AWARDS

The AJ+’s series “Direct From with Dena Takruri” has won a Peabody award in the category of News for their video “One Day In Hebron”. The video, which has over 1.7 million views on YouTube, shows host Dena Takuri return to Hebron, the once-vibrant Palestinian city where her father was born and raised. 

Against steep competition, Al Jazeera Digital’s Slow Journalism/Features unit has won a prestigious Amnesty Media Award recognising outstanding human rights journalism.

Al Jazeera Balkans reporter Nadina Maličbegović is the winner of the "Journalist of the Year 2022" award, chosen by the jury of the Association of Journalists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The plaque was presented to her on Wednesday evening in Banja Luka.

Al Jazeera Digital's Eat This with Yara and Decoded, hosted by Hollywood actor Amr Waked, have scooped three top prizes in the 27th annual Webby Awards announced April 25, in New York.

Al Jazeera English was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at the 2023 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for the seventh consecutive year.

Al Jazeera Digital has won a Gracie Award for excellence in work produced by, for, and about women. The award went to Malika Bilal, the host of The Take, Al Jazeera Digital’s flagship news and current affairs podcast.

Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines has won the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow award for the documentary “No Country for Haitians.”The award honors the “best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes.”

Al Jazeera English's current affairs programme Fault Lines has won a George Polk award, in the category of Foreign Television Reporting, for its short news documentary, The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. 

Al Jazeera Digital has won five medals in the second annual Anthem Awards for purpose and mission-driven work. The wins, announced February 15, were conferred for a range of English and Arabic news content, including podcasts, political cartoons, interactives and interactive websites.

Al Jazeera Balkans website is the winner of the "Best of the Region" Award chosen by the audience of the Serbian magazine PC Press as part of the "Top 50 Best Online Things for 2022​" Awards.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won eight awards at 2022 Signal Awards for excellence in podcasting. The winners were announced online on January 10. Al Jazeera’s The Take won four awards. It collected the gold for Individual Episodes, News & Politics/Listener's Choice for its episode, The war that opened Europe's borders.

Al Jazeera Media Network has been recognised as the “Top Employer in Qatar” for 2023, by the Top Employers Institute. 

Al Jazeera Balkans channel's Predrag Tomovi, Journalist, has received Best Ethical Reporting Awad from the Association of Professional Journalists of Montenegro (DPN). The awarding ceremony was held on January 23, coinciding the celebration of Journalists' Day.

Edhem Fočo, the Director of the AJB DOC Film Festival, was chosen as the Man of The Year 2022 according to the Ladies In magazine. The publishers of Ladies In magazine, one of the most popular magazines in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On Saturday, December 24, the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Media, Nabil Abu Rudeine, received “Al Saraya Al Hamra” Award for Arab Journalism, which was awarded to the late colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, in Tripoli; at the closing ceremony of the Council of Arab Information Ministers, and as part of Tripoli’s activities as the capital of Arab media 2022.

The Belarusian trap, Arab Migrants in the European Border Game, an investigative report for Al Jazeera Net, was named the second-best Arab investigative report of the year and received the silver award at the conclusion of the fifteenth forum of the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Network (ARIJ), held in the Jordanian capital Amman on Sunday, December 4.

Al Jazeera won eight awards, including ‘Brand of the Year’, at the seventh annual Shorty Impact Awards. Digital teams AJ Contrast and AJ+ francais won in multiple categories in the competition honouring purpose-driven, socially conscious digital work. The prizes were conferred to two projects: AJ Contrast’s multiple award-winning, Emmy nominated interactive website about women with disabilities, Inaccessible Cities and AJ+ francais’s Cameroon, Land of Welcome.

AJ+ won a Lone Star Emmy for its video "What It's Really Like To Be Caught By Border Patrol", in the category of Public Affairs Programs. The story, filmed in McAllen, Texas, and part of Direct From’s Policing the Border series, features the experiences of immigrants who have been victims of harassment, mistreatment and serious human right violations by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. 

Al Jazeera channel AJA received a gold prize at the 22nd Arab Radio and Television Festival, which was held in Riyadh from November 9–12. Mohammed bin Fahd Al-Harthy, CEO of the Saudi Radio and Television Corporation, handed the trophy to our colleague Mohammed Al-Hammadi, head of AJA production, in recognition of the channel's win in the documentary program category for the film, Palestine 1920.

The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit won two of The AIB 2022 Awards; the film The Truth Illusion won for best Specialist Factual TV category, and The Men who Sell Football won best Sports Journalism Video. Three other Al Jazeera programs were Highly Commended in various categories: The Digital's Start Here short video, AJE's Fault Lines and AJE's Witness..

AJ+ won the Silver AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the category of Spot News/Feature Reporting for its story “The Bizarre COVID Side Effect No One Is Talking About”. The award is one of the most prestigious in science journalism worldwide. The video shows how a subset of COVID survivors are suffering from an unexpected side effect known as parosmia, a condition that causes their sense of smell to go haywire with no end in sight.

Al Jazeera Media Network won three awards; a gold and two silvers, at the thirteenth edition of the Cannes Media and Television Festival 2022, for documentaries produced by Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic channels.

Colleague Magdy Benoura, in Seoul, Korea on October 26, received the Haines Feteir Global Media Award, which was awarded this year to the late colleague Shireen Abu Akleh. The Speaker of the Korean Parliament, Kim Jin-bio, received in his office colleague Magdy Bennoura and the other winners of this year's Haines Feteir Global Media Award, namely British photographer Philip Cox, who was awarded recognition for his coverage of the protests in Sudan, Japanese journalist Atanabe Hindio and Korean journalist Yoon Jae-wan.

Al Jazeera Documentary’s “Tam Tam Basket” film was awarded with the “Best Film Director” award at the Terra di Tutti Film Festival for films related to youth issues. The festival was organised from October 6 to 11, 2022 in Bologna, Italy.