At a star-studded evening in London tonight (12 November), the AIB revealed the winners of this year’s International Media Excellence Awards – the “AIBs”.
Well over 200 journalists, editors, producers and executives from more than 20 countries joined the celebration of excellence at the central London venue, LSO St Luke’s.
Hosted by France 24’s Mark Owen, the Awards recognised work in television, radio and online. The results of the Awards – evaluated by an international panel of judges from the US, UK, Germany, Australia, Egypt, Ghana, France and the Netherlands – brought prizes to BBC World Service; Tinderbox Production; SABC; France 24; Al Jazeera; Link Research; Strix TV; Sveriges Radio; SVT; and NPO 3FM.
“Since we launched these Awards four years ago, we’ve looked at more than 1,000 productions,” says Simon Spanswick, AIB Chief Executive. “This year we had the largest-ever number of entries and the quality and range of material submitted was higher than ever. This presented a range of challenges to the judges and led to some extremely close calls.”
You can see the winners’ brochure here (it is around 3MB so we recommend right-clicking and saving to your computer).
The 2009 AIB Media Excellence Awards will be launched in March and the Awards event will take place on Wednesday 11 November 2009.