AWARDS

Al Jazeera Digital won top jury prizes in the 2022 Online Journalism Awards (OJA), its latest wins in global awards competitions.

AJ Contrast, the Digital division’s virtual reality documentary and innovation studio, and Al Jazeera English Online’s Slow Journalism/Features department won the Single Story and Portfolio (series) groupings to dominate the OJA’s Social Justice Reporting category.

Judges for the 27th annual Amnesty International Canada Awards have awarded Al Jazeera English Online top prize in the Mixed Media category for its long-form interactive feature, Toxic Legacy: The fight to end environmental racism in Canada.

Al Jazeera’s Corporate Communication section bagged a silver Digital Communication Award (DCA2022), in the “Internal Channel” category for its intranet website “Tawasul”.

The HR & Administration division won a Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Leadership Development category, on August 18, 2022. 

In a breakout year for global recognition, the Al Jazeera English website has emerged with three wins in the prestigious US-based Edward R. Murrow Awards. In competition against media heavyweights The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN International and numerous others, the Al Jazeera English Online won top prizes in the Breaking News, News Series and Feature Reporting categories of the annual awards named after the CBS News maverick and pioneer of 60 Minutes-styled documentaries.

Al Jazeera Digital’s Slow Journalism Unit won general ‘Feature of the Year’ in the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) awards. Al Jazeera won in the feature category for general science reporting, beating co-finalist, The Economist, to win the prize.

The Hope International Film Festival's board of directors has decided to present an annual award named after the martyred Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The award is given to highly motivated journalists, media professionals, and other innovators from all over the world. 

AJ+ Español won a LATAM Digital Media Award in the category of Best Use of Online Video​ for its series “Descoloniza​”. Descoloniza sheds light on the stories and struggles of communities throughout Latin America that have historically been less represented in traditional media.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s film, Postcard, by Moroccan director Asma al-Modir won the grand prize at the 13th edition of the Agadir International Documentary film Festival (FIDADOC), held in Morocco, between June 12th and 17th.

Al Jazeera’s immersive storytelling and media innovation studio, AJ Contrast, has won a top prize at the One World Media Awards in London. One World jurors conferred the win in the Digital Media category for AJ Contrast’s interactive site, Inaccessible Cities. 

Al Jazeera Documentary channel’s film, Postcard, won “Best Documentary” at the 27th Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan (Morocco), which was held from June 11 to 17.

The film competed against eight other films from Lebanon, Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Spain and Belgium.

AJ+’s Eat This with Yara has won a James Beard Award in the category of Visual Media-Short Form, for their story “What Everyone Gets Wrong About Farm Work”. The story sheds light on the complex farm work that thousands of migrants, wrongly referred to by some as “unskilled” or “low-skilled” workers, do to keep the U.S. fed. 

Al Jazeera Investigative Unit was awarded second place in the “Video Documentary” category for its investigative piece “The Men Who Sell Football”, by the International Sports Press Association (AIPS).

The ceremony was held on Sunday, June 12 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, and was accepted by Phil Rees, Director of the Network's Investigative Unit, and fellow film producer David Harrison.

AJ+’s series Direct From with Dena Takruri was honored with an Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) – Michigan chapter. Its story “The Racist Border You Don’t Hear About” won in the category of Societal Concerns. The video shows how officers within U.S. Customs and Border Protection were ordered to racially profile people of color in the U.S.- Canada border.

For the second consecutive year, Al Jazeera has been named “Telly Company of the Year​” at the annual Telly Awards. Winners were announced online on May 24. Organisers for the Telly Awards, which recognise excellence in video and television content across all screens, confer the prize annually to the broadcaster or online publisher with the most gold, silver and bronze medals.

Al Jazeera English’s US-based documentary strand Fault Lines has won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for its 2021 episode “Unrelinquished: When Abusers Keep Their Guns.”

The award, given by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, was announced on 24 May 2022 in an online ceremony. Other winners for this year’s awards include PBS, USA Today, the New York Times and the Miami Herald.

Al Jazeera Balkans won the Award for the Best Media Outlet in the category of TV Journalism, which is traditionally awarded by the Association of Journalists of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won 10 awards at Newscast Studio’s Broadcast Productions Awards. The Network competed with more than 200 creative content-makers from many internationally renowned channels and institutions.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit and the Aljazeera.com News Desk have earned top prizes in the eighth annual Amnesty Media Awards honouring the best human rights journalism of the year.

The Al Jazeera Media Network have won three top prizes and several nominations in the 26^th annual Webby Awards honouring ‘the best of the internet.’

The Digital‘s narrative documentary strand Fly on the Wall won both a jury Webby and a People’s Voice award in the Reality: Video Series and Channels category, adding to previous top prizes in the AIB, New York Festivals, Picture of the Year and Telly competitions.

Al Jazeera English was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at the 2022 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for the sixth consecutive year.
 
The Al Jazeera Media Network collected an impressive array of gold, silver and bronze medals for its news and programmes coverage.

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.

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) 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.