AWARDS

AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera’s immersive storytelling and media innovation studio, won the Drum Online Media Award in the Editorial Innovation of the Year category for Still Here, the virtual and augmented reality installation.

AJ Contrast, VR and Digital Innovation Studio wins ‘Best Use of Digital Media’ for interactive about Uighurs in diaspora.

Al Jazeera Documentary channel’s film, Postcard, directed by Moroccan director Asma al-Modeer, won the Best Feature Documentary award at the Toronto Women Film Festival,

 Al Jazeera English channel won a prestigious 2021 Royal Television Society (RTS) award in the Breaking News category for its reporting of last year’s Beirut explosion.

Al Jazeera English channel was honoured with a 2021 Royal Television Society (RTS) Judges’ Award for the work of its technical team during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won three Promax Global Excellence Awards, two golds and one bronze, in the Informational Graphics and Interstitial Campaigns categories; surpassing a large number of prestigious media organizations including CNN, National Geographic and others.

Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein honored with Percy Qoboza Award, from the National Association of Black Journalists. NABJ honored Hussein during a virtual awards event.

AJE Documentaries won two awards at the prestigious Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2020. ‘Hillbilly’ from Witness won the Arts & Culture Story of the Year and ‘Kyrgyzstan’s Space School’ part of the Women Make Science series won the Science Story of the Year award.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's “The Fifth Story” won the FIPRESCI Award in the 33rd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2020.

Al Jazeera English Online’s new digital vérité series, Fly on the Wall, has won a prestigious Association of International Broadcasters (AIB) award for best short documentary.

Al Jazeera English’s The Big Picture programme won an award in the Science and Technology category for its film ‘The World According to AI’.

After premiering at the Sundance Festival and winning the best photography award, the documentary film, Acasă​ (My Home), co-produced by Al Jazeera Documentary channel, won eight more awards this year in various international film festivals.

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.