The prestigious One World Media Awards – regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of factual broadcasting and journalism – will celebrate its 21st anniversary at this year’s ceremony on Monday 22nd June 2009.

Among nominees for the prestigious Broadcast Journalist of the Year award are Nadene Ghouri, which AIM previously profiled here, and the BBC’s Mukul Devichand.

The 12 award categories recognise excellence in coverage of the developing world.

The event will feature a keynote speech by the Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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For press information: Sophie Toumazis or Suzie Schilling at tpr media on 020 8347 7020 / sophie@tpr-media.com

One World Media Awards 2009 – Shortlist:

Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Alex Crawford, Sky News
Nadene Ghouri , Freelance (BBC Radio 4, BBC World News)
Jonathan Miller, Channel 4 News
Radio Documentary
Assignment: Africa’s Guantanamo
Rob Walker, David Edmonds, Helena Selby, Jeremy Skeet; BBC World Service
Crossing Continents: Dharavi
Mukul Devichand, John Murphy, Maria Balinska; BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC Radio 4
Why They’re Dying in Congo
Mark Doyle, Rob Walker, Bridget Harney; BBC World Service

TV Documentary
Dispatches: Saving Africa’s Witch Children
Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich; Red Rebel Films and Oxford Scientific Films for Channel 4
Ghosts of the 7th Cavalry
Tom Roberts, Jeremy Williams, Paul Carlin; October Films/Taglicht Media for Storyville, BBC 4
Iran and the West: The Pariah State
Norma Percy, Brian Lapping, Delphine Jaudeau, Paul Mitchell, Dai Richards; Brook Lapping for
BBC 2

Press Journalist of the Year
Jonathan Green
Live – Mail on Sunday
Barney Jopson
Financial Times
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
Guardian Weekend Magazine

New Media Award, sponsored by Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
BBC World Class
BBC Audio and Music
Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Traces of Hope
British Red Cross

Drama Award
El baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet)
César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Persepolis
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Under the Bombs
Philippe Aractingi

Local Media Award
Canfod Hedd (Finding Peace)
Neville Hughes, Arwyn Evans; Cwmni Da for S4C
It’s as if they raped my mind
Lucy Adams, The Herald
Put a family back together
Tara Greaves, Eastern Daily Press

Popular Features Award, sponsored by Christian Aid
Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts
Tim Quicke, Mark Rubens, Ricochet; Harry Lansdown, BBC 3
Dirty Ali
Nadene Ghouri, Live Magazine – Mail on Sunday
Lush Paddy Fields as Far as the Eye Can See
Alex Renton, Observer Food Monthly

Children’s Rights Award, sponsored by UNICEF UK
Dispatches: Saving Africa’s Witch Children
Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk, Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Woolwich; Red Rebel Films and Oxford Scientific Films for Channel 4
India’s Trafficked Girls
Ramita Navai, Iain Overton, Bernard Lyall; More4 News
The Children’s Ward
Paolo Santolini, Fabrizio Lazzaretti; BBC Storyville for BBC 4

Environment Award
One Planet: Carbon Trading
Mark Gregory, David Edmonds, Jeremy Skeet; BBC World Service
From producers to consumers: how rice farmers face catastrophe
Jonathan Watts, Dan Chung, Harriet Sherwood; The Guardian
Unreported World: Paraguay’s Painful Harvest
Andrew Carter, Tanya Datta, Siobhan Sinnerton; Quicksilver Media for Channel 4

International Documentary Award, sponsored by Plan UK
Burma VJ
Anders Østergaard
Crude
Joe Berlinger
Waltz with Bashir
Ari Folman

Special Award, sponsored by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Aswat al-Iraq (Iraq)
B’Tselem (Israel)
Dalan Tele-serial (Nepal)
Kids’ Waves (West Africa)
Makutano Junction (Kenya)
Rien que la Vérité (Congo)
Youth, music and HIV prevention in post-war Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)