The AIBs 2022 – winners revealed at gala event in London

15 November 2022

The AIBs 2022 – winners revealed at gala event in London

The winners of the 18^th annual international competition for journalism and factual productions across TV, radio and digital platforms were announced at the AIBs gala dinner in London on 11 November.

The gala at Church House Westminster was the first in-person awards event for three years and was attended by guests from countries across Asia, Europe, and North America.

This year’s event partner was Radio Taiwan International, and the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, gave an opening address from Taipei highlighting the country’s remarkable transformation over the past few decades to open democracy and a free media.

The evening’s host, Rana Rahimpour, senior presenter at BBC News Persian, spoke of the ever more pressing need for free and impartial information – the type that entries to the AIBs represent so vividly.

The winners in each of the 19 categories are:

BREAKING NEWS TV/VIDEO

Winner – CNN – Ukraine

CONTINUING NEWS COVERAGE TV/VIDEO

Winner – ITN – ITV News – Partygate coverage

Highly commended – AFP – A War from All Angles: AFPTV Coverage in Ukraine

Highly commended – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Russia’s War on Ukraine

NEWS COVERAGE breaking or continuing RADIO/AUDIO

Winner – BBC Long Form Audio for BBC Sounds – Ukrainecast – 100 Days

SPECIALIST FACTUAL TV/VIDEO

Winner – Al Jazeera I Unit – Al Jazeera Investigations: The Truth Illusion

Highly Commended – Nutopia, Protozoa, Westbrook and National Geographic – Welcome to Earth

Highly Commended – Storyteller Films for CNA, Mediacorp Pte Ltd – A League of Extraordinary Makers

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY TV/VIDEO

Winner – Zandland Films for Channel 4 – The Cult of Conspiracy: QAnon

Highly Commended – Evan Williams Productions for Channel 4 – China: The Search for the Missing

Highly Commended – VRT – Syria, The Toxic War

FACTUAL PODCAST

Winner – Whistledown Productions for Audible – Deepest Dive: The Search for MH 370

Highly Commended – BBC Long Form Audio – The Coming Storm

HISTORICAL TV/VIDEO

Winner – OR Media – The Iran-Iraq War: A Tragedy That Changed History

Highly Commended – ViacomCBS – Channel 5 – 1000 Years a Slave

Highly Commended – Yeti Television for Channel 4 – Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King

HUMAN INTEREST RADIO/AUDIO

Winner – RTÉ – Documentary on One: Felix-Life and Limb

Highly Commended – Tortoise Media – Sweet Bobby

HUMAN INTEREST TV/VIDEO

Winner – Flicker Productions for ITV – Kate Garraway: Caring for Derek

Highly Commended – Just Another Production for CNA, Mediacorp Pte Ltd – Never Out of Reach

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS DOCUMENTARY TV/VIDEO

Winner – ITN for ITV News & Current Affairs – Surviving Squalor: Britain’s Housing Shame

Highly Commended – Finestripe Productions for Channel 4 – Davina McCall: Sex, Mind and the Menopause

Highly Commended – Artlab Films for Channel 5 – Warship: Life at Sea

INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY TV/VIDEO

Winner – Flicker Productions for Channel 4 – Hunting the Football Trolls – Jermaine Jenas

Highly Commended – BBC Africa Eye – Black Axe

Highly Commended – RTÉ Investigates – The Accountant, the Con, the Lies

SPECIALIST FACTUAL RADIO/AUDIO

Winner – ABC & CBC – STUFF THE BRITISH STOLE – The Abductions

Highly Commended – Lepus and Sparklab – Love, Spit and Valve Oil

Highly Commended – Loftus Media for BBC Radio 4 – Fungi: The New Frontier

SHORT FEATURE TV/VIDEO

Winner – Bloomberg News – The Pay Check – Kenya: The Lost Girls

Highly Commended – Channel 5 News | ITN – Child to Parent Abuse

Highly Commended – Al Jazeera Digital – Start Here: NATO’s Eastern Front

SPORTS JOURNALISM TV/VIDEO

Winner – Al Jazeera I Unit – Al Jazeera Investigations: The Men Who Sell Football

INVESTIGATIVE RADIO/AUDIO

Winner – A Tortoise Studio Production for Audible Originals – Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon

Highly Commended – BBC World Service – The Documentary: Who Killed My Grandfather?

NATURAL WORLD TV/VIDEO

Winner – NHK/ARTE France/NHK Enterprises – SATOYAMA – Niigata: Living with Snow

Highly Commended – Melt Studios for Al Jazeera English – Witness: Capturing Change

Highly Commended – Voice of America News – Weathering the Storm

SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY TV/VIDEO

Winner – Wondrium and Blue Chalk Media – Solving for Zero

Highly Commended – Flicker Productions for BBC One – Ellie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?

