World Service journalist wins European Commission radio prize
Mark Doyle has been awarded a special radio award in the Lorenzo Natali Prize for his documentary Guinea on the Brink
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A journalist with the BBC World Service has been awarded a special radio prize by the European Commission for his reports from Guinea. Mark Doyle took the category prize for his work Guinea on the Brink , a programme that focused on an attack by government troops on pro-democracy demonstrators in the country in 2009 and highlighted potential human rights abuses.
Doyle received his award last night as part of the Lorenzo Natali Prize, set up by the European Commission in 1992 to recognise journalists who work for the defence of human rights, democracy and development.
From more than 1,100 entries, winners were selected in eight categories, divided into special awards and regional distinctions. Nicaraguan journalist Yader Francisco Luna Garcia took the Grand Prize of €5,000 for his article 'Palabra de Mujer' or 'Woman's Word' pubished by La Brujala Semanal, which he publishes and edits. The piece looked at a small radio station in the centre of Nicaraguan operated by women that broadcasts details of men who beat their wives.
A full list of the winners is published below. The Special TV and Special Radio Prize winners received €5,000 each, while first prize winners in each category were awarded €5,000 each, with €2,500 for second place and €1,500 for third.
Grand Prize
Yader Francisco Luna Garcia, 'Palabra de Mujer', La Brújula Semanal, Nicaragua
Africa
1st Prize
Kipchumba Some, 'Police Executions: Dark Secrets Revealed', Standard Media Group, Kenya
2nd Prize
Théodore Kouadio, 'Enlèvements d'enfants: La Côte d’Ivoire a nécessairement besoin d’une loi', Fratmat.info, Ivory Coast
3rd Prize
Charles Ngah Nforgang, 'Libye: des Africaines prostituées par d'autres Africaines', Jade Cameroun, Cameroon,
Arab World & the Middle East
1st Prize
Manar Attiya Salem, 'Aya ouvre une breche', Journal Al-Ahram, Egypt
2nd Prize
Adama Wade, 'Le scandale du cacao ivoirien', Les Afriques, Morocco
3rd Prize
Abdelkarim Chankou, 'Milouda en danger de mort?', Citadine, Morocco
Asia and the Pacific
1st Prize
Shyamlal Yadav, 'Streams of Filth', India Today, India
2nd Prize
Chitrangada Choudhury, 'The War Within', Hindustan Times, India
3rd Prize
Nilanjana Bhowmick, 'School Is a Right, but Will Indian Girls Be Able to Go?' Time.com, India
Europe
1st Prize
Frédéric Delepierre, 'Bhopal, plaie ouverte de l'Inde', Le Soir, Belgium
2nd Prize
Esther Leburgue France, 'Le "viol correctif" ou comment "soigner" les lesbiennes', Causette, France
3rd Prize
José Manuel Bustamante, 'Las mujeres en Guatemala alzan la voz', Frontera Digital, Spain
Latin America and the Caribbean
1st Prize
Yader Francisco Luna Garcia, 'Palabra de Mujer', La Brújula Semanal, Nicaragua
2nd Prize
Solano Nascimento, 'Destruição made in Brasil', Correio Braziliense, Brazil
3rd Prize
Alberto Spiller, 'En el territorio de los invisibles', La Gaceta Universitaria, Mexico
Special Prize Radio
Mark Doyle, 'Guinea on the Brink', BBC World Service, UK
Special Prize TV
Yuk-Kuen Wong, 'Child Abduction', Television Broadcasts Limited, China
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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