploration of the ongoing conflict in the DRC.

Usually reserved for a specific piece of journalism that has demonstrated impact in addressing human rights issues, Amnesty’s Outstanding Impact Award this year was dedicated to all the journalists who have lost their lives and continue to risk their lives to document the atrocities being committed in Gaza.

Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive, said:

“The events of this year serve as a potent reminder that journalists and media workers continue to be threatened, prosecuted and even killed for speaking truth to power. It is clear that nowhere is truly safe for a journalist speaking truth to power right now.

“However, amid the global threats to press freedom, tonight’s Media Awards winners and finalists have all proven that we will not be silenced. Their tireless efforts truly make an impact on the world, and if brave media workers continue to document, investigate, and share the stories of those who often have no voice, change will happen.”

The Winners