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The AIBs
2016
RADIO INVESTIGATIVE
In
Documentary on One: The
Case that Never Was, RTÉ’s
Frank Shouldice and Liam O’Brien
uncovered the remarkable and
shocking story of a major European
Court of Justice law case launched
in the name of someone who had
never instigated any type of action.
This well researched investigation
travelled from Ireland to Poland
to Cyprus and on to the European
Court in Luxembourg to uncover
the allegedly shady dealings of an
Irish-based but Cyprus-registered,
recruitment company in trying to
avoid social security payments. The
RTÉ team’s investigation resulted
in the stopping of a court case that
would have helped reshape important
EU law on social insurance for millions
of migrant workers around Europe to
their detriment.
BBC Arabic
The Unfinished Story of Fighting FGM in Egypt
Our judges commended this production as one
of the best presentations of the complex issues
surrounding FGM that they had heard. It tackled an
important and challenging subject, gaining the trust
of people whose lives have been subjected to the
horrors of FGM.
BBC/Buzzfeed
File on 4: Tennis – Game, Set and Fix?
A first-rate investigation into one of the many
scandals surrounding sport in contemporary society.
This was well researched and well written and left
our judges wanting to know more about the likely
match fixing occurring at the top of international
tennis. The judges also commented on the great
craft skills that the programme exhibited.
Highly commended
RTÉ Radio 1
ONLINE
The winner of our online factual
category developed a virtual reality
experience of something that
one of our judges described as a
“national disgrace”.
6x9: A Virtual
Experience of Solitary Confinement
was produced by
The Guardian
as
a bold and extensively documented
exposure of a practice that is
little talked about in society. The
judges commented positively on
the production’s successful efforts
to simulate the experience of total
isolation for its online audience.
The use of the profiles and voices
of inmates who have suffered from
solitary incarceration in the US penal
system lends journalistic integrity and
power to the experience.
BBC News
China’s Science Revolution
The judges praised the ambitious scale of this
survey of China’s scientific rise that harnessed every
multimedia tool at their disposal. Pictures and text,
audio and video were well presented in this factual
examination of the remarkable strides that the
People’s Republic is making in the area of science.
On Our Radar in partnership with New
Internationalist
Back in Touch
The judges described this as “fascinating” and
“comprehensive”, “intricate and “integrated”. Told
by citizen journalists in Sierra Leone, Back in Touch
explored individual experiences in the country’s
post-Ebola era. The stories told were touching,
exploring how sometimes a crisis may become a
blessing. The format was innovative, with the great
use of ambient sound complementing the close-up,
unvarnished stories.
Highly commended
The Guardian