International Awards

Our graduates consistently win major international awards competing against the best in the world. Successes include:

• 2021 – Winner: 2020 George Polk Awards – Natalie Thomas, photojournalist of CNN received the award for Foreign Reporting
• 2021 – British Documentary Film Festival Nominee: Short form Documentary, Mycelium was selected for eight film festival selections, with four nominations, and two wins – Christine Schindler & Nathan Gibson
• 2020 – Winner: 2020 Digital Storytelling Contest, World Press Photo Interactive of the Year – D J Clark, Programme Founder, and Visiting Lecture
• 2020 – Honoree: 24th Webby Awards in Apps, Mobile, and Voice: News – Lester Xu
• 2019 – Winner: Best Spirit Of Adventure Film ShAFF – The Sheffield Adventure Film Festival – Berta Tilmantaite
• 2019 – Winner: Digital Non-fiction Program of the 24th Asian Television Awards – Xingzi Gao
• 2019 – Bronze: Digital Documentary at the 2019 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards – Xingzi Gao
• 2019 – Finalist: Head On Photo Portrait Prize – Olga Stefatou
• 2018 – Winner: George Polk Award | Photography Award – Adam Dean
• 2018 – Winner: POYI World Understanding Award – Adam Dean
• 2018 – Winner: Outstanding Program of English Channel of CCTV – Xingzi Gao
• 2017 – Winner DJI Drone Photography Award. Read More – Markel Redondo
• 2017 – POYI Photographer of The Year – Award of Excellence – Adam Dean
• 2017 – NPPA 3rd Place ‘Contemporary Issues Story’ – Adam Dean
• 2017 – NPPA 2017 Best of Photojournalism, Multimedia Awards  for Will to Win – Berta Tilmantaitė   
• 2017 – SOPA Award for Excellence for Bhumika Can Speak For Herself – Marc Lajoie (Multimedia Journalist and producer)
• 2016 – Asian Environmental Awards Story of the Year  for Shipping’s Dirty Secrets – Marc Lajoie (Multimedia Journalist and producer)
• 2015 – Human Rights Press Award for “No Good Choices” – Marc Lajoie (producer)
• 2015 – Society for News Design Award of Excellence for “Breaking Ball” – Marc Lajoie (producer)
• 2015 – USCET Data Journalism Competition and Awards – Winner – Hao Jingya
• 2014 – Winner of the 2014 Smithsonian In Motion Video Contest, People Category – Biel Calderon
• 2013 – Honorable Mention in the NPPA – Best of Photojournalism awards, Tablet/Mobile Delivery Project category – Biel Calderon
• 2013 – Press Photographer’s Year 2013, 1st prize News – Adam Dean
• 2013 – George Polk Award for Video Reporting – Tracey Shelton
• 2013 – Picture of the Year International (POYi) Award of Excellence for Feature Multimedia – Tracey Shelton
• 2013 – World Press Photo multimedia award – Yange Enze
• 2013 – One World Media award student nomination – Olga Stefou
• 2013 – International Center of Photography Infinity Award – Miska Henner
• 2012 – Winner of the TV category in the WASH media awards – Berta upe Tilmantaitė
• 2012 – Gold Award in the 2012 Prix de la Photographie (PX3) – Adam Dean
• 2012 – Digital Heretics journalism award – Berta Tilmantaitė
• 2012 – Overseas Press Club award – Best coverage in a 72-hour period of a breaking news event – Tracey Shelton
• 2012 – Photo District News 2012 list of “30 new and emerging photographers to watch” – Markel Redondo
• 2012 – Peabody award – Tracey Shelton