Amnesty International UK Media Awards 1993

 

The 1993 awards were in 6 categories: National Print, Periodicals, Radio, Regional Print, Television Documentary and Television News.

A Special Award for Best Historical Documentary was made to the Channel 4 program “Drowning by Bullets”, which dealt the Paris massacre of 1961 and the events of 17 October 1961.

The overall winning entry was from BBC Radio 4, with their then South Africa correspondent Fergal Keane.[1]

1993 Awards

1993
Category Title Organisation Journalists Refs
National Print
Reports on
Yugoslavia
The Guardian Maggie O'Kane
Ed Vulliamy
Periodicals
Children on the
front line
She magazine Rebecca Abrams
Radio
Report on an incident of
torture in South Africa
BBC Radio 4 Fergal Keane
Regional Print
The manufacture of leg-irons
in Birmingham
Express & Star Ian Cobain
Special Award
Best Historical Documentary
“Drowning by Bullets”
Channel 4
Secret History
Philip Brooks
Alan Hayling
[2][3]
Television
Documentary
“The Gluckman Files” Channel 4
Dispatches
John Bridcut [4]
Television
News
Report on Kashmir Channel 4 News Kent Barker [5]

See also

References

  1. International Who's Who 2001: 64th Edition. Taylor & Francis. 25 July 2000. p. 805. ISBN 978-1857430813. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. "Drowning By Bullets". 2005 Mid East Film and Video Catalog: 11. January 2005.
  3. Brooks, Philip; Hayling, Alan; Halliley, Mark; Courbou, Michèle (1992). "Drowning by bullets". First Run/Icarus Films. OCLC 52955788. On the evening of October 17, 1961 about 30,000 Algerians, ostensibly French citizens, descended upon the boulevards of central Paris to protest an 8:30 curfew. The curfew was in response to repeated terrorist attacks by Algerian nationalists in Paris and other French cities. They were met by a police force determined to break up the demonstration. Demonstrators were beaten, shot, even drowned in the Seine. This video exposes the massacre, and the cover-up.
  4. "DISPATCHES - The GLUCKMAN FILES (1993)". British Film Institute BFI. Archived from the original on 18 January 2013. DISPATCHES provides detailed evidence of how young black men continue to die at the hands of the South African police - and of the bizarre methods by which this is concealed.
  5. The Journalist. April–May 1995. p. 198.

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