AN article by a Scots freelance journalist that appeared last month in The Herald Magazine has been shortlisted in a competition recognising the media’s role in developing awareness of global issues, including abuses of human rights.
Billy Briggs’ article about sex trafficking in Burkina Faso has been shortlisted in the Press Award section of the One World Media Awards.
Briggs told allmediascotland.com: “The trip to Burkina Faso came about as a follow-up to a story I wrote about a Nigerian girl who was trafficked to Glasgow and gang-raped. I spent a couple of weeks in the country’s capital city, Ouagadougou, with photographer, Angela Catlin, and it was one of the most harrowing stories we’ve covered to date. Many thanks to Garry Scott and his team at The Herald Magazine for publishing our reportage.”
Also from The Herald Magazine, an article by The Herald’s chief reporter, Lucy Adams, is shortlisted in the Sustainable Development category.
‘Spellbound’ tells the story of the persecution of women accused of witchcraft in Ghana. While Adams was living in Ghana, an elderly women was burnt alive after being accused of witchcraft. Adams travelled to the north of Ghana with local photographer, Nyani Quarmyne, to visit the so-called witch ‘camps’ where more than a thousand women and hundreds of children are held.
The article appeared in The Herald Magazine in July.
Adams told allmediascotland: “Living in Ghana while on a sabbatical from The Herald, I felt compelled to investigate the shocking persecution of women accused of sorcery. The camps act as both protection and prison for women ostracised by their families and communities. Most of the women held there are elderly. All it takes is an accusation for them and their children to be branded for life.”
Meanwhile, in the Student Award category, Paul James Gomes, from the Edinburgh College of Art, earns a nomination with Where is Billet?.
The shortlist reads:
Journalist of the Year
Alex Crawford – Sky News
Alex Thomson – Channel 4
Anas Aremeyaw Anas – Al Jazeera
Dan Rivers – CNN International
Felicity Lawrence – The Guardian
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad – The Guardian
Hala Jaba – The Sunday Times
Jack Shenker – The Guardian
Jamal Osman – Channel 4
Sue Lloyd Roberts – BBC Two
Radio Award
A Child to Sponsor – BBC Radio 4
Afghanistan: Fighting Back – BBC Radio 4
Assignment – Haiti Cholera Epidemic – BBC World Service
BBC Africa Have Your Say Questions Paul Kagame – BBC World Service
Business Daily: China Propery – BBC World Service
In Touch – BBC Radio 4
Takoradi Oil City – BBC World Service
The Blood Telegram – BBC Radaio 4
The Boy with the Violin – Your World – BBC World Service
The Number One Detective Forensic Agency – BBC Radio 4
World Routes: Harri Sivanesan in Jaffna – BBC Radio 3
Television Award
Africa Investigates – Sierra Leone: Timber! – Al Jazeera English
Newsnight: Ethiopia – BBC Two
Channel 4 News: Somalia – Channel 4
HARDtalk on the road in Egypt: Part 2 – The Economy – BBC News/ BBC World News
HARDtalk on the road in southern Yemen – BBC News/ BBC World News
Land of Anarachy – Panorama 2011 – BBC One
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields – Channel 4
Syria’s Torture Machine – Channel 4
The Fall of Tripoli – Sky News
Tunisia: Death of Fear – Al Jazeera English
Unreported World: Undercover Syria – Channel 4
World’s Untold Stories: Locked Up and Forgotten – CNN International
Press Award
Egypt: The Unfinished Revolution – FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
Joy vanished into Britain’s child-sex trade. Why aren’t we looking for her? – Observer Magazine
Kidnap! Tales From The New India – GQ Magazine
Let The Good Times Roll – FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
Pakistan’s Dirty Secret – G2, The Guardian
Rights and Wrongs – G2, The Guardian
Special report: Food Security (Hunger in the land of plenty) – The Guardian
The 1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad – Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday
The Children Who Don’t Make a Sound – The Sunday Times Magazine
The Rape of Men – The Observer Magazine
They told us they would kill us if we didn’t work – The Herald Magazine
Treacherous Harvest – The Telegraph Magazine
New Media Award
Al Jazeera: Egypt Campaign – Al Jazeera
BBC World Clas 2012 – BBC
Development Data on The Guardian Datastore – The Guardian
HIGHRISE – One Millionth Tower – National Film Board of Canada
Lendwithcare.org Micro Loans Website – CARE International
Masika – Studio 9 Films
