The shortlist for the Amnesty Media Awards 2025 has been announced today (19 March).

The awards, which celebrate outstanding human rights journalism, span 10 categories with pieces selected from over 200 entries by an internal panel of experts from Amnesty International. This shortlist represents the very best of human rights journalism from the last year, across a broad range of global human rights issues from a variety of outlets. The shortlist will be judged by a panel of external and internal experts from across the media landscape.

At a time when journalism has never been more important, Amnesty International UK is delighted to honour the brilliant and brave work of journalists who use their voices and platforms to speak truth to power and shine a light on injustice around the world – often while putting their own lives at risk.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony taking place at the BFI Southbank on Wednesday 4 June 2025. The ceremony will be also be live-streamed.

AMNESTY MEDIA AWARDS 2025 SHORTLIST

Broadcast Feature

·       BBC Current Affairs for BBC Two

Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?

·       BBC News & Current Affairs, NI

Spotlight: I Am Not OK

·       BBC News Russian

Don’t look for me: Chechen Women Escape Russia’s Remote Republic"

·       BBC

Cry Witch, Take My Land, Take My Life

·       Channel 4

Kill Zone: Inside Gaza

·       Channel 4

State of Rage

·       Channel 4

The Cranes Call

·       Channel 4

UNDERCOVER Exposing the far right

·       The Guardian

House No. 30, Kabul

·       The Independent

The A-Word

Broadcast Investigation

·       Airwars

The Killings They Tweeted

·       BBC Eye Investigations

Perfume’s Dark Secret

·       BBC Eye Investigations

Settlements Above the Law

·       BBC Scotland / BBC Two

Slavery at Sea

·       BBC World Service

Blood on the Shelves: Secrets of the Xinjiang Tomato Industry

·       Channel 4 News

Inside Syria: Assad's mass graves

·       Channel 4 News

Tortured and Abused at Sde Teiman

·       ITV

The Base: A British Army Scandal (Exposure)

·       Sky News

Scam: Undercover in Asia’s Criminal Network

·       Sky News

The Beast

Broadcast News

·       5 News / ITN

Breaking the law: How Glasgow’s failing homeless people

·       BBC News

Woman, Life, Surveillance

·       BBC World Service

Inside the city ruled by over 100 gangs

·       Channel 4 News

Inside El Genenia

·       Channel 4 News

Settlers in the West Bank: A Year on the Frontline

·       ITV News / ITN

The White Flag

·       Sky News

Gaza Doctor’s Final Moments Revealed

·       Sky News

Kovan’s story: a tale of Yazidi tragedy

·       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

·       Caolán Magee

The i Paper

·       James Walker

The National

·       Jamie Smith-Maillet

The Herald

·       Joseph Wilkins

The Financial Times

·       Misbah Khan

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

·       Ornella Mutoni

The Guardian

·       Philip Teye Agbove

Institute for War and Peace Reporting

·       Sophie Neiman

New Internationalist

·       Will Neal

Byline Times

Nations and Regions                       

·       BBC Northern Ireland / BBC Sounds

Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables

·       BBC Northern Ireland

Spotlight: Katie – Coerced and Killed

·       BBC Scotland

Disclosure: Prisons on the Brink

·       BBC Wales for S4C

Gwrthdaro y Dwyrain Canol

·       ITV News

‘My only crime is to look for somewhere safe to live’: The struggles faced by UK asylum seekers

·       ITV

Spotlight on SEND

·       The Detail

PSNI reported tens of thousands of migrant victims of crime to immigration authorities

·       The Ferret

Saving lives in Toronto’s toxic drug crisis

·       The National

A timeline of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza

·       UTV

Fighting For Care

Photojournalism

·       Alixandra Fazzina

The Financial Times

·       Emre Çaylak

The Telegraph

·       Farzana Hossen

The Guardian

·       Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

The Telegraph Magazine

·       Jack Hill

The Times / The Sunday Times

·       John Beck

The Sunday Times

·       Kiana Hayeri

The Guardian

·       Motaz Azaiza

The Guardian

·       Robin Hammond

The Guardian

·       Tommy Trenchard

Geographical Magazine

Radio & Podcasts

·       BBC News

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

·       BBC Radio 4

Buried

·       BBC Radio 4

County Lines

·       BBC Radio 4

Invisible Souls

·       BBC Radio 4

Our Whole Life is a Secret

·       INQUEST

Unlawful Killing: Grief, resistance and the fight for justice

·       ITN / ITV News

The Trapped

·       Novara FM

This Is How the British State Is Trying to Crush the Palestine Movement

·       Novel & Wondery

Kill List

·       Sky News StoryCast

Patient 11

Written Feature

·       BBC News

Gaza Medics

·       Daily Mail

Revealed: The real horrors facing Saudi’s World Cup migrant workers

·       Financial Times

How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

·       Financial Times

The Opus Dei diaries

·       Financial Times

Weaponised autism and the extremist threat facing children

·       Financial Times

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

·       The Economist’s 1843 Magazine

How poor Kenyans became economists’ guinea pigs

·       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

·       The Guardian

‘I hate the night’: life in Gaza amid the incessant sounds of war

·       The Guardian

Think of this: a plan to ‘warehouse’ disabled people. What kind of nation is Britain becoming?

·       The Telegraph

In occupied Ukraine, the best way to survive is to stay silent

Written Investigation

·       Bellingcat

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza

·       Disability News Service

Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violence

·       Sky News

Sudan: Kutum Massacre

·       SourceMaterial

‘Don’t look back or we’ll shoot’

·       The Guardian

Bloodlines: Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

·       The Guardian

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

·       The Guardian

The IPP scandal

·       The Independent

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

·       The Mirror

Mirror’s hidden homeless series

·       The New Arab

West Bank Israeli settlers fundraise online for military equipment

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 Saturday Magazine

‘It’s not drought – it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water

·       The Guardian

‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur

·       The Guardian

Danish parenting tests under fire after baby removed from Greenlandic mother

·       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

·       The Telegraph

Desperate hunger in Tigray pushes thousands into the hands of kidnappers and people smugglers

·       The Telegraph

Ukrainian orphan abducted by Russia tells of how he escaped Putin’s grasp