Journalism that questions the powers alive and well, Amnesty shows

I had the pleasure of attending last night’s Amnesty International Media Awards, mainly to back up my girl Annie Kelly, freelance journalista extraordinaire, who was nominated for some of her amazing reporting on child soldiers in Liberia.

As it happens, I bumped into a bunch of  FT people there because one of the newspaper’s (should we even be calling it that anymore?) video pieces, by Jamil Anderlini in China, was nominated and won the award for best digital journalism.

There was some great work on show, and it was encouraging to see that despite the doom and gloom attitude being exuded by many these days around our profession, there are plenty of journos who are just getting on with doing what we should be doing – questioning the powers.

You can read more about the winners here on Amnesty’s page.

A note: one doesn’t have to go abroad to find reports about the abuse of power, and often less credit is given to those who do that here at home rather in foreign climes – all but one of the winners were reports from abroad.

It was good, therefore, to see BBC’s Look North program, Migrant Workers Rental Block, in the winning category for Nations and Regions, so well done to Guy Lynn, Mark Hayman and David Weller.

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