AWARDS

In a year marked by overlapping crises and pandemic lockdowns, two Al Jazeera Digital teams have emerged with top prizes in the 2020 Online Journalism (OJA) Awards.

The full roster of winners was published on October 17, following a two-week online journalism innovation forum, ONA20 Everywhere, hosted by the Online News Association (ONA).

AJ+ won the 2020 National Edward R. Murrow Award in the category of Excellence in Social Media for its story “The US Navy's Toxic Playground: Vieques, Puerto Rico”, an episode of the multi-awarded show Direct From. The video shows how the island that was used by the U.S. Navy as a training ground for war for 60 years is today a toxic Superfund site because the Navy is still cleaning up their leftover bombs by literally exploding them.

Al Jazeera English’s 101 East documentary strand was named a Gold Winner at the Venice TV Awards in the category of ‘Cross-Platform Programming’ for its interactive report, “The $5 Forests”.

 

Al Jazeera English has won the First and Second Place in the TV Best Coverage of Native America category from the Native American Journalists Association. In addition to an Honorable Mention for Best News Story for the Al Jazeera English website.

AJ Contrast’s immersive multimedia experience, Still Here, won a prestigious Digital Project of the Year in the RTDNA Kaleidoscope Awards on Sept. 8, marking the fourth award for the project since its premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in February.

Al Jazee​ra Documentary​'s "Drowning Letters" won the audience award at the 23rd edition of the Malaga Film Festival, which was held August 21-30.

The Music+Sound Awards announced the Sonic Lens Agency as the winner in the category of ‘Best Original Composition in Branding’ for the work it produced on Al Jazeera English's sonic branding.

The Music+Sound Awards are the world’s first and only global awards programme that celebrates the indispensable role and outstanding contribution that both music and sound design play in the media.

Al Jazeera Digital earned a record 35 medals, including seven Gold medals, in the 41st annual Telly Awards on May 27. Spanning 14 categories in the competition that honors “video across all screens”, the awards signaled the diversity of Al Jazeera’s online offerings as video continues to drive innovation and find new expression on digital platforms.

Al Jazeera English Online’s Newsfeed emerged with a People’s Voice award in the Social, News & Politics category for Rohingya crisis through the eyes of Al Jazeera’s journalists. Al Jazeera Digital’s virtual reality documentary boutique, AJ Contrast, emerged with a jury win for My People, Our Stories: Homelessness in Los Angeles

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 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

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.

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.

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 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 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+’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 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 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 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 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 Media Network wins a “Bronze Stevie® Award” at the International Business Awards for communications.

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 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.