CBA Awards 2011 shortlist announced
Broadcasters globally are facing the challenges of digitisation, but engaging and high quality programme content is acknowledged as the key driver for digital transition. Excellence in media production across the Commonwealth is celebrated in the shortlisted entries which come from a wide range of countries including Australia, UK, India, Ghana, Mozambique and Kenya.
The CBA judging panels reported that the quality of content produced by entrants was high, although the World Bank Award for a programme covering development success is not to be awarded as no entrants sufficiently fulfilled the application criteria.
Shortlisted entries:
Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme:
Assignment - Guinea on the Brink, BBC World Service
Echoes of Srebrenica, SBS (Australia)
MSM: Between the Rock and the Hard Place, Voice of Nigeria
CBA-IBC Award for Innovative Engineering:
EPG Innovation Project, SABC
MCR Project, Televisao Independente de Mocambique
One World Media Award for Best Programme produced in a Developing Country:
Charmarel, Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation
Maternal Mortality, Radio Kisima FM (Kenya)
Umtshato - The Wedding, Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (South Africa)
Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award:
Rob Walker, Broadcast Journalist, BBC
Samuel Agyemang, Reporter/Anchor, Metro TV (Ghana)
UNESCO Award for Science Reporting & Programming:
The Glacier Saga, NDTV (India)
Honeybee Blues, SBS (Australia)
Sabuja Mana, Sabuja Sapana (Green Mind, Green Action), Doordarshan (India)
Judges:
Olly Barratt, Feature Story News
Marion Bowman, One World Media
Cheryl Campbell, Television for the Environment
Francis Dobbs, World Bank
Neil Dormand, CBA
Alan Downie, CBA
Huw Edwards, BBC
Hayley Haas, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
John Ive, International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers
Mark Jacobs, BBC
Karen Merkel, CBA
Akim Mogaji, CBA
Gugulethu Moyo, Media Legal Defence Initiative
Marcia Poole, Amnesty International
Benn Meno Pufong, Cameroon Radio Television
Tim Rogers, Thomson Foundation
Elizabeth Smith, Transforming Broadcasting
Simon Spanswick, Association for International Broadcasting
Robin White, ex-BBC WS Africa
For more information, go to www.cba.org.uk.