AWARDS
Al Jazeera Media Network has and will always be committed to its mission to inform and empower people with accurate, in-depth and compelling content that upholds the value of truth and elevates the human spirit. The Network has gained global recognition for its unabated journalism, making it an important voice in the international news landscape.
Al Jazeera Media Network has received multiple prestigious awards from various organisations across the globe.

2020
Al Jazeera Digital wins two Drum Online Media Awards
19 May 2020
Al Jazeera’s Digital Division emerged with two first place wins and two Highly Commended second place distinctions in the 2020 Drum Online Media Awards.
Al Jazeera Media Network Wins Three Audience Honors at the Shorty Awards
10 May 2020
Al Jazeera earned three audience honors at the 2020 Shorty Awards for Social Media & Brands.
Al Jazeera Digital took home two awards, one Gold Audience Honor for its news and current affairs explainer series, Start Here, and an Audience Honor for its AJEnglish Twitter team and Al Jazeera English won a Gold Audience Honor for the series All Hail the Algorith
Broadcaster of the Year At the 2020 New York Festival TV & Film Awards
21 Apr 2020
Al Jazeera English (AJE) was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ by the 2020 New York Festival TV & Film Awards for the fourth consecutive year.
The channel collected an impressive array of gold, silver and bronze medals for its news coverage and programmes.
Al Jazeera Wins 4 of prestigious Ava Awards
18 Jan 2020
The creative directorate of Al Jazeera Media Network has won four Ava Digital Awards; two platinum, two gold, and a jury honorable mention, in a competition with nearly 2,500 entries from around the world.
2019
Al Jazeera wins prestigious UN prize
15 Dec 2019
Al Jazeera Online won a Silver Medal in the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize at the United Nations Correspondents Association's (UNCA) gala dinner in New York on December 6, 2019.
AJ+ Español wins the second prize in the Walter Reuter Journalism Award
09 Dec 2019
AJ+ Español won the second prize in the Walter Reuter Journalism Award, in the category of Radio and Television, for their series “El paso de los migrantes por Tapachula, crisis humanitaria en México.”
Al Jazeera wins Global Award for best Arab channel
05 Dec 2019
Al Jazeera Arabic won the best Arab channel award for 2019 in the "Media" category in the fourth edition of the Global Awards (formerly the Best Arabs Awards).
AJ+ wins regional Emmy and three Excellence in Journalism awards
03 Dec 2019
AJ+’s Untold America has been honored with one regional Emmy and three Excellence in Journalism Awards, in different categories, for three of their stories.
Al Jazeera wins two Walkley awards
01 Dec 2019
Al Jazeera English and the Al Jazeera’s Investigations Unit took home two very important wins at the 64th Walkley Awards held in Sydney, Australia on November 28th, 2019.
Al Jazeera wins five Lovie Awards
17 Nov 2019
Al Jazeera Media Network wins five Lovie Awards. Al Jazeera English’s programme, ‘All Hail the Algorithm', a unique online-first series, has won three prestigious Lovie awards for European Internet Excellence.
Al Jazeera wins two AIB’s awards
07 Nov 2019
Al Jazeera English channel and Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit took home two prestigious AIB Awards for the earthrise programme and “How to Sell a Massacre”.
Al Jazeera Documentary wins the Bronze in Carthage
04 Nov 2019
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s film The Haunted Past won the Tanit De Bronze Award in the Long Documentary category, at the 30th Carthage Film Festival
Al Jazeera wins Stevie® Award for Communications
26 Oct 2019
Al Jazeera Media Network wins a “Bronze Stevie® Award” at the International Business Awards for communications.
Al Jazeera wins two MarCom Awards
16 Oct 2019
The Al Jazeera Media Network's Creative Directorate has won platinum and gold awards from the MarCom Awards, as well as a certificate of appreciation from the jury.
Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines programme ‘Adoption Inc’ wins a prestigious Emmy award
25 Sep 2019
Al Jazeera English channel’s Fault Lines programme has been awarded the prestigious Emmy award in the category of ‘Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine’ for its film ‘Adoption Inc’ at the 40th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards in New York.
Al Jazeera's AJLabs wins prestigious data journalism award
18 Sep 2019
AJLabs, Al Jazeera's interactive unit, has won the top prize in the Best Use of Audience Data category at the prestigious Digiday Publishing Awards gala in New York.
Al Jazeera Investigative Unit wins Kennedy Award
20 Aug 2019
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won the “Outstanding Investigative Reporting” prize at the Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
AJ+ wins a Capital Emmy for its story “Inside A Deaf School’s Fight For Civil Rights”
03 Jul 2019
AJ+ was honored with a Capital Emmy® in the category of Historic/Cultural - Program Feature/Segment for their Untold America’s story “Inside A Deaf School’s Fight For Civil Rights”.
Al Jazeera wins two New York Festivals Radio awards
26 Jun 2019
Flanked by industry peers Monday night in New York, Al Jazeera Digital received a Gold Radio award for its current affairs podcast The Take and a Silver Radio award for its sports and lifestyle podcast Game of Our Lives.
AJ+ Español wins a World Digital Media Award
20 Jun 2019
Verificado 2018, the news verification initiative by AJ+ Español, Animal Político and Pop-Up Newsroom, wins a World Digital Media Award
Al Jazeera Digital wins One World Media Award
19 Jun 2019
AJLabs, Al Jazeera Digital’s interactive unit, won top prize in the Digital Media category at the One World Media Awards gala in London on Monday night
AJ+ wins 18 Telly Awards
26 May 2019
The 40th Annual Telly Awards honored AJ+ with 18 awards in different categories for several of its stories, out of which 2 were Gold, 7 Silver and 9 Bronze. Among the winners are Direct From With Dena Takruri, which picked up two Gold Telly Awards for its stories Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Nabi Saleh; In Real Life ..
Al Jazeera wins human rights press award in Hong Kong
22 May 2019
The ‘AJ Shorts’ digital documentary, Growing up too Fast in Afghanistan, won in the Short Video (English) category at this year's Human Rights Press Awards (HRPA) ceremony in Hong Kong on May 16, 2019
Al Jazeera wins The Drum award 2019
01 May 2019
The Digital division of Al Jazeera Media Network scooped the Drum award in the Best Use of Photography for the interactive coverage produced by Al Jazeera English Online department on the suffering of the Rohingya – 100 faces of Rohingya refugees.