STREAMING DOCUMENTARY

Winner – WildBear Entertainment & Chrysaor Productions – Hating Peter Tatchell

Highly Commended – 歪脑|WHYNOT – Caught in the Crossfire

Highly Commended – Passion Pictures – Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story

POLITICS and BUSINESS TV/VIDEO

Winner – ITN – ITV News – Partygate Coverage

Highly Commended – CNA, Mediacorp Pte Ltd – In Bad Faith

Highly Commended – Al Jazeera English in partnership with Reveal from the Centre for Investigative Reporting – Fault Lines: Unrelinquished

The AIBs 2022 winners book is available at: https://theaibs.tv/AIBs-2022/Gala-evening/The-AIBs-22-winners-book.pdf

Radio Taiwan International becomes AIBs 2022 event partner

10 June 2022

Radio Taiwan International becomes AIBs 2022 event partner

International multimedia broadcaster supports world’s leading factual programming awards

The Association for International Broadcasting is pleased to announce a landmark partnership arrangement with Radio Taiwan International for the annual journalism and factual programming awards, the AIBs.

2022 is the 18^th year that the UK-headquartered Association for International Broadcasting has staged the AIBs to celebrate work produced for TV, radio and digital platforms.

“We are delighted to welcome Radio Taiwan International as the event partner for the AIBs 2022,” says Simon Spanswick, chief executive of the Association for International Broadcasting. “Taiwan has one of the freest media environments in Asia, so it is absolutely fitting that RTI is stepping up to support the AIBs that celebrate journalism and freedom of expression internationally. The partnership with RTI is central to the continuing success and growth of these renowned and respected awards that showcase outstanding news reporting and factual programming from around the world.”

Cheryl Lai, Chairperson of RTI, adds: “RTI is committed to freedom of the media as a pillar of democracy. We believe that it is vitally important to support those who are holding truth to power around the world, and to celebrate their essential work. RTI is glad to be partnering with these important awards for journalism and factual programming. We look forward to marking the achievements of some of the world’s best programme-makers who bring the stories that matter to global audiences.”

Taiwan supports freedom of the media

Taiwan, a country of around 23.5 million people, is a major economic player in Asia and is noted as one of the world’s leading producers of computer technology. Taiwan has a stable, vibrant democracy with an independent judiciary and the country enjoys one of the freest media environments in Asia, ranking 38^th globally in the 2022 RSF media freedom index. RTI is Taiwan’s international multimedia broadcaster that can trace its roots back to 1928, making it one of world’s longest continuously operating broadcasters.

The AIBs celebrate global journalism

The AIBs are the world’s leading awards for factual productions across TV, radio and online and attract entries from broadcasters and production companies in over 40 countries. The competition is divided into 18 categories that range from daily journalism to investigative documentary, sports journalism to human interest.

Entries to the AIBs 2022 can be submitted until 1 July 2022. Work is welcome in all languages and can be for any audience – local, regional, national, or international. After shortlisting, the finalists’ work goes to a global panel of judges who make the final decision on the competition’s winners.

The AIBs 2022 will be presented at a gala dinner in London on 11 November. This will be the first live event after a two-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The AIBs will take place at a new venue, Church House Westminster in the heart of London – right by Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. The event is traditionally attended by guests from around the world, including key opinion leaders within broadcasting and production companies, and in politics and regulation, alongside journalists, editors, producers, and directors.

AIB holds Masterclass to mark launch of 18th annual journalism and factual competition

8 April 2022

AIB holds Masterclass to mark launch of 18th annual journalism and factual competition

To mark the launch of the AIBs 2022, the 18th annual international competition for journalism and factual productions across TV, radio and digital platforms, the AIB brought together a number of winners and finalists from previous years in a Masterclass.

“With a wide range of journalists, producers, editors and directors entering the AIBs each year, we are keen that the competition can showcase best practice and share knowledge,” says Simon Spanswick, chief executive of the AIB. “This online Masterclass is one way that colleagues from around the world can learn and share ideas. It is also useful for those studying journalism or embarking on a career in factual TV, radio and podcasting to hear from those who have created award-winning content.”

The Masterclass brought together experts from Australia, Qatar, Nigeria, the USA and the UK for a three session event covering investigative journalism, podcasting and journalist safety.

All three sessions, which were attended by participants from Argentina to New Zealand, are available to watch. Visit the special AIBs Masterclass page to watch all the sessions, free of charge.

Full information on how to enter this year’s AIBs is at www.theaibs.tv.

AIB announces Masterclass for launch of 2022 journalism & factual competition

9 March 2022

AIB announces Masterclass for launch of 2022 journalism & factual competition

As we prepare to launch the 2022 AIBs, we are holding an online Masterclass that brings together a number of winners and finalists from previous years to share knowledge and provide inspiration and incentive for other programme makers, as well as offering encouragement to those entering, or hoping to enter, the journalism or factual programming industries.

The Masterclass will be informal and interactive, with the opportunity for guests to ask questions of all the panellists.

Join us on Thursday 7 April at 1200 GMT and meet winners and finalists of the AIBs in recent years as they share their experience and knowledge with our global audience.

There is no charge to join the Masterclass which will take place online and in the English language.

Register online here: https://forms.gle/L7AfrWZ9RmgqJAn17

Session 1

Global investigations – the key to success

Peter Charley, AJI

Barbara Arvanitidis, CNNI

Calliste Weitenberg, SBS

Session 2

Soundscapes – telling important stories

Robert Mulhern, Sky News Storycast

Tom Koenig, VP, US Podcasts, Somethin’ Else,

Session 3

Safety is key

Roger MacMillan, Volant Media, talks about the challenges of keeping staff safe from abduction and worse in difficult locations globally

Safety company representative – TBC