2018
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
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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
Al Jazeera English ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at NYF
11 Apr 2018
Al Jazeera English was named “Broadcaster of the Year” for the second year running at the 2018 New York Festivals International Television & Film Gala that took place in Las Vegas on April 10th, 2018. This award is considered the most prestigious by the organizers. Overall, Al Jazeera Media Network was honored with more than 40 prizes
Al Jazeera among most viewed digital publishers
01 Apr 2018
Al Jazeera was named one of the Most Viewed Media Companies for the second year in a row by Tubular Labs, a company that tracks all video content cross-platform, all-device, globally. Al Jazeera was ranked 30th, out of 10 million content creators and over 40,000 media and entertainment publishers globally tracked in 2017.
Al Jazeera awarded the Silver Promax Europe prize
16 Mar 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network’s Creative Directorate has been presented with the Silver Promax Europe award – one of the most prestigious awards in the field of TV artistic production.
Al Jazeera awarded UN Women "Awareness Award"
09 Mar 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network has been awarded the UN Women for Peace Association "Awareness Award" for its focus on critical women's issues in the media network’s programmes and news output, including the role its documentaries have had in promoting understanding and awareness of the plight of women and girls around the world.
HR and Administration Division obtains ISO certification
30 Jan 2018
Al Jazeera Media Network has obtained the ISO-9001:2015 certification for its Human Resources and Administration Division’s quality management system. The certification was granted upon meeting requirements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Kyrgyzstan awards AJA “Best Foreign Coverage” prize
08 Jan 2018
Our AJA colleague Tarek Al Abyad, Producer at AJA newsroom, was awarded the “Best TV coverage on Kyrgyzstan” in 2017, for his documentary series “Kyrgyzstan the Wonderland”, which he produced and directed when he was in a mission to Kyrgyzstan to cover the World Nomadic Games. The series was aired on Al Jazeera Arabic channel in April 2017.
2017
AJE journalists win UNCA and Ortega awards
19 Dec 2017
Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan and Azad Essa won the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize and International Prize at the UN Correspondents Association (UNCA) Global Prize, during UNCA’s Awards Gala on Friday December 15, 2017 in New York.
AJE wins several prizes at Asian TV Awards
03 Dec 2017
Al Jazeera English won several prizes at the Asian Television Awards held last week in Singapore. 101 East Presenter Steve Chao won top prize in the category ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ – the third consecutive year he has won the award.
Investigative Unit wins FPA Media Award
22 Nov 2017
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won a prestigious Foreign Press Association Media Award for its documentary on the illegal trade in rhino horn
AJE’s Rosiland Jordan wins UNCA award
19 Nov 2017
AJE State/Specials Correspondent Rosiland Jordan is one of this year's winners in the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards. Jordan's story on the UN Secretary-General's efforts to highlight near-famine in Somalia won the Silver prize in “The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize” category for broadcast (TV & Radio) media
AJE wins two awards at AIB ceremony in London
02 Nov 2017
101 East, which is Al Jazeera’s weekly Asian current affairs programme, won the best Politics and Business category award for "Duterte: A President’s Report Card", while "Voyage to Antarctica" won the award for the Best Interactive Category.
AJD wins two awards in Japan and Sweden
12 Oct 2017
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s "A Memory in Khaki" won the Best Direction Award for long documentaries at the Malmo Arab Film Festival held in Sweden between October 7 - 9, 2017. The film was directed by Alfoz Tanjour. The film was also awarded Best Documentary Film in Bamaghata Film Festival in Japan on October 12.
AJD wins an Award in Spain
10 Oct 2017
An episode of the series “Refugee Mothers”, produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, has won the Community Awareness Award in the International Madrid Film Festival in Madrid.