Sony Impact Award
Sponsored by Sony Europe B.V.
This Award honours the work of freelance journalists in long-form current affairs that examines a single issue, story or situation and has an impact on the viewer, policy or public awareness.
2022.
2021.
2020.
2019.
2018.
Winner
Deeyah Khan & Darin Prindle
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
Finalist
Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi
Conflict and Cholera: Yemen’s Catastrophe
Finalist
Alexander Houghton
Venezuela: Smuggling Dreams
2017.
Winner
Siraj Al Deen Al Omar, Mojahed Abo Al Jood, Basim Ayyoubi & Ahmad Hashisho
Goodbye Aleppo
Finalist
Dan Fallshaw & Violeta Ayala
The Fight
Finalist
Patrick Wells
ISIS and the Battle for Iraq
2016.
Winner
Marcel Mettelsiefen
Children on the Frontline: The Escape
Finalist
Ben Steele
The Children Who Beat Ebola
Finalist
Paul Salahadin Refsdal
Dugma: The Button
2015.
Winner
Haider Ali
Pakistan’s Hidden Shame
Finalist
Medyan Dairieh
The Islamic State
Finalist
Hernan Zin
Born in Gaza
2014.
Winner
Ben Steele
Hunted
Finalist
Safa Al Ahmad
Saudi’s Secret Uprising
Finalist
Ruhi Hamid
Knife Crime ER
2013.
Winner
Soumen Guha & Dipak Chandra Sutradhar
Hazaribagh: Toxic Leather
Finalist
Ben Anderson
Mission Accomplished?
Finalist
Jezza Neumann
Kashmir’s Torture Trail
2012.
Winner
Daniel Bogado
Terror in Sudan
Finalist
Safa Al Ahmad
Al Qaeda in Yemen
Finalist
Wael Dabbous
Undercover Syria
2011.
Winner
Jezza Neumann
Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Finalist
Matt Haan
China’s Lost Sons
Finalist
Sara Nason
I Will Never Be Cut
2010.
Winner
Nick Read
The Slumdog Children of Mumbai
Finalist
Greg Brosnan & Jen Szymaszek
In the Shadow of the Raid
Finalist
Liviu Tipurita
Gypsy Child Thieves
2009.
Winner
Joost Van Der Valk
Saving Africa’s Witch Children
Finalist
Jamal Osman
World Food Programme
Finalist
Jon Alpert & Matthew O’Neill
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2008.
Winner
Jung In Taek & Han Yong Ho
Korea: Out of the North
Finalist
Ginny Stein & ‘D’
Mugabe’s Calling Card
Finalist
Jezza Neumann
Undercover in Tibet
2007.
Winner
Elizabeth Tadic
Malaria, Money and Murder
Finalist
Omer Salih
Baghdad: a Doctor’s Story
Finalist
John Williams
Saddam’s Road to Hell
2006.
Winner
Ali Fadhil
Iraq’s Missing Billions
Finalist
Raphael Njoroge
Fuel Siphoning
Finalist
Stephen Du Pont
Psych War in Afghanistan
2005.
Winner
Cyrus V Nhara & ‘Sara’
Zimbabwe: Forced Evictions
Finalist
Inigo Gilmore & Hasyim
The Man Who Dared the Tsunami
Finalist
Ali Fadhil
Fallujah: the First Eye Witness
2004.
Winner
Phil Cox
Inside Darfur – First Images of the Crisis
Finalist
Sara Nason
The ‘Hidden’ Wounded American Soldiers
Finalist
Ruhi Hamid
Frontlines Programme 1: Laos
2003.
Winner
James Brabazon
A Journey Without Maps
Finalist
Phil Goodwin
Assassination Attempt on President Karzai
Finalist
Ibrahim El Batout
Mass Graves in Iraq
2002.
Winner
Najibullah Quaraishi
SAS in Action in Afghanistan
Finalist
Stephan Finnigan & Elizabeth Jones
State of Terror
Finalist
Joseph McCarthy
World Trade Center Attack 9-11-01
2001.
Winner
Talal Abu Rahma
Death of Mohammed El Durah