The Financial Times has won two Amnesty International Media Awards for its visual investigations into Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children and a rise in settler violence in the West Bank. The awards celebrate excellence in human rights journalism.
Senior visual investigations reporter Alison Killing, chief Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller, graphics journalists Peter Andringa and Sam Learner, digital designer Chris Campbell and visual investigations editor Sam Joiner won in the Written News category for their investigation into missing Ukrainian children. The publisher says the story used facial recognition software and public records to identify and locate Ukrainian children on a Russian government-linked adoption website, some with their names changed.
How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law, an investigation by Alison Killing, Jerusalem correspondent James Shotter, digital designer Chris Campbell and graphics journalist Peter Andringa, won the Written Feature Award. The publisher says the multimedia story, which included verified video footage and first-hand accounts, analysed how Palestinian villagers in the West Bank experienced heightened violence after Hamas’s October 7 attack.
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