The winners of the 2008 One World Media Awards were announced last night at a ceremony in central London. Host Jon Snow, who once again made the dash across London from presenting the Channel 4 news, got the evening off to a suitably bright start by joining the Archbishop of York in a rendition of the Ugandan national anthem.
From that point on, the emphasis was on celebrating the achievements made by journalists and filmmakers around the world in bringing issues surrounding development to a wider audience.
Winners included John Pilger's War on Democracy, which beat Oscar-winner Taxi to the Darkside to the TV Documentary award. True Stories' China's Stolen Children, produced for Channel 4's Dispatches and already the recipient of many awards, picked up the Children's Rights Award, while War/Dance, screened by DFG this evening, won the International Premiere Award in a tie with End of the Rainbow.
The awards are run by the One World Broadcasting Trust, the UK-based organisation which exists to increase global understanding through effective use of the media.
The full list of winners is:
Broadcast Journalist of the Year
Mike Thomson, Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Radio Documentary
Lost in Translation, John Waite, Karen Pirie, and Andrew Smith, BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts
TV Documentary
War on Democracy, John Pilger, Chris Martin, Wayne Young, Michael Watt, and Joe Frost, Youngheart Entertainment and Granada for ITV 1
Press Award
Asda, Primark, and Tesco Accused Over Clothing Factories, Karen McVeigh, Andrew Biraj, The Guardian
New Media Award
Katine: It Starts with a Village, Katine Project, Guardian News and Media
Local Media Award
A History of Violence, Lucy Adams, Simon Murphy, The Herald Magazine
Popular Features Award
Seeing is Believing, AA Gill, Robin Morgan, Sunday Times Magazine
MDGs Award
Iron Ladies of Liberia, Daniel Junge, Siatta Scott Johnson, Mette Heide, Don Edkins and Nick Fraser, Steps International and BBC Storyville for BBC 4
Children's Rights Award
China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special, Jezza Neumann, Sky Zeh, Kate Blewett, Brian Woods, True Vision for Channel 4
Environment Award
Sold Down the River, John Vidal, The Guardian
International Premiere - joint winners
End of the Rainbow, Robert Nugent, Andrea Lang, Mitzi Goldman, Jean Pierre Gibrat, and Michel Zwecker; Looking Glass Pictures and Trans Europe Film
War/Dance, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine; Fine Films, Think Films, Shine Global
Special Award for Development Media
Urunana DC