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