Awards for Guardian journalists
June 15, 2007
Two of our reporters were among those who won awards last night for their dispatches from the developing world.
Murray Armstrong
Two Guardian journalists were awarded for their reporting from the developing world at last night’s One World Media awards.
Joanna Moorhead, along with freelance photographer Anna Kari, won the Millennium Development Goals award for their feature comparing maternity care in Africa and Europe. Different planets told the human stories behind an international report last year that showed the best place in the world to give birth is Sweden and the worst is Niger.
Our China correspondent Jonathan Watts picked up the Press award for his Weekend magazine feature, The big steal, a story of violent protest by millions of China’s peasant families against land grabs by local authorities and developers. The rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the country has created an angry army of the dispossessed.
Broadcast journalist of the year is Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy of Channel 4 for her documentary on the ill-treatment in South Africa of migrants from Zimbabwe.
The special award for community media went to Radio Sagarmatha of Nepal, an independent community broadcasting station that defied the media ban during last year’s unrest.
The awards were presented by Jon Snow, a patron of the One World Broadcasting Trust and regular presenter of its awards. The trust was established in 1987 to promote understanding between developing and developed countries through the effective use of media.
The full shortlist of nominations is on the owtb.org website. All of the winners are not listed there yet but I’m sure they’ll be posted soon.