The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC (WAC-DC) today honoured Al Jazeera Media Network with the 2018 Global Communications Award

Al Jazeera English channel’s ‘Fault Lines’ programme has been awarded the prestigious Emmy award in the category of ‘Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine’ for its film ‘The Ban’ at the 39th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards in New York.

AJ+’s Direct From, with Dena Takruri show won the 2018 National Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in Social Media for War in the Koreas Series Direct From, with Dena Takruri immerses a 10 million member global audience in the biggest current hot-button issues.

Jetty (Al Jazeera’s audio brand) has won a 2018 Kaleidoscope Award for its show Closer Than They Appear. The Kaleidoscope Award honors news organizations demonstrating a commitment to covering diverse communities, including issues of race, ethnicity and gender identity.

Al Jazeera Media Network was awarded the International Press Institute (IPI) 2018 Chairman’s Award. The award - given at the discretion of the chair with advice of the Executive Director and other stakeholders- was presented on June 22, 2018, during the IPI 68th World Congress held in Abuja, Nigeria.

Al Jazeera Media Network was awarded the Creative award by the Spanish Foreign Press Correspondents Association (ACPE) for its support of the free press in the Arab region and its role in delivering a detailed picture of what happens in the Arab world.

Al Jazeera English’s “Earthrise” has won a prestigious One World Media Award in the Women Entrepreneurs Reporting category, for a film called “Jordan’s Water Women” which looked an initiative that is putting women at the heart of efforts to combat water scarcity in that country.

Al Jazeera won the Video Team of the Year​ award by The Drum Online Media Awards, a prestigious international awarding body that identify the cleverest, boldest and most original purveyors of news and views from around the world. The winners’ names were announced in London on Tuesday, May 22, 2018 The AJ Shorts team produced distinguished video clips tha

AJ+ won the prestigious Webby award, for best short documentary at the People’s Choice category. Winners were announced during the twenty-second ceremony held by the organizing committee on Monday, May 14, in New York. It was attended by a large number of media professional and artists.

Fault Lines – Haiti by Force: UN Sex Abuse, an Al Jazeera English documentary that investigates an epidemic of rape by United Nations security forces in Haiti, has won a CINE Gold Eagle Award.

‘The Lobby’, a four-part series produced by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit about an Israeli campaign to interfere with domestic politics in the U.K. has won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in Washington D.C

Mahmud Hossain Opu, a photojournalist in Bangladesh, won one of the most prestigious awards in South Asia for his coverage of the plight of the Rohingya. Mahmud won the BRAC Migration Media Award in Dhaka on Wednesday, 18 April. BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) one of the biggest NGO in the world.

Al Jazeera was awarded the Gold Medal for the ‘Demand Press Freedom Campaign’. The Medal was awarded by the New York International Television & Film Awards under the category of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’, which took place during a Gala dinner ceremony attended by some of the top international media and broadcasters held in Las Vegas on April 10, 2018

Al Jazeera English was named “Broadcaster of the Year” for the second year running at the 2018 New York Festivals International Television & Film Gala that took place in Las Vegas on April 10th, 2018. This award is considered the most prestigious by the organizers. Overall, Al Jazeera Media Network was honored with more than 40 prizes

Al Jazeera was named one of the Most Viewed Media Companies for the second year in a row by Tubular Labs, a company that tracks all video content cross-platform, all-device, globally. Al Jazeera was ranked 30th, out of 10 million content creators and over 40,000 media and entertainment publishers globally tracked in 2017.

Al Jazeera Media Network’s Creative Directorate has been presented with the Silver Promax Europe award – one of the most prestigious awards in the field of TV artistic production.

Al Jazeera Media Network has been awarded the UN Women for Peace Association "Awareness Award" for its focus on critical women's issues in the media network’s programmes and news output, including the role its documentaries have had in promoting understanding and awareness of the plight of women and girls around the world.

Al Jazeera Media Network has obtained the ISO-9001:2015 certification for its Human Resources and Administration Division’s quality management system. The certification was granted upon meeting requirements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Our AJA colleague Tarek Al Abyad, Producer at AJA newsroom, was awarded the “Best TV coverage on Kyrgyzstan” in 2017, for his documentary series “Kyrgyzstan the Wonderland”, which he produced and directed when he was in a mission to Kyrgyzstan to cover the World Nomadic Games. The series was aired on Al Jazeera Arabic channel in April 2017.

Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan and Azad Essa won the Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize and International Prize at the UN Correspondents Association (UNCA) Global Prize, during UNCA’s Awards Gala on Friday December 15, 2017 in New York.

