HRH The Prince of Wales Will Attend This Year's Foreign Press Association Media Awards at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel on Tuesday November 25th

HRH The Prince of Wales Will Attend This Year's Foreign Press Association Media Awards at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel on Tuesday November 25th

LONDON, November 12/PRNewswire/ -- HRH will give the keynote speech at the Awards, which mark the 120th
anniversary of the Foreign Press Association in London. HRH will also be
attending a reception beforehand to meet a number of members and supporters
of the Foreign Press Association.

There are eleven categories of Awards. The short-list for the Foreign
Press Association Media Awards 2008 is announced today and listed below.

Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2008 short-list

TV News Story of the Year

Neil Connery: "Burma Cyclone: Deep inside the Irrawaddy Delta" ITV News
Alex Crawford, Akbar Shinwari, Jamie Matthews, Neville Lazarus:
"Afghanistan: Trail of Death" Sky News
Abdullahi Farah, Nima Elbagir, Ben de Pear: "Somalia" Channel 4 News

TV Feature Story of the Year

Chris Boulding: "Blood on the Nile" BBC Arabic
Joshua Dugdale: "The Unwinking Gaze" http://www.unwinkinggaze.com
Ivan O'Mahoney, Laura Winter, Karen O'Connor: "The Boys from Baghdad
High" BBC This World & Renegade Pictures Ltd

Financial Story of the Year

David Dietz, Darrell Preston: "The Insurance Hoax" Bloomberg News
Faisal Islam, Andrew MacFadyen: "Iraqi Oil Fields: Iraq Five Years On"
Channel 4 News
Jeremy Skeet, Michael Robinson, Neal Razzle: "Debt Threat" BBC World
Service

Sports Story of the Year

David Evans: "Big Brown Owner fined