2019
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.
Jetty wins Kaleidoscope Award
03 Jul 2018
Jetty (Al Jazeera’s audio brand) has won a 2018 Kaleidoscope Award for its show Closer Than They Appear. The Kaleidoscope Award honors news organizations demonstrating a commitment to covering diverse communities, including issues of race, ethnicity and gender identity.
Al Jazeera wins the IPI’s Award
26 Jun 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network was awarded the International Press Institute (IPI) 2018 Chairman’s Award. The award - given at the discretion of the chair with advice of the Executive Director and other stakeholders- was presented on June 22, 2018, during the IPI 68th World Congress held in Abuja, Nigeria.
Al Jazeera wins the ACPE award
20 Jun 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network was awarded the Creative award by the Spanish Foreign Press Correspondents Association (ACPE) for its support of the free press in the Arab region and its role in delivering a detailed picture of what happens in the Arab world.
Al Jazeera wins One World Media Award
18 Jun 2018
Al Jazeera English’s “Earthrise” has won a prestigious One World Media Award in the Women Entrepreneurs Reporting category, for a film called “Jordan’s Water Women” which looked an initiative that is putting women at the heart of efforts to combat water scarcity in that country.
Al Jazeera wins Best Video Team Award by The Drum
24 May 2018
Al Jazeera won the Video Team of the Year award by The Drum Online Media Awards, a prestigious international awarding body that identify the cleverest, boldest and most original purveyors of news and views from around the world. The winners’ names were announced in London on Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The AJ Shorts team produced distinguished video clips tha
AJ+ collects Webby’s People Choice Award
23 May 2018
AJ+ won the prestigious Webby award, for best short documentary at the People’s Choice category. Winners were announced during the twenty-second ceremony held by the organizing committee on Monday, May 14, in New York. It was attended by a large number of media professional and artists.
Al Jazeera English wins CINE Gold Eagle Award
14 May 2018
Fault Lines – Haiti by Force: UN Sex Abuse, an Al Jazeera English documentary that investigates an epidemic of rape by United Nations security forces in Haiti, has won a CINE Gold Eagle Award.
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit wins prestigious American documentary award
10 May 2018
‘The Lobby’, a four-part series produced by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit about an Israeli campaign to interfere with domestic politics in the U.K. has won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in Washington D.C
Peabody Award for documentary ‘The Cut’
24 Apr 2018
Al Jazeera English Channel has been named as one of the recipients of the 77th annual Peabody awards for its documentary ‘The Cut’, which explores the dangerous and painful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in many countries around the world.
Al Jazeera photojournalist wins Migration Media Award
22 Apr 2018
Mahmud Hossain Opu, a photojournalist in Bangladesh, won one of the most prestigious awards in South Asia for his coverage of the plight of the Rohingya.
Mahmud won the BRAC Migration Media Award in Dhaka on Wednesday, 18 April. BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) one of the biggest NGO in the world.
‘Demand Press Freedom Campaign’ wins Gold at NYF
16 Apr 2018
Al Jazeera was awarded the Gold Medal for the ‘Demand Press Freedom Campaign’. The Medal was awarded by the New York International Television & Film Awards under the category of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’, which took place during a Gala dinner ceremony attended by some of the top international media and broadcasters held in Las Vegas on April 10, 2018