The Guardian has been awarded four prizes at the One World Media awards.
The awards, which are now in their 28th year, celebrate journalistic excellence in international media coverage of the developing world.
Mekong: a river rising – an interactive focusing on how the 70 million people who live along South-East Asia’s Mekong river are struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change - was awarded the digital media award.
The short film award was given to El Salvador: ‘I had a miscarriage. The judge accused me of murder’. The film was unanimously voted the winner by the judges, who described it as “a confident film with a cinematic flavour, which manages to cover so much in such a short time. We’re drawn in by its powerful emotional stories and left with a growing sense of outrage”.
Sune Engel Rasmussen, a Kabul-based contributor to the Guardian, picked up the new voice award for his “hardy and determined” reporting from Afghanistan.
The press award was won by world affairs editor Julian Borger for his piece Syria’s truth smugglers, published in May 2015. The story highlighted the risks taken by a team of Syrian investigators to collect secret government documents that provide evidence of war crimes by Bashar al-Assad and his regime and asked whether an international court would ever hear their cases.
The full list of winners can be found on the One World Media awards site.
