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'Chinese Petitioners' by the Financial Times' Jamil Anderlini and Edward Cheng; has won the digital media prize, in the Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2010.

Nominees in the online media category included 'Condition: Critical' by Duckrabbit's Benjamin Chesterton, Mitch Remes and Robin Meldrum; and the investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests, by the Guardian's Paul Lewis.

The event, now in its 19th year, was set up to "recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism's significant contribution to the UK public’s awareness and understanding of human rights issues". Last year's digital winner was the whistleblowing site Wikileaks.org.

This year's competition also allowed a small number of freelancers to enter for free, as well as entrants from small digital and broadcast outlets.

A Special Award for Journalism Under Threat was given to all independent media workers in Burma, to raise global awareness as the possible election draws close. Amnesty International is concerned that repression may intensify in this climate and warns that "there is little or no scope for free campaigning and dissenting views" - with over 2,000 political opponents to the ruling junta currently in jail. Over 40 journalists are believed to be imprisoned.

ITV news presenter Katie Derham - who is to join the BBC it was announced in April - hosted tonight's [Tuesday's] ceremony, which awarded journalists across 10 categories. The other nominees and winners (in bold) are listed below. 

Gaby Rado Memorial Award
  • Annie Kelly, freelance, the Observer, Look Magazine, Guardian.co.uk;
  • Jamal Osman, Channel 4 News (winner);
  • Seyi Rhodes, Channel 4 Unreported World.
Judges: Tom Rado, Jonathan Miller, Naresh Puri, Libby Brooks, Maggie Paterson

International Television and Radio
  • 'Assignment: Dying to Give Birth', BBC World Service, Jill McGivering, Caroline Finnigan, Bridget Harney;
  • 'People and Power: Ingushetia - A Second Chechnya?', Al Jazeera, Antony Butts, Dom Rotheroe, Mike Chamberlain (winner);
  • 'People and Power: Interrogating a Torturer', Al Jazeera, Rodrigo Vasquez.
Judges: Sean Ryan, Philip Harding, Tabitha Jackson, Henry Bonsu, Susanna Flood

Nations and Regions
  • 'Caste Out', Coventry Telegraph, Mary Griffin;
  • 'Discrimination: Migrant Workers Rental Block', BBC Look North, Guy Lynn, Mark Hayman, David Weller (winner);
  • 'Stolen Childhoods', Herald Scotland, Lucy Adams, Marc Turner.
Judges: Jenifer Johnston, Kim Sengupta, Rhodri Williams, Fionola Meredith, Patrick Corrigan

National Newspapers
  • 'The Dark Side of Dubai', the Independent, Johann Hari (winner);
  • 'The Hidden Massacre', the Times, Catherine Philp;
  • 'The Truth about Torture - Britain's Catalogue of Shame', the Guardian, Ian Cobain.
Judges: Justin Webb, Anna McKane, Ros Wynne-Jones, Sigrid Rausing, Maggie Paterson

Digital Media
  • 'Chinese Petitioners', Financial Times, Jamil Anderlini, Edward Cheng (winner);
  • 'Condition: Critical', Duckrabbit, Benjamin Chesterton, Mitch Remes, Robin Meldrum;
  • Investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests, the Guardian, Paul Lewis.
Judges: Chris Reed, Anne Koch, Jaz Cummins

Periodicals - Consumer Magazines
  • 'Congo: The Horror', GQ, Ed Caesar, Susan Schulman (winner);
  • 'Rio's lives of crime', Le Monde Diplomatique UK, Raphael Gomide.
Periodicals - Newspaper Supplements
  • 'The Return of the Bloody Diamonds', Live Magazine, Dan McDougall, Robin Hammond (winner);
  • 'Tourism is a Curse to us', Observer Magazine, Alexander Renton, Caroline Irby.
Judges: Lisa Smosarski, Kate Spicer, Jeremy Dear, Jamila Gavin, Mike Blakemore

Photojournalism
  • 'Acid Burns Survivors Foundation', Giles Duley;
  • 'Toxic Jeans', Sunday Times, Robin Hammond (winner);
  • 'Zimbabwe's Impoverished Elderly', BBC Online, Kate Holt.
Judges: Carlos Reyes-Manzo, Rebecca McClelland, Simon Bainbridge, Camilla Brown, Maggie Paterson

Radio
  • 'Crossing Continents: Chechnya', BBC Radio 4, Lucy Ash, Nick Sturdee, Hugh Levinson;
  • 'Guantánamo Reunited', BBC Radio 5 Live, Gavin Lee, Edward Main, Iain Croft;
  • 'Zimbabwe: What Mugabe Didn't Tell Us', BBC Radio 4 - Today Programme, Mike Thomson, Edward Prendeville, Ceri Thomas (winner).
Judges: Alan Johnston, Ian Collins, Jane Anderson, Sabrina Radmore, Mike Blakemore

Television Documentary and Docudrama
  • 'Burma VJ', More 4/Magic Hour Films, Lise-Lense Moller, Anders Ostergaard (joint winner);
  • 'Dispatches: Afghanistan's Dirty War', Channel 4/October Films, Tom Roberts, Peter Lindley, Najibullah Razaq (joint winner);
  • 'Dispatches: Terror in Mumbai', Channel 4/Quicksilver Media, Dan Reid, Eamonn Matthews.
Judges: Clemency Burton-Hill, Hugh Williamson, Mark Galloway, Jane Stephenson, Mike Blakemore

Television News
  • 'Fallujah Babies', Sky News, Lisa Holland, Haydon Wallace, Tim Gallagher, Audrey Heaton, Dave Prime;
  • 'Mexico's Missing Children', Channel 4 News/ITN, Nick Martin, Guillermo Galdos, Nevine Mabro, Matthew Welham;
  • 'The End of Sri Lanka's War', Channel 4 News/ITN, Jonathan Miller, Nick Paton Walsh, Nevine Mabro, Bessie Du, Matt Jasper, Ben de Pear (winner).
Judges: Lyse Doucet, Robert Cole, Alex Thomson, Mike Blakemore
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