AWARDS
Al Jazeera Media Network has and will always be committed to its mission to inform and empower people with accurate, in-depth and compelling content that upholds the value of truth and elevates the human spirit. The Network has gained global recognition for its unabated journalism, making it an important voice in the international news landscape.
Al Jazeera Media Network has received multiple prestigious awards from various organisations across the globe.
2019
Al Jazeera's AJLabs wins prestigious data journalism award
18 Sep 2019
AJLabs, Al Jazeera's interactive unit, has won the top prize in the Best Use of Audience Data category at the prestigious Digiday Publishing Awards gala in New York.
Al Jazeera Investigative Unit wins Kennedy Award
20 Aug 2019
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won the “Outstanding Investigative Reporting” prize at the Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
AJ+ wins a Capital Emmy for its story “Inside A Deaf School’s Fight For Civil Rights”
03 Jul 2019
AJ+ was honored with a Capital Emmy® in the category of Historic/Cultural - Program Feature/Segment for their Untold America’s story “Inside A Deaf School’s Fight For Civil Rights”.
Al Jazeera wins two New York Festivals Radio awards
26 Jun 2019
Flanked by industry peers Monday night in New York, Al Jazeera Digital received a Gold Radio award for its current affairs podcast The Take and a Silver Radio award for its sports and lifestyle podcast Game of Our Lives.
AJ+ Español wins a World Digital Media Award
20 Jun 2019
Verificado 2018, the news verification initiative by AJ+ Español, Animal Político and Pop-Up Newsroom, wins a World Digital Media Award
Al Jazeera Digital wins One World Media Award
19 Jun 2019
AJLabs, Al Jazeera Digital’s interactive unit, won top prize in the Digital Media category at the One World Media Awards gala in London on Monday night
AJ+ wins 18 Telly Awards
26 May 2019
The 40th Annual Telly Awards honored AJ+ with 18 awards in different categories for several of its stories, out of which 2 were Gold, 7 Silver and 9 Bronze. Among the winners are Direct From With Dena Takruri, which picked up two Gold Telly Awards for its stories Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Nabi Saleh; In Real Life ..
Al Jazeera wins human rights press award in Hong Kong
22 May 2019
The ‘AJ Shorts’ digital documentary, Growing up too Fast in Afghanistan, won in the Short Video (English) category at this year's Human Rights Press Awards (HRPA) ceremony in Hong Kong on May 16, 2019
Al Jazeera wins The Drum award 2019
01 May 2019
The Digital division of Al Jazeera Media Network scooped the Drum award in the Best Use of Photography for the interactive coverage produced by Al Jazeera English Online department on the suffering of the Rohingya – 100 faces of Rohingya refugees.
Al Jazeera wins four Webby awards
24 Apr 2019
Network's AJ Shorts film, virtual reality unit Contrast, and AJ+ online series In Real Life among the 2019 winners.
Al Jazeera wins New York Festivals' Broadcaster of the Year award
10 Apr 2019
Al Jazeera Media Network has picked up a record number of winning medals at the prestigious New York Festivals TV & Films awards.
The Network won 18 gold, 17 Silver and 14 Bronze medals for various news, programmes, digital and creative content.
Al Jazeera wins the Amnesty International Award 2019
08 Apr 2019
Al Jazeera’s Digital Division won the Amnesty International Award in Best Media Innovation category.
Al Jazeera English’s ‘Fault Lines’ wins Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow award
21 Mar 2019
Al Jazeera English’s Fault Lines has won the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow award for the documentary “No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border.” The award honors “the best television, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs” less than 30 minutes.
Al Jazeera Wins RTS Award for Interview of the Year
28 Feb 2019
Al Jazeera’s Asian investigative programme 101 East has won a prestigious UK journalism prize – the 2019 Royal Television Society (RTS) Television Journalism Award for Interview of the Year.
The award recognises 101 East’s programme ‘Malaysia: Najib Speaks’, in which Al Jazeera’s Mary Ann Jolley gained an exclusive interview with Malaysia’s former Prime Min
2018
AJE’s Witness wins FPA-UK Media Award
26 Nov 2018
Al Jazeera’s flagship documentary programme Witness won a prestigious journalism award in London at the 2018 Foreign Press Association Media Awards. The winners were announced at a gala dinner on November 26, in London, United Kingdom.
AJE’s 101 East wins Walkley Award
22 Nov 2018
Al Jazeera’s Asian investigative Award-winning programme 101 East has won Australia’s top journalism prize - a 2018 Walkley Foundation Award for Excellence in Journalism.
AJ+ Español wins two LATAM Digital Media Awards
15 Nov 2018
AJ+ Español won two LATAM Digital Media Awards in the categories of Best Innovation to Engage Young Audiences, for Verificado 2018, and Best Use of Online Video (including VR). The awards, administered by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), were presented in Bogotá, Colombia, on 15 November.
AJ+ wins three Excellence in Journalism Awards
14 Nov 2018
AJ+ was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Northern California Chapter, with three Excellence in Journalism Awards, in the following categories: Commentary/Analysis for the Newsbroke series; Features and Longform Storytelling for Direct From with Dena Takruri’s “Why Oakland Wants Ex-Convicts To Grow Weed”; and Longform Storytelling fo
Al Jazeera English wins three awards at The AIBs in London
08 Nov 2018
Al Jazeera English Channel has won three awards in ‘Politics and Business’, ‘Arts and Culture’, and ‘International Affairs Documentary’ categories at the 14th AIBs Awards in London on Wednesday 7th November 2018.
Al Jazeera honoured with WAC’s Global Communications Awards
03 Oct 2018
The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC (WAC-DC) today honoured Al Jazeera Media Network with the 2018 Global Communications Award
Al Jazeera English’s Programme ‘Fault Lines’ wins EMMY Awards
02 Oct 2018
Al Jazeera English channel’s ‘Fault Lines’ programme has been awarded the prestigious Emmy award in the category of ‘Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine’ for its film ‘The Ban’ at the 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards in New York.
Contrast wins OJA’s Immersive Storytelling award
18 Sep 2018
Al Jazeera’s Contrast was awarded the Online Journalism Awards (OJA) in the category Excellence in Immersive Storytelling category for its 360-film Yemen’s Skies of Terror. The awards were presented on 15 September, in Austin, Texas, as part of the US-based Online News Association 2018 conference.
AJ+ Español wins Online Journalism Award
17 Sep 2018
AJ+ Español, the Spanish-speaking channel of AJ+, won the Online Journalism Award (OJA) in the category of Excellence in Collaboration and Partnerships for Verificado 2018
AJ+’s "Direct From" wins Edward Murrow Award
04 Jul 2018
AJ+’s Direct From, with Dena Takruri show won the 2018 National Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in Social Media for War in the Koreas Series
Direct From, with Dena Takruri immerses a 10 million member global audience in the biggest current hot-button issues.