Winners Announced

Save the Children is proud to announce the WINNERS for its Global Media Awards 2024

🏆 Best Local/Regional Coverage: BBC “Panorama: Undercover School: Cruelty in the Classroom” – by Ruth Evans, Sasha Hinde, Oliver Newlan and Hayley Clarke – a shocking investigative documentary exposing bullying and abuse at a school for children with special educational needs in the UK. Following the broadcast, the school was closed, five staff members were arrested, and the Department for Education launched an investigation.

🏆 Best International/Wire Coverage: The Guardian “How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet” – by Romita Saluja – a powerful investigation into the exploitation of child labour in India’s sandstone industry. Following publication, the article sparked legal investigation against a multinational, and became a central reference in a roundtable conference in London, urging businesses to address child labour in their supply chains.

FULL LIST OF FINALISTS:

The finalists represent outlets from around the world whose innovative and impactful reporting has raised awareness about the challenges and achievements of children whose unique rights were first recognised exactly 100 years ago due to Save the Children founder Eglantyne Jebb.

Local/Regional Category

• ABC Four Corners – “The kids who fear school” – Mridula Amin and Sascha Ettinger-Epstein
• BBC One “Panorama: Undercover School: Cruelty in the Classroom” – Ruth Evans, Sasha Hinde, Oliver Newlan and Hayley Clarke
• Crown TV Zambia – “UNMASKING STICKER: A Cruel Drug Destroying Zambia´s Street” – Annie Zulu
• Investigate Europe: “France and Netherlands lobbied for child border detention from birth in EU migration pact” – Pascal Hansens, Maria Maggiore, Leïla Miñano, Harald Schumann
• Gatopardo: “Out at sea lies healing” – Ricardo Hernández Ruiz
• Malaysiakini: “Baby snatching: How stateless mums lose their infants in Sabah hospital” – Vinothaa Selvatoray
• Nation Africa: “Unmasking the rising tide of defilement and incest” – Anjeline Atieno Okech
• The Nation Media Group: “Beyond Magufuli: Tanzania’s teen moms reclaiming their education dream” – Moraa Obiria
• South China Morning Post: “Rise in suicides among young Hongkongers sparks calls for more action” – Emily Hung Tsz Yin
• The Wire: “Children Who Lost Their Parents to COVID-19 Reckon with Traumatic Pasts, Uncertain Futures” – Sachi Hegde, Umesh Kumar Ray and Parth MN

International / Wire

• Al Jazeera: “How the Israel war, blockade affects mental health of Palestinian children”  –  Indlieb Farazi Saber
• Al Jazeera: “In Rwanda, teenage pregnancies are rising. The cost is high, analysts say” – Ruchi Kumar
• BBC World: “Nigeria food crisis: 4.4m children under the age of 5 are acutely malnourished in the north” – Madina Maishanu, Ellen Tsang and Ifiokabasi Ettang
• DW: “Extreme vulnerability: children crossing the Darien” – Alexandra Correa Solarte
• Mongabay: “Kenya’s Lake Victoria floods leave orphaned children to run their households” – Mactilda Mbenywe
• News Lines Magazine: “A Rare Distraction for Youngsters at a Syrian Camp Spotlights a Precarious Existence” – Victor J. Blue
• The Guardian: “How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet” – Romita Saluja
• The Telegraph: “Hazard or heritage? Mongolia saddles up for fight over child jockeys” – Nicola Smith, Simon Townsley and Khaliun Bayartsogt 
• The Telegraph: “Vaccination would have kept my child alive – that is something I always regret” – Tom Parry and Simon Townsley
• Tortoise Media: “A Hidden Hell: the prison for children” – Louise Tickle and Patricia Clarke