Media Awards
Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards 2012: Call for Entries
The Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards team are calling for journalists, photographers, broadcasters and editors to put forward outstanding coverage of asylum and refugee issues for consideration.
Asylum is a human right and the media has a huge role to play in ensuring that right is respected and upheld by both the public and governments.
Now more than ever we need clear, factual and influential reporting on asylum and refugee issues. The annual Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards seek to encourage that and we are now calling for entries.
The Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards is staged by the British Red Cross in association with the Scottish Refugee Council and the National Union of Journalists. It is open to all journalists working for media outlets in Scotland.
The awards are split into five categories: Print (national, news), Print (national, features), Print (local), Broadcast Media and Photography.
The winners will be announced on June 22 at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, as one of the highlights of Refugee Week Scotland - a festival of events, co-ordinated by the Scottish Refugee Council, celebrating the contribution of refugees to the UK.
Entries can be in pdf. or Word Document format or jpg. for photographic entries and should be emailed to DMasterton@redcross.org.uk.
The closing deadline for entries is 5pm on the 25th of May.
2011 Winners
Photography:
Winner: Angela Catlin, ‘In Sudan the army shot you one time…’, published in the Herald magazine, 25/06/10
Runner up: Robert Ormerod, ‘The final curtain’, published in the Sunday Times Spectrum Magazine, 06/03/11
Third shortlisted entry: Chris Clark, ‘Sanctuary city’, published in the Big Issue Scotland, 14/06/10
Local print:
Winner: Rebecca Gray, ‘We're back to school without our Precious pal’, published in Evening Times, 25/08/10
Runner up: Julie Gilbert, ‘Kingsway - 10 years of sanctuary’, published in Clydebank Post, 05/05/10
Third shortlisted entry: Stewart Patterson and Jasper Hamill, ‘Taking over the asylum’, published in Evening Times, 11/11/10
National print features:
Winner: Billy Briggs, ‘In Sudan the army shot you one time…’ , published in the Herald magazine, 25/06/10
Runner up: Adam Forrest, ‘Sanctuary City’, published in the Big Issue Scotland, 14/06/10
National print news:
Winner: Paula Murray, ‘Scotland doesn't lock up asylum seeker children…’ published in Scottish Sunday Express, 13/06/10
Runner up: Annie Brown, ‘She’s alive’, published in the Daily Record, 30/08/10
Third shortlisted entry: Gareth Rose, ‘Last week: “No more asylum children locked up”, This week: Baby girl, 8 months, held at Dungavel’, published in The Scotsman, 18/05/10
Broadcast
Winner: Nyakio Ngungu and Grace Kitenge, Kim and Grace Show, Radio Kilimanjaro
Runner up: Neal Parsons, ‘Marlene - one girl's story’, Young Scot podcast
