We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards 2022!
The annual awards, organised in partnership with the National Union of Journalists, acknowledge and celebrate journalism on refugee and asylum issues in Scotland that is responsible, fair and well-researched.
And the winners are…
Local media
Runner up: Greater Govanhill Magazine, No One Is Illegal – We All Belong
Winner: Lindsay Bruce for The Press and Journal, ‘I’m so relieved’: Gran’s joy as her Ukrainian family reunite in Aberdeen
Print News
Runner Up: Gordon Blackstock for The Daily Record, The freezing, cramped squalor Scots asylum seekers forced to live in
Winner: Mark Aitken & Craig McDonald for The Sunday Post, Catastrophic famine looms in Afghanistan as experts warn more refugees are fleeing Taliban and hunger
Broadcast
Runner up: Katie Hunter for BBC Reporting Scotland, Park Inn Home Office
Winner: Kaye Nicolson for STV, Seeking Asylum in Scotland: “Give us a chance”
Features
Runner up: Anita Bhadani for The National, In Our Shoes’: poetry collection showcases writing from refugee women
Winner: Karin Goodwin for The Ferret, Home Office condemned for ‘parallel world’ of ‘unsuitable’ Scottish asylum accommodation
Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards such a success – from the people with lived experience who had the courage to share their stories, to the journalists that helped tell those stories with such care and compassion.
