The winners of this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards have been announced at a ceremony in Glasgow.
The awards celebrate the work of journalists in Scotland who have covered refugee and asylum issues fairly, accurately and with care and insight over the last twelve months.
This year we received more entries than ever before, with an extremely strong shortlist including news, features, broadcast and student journalism.Full list of winners and runners up is included below.
Scottish Refugee Council’s media manager Pauline Diamond Salim said: “The Refugee Festival media awards are a way to honour and celebrate the quality human rights reporting being done in Scotland. We know we are lucky at Scottish Refugee Council to work with so many talented and committed journalists. It’s a real privilege for us to work with people throughout the year on stories that need to be told.”
The awards were hosted by Scottish Refugee Council in partnership with the British Red Cross and the National Union of Journalists Scotland and were held at the Corinthian Club after being relocated following the fire at Glasgow School of Art.
2018 media awards winners
News category
Winner: Karin Goodwin, Sunday Herald
Runner up: Kirsteen Paterson, The National
Features category
Winner: Liam Kirkaldy, Holyrood Magazine
Runner up: Stephen Stewart, Daily Record
Local press category
Winner: Daniel Lawson, BBC Radio Shetland
Runner up: Christina O’Neill, Glasgow Live
Online / multimedia category
Winner: Karin Goodwin & Angela Catlin, The Ferret
Runner up: Stefan Bienkowski, The TwoPointOne
Broadcast and film category
Winner: Firecrest Films
Runner up: Chris Harvey, STV
Student journalist
Winner: Naina Bhardwaj, Blasting News
