A JOURNALIST at the Daily Record was, earlier this week, named a winner at media awards run by the human rights organisation, Amnesty International.
Paul O’Hare took the Nations and Regions title for his series, Colombia: Caught in the Crossfire.
Now in its 23rd year, the awards – say the organisers – “recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant contribution to public awareness and understanding of human rights issues”.
In a media announcement released by Amnesty International, O’Hare is quoted, as saying: “I’m absolutely delighted to win such a prestigious award and am grateful to Amnesty International for choosing my reports from amongst such strong competition. The long-standing conflict in Colombia continues to devastate lives and the plight of vulnerable citizens rightly deserves our urgent attention.
“I would like to thank the Scottish aid charity SCIAF who helped me in Colombia and whose work is helping to protect human and land rights every day. I would also like to thank my editors for giving me the time to go Colombia – it’s vital that the media continue to highlight human rights abuses to the public and those in power.”
The winners’ list reads:
NATIONS AND REGIONS
Colombia – Caught in the crossfire
Paul O’Hare, Daily Record
JUDGES: Michael Beard, Mark Devenport, Joyce McMillan, Patrick Corrigan
NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Revealed: Qatar’s World Cup ‘slaves’
Pete Pattisson, The Guardian
JUDGES: Stig Abell, Ursula Kenny, Sophie McBain, David Munk, Niall Couper
STUDENT
Investigation: detainee harassment at CampsfieldHouse
Redmond Traynor, The Oxford Student
JUDGES: Siobhan Sinnerton, Andrew Rawnsley, Dani Beckett
DOCUMENTARY
Who is Dayani Cristal?
Directors: Marc Silver, Gael Garcia Bernal, Pulse Films
JUDGES: Ade Adepitan, Naresh Puri, Cathy Scott-Clark, Naomi Westland
GABY RADO MEMORIAL AWARD
Dispatches: Children on the frontline; Unreported World: Dancing in the danger zone
Marcel Mettelsiefen, Channel 4
JUDGES: Dermot Murnaghan, Xan Rice, Jonathan Rugman, Mike Thomson, Harriet Garland
MAGAZINES (Supplements)
Displaced persons series
AA Gill, The Sunday Times Magazine
JUDGES: Bruno Bayley, Helen Joyce, Victoria Harper, Maggie Paterson
MAGAZINES (Consumer)
Hell is other people
Ed Caesar, GQ
JUDGES: Bruno Bayley, Helen Joyce, Victoria Harper, Maggie Paterson
PHOTOJOURNALISM
Descent into Hell: Bloodshed in the Central African Republic
Marcus Bleasdale, Telegraph magazine
JUDGES: Shannon Jenson, Roger Tooth, Paul Conroy, Maggie Paterson
RADIO
Escape from Sinai
Mike Thomson, BBC Radio 4 / BBC World Service
JUDGES: Anita Anand, Andrew Bailey, Flora Hunter, Philippa Thomas, Eulette Ewart
TV NEWS
Bucharest’s King of the Sewers
Paraic O’Brien, Channel 4 News
JUDGES: Ben de Pear, Simon Torkington, Anna Jones, Eulette Ewart
