**Full list of finalists across 10 categories announced**
**Jolyon Rubinstein announced as host**
**‘It’s an honour to host the Amnesty International Media Awards 2025. Especially in what will be the final year before journalists are officially designated as enemies of the state - what a send-off!’ – Jolyon Rubinstein**
Amnesty International UK has announced the full list of finalists for the 2025 Amnesty Media Awards today.
The 10 awards categories celebrate outstanding human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists who have shone a light on human rights issues in their work.
Each category was judged by a [panel of prestigious journalists](https://amnesty-media-awards.org.uk/judges/) and media workers, including Ayshah Tull (Channel 4 News), Paul Murphy (Financial Times), Stuart Ramsay (Sky News), Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4 News), Alex Crawford (Sky News), Claire Newell (Daily Telegraph), Catherine Philp (The Times) and Ollie Stone-Lee (BBC Radio 4).
Amnesty International is also pleased to announce actor, writer and director Jolyon Rubinstein as the host for the Amnesty Media Awards 2025 award ceremony - taking place at the BFI Southbank on Wednesday 4 June 2025 - where the winners will be revealed. The ceremony will also be live-streamed.
Jolyon said:
> "It’s an honour to host the Amnesty International Media Awards 2025. Especially in what will be the final year before journalists are officially designated as enemies of the state - what a send-off! But with protests banned, billionaires calling the shots, and international law in tatters, what’s left to talk about? Don’t worry, though—under my stewardship, any award speech veering into ‘politically correct wokery’ will be swiftly cut off, and I promise I’ll mansplain and bluster my way through the night, blissfully unaware of what’s really going on, as only a white man can. How very 2025 of me!"
**FULL LIST OF FINALISTS**
**Broadcast Feature**
**BBC Current Affairs for BBC Two**
· Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?
**BBC News & Current Affairs, NI**
· Spotlight: I Am Not OK
**Channel 4**
· Kill Zone: Inside Gaza
**Channel 4**
· The Cranes Call
**Broadcast Investigation**
**Airwars**
· The Killings They Tweeted
**BBC Eye Investigations**
· Settlements Above the Law
**BBC Scotland / BBC Two**
· Slavery at Sea
**Channel 4 News**
· Tortured and Abused at Sde Teiman
**Broadcast News**
**Channel 4 News**
· Settlers in the West Bank: A Year on the Frontline
**ITV News / ITN**
· The White Flag
**Sky News**
· Sky News investigates Hind Rajab’s killing
**The Guardian**
· Inside the war on kush: The drug ‘mixed with human bones’ taking over Sierra Leone
**The Gaby Rado Award for New Journalist**
**Aidan Tulloch**
· The Times
**Misbah Khan**
· The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
**Ornella Mutoni**
· The Guardian
**Sophie Neiman**
· New Internationalist
**Nations and Regions**
**BBC Northern Ireland**
· Spotlight: Katie – Coerced and Killed
**BBC Northern Ireland / BBC Sounds**
· Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables
**The Ferret**
· Saving lives in Toronto’s toxic drug crisis
**UTV**
· Fighting For Care
**Photojournalism**
**Alixandra Fazzina**
· The Financial Times
**Hugh Kinsella Cunningham**
· The Telegraph Magazine
**Kiana Hayeri**
· The Guardian
**Tommy Trenchard**
· Geographical Magazine
**Radio & Podcasts**
**BBC News**
· Locked Up and Abused at School – Britain’s ‘Calming Room’ Scandal
**BBC Radio 4**
· Our Whole Life is a Secret
**ITN / ITV News**
· The Trapped
**Novel & Wondery**
· Kill List
**Written Feature**
**BBC News**
· Gaza Medics
**Financial Times**
· How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
**Financial Times**
· The Smuggler’s Daughter and Other Tales From The Gulf of Aden
**The Economist’s 1843 Magazine**
· Life and death in Putin’s gulag
**The Guardian & Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism**
· ‘An incredible loss for Palestine’: Israeli offensive takes deadly toll on journalists
**Written Investigation**
**SourceMaterial**
· ‘Don’t look back or we’ll shoot’
**The Guardian**
· The IPP scandal
**The Guardian**
· The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia
**The Independent**
· Russia told Ukrainians with disabilities they were visiting the seaside – but they were kidnapped and disappeared
**Written News**
**Big Issue**
· Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like
**Financial Times**
· FT investigation finds Ukrainian children on Russian adoption sites
**The Guardian**
· Mazyouna’s face was ‘ripped off’ when a rocket hit her home. Israel has refused to allow her evacuation
**The Telegraph**
· Children pull skulls from mass graves in Syrian killing field