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* Documentary
* Digital Media
* Gaby Rado Memorial Award
* Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
* International TV and Radio
* Magazines: Consumer
* Magazines: Newspaper supplements
* National Newspapers
* Nations and Regions
* Periodicals
* Photojournalism
* Radio
* Special Award
* Special Award for
Human Rights Journalism Under Threat
* Television News

Student awards

* Student Human Rights Reporter Award
* (YHRR) Young Human Rights Reporter
Of The Year

Awards by year

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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

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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]
[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  | The 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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* v
* t
* e

Amnesty International UK Media Awards

* Amnesty International

Media Award
Categories|

* Documentary
* Digital Media
* Gaby Rado Memorial Award
* Global Award for Human Rights Journalism
* International TV and Radio
* Magazines: Consumer
* Magazines: Newspaper supplements
* National Newspapers
* Nations and Regions
* Periodicals
* Photojournalism
* Radio
* Special Award
* Special Award for Human Rights Journalism Under Threat
* Television News

Student Awards|

* Student Human Rights Reporter Award
* (YHRR) Young Human Rights Reporter Of The Year

Awards by year|

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

* Category:Amnesty International

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