AWARDS

For a second consecutive year, Al Jazeera’s immersive storytelling and media innovation studio, AJ Contrast, has won a prestigious Gracie Award. Now in its 47th year, the Washington DC based Gracie’s are hosted by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) and recognise excellence in work produced by, for and about women.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) won the 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards in the Digital Video category for its film The Island of Secrets.

The winning film The Island of Secrets reveals how a small, remote Mauritian island is being transformed into a military hub for India's navy as the country expands its geopolitical influence towards Africa.

A collaboration between Al Jazeera English’s 101 East team and Al Jazeera’s AJ Labs has been announced as a winner at the 2022 Sigma Awards winners.

From more than 600 entries from around the world, the interactive project “This is Myanmar’s State of Fear” was selected as one of 12 projects to represent the very best of data journalism.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has won two awards at British Sports Journalism Awards. The Men Who Sold Football investigation was released as a film on Al Jazeera English in August 2021 and won gold in the Television/Digital Documentary category.   The podcast of the investigation also won a bronze in the Audio / Radio Documentary category. 

At the 2021 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Al Jazeera English’s 101 East team was announced as the winner of the Production category for the interactive project “This is Myanmar’s State of Fear”.

Al Jazeera Digital won three Gold awards across and a Silver medal in the inaugural Anthem Awards for purpose-driven work on February 15. Hosted by the Webby Awards, the Anthem Awards honored innovators and change makers across a variety of social good sectors. Winners will be showcased during a virtual gala event on February 28.

Al Jazeera English has won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) award in the Digital Award category for its series ‘All Hail the Lockdown’. The Network’s Investigative unit also took home an award, in the Home Affairs category for its film ‘The Men Who Sell Football’.

Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties and Human Rights won three AVA Digital Awards; a platinum award for the Inspiring Stories initiative, and two gold awards in the Best Digital Story category for Being a Person with Disability is Aspirational and My Craft is in My Hand stories. The Centre also received two Honourable Mentions in the Web-Based Production category, for the design of the initiative's website as well as its non-profit content.

Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit) won one of the 2021 British Journalism Awards in the Sports Journalism category for its film The Men Who Sell Football.

The awarded film reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. Football middlemen tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal’s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use “dirty tricks” to deceive the football authorities.

Al Jazeera English’s media analysis and critique show, ‘The Listening Post’ was named Arts & Culture Story of the Year by London’s Foreign Press Association (FPA) for its episode “Battle for the BBC.”

Al Jazeera Media Network has been awarded three coveted Dolphin awards at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards for three films from Al Jazeera English Channel’s Witness documentary strand and Al Jazeera News Channel’s documentary "Palestine 1920". The winners were announced online on November 15.

At the 2021 Amnesty International Australia Media Awards, Al Jazeera English’s 101 East team was announced as the winner of the Print/Online category for the interactive project “The $5 Forests”.

Al Jazeera Media Network wins 21 Lovie Awards, including 10 Jury awards and 11 People’s Lovie awards. The winners were honoured at the 11th Annual Lovie Awards ceremony, held virtually, on November 17, 2021.

After competing against 15 foreign documentaries, Al Jazeera's Documentary Channel's film, In The Hands of God, won the Best Documentary Award at the 10th AFRIFF International Film Festival (AFRIFF) in Lagos, Nigeria.

Al Jazeera English (AJE) was named ‘Channel of the Year’ at the 2021 Association of International Broadcaster Awards.

The channel also won two awards, in the Continuing News Reporting and Arts and Culture categories.

At its 32nd edition, the Carthage Film Festival announced, Little Palestine, co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary channel, a winner of the Golden Tanit award in the Feature Documentary category.

Hindsight, Al Jazeera Digital’s docudrama podcast series, won a Silver Medal for Best Narration at the 2021 New York Festivals Radio Awards. The full roster of winners was announced virtually, as part of the New York Festivals  Storytellers Gala livecast from New York on October 12.

Drowning Letters​, a documentary co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary channel, received the grand award at the Figra film festival in France in the category of different perspective.

 Al Jazeera Digital’s news and current affairs podcast, The Take, won top prize in its category in the 2021 Online Journalism (OJA) Awards. The full roster of winners​ was announced online and during an annual conference hosted by OJA parent group, the Online News Association, in Philadelphia on October 16. 

Al Jazeera English (AJE) was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at the 2021 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for the fifth consecutive year.
The channel collected an impressive array of gold, silver and bronze medals for its programmes and news coverage.

Al Jazeera's Investigative Journalism Unit has won the Best Long Investigative and Best Audio prizes at the DIG for its Investigative, All the Prime Minister's Men.

Al Jazeera’s "About Cinema" programme won a gold award at the Venice TV Award in the "Best of Technology and Innovation" category for the “Star Wars” episode. The programme also qualified to compete in the “Best TV Series” and “Light Entertainment” categories.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel co-produced the documentary “Their Algeria” directed by Lina Soualem, won the Black Iris Award in the category Best Arab Feature Documentary, in the second edition of the Amman International Film Festival.

The "Afghanistan: The Wounded Earth" series, co-produced and edited by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, won the Grimme Prize for 2021​, awarded annually by the Grimme Institute for Research & Education for Best International Documentary Productions.