openDemocracy 50.50: Our Africa – Open Democracy
Our Africa – SOS Children
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields (bespoke website) – Channel 4
Stigma Under the Lens – Christian Aid
News Award
Abbas is punished by $200m cut in aid from US – The Independent
Aircraft carrier left us to die, say migrants – The Guardian
Andaman Islands tribe threatened by lure of mass tourism – The Observer
Benghazi Under Attack – Daily Mail
Famine in Somalia – al-Shabaab exclusive – Channel 4
Mexico’s Missing Migrants – Channel 4
Child Sacrifice – BBC One
China in talks over Panama Canal rival – Financial Times
East Africa Drought – BBC One
Hagadera Hospital – ITV News on ITV1
Revealed – The Full Horror of Misrata – Sunday Times
The £6bn trade in animal smuggling – The Independent on Sunday
Zawiyah – Sky News
Drama Award
Achele – Clara Kraft Isono, London Film School
Flying Fish – Sapushpa Expressions
Miss Bala – CANANA
Otelo Burning – Cinga Productions
Seven Acts of Mercy – La Sarraz Pictures
Shuga: Sex, Love & Money – MTV Base
Stolen – BBC One
The Song of the Rain – Aygul Bakanova, London Film School
Why is the Sky So Blue? – BBC World Service
Children’s Rights Award
BBC World Class 2012 – BBC
Child Marriage – Denying Girls’ Rights, Perpetuating Poverty – Thomson Reuters Foundation
Children Raped in Paradise Island’s Prison – Sunday Times
Exposing Bali’s Orphanages – Assignment/Crossing Continents – BBC World Service/ BBC Radio 4
Hamedullah: The Road Home – Eastwest Productions
Marathon Boy – BBC Four
Tanzania: Spell of the Albino – Al Jazeera English
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan – More 4
The Truth About Child Brides – BBC Three
Unreported World – Burundi: Boys Behind Bars – Channel 4
Unreported World: India’s Child Savers – Channel 4
Popular Features Award
A South American Journey with Jonathon Dimbleby – Brazil – BBC Two
Ambition Impossible – The Sunday Times Magazine
Common Dreams: A CNN Freedom Project Documentary – CNN International
Famous, Rich and in the Slums – BBC One
Holding the Line – Al Jazeera English
Knitting in Tripoli – Your World – BBC World Service
Little Girl Found – FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times
The 1,000,000 Ghosts of Baghdad – Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday
The Rape of Men – Observer Magazine
The World’s Five Most Dangerous Countries for Women – Thomson Reuters Foundation
Toughest Place to be a Binman – BBC Two
World’s Worst Place to be Gay? – BBC Three
Sustainable Development Award
Nature’s Defenders: Can Indigenous People Save the Planet? – The New Internationalist Magazine
One Planet – At the Edge of Capitalism – BBC World Service
Spellbound – The Herald Magazine
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan – More 4
The Guardian – Crowded Planet Series – The Guardian
The Untold Story: Famine Avoided – Camerapix/A24 Media
There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho – On the Level Productions
Unreported World – Honduras: Diving Into Danger – Channel 4
Unreported World: Indonesia’s Wildlife Warriors – Channel 4
Up in Smoke – More 4
Vanishing Shagri-La – China Dialogue
Documentary Award
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark – Al Jazeera English
Blood in the Mobile – Chili Film
De corpo e alma (Body and Soul) – MEETINGS
How to Start a Revolution – TVF Media
Libya: Through the Fire – Al Jazeera English
Putin, Russia & The West – BBC Two
Marathon Boy – BBC Four
Soka Afrika – Masnomis Ltd
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields – Channel 4
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan – More 4
The Invasion of Lampedusa – BBC Two and BBC Worldwide
The Witches of Gambaga – Fadoa Films
Student Award
Abuelas – Afarin Eghbal, National Film and Television School
Aid 20 – Mobile Africa: From the Roots Up – Claire Salisbury, University College Falmouth
Bagong Silang – Zena Merton, London College of Communication
Divided in Mind and Space: Exploring Bosnia’s Ethnic Segregation – Florence Davey Attlee, University of Westminster
Kung Fu Grandma – Jeong-One Park, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lost Voice in the Caribbean – Philip Saunders, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Shooting Freetown – Kieran Hanson, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
The Changing Face of India – William Hartley, Salford University
The Doctor Who Dreamed – Lucy Laycock, University of Westminster
The High Price of Gold – Ross Domoney, Met Film School
Where is Billet? – Paul James Gomes, Edinburgh College of Art
