International awards for Al Jazeera
AIB awards
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit was presented with the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) International Current Affairs Documentary award for its documentary 'Broken Dreams: The Boeing 787' at a ceremony in London in November 2015.
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit was also highly commended in the International Investigative Documentary category for 'Inside Kenya's Death Squads'. The unit investigated allegations that Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit is running an extrajudicial killing programme to "eliminate" radical Muslims. The Al Jazeera team spoke exclusively to members of the police death squads who carry out the hits.
Al Jazeera English was also highly commended for its coverage of the Nepal earthquake. The disaster of April 25 was a tremendous test for news organisations, but within hours, viewers could turn to Al Jazeera to see regular updates from correspondents in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India.
101 East Awards
Al Jazeera English won Best Film in the television category at the 2015 Amnesty Australia Awards, where 101 East's ' Afghanistan: No Country for Women' beat off competition from various entries from Australian media to win the award.
In April 2015, 101 East won four Gold Medals and one Bronze at the New York Festivals International TV and Film Awards. It won Gold medals for Return of the Lizard King, The Dolphin Hunters and Stray Bullets, while 101 East presenter, Steve Chao won a Gold Medal for Best News Reporter/Correspondent. It won a Bronze medal for the episode We Built This City, while it received two Finalist certificates for Food For Thought and Indonesia's Rock Governor.
Red Dot award for design
The 'Hear the Human Story' marketing campaign for Al Jazeera English has been awarded with a Red Dot "Best of the Best" prize in communication design. A Red Dot is internationally recognised as a symbol for design excellence and has been given out each year in Germany since 1955.
'Hear the Human Story' was Al Jazeera English's first global brand campaign. Conceptualised by Memac Ogilvy, the campaign positioned the channel as one that listens and tells the stories of those who are often under-reported and neglected by media. Launched on 3 November 2014, the campaign ran in 12 countries over six weeks. It encompassed a short film, TV ads, press, poster and digital legs, as well as an interactive photographic exhibition in London. True to the theme, each piece of work in the campaign tells a different human story.
The channel's commitment and focus on humanity in its reporting has been extremely popular and well received, increasing viewership and campaign recall in key priority markets.
The main brand film for the campaign, which featured the Gulabi Gang fighting for women's rights in India also received a Red Dot from the jury.
The international Red Dot jury chose the 82 best entries of the year from 7 451 submissions from over 53 countries. The winners were announced on 6 November at the Museum of Communications in Berlin. The campaign will now feature in a Red Dot exhibition, which will tour the world.
'Hear the Human Story' also picked up one silver and two bronze awards at the Dubai Lynx and a Bronze Pencil and two merits from the One Show.
