Full list of finalists across 10 categories announced

Jolyon Rubinstein announced as host

‘It’s an honour to host the Amnesty International Media Awards 2025. Especially in what will be the final year before journalists are officially designated as enemies of the state - what a send-off!’ – Jolyon Rubinstein

Amnesty International UK has announced the full list of finalists for the 2025 Amnesty Media Awards today.

The 10 awards categories celebrate outstanding human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists who have shone a light on human rights issues in their work.

Each category was judged by a panel of prestigious journalists and media workers, including Ayshah Tull (Channel 4 News), Paul Murphy (Financial Times), Stuart Ramsay (Sky News), Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4 News), Alex Crawford (Sky News), Claire Newell (Daily Telegraph), Catherine Philp (The Times) and Ollie Stone-Lee (BBC Radio 4).

Amnesty International is also pleased to announce actor, writer and director Jolyon Rubinstein as the host for the Amnesty Media Awards 2025 award ceremony - taking place at the BFI Southbank on Wednesday 4 June 2025 - where the winners will be revealed. The ceremony will also be live-streamed.

Jolyon said:

"It’s an honour to host the Amnesty International Media Awards 2025. Especially in what will be the final year before journalists are officially designated as enemies of the state - what a send-off! But with protests banned, billionaires calling the shots, and international law in tatters, what’s left to talk about? Don’t worry, though—under my stewardship, any award speech veering into ‘politically correct wokery’ will be swiftly cut off, and I promise I’ll mansplain and bluster my way through the night, blissfully unaware of what’s really going on, as only a white man can. How very 2025 of me!"

FULL LIST OF FINALISTS

Broadcast Feature

BBC Current Affairs for BBC Two

·       Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?

BBC News & Current Affairs, NI

·       Spotlight: I Am Not OK

Channel 4

·       Kill Zone: Inside Gaza

Channel 4

·       The Cranes Call

Broadcast Investigation

Airwars

·       The Killings They Tweeted

BBC Eye Investigations

·       Settlements Above the Law

BBC Scotland / BBC Two

·       Slavery at Sea

Channel 4 News

·       Tortured and Abused at Sde Teiman

Broadcast News

Channel 4 News

·       Settlers in the West Bank: A Year on the Frontline

ITV News / ITN

·       The White Flag

Sky News

·       Sky News investigates Hind Rajab’s killing

The Guardian

·       Inside the war on kush: The drug ‘mixed with human bones’ taking over Sierra Leone

The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist

Aidan Tulloch

·       The Times

Misbah Khan

·       The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Ornella Mutoni

·       The Guardian

Sophie Neiman

·       New Internationalist

Nations and Regions

BBC Northern Ireland

·       Spotlight: Katie – Coerced and Killed

BBC Northern Ireland / BBC Sounds

·       Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables

The Ferret

·       Saving lives in Toronto’s toxic drug crisis

UTV

·       Fighting For Care

Photojournalism

Alixandra Fazzina

·       The Financial Times

Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

·       The Telegraph Magazine

Kiana Hayeri

·       The Guardian

Tommy Trenchard

·       Geographical Magazine

Radio & Podcasts

BBC News

·       Locked Up and Abused at School – Britain’s ‘Calming Room’ Scandal

BBC Radio 4

·       Our Whole Life is a Secret

ITN / ITV News

·       The Trapped

Novel & Wondery

·       Kill List

Written Feature

BBC News

·       Gaza Medics

Financial Times

·       How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

Financial Times

·       The Smuggler’s Daughter and Other Tales From The Gulf of Aden

The Economist’s 1843 Magazine

·       Life and death in Putin’s gulag

The Guardian & Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism

·       ‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists

Written Investigation

SourceMaterial

·       ‘Don’t look back or we’ll shoot’

The Guardian

·       The IPP scandal

The Guardian

·       The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

The Independent

·       Russia told Ukrainians with disabilities they were visiting the seaside – but they were kidnapped and disappeared

Written News

Big Issue

·       Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like

Financial Times

·       FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites

The Guardian

·       Mazyouna’s face was ‘ripped off’ when a rocket hit her home. Israel has refused to allow her evacuation

The Telegraph

·       Children pull skulls from mass graves in Syrian killing field