AWARDS

Al Jazeera English won several prizes at the Asian Television Awards held last week in Singapore. 101 East Presenter Steve Chao won top prize in the category ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ – the third consecutive year he has won the award.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won a prestigious Foreign Press Association Media Award ​for its documentary on the illegal trade in rhino horn

AJE State/Specials Correspondent Rosiland Jordan is one of this year's winners in the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards. Jordan's story on the UN Secretary-General's efforts to highlight near-famine in Somalia won the Silver prize in “The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize” category for broadcast (TV & Radio) media

101 East, which is Al Jazeera’s weekly Asian current affairs programme, won the best Politics and Business category award for "Duterte: A President’s Report Card", while "Voyage to Antarctica" won the award for the Best Interactive Category.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s "A Memory in Khaki" won the Best Direction Award for long documentaries at the Malmo Arab Film Festival held in Sweden between October 7 - 9, 2017. The film was directed by Alfoz Tanjour. The film was also awarded Best Documentary Film in Bamaghata Film Festival in Japan on October 12.

An episode of the series “Refugee Mothers”, produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, has won the Community Awareness Award in the International Madrid Film Festival in Madrid.

Al Jazeera Balkans journalist Sanel Kajan won the special journalism award "Srđan Aleksić", which was established in 2010 by a non-governmental organization. It awards professional reporting on marginalised and vulnerable groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s “The Massacre of Paris” won the prize of the National Moroccan Company of Television and Radio (SNRT) in the 5th edition of the Europe Orient Documentary Film Festival of Tangier.

Al Jazeera Documentary’s “Blood on the Seine” won the People Award in the History Film Festival held in Croatia. Mahdi Bakkar, Director, received the award in the awarding ceremony held last week in Rijeka.

The documentary film “Džajić“, about the Yugoslav football legend, Dragan Džajić, produced by Al Jazeera Balkans won two awards at the International Sport Film Festival of Zlatibor, that was held in Serbia from June 29 to of July 3.

Aela Callan has been named the 2017 winner of the Jane Cunningham Croly Award for Excellence in Journalism Covering Issues of Concern to Women for her film broadcast on Al Jazeera’s 101 East programme.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won the Corruption Reporting Award at the annual One World Media ceremony in London. The documentary Stealing Paradise provides an unprecedented insight into the workings of a corrupt government It exposes jaw-dropping levels of wrongdoing at the very top of government in the Maldives.

For the second consecutive year, Al Jazeera Media Network has won the ‘Best Website’ award at the annual Online Media Awards ceremony held in London, along with five other awards and four commendations.

For the second consecutive year, Al Jazeera Media Network has won the ‘Best Website’ award at the annual Online Media Awards ceremony held in London, along with five other awards and four commendations. The awards hosted on Thursday evening 1 june 2017 by The Drum were judged by a panel of journalists, PR professionals and media personalities.

AJ+ was announced the winner of Best News & Information Category, during the 21st Annual Webby Awards ceremony held in New York on Tuesday 16 May2017 . The Webby Awards - presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences - is the leading international award honoring excellence on the internet.

AJA’s correspondent in Yemen Hadeel al-Yamani won the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award for 2017.

The Spanish Journalists Union honoured Al Jazeera's Abdullah Al-Shami on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day. The union granted him the Freedom of Expression award during a gala dinner held in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday May 3.

Al Jazeera Media Network won five Gold World Medals, fourteen Silver World Medals and seven Bronze Medals at the prestigious New York Festivals awards. A special award of Broadcaster of the year was also awarded to Al Jazeera English, as the channel bagged three Gold, twelve Silver, five Bronze and 10 Finalist Certificates for various content.

Al Jazeera Media Network’s studio 14 is awarded Best TV Studio for 2016, by NewscastStudio; the international trade publication for television creative professionals. Studio 14 won the Best TV Studio in the world for 2016 thanks to its panoramic distinct design.

AJ+ was named one of the top digital publishers by Tubular Labs, a company that tracks all video content cross-platform, all-device, globally. AJ+ was ranked 5th since the beginning of 2017 in views on Facebook in News and Politics category, globally, according to Tubular's monthly classifications in January and February 2017.

Al Jazeera Arabic Channel’s website – Al Jazeera Net – is ranked 6th news source among the most powerful news sources in the world, according to 4 International Media & Newspapers institution (www.4imn.com). The ordered list of the world news agencies comprised the top 106 news agencies in the world.

Al Jazeera Media Network has obtained ISO certification in the field of Information Systems and Security. This certification is one of the most prestigious in the world in the field of information security management, and is audited against the International Standards Organization (ISO) 27001:2013 standard.

Dena Takruri, Senior Presenter at AJ+, was awarded the Professional Excellence Award by the Network of Arab-American Professional (NAAP).

Al Jazeera English’s senior correspondent and diplomatic editor James Bay and senior producer Whitney Hurst have been awarded the United Nations’ Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for their role in covering the first internationally televised live UN leaders’ debate titled “Leading the United Nations: A Global Town Hall with UN Secretary-General Candidates".