The AIBs 2025 Broadcast Partner

The AIBs 2025 gala dinner will take place on the 14th November 2025 at

Park Hyatt London River Thames

The AIBs 2025 will be hosted by Ayanda Charlie.

Ayanda won the AIBs award for emerging talent in 2024.

Congratulations to everyone who has made the AIBs 2025 shortlist.

Good luck as our judges decide who are winners will be.

VIDEO

ARTS and CULTURE

Shortlist

Rewriting Arab News – Arab News

The Travel Show – Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market – BBC

Mozart’s Sister – Media Stockade

Witness – Please Enjoy Our Tragedies – Please Enjoy Productions for Al Jazeera English

Pages & Paths of Taiwan – Radio Taiwan International

Game On: Hoops and Dreams in Rural China – USA Today Studios and Blue Chalk Media

BREAKING NEWS

Shortlist

Fall of Assad: Syria’s New Dawn – AFPTV

Yogita Limaye – Undercover in Myanmar’s Earthquake – BBC News

Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs – Bloomberg Television

Asia First (Air India Crash Coverage) – CNA

First on the Ground in Syria During Rebel Takeover – CNN

CONTINUING NEWS

Shortlist

Syria after Assad – Al Jazeera English

Killer Floods – Antena 3 CNN

Trump’s Trade Policy Upends the Global Order – Bloomberg Television

Asia Tonight (South Korea Political Crisis) – CNA

GMA Integrated News: 24 Oras: Mole People – GMA Integrated News, GMA Network Inc.

Myanmar Earthquake: Natural Disaster or Human-made Catastrophe – Phoenix Satellite Television

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

Shortlist

Fault Lines – The Last Lifeline – Al Jazeera English

The Apartheid Killer – BBC Africa Eye

The Forgotten Battle – BFBS Forces News

The Real Unforgotten – Brinkworth Productions

The Atom Araullo Specials: Pogoland – GMA Network, Inc. (Public Affairs)

Tabloids on Trial – ITV News/ITN for ITV

Hong Kong: Law and Order – Keyi Productions for Arte G.E.I.E for France 24

HEALTH and SOCIAL

Shortlist

People & Power – Lebanon: Frontline of Care – Al Jazeera English

The Season – Hope – Small World Stories for ABC Australia

Spotlight: I Am Not Okay – BBC Northern Ireland

The Midwife’s Confession – BBC World Service

Daughters of Putien – CNA

Inside the Protests – RTÉ

INNOVATIVE FACTUAL

Shortlist

Rob Burrow Seven – BBC Radio Leeds

The Assembly – CNA

Deutsche Welle JaafarTalk – Step by Step: turning controversy into shared solutions – Deutsche Welle (DW)

Under the Same Sky/Gaza 360° – Frontline in Focus xr

AI News Anchors and Interactive & Immersive Storytelling Using AR – TVC Communications

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - CONFLICT

Shortlist

Fault Lines – Kids Under Fire – Al Jazeera English

People & Power – Gaza: Thirst Among Ruins – Al Jazeera English

Life and Death in Gaza – BBC Eye

Lebanon: War, Peace and Hezbollah – Dateline, Special Broadcasting Service

Gaza’s Missing – TRT World News

VIKTOR-IA – Voice of America

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Shortlist

America Outside the Box – Alaraby Television Network – Qatar

Stand Together As One – Duncan Entertainment & Camerapix

America divided: the women who vote for Trump | FT Film – Financial Times

Haiti: The Iron Grip of The Gangs – France 24

El Salvador: Gangland to Safe Haven – Dateline, Special Broadcasting Service

Beyond Borders – Sri Lanka: Sands of Time – TRT World

From Ghent to Damascus – VRT NWS

 

INVESTIGATIVE

Shortlist

101 East – Cambodia’s Repressive Reach – Al Jazeera English

Roblox Has a Predator Problem – Bloomberg Originals

Groomed: A National Scandal – Candour Productions for Channel 4

CBC Marketplace: Scam Stoppers: The Ultimate Showdown – Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Marketplace)

One at Heart, Jessica Soho: Kidneys for Sale – GMA Network, Inc. (Public Affairs)

Street of Death: RFE/RL Unmasks Russian Soldiers Behind Bucha Killings – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Addicted – The Narco Plague – SHA Documentary Productions/CNA Mediacorp

JOURNALIST of the YEAR

Shortlist

Drew Ambrose – Al Jazeera English

Tu Chieh – Jhost Studio

Jomana Karadsheh – CNN International

Yogita Limaye – BBC News

Guy Lynn – BBC London News for BBC One

POLITICS and BUSINESS

Shortlist

101 East – Bangladesh: The Mother & The Monster – Al Jazeera English

A President Before the Nation – Antena 3 CNN

Blood Parliament – BBC Africa Eye

James Vincent, Political Editor – BBC Yorkshire

The Mafia, President Erdogan and me – Berlin Producers Media for Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Why Trump Unleashed Tariff Chaos – Bloomberg Originals

Thames Water: Inside the Crisis – Brinkworth Productions

PRESENTER of the YEAR

Shortlist

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty – BBC

Divya Gopalan – TaiwanPlus

Vicky Morales – GMA Network

SHORT FEATURE

Shortlist

Assisted Dying: What can the UK learn from one of its closest neighbours, the Netherlands? – 5 News, ITN

24 Hours in Gaza – Al Jazeera Arabic Channel

Syrian Chemical Attack on Syrian Cities – Al Jazeera Arabic Channel, News Directorate

What’s the Point of International Law? | Start Here – Al Jazeera Digital

Songs from Inside – BBC World Service

Teochew Legacy: A Ghost Festival Story – Phoenix Satellite Television

SUSTAINABILITY

Shortlist

Flatten the Curve – Inside the battle to contain diseases in rainforests and cities – Al Jazeera English

Where the Polar Bears Wait – BBC

Spotlight: The Sewage Scandal – BBC Northern Ireland

Zero Period Climate Crisis – Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)

Maritimes: L’élevage en mer des saumons menacé – Radio-Canada

POLAR ALARM: How Our Carbon Footprint is Destroying Penguin Habitats – TVBS

 

AUDIO

ARTS and CULTURE

Shortlist

Archive on 4: Do You Speak English? – BBC News Long Form Audio

World of Secrets: The Killing Call – BBC World Service

The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer – CBC Ideas

Gungunhana. When Portugal Kidnapped a King – CNN Portugal

Robben Island’s Hallelujah – A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

The Öland Massacre – Sveriges Radio

HEALTH and SOCIAL

Shortlist

People Fixing the World: How to Have Better Sex – BBC News Long Form Audio

The Documentary Heart and Soul: Kai Höss: My Grandfather – the Commandant of Auschwitz – BBC World Service

The Culture Colonel: Captain Morgan’s Lost Her Marbles – with Gemma Morgan – BFBS Creative

Iraq’s secret women’s shelters – CTVC for BBC World Service

La mort libre : 10 ans d’aide médicale à mourir – Radio-Canada OHdio

Romania: The Long Road Home | Beyond Borders – TRT World

 

INVESTIGATIVE

Shortlist

Grenfell: Building a Disaster – BBC Long Form Audio

The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby – BBC World Service, CBC

Stories from the New Silk Road: Space – Pod60 for BBC World Service

Heaven’s Helpline – Popsock Media & New Zealand Herald

Where is Jón?/Hvar er Jón? – RTÉ/RÚV

Kasinoläckan (The Casino Leaks) – Sveriges Radio

NEWS COVERAGE

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Shortlist

The Global Jigsaw, The Kurdish Issue – BBC World Service

Sitrep – BFBS

The US Attacks Iran Nuclear Sites – Bloomberg Radio

Beyond the Headlines Podcast – Lebanon’s Civil War: The Feud that Never Ended – The National News

Live Coverage of the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump – Times Radio

Björn in the USA – Uppercut for the Democrats, autopsy of an electoral disaster – VRT

 

RADIO or PODCAST PRESENTER of the YEAR

Shortlist

Tu Chieh – Radio Taiwan International

Kate McCann and Stig Abell – Times Radio

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty – BBC

“SNAKE” – Yu-Hsuan Wu and Shiau-Li Yang – Radio Taiwan International

Weimin Tseng – Radio Taiwan International

SUSTAINABILITY

Shortlist

Pacific Scientific – One Atoll’s Fight – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Living Planet: What the economy gets wrong about nature – Deutsche Welle (DW)

POLAR ALARM: How Our Carbon Footprint is Destroying Penguin Habitats – Radio Taiwan International

Wanted Dead or Alive: Taiwan’s Lizard Bounty – Radio Taiwan International

 

 

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