Al Jazeera English won several prizes at the Asian Television Awards held last week in Singapore. 101 East Presenter Steve Chao won top prize in the category ‘Best Current Affairs Presenter’ – the third consecutive year he has won the award.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won a prestigious Foreign Press Association Media Award ​for its documentary on the illegal trade in rhino horn

AJE State/Specials Correspondent Rosiland Jordan is one of this year's winners in the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards. Jordan's story on the UN Secretary-General's efforts to highlight near-famine in Somalia won the Silver prize in “The Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize” category for broadcast (TV & Radio) media

101 East, which is Al Jazeera’s weekly Asian current affairs programme, won the best Politics and Business category award for "Duterte: A President’s Report Card", while "Voyage to Antarctica" won the award for the Best Interactive Category.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s "A Memory in Khaki" won the Best Direction Award for long documentaries at the Malmo Arab Film Festival held in Sweden between October 7 - 9, 2017. The film was directed by Alfoz Tanjour. The film was also awarded Best Documentary Film in Bamaghata Film Festival in Japan on October 12.

An episode of the series “Refugee Mothers”, produced by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, has won the Community Awareness Award in the International Madrid Film Festival in Madrid.

Al Jazeera Balkans journalist Sanel Kajan won the special journalism award "Srđan Aleksić", which was established in 2010 by a non-governmental organization. It awards professional reporting on marginalised and vulnerable groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s “The Massacre of Paris” won the prize of the National Moroccan Company of Television and Radio (SNRT) in the 5th edition of the Europe Orient Documentary Film Festival of Tangier.

Al Jazeera Documentary’s “Blood on the Seine” won the People Award in the History Film Festival held in Croatia. Mahdi Bakkar, Director, received the award in the awarding ceremony held last week in Rijeka.

The documentary film “Džajić“, about the Yugoslav football legend, Dragan Džajić, produced by Al Jazeera Balkans won two awards at the International Sport Film Festival of Zlatibor, that was held in Serbia from June 29 to of July 3.

Aela Callan has been named the 2017 winner of the Jane Cunningham Croly Award for Excellence in Journalism Covering Issues of Concern to Women for her film broadcast on Al Jazeera’s 101 East programme.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has won the Corruption Reporting Award at the annual One World Media ceremony in London. The documentary Stealing Paradise provides an unprecedented insight into the workings of a corrupt government It exposes jaw-dropping levels of wrongdoing at the very top of government in the Maldives.

For the second consecutive year, Al Jazeera Media Network has won the ‘Best Website’ award at the annual Online Media Awards ceremony held in London, along with five other awards and four commendations.

For the second consecutive year, Al Jazeera Media Network has won the ‘Best Website’ award at the annual Online Media Awards ceremony held in London, along with five other awards and four commendations. The awards hosted on Thursday evening 1 june 2017 by The Drum were judged by a panel of journalists, PR professionals and media personalities.

AJ+ was announced the winner of Best News & Information Category, during the 21st Annual Webby Awards ceremony held in New York on Tuesday 16 May2017 . The Webby Awards - presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences - is the leading international award honoring excellence on the internet.

AJA’s correspondent in Yemen Hadeel al-Yamani won the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award for 2017.

The Spanish Journalists Union honoured Al Jazeera's Abdullah Al-Shami on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day. The union granted him the Freedom of Expression award during a gala dinner held in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday May 3.

Al Jazeera Media Network’s studio 14 is awarded Best TV Studio for 2016, by NewscastStudio; the international trade publication for television creative professionals. Studio 14 won the Best TV Studio in the world for 2016 thanks to its panoramic distinct design.

Al Jazeera Media Network won five Gold World Medals, fourteen Silver World Medals and seven Bronze Medals at the prestigious New York Festivals awards. A special award of Broadcaster of the year was also awarded to Al Jazeera English, as the channel bagged three Gold, twelve Silver, five Bronze and 10 Finalist Certificates for various content.

AJ+ was named one of the top digital publishers by Tubular Labs, a company that tracks all video content cross-platform, all-device, globally. AJ+ was ranked 5th since the beginning of 2017 in views on Facebook in News and Politics category, globally, according to Tubular's monthly classifications in January and February 2017.

Al Jazeera Arabic Channel’s website – Al Jazeera Net – is ranked 6th news source among the most powerful news sources in the world, according to 4 International Media & Newspapers institution (www.4imn.com). The ordered list of the world news agencies comprised the top 106 news agencies in the world.

Al Jazeera Media Network has obtained ISO certification in the field of Information Systems and Security. This certification is one of the most prestigious in the world in the field of information security management, and is audited against the International Standards Organization (ISO) 27001:2013 standard.

Dena Takruri, Senior Presenter at AJ+, was awarded the Professional Excellence Award by the Network of Arab-American Professional (NAAP).

Al Jazeera English’s senior correspondent and diplomatic editor James Bay and senior producer Whitney Hurst have been awarded the United Nations’ Ricardo Ortega Memorial Prize for their role in covering the first internationally televised live UN leaders’ debate titled “Leading the United Nations: A Global Town Hall with UN Secretary-General Candidates".

Iman Ayad, anchorwoman of Al Jazeera Arabic, won the Arab Women award for 2016 in television presentation catefory, at a ceremony held in London. Being a cancer survivor herself, Iman dedicated the award to all the women struggling with cancer.

Al Jazeera English has won the Cable & Satellite Channel of The Year award as well as the Network Of The Year at the Asian TV Awards. The channel received the double accolade and won five awards in various categories in programmes and online at a ceremony in Singapore.

Al Jazeera English has won the Cable & Satellite Channel of The Year award as well as the Network Of The Year at the Asian TV Awards. The channel received the double accolade after winning five awards in various categories in programs and online at a ceremony in Singapore.

Al Jazeera’s HR Division was recognized with a 2016 HR Brilliance Award after competition with other leading International organisations.

Hasan Bajramović, a 3D artist who works at the Al Jazeera Balkans Creative Department, and in his free time creates characters for video games in Hollywood production movies, is announced as one of the 100 most influential 3D artists in the world, according to professional magazine 3DArtist.

The Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) Studio 5 received the prestigious Middle East ASBU BroadcastPro 2016 award in the category of the Best Studio of the year and the Excellence in Project Execution in November 2016.

Al Jazeera Media Network has won two Promax Africa awards (Silver & Bronze) in the categories of “Best Original Logo Design & Best On Air Branding Design” for its Al Jazeera Documentary new branding design.

Al Jazeera's Human Resources and Administrative Affairs Department has received an Excellence Award for developing excellent corporate leadership skills at a Human Resources Forum held in 2016 in Dubai.

The Investigative Unit of Al Jazeera Media Network has won the 2016 Broadcast Award at the Frontline Club in London.The investigation that exposed the inner workings of Myanmar’s military regime, “Genocide Agenda”, provided strong evidence that the crime of genocide was being committed against the Rohingya minority in the west of the country.

Al Jazeera Documentary Channel’s “Blood on the Seine” won the Jury Award in the medium-length category, in the Annaba Film Festival held in Algeria.

The film titled "Kumar", directed by Ms. Eman Al-Amri, was awarded the Grand Prize of the 7th edition of Khouribga International Documentary Film Festival in Morocco.

Al Jazeera English has won 3 awards from the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA), in recognition of their coverage of the following stories: “A Toxic Spill in the Colorado River”, “Oil Exploration and Land Loss in Louisianan​” as well as “Food Sovereignty in the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Maine”.

Al Jazeera Balkans journalist Snježana Mulić-Softić won journalism award "Srđan Aleksić", which was established in 2010 by a non-governmental organisation. Snježana was nominated by the Association "Words of Peace".

Online News Association (ONA) has announced AJ+ a winner for the “General Excellence in Online Journalism”. AJ+ was nominated for the award along with Huffington Post, Bloomberg News, New York Times, and Vox.

Al Jazeera has won a silver award in the category of Best TV Programme Branding for its Al Jazeera English programme “In Search of Putin's Russia” at the BassAwards ceremony.

Güray Ervin from Al Jazeera Turk (AJT) was announced, in Istanbul, the winner of two grand awards of the 21st Zoom International News Image Contest by the Turkish News Cameramen Association in the “Best Reportage” and “General News” categories.

Al Jazeera English has won the 'Best Website' award at the annual Online Media Awards ceremony held in London, along with three other awards and two commendations.

Al Jazeera English program “101 East” won a Human Rights Press Award for “Sabah’s Invisible Children”. The award is for outstanding reporting on human rights issues.

The short documentary film “One Woman's Strength is Helping Refugees in Macedonia” won a Gabriel award; an international award specialised in Television productions and documentaries that revolve around humanitarian issues.

Al Jazeera is celebrating winning a total of eleven Gold World Medals, six Silver World Medals and two Bronze Medals at the prestigious New York Festivals awards.

Al Jazeera Café was announced “Best Café” in Qatar for 2016, by “Fact” magazine, which is specialised in reviewing cafés and restaurants. The winners were voted for online via open poll made available for all people.

Al Jazeera's Fault Lines' "Haiti in a Time of Cholera", a collaborative team production by Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera America, has won a Peabody Award.

AJ+ was announced the winner of two Webby awards in the category of “News and Information” and “News and Politics” for its coverage of the Syrian refugees who escaped the war towards Europe.

The Hear the Human Story marketing campaign for Al Jazeera English has been awarded the Gold prize in “Consumer or Trade Print Ad for a Channel” and the Silver prize in “News/Information Channel Spots or Program Campaign”, both in the Promotion and Marketing category.

