DNA09: Concentra award goes to Alexandra Garcia for 'The Healing Fields'

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The annual Concentra prize for a piece of 'outstanding video journalism' has been awarded to Alexandra Garcia for her piece called 'The Healing Fields' for the Washington Post ,

it was announced tonight at the Digital News Affairs 2009 conference .

Garcia received the €10,000 prize which was first awarded in 2004.

114 entries from 46 news organisations (including four newspapers) were whittled down to a shortlist of eight by the jury panel of nine.

An additional prize for breaking news was awarded to Subina Shrestha, Al Jazeera, for a piece called 'Up t he Irrawaddy' filmed in Nepal.

Breaking news entries had to be shot, edited and broadcast in one day with a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

Final Concentra prize shortlist:

• A man chases his money - Behrendt Carsten, ZDF, Germany
• On The Margins in Mauritania – Travis Fox, Washington Post, USA
• Taking Back The Streets - Bernard Weil, Toronto Star, Canada
• The Agony of surviving – Travis Fox, Washington Post, USA
• Alexandra Garcia – The Healing Fields, Washington Post, USA
• The Lost Tribe Secret Army of the CIA – Tony Birtley, Al Jazeera, Malaysia
• Two criminals on a motorbike - Stef Biemans, VPRO, The Netherlands
• Up the Irrawaddy - Subina Shrestha, Al Jazeera, Nepal

The jury included:

• Host: Willy Lenaers (CEO, Concentra, Belgium)
• Chairman: Michael Rosenblum (CEO, Rosenblum TV, USA)
• Ben Rayner (Head of news, Al Jazeera, UK)
• Katharina Borchert (Managing Director of WAZ Newmedia, Germany)
• Hans Laroes (Head of news, NOS, Netherlands)
• Simon Bucks (Associate Editor Online, Sky News, UK)
• Tone Kunst (Editor in Chief, NRK Nordland, Norway)
• Vicent Partal, (Board Member, ECJ, Director, Vilaweb, Spain)
• Pat Loughrey (Director Nation and Region, BBC, UK)