The Al Jazeera Media Network’s Marketing Department has won five awards at the Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity for their “We Are Al Jazeera” campaign, the largest campaign ever run for Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel (AJA).

AJ+ has been awarded a Shorty Award for Best Facebook Presence. The Shorty Awards honour the best of social media by recognising the influencers, brands and organisations on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine and more.

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies has occupied the 5th rating among the most influential think tanks centres and study centres in the Middle East and North Africa for 2015, according to the "World Index of research centres for the year 2015", issued by the research institutions and civil society organisations programme at the American University of Pennsylvania.

Prince Albert II of Monaco & UNCA Global Prize for Climate Change coverage: Andrew Thomas

Al Jazeera English programme “101 East” won Best Current Affairs program, while Steve Chao, AJE’s Senior Presenter, won the Best Current Affairs Presenter.

Best Documentary for Al Jazeera Witness film Miners Shot Down

Best Current Affairs Documentary for Al Jazeera Investigative Unit's Broken Dreams: 787

Best film in Television category for 101 East's Afghanistan: No Country for Women

Al Jazeera’s Technology and Operations Division scooped two Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) BroadcastPro Television Awards for 2015, during the award ceremony in Dubai.

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.

Eutelsat's People’s Choice award went to Al Jazeera Balkans from Bosnia & Herzegovina. The Eutelsat TV Awards is an annual competition that shines a spotlight on the quality of the television channels broadcasting via Eutelsat satellites.

Al Jazeera America’s Digital team won three EPPY Awards, presented by U.S.-based journal Editor and Publisher. AJAM has scooped "The Best News or Event Feature", "Best Innovation Project" and "The Best News or Event Feature Video".

Best Feature Story for Hazasupai water story, Best News Story for Tar Creek

Broadcast Grand Prize 101 East’s A War On Witches

Women’s Rights in Africa Award & Best Transmedia Project for Witness: Casablanca Calling

Best Digital Media for Pirate Fishing

Best Use of Photography for Portrait of a Yogi

The Drum Online Media Awards: "Best Technical Innovation - 2015" and "Outstanding Digital Team - 2015" for Palestine Remix Interactive Project.

Best Documentary Africa Investigates - Liberia: Living with Ebola

Gold for 101 East’s The Return of the Lizard King, The Dolphin Hunters & Stray Bullets

Gold Award for Steve Chao as Best News Reporter

Gold Medal: James Reinl for AJE online coverage of Somalia

Bronze Medal: Marcelle Hopkins for Beyond the Beach: Sri Lanka, five years on

Exemplary News Team in Developing Countries: 101 East

Outstanding Investigative Journalism Award for Fault Lines film Haiti in a Time of Cholera

Best Freelance Journalist Award: Simon Hooper

Outstanding Digital Team Commendation: AJE Interactives

People Voice Award Best Online Film, News & Politics: The Stream

Awards for 101 East & Witness - Wukan: Flame of Democracy

Best International Documentary: Wukan

Gold for 101 East's It’s a Man’s World, Murder in a God’s Name & Everest: 60th Anniversary

Broadcast Story of the Year for 101 East's Nepal’s Slave Girls

Best Current Affairs Programme Award for 101 East

Environment Story of the Year for Earthrise: Urban Oil Men

Best Science Story Award for The Cure: Doctors on Everest

Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme Award for Law of the Jungle

Outstanding Digital Team & Best Twitter Feed Commendation for The Stream

Best Technical Innovation for Syria Defector Tracker

Best World News Website & Best Crowd Sourcing Commendation for Al Jazeera English Online

People Voice Award for Best News (Tablet) in the Mobile Apps category: Al Jazeera English

Outstanding News Talk Show Award for The Stream

Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera & Made in Bangladesh

First Prize for 101 East's Nowhere To Go & Battered and Bruised

Silver for Lockerbie: Case Closed & Bronze for 101 East: Australia’s Lost Generation

Best Television Documentary for So Close So Far Away

Best Investigative Journalism for What Killed Arafat & Syria: Songs of Defiance

Best Environmental Story of the Year for Earthrise: Bee Fence

Witness: Dream on Hold for Informational Programming & Burma Boy for History Programming

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark & The Crying Forest for Investigative Programming

International TV & Radio Award for Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark

People's Choice Award for News and Politics Online Film & Video Category for The Stream

Al Jazeera Media Network won the Freedom of Speech Award for "its steadfast commitment to freedom of the press and its longstanding efforts to provide independent, impartial news for an international audience and to offer a voice to a diversity of perspectives from under-reported regions."

Children's Rights Award for Tanzania: Spell of the Albino

Silver Medal for 101 East's Nepal: Children for Sale

Documentary of the Year for Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark

Al Jazeera English coverage of the Arab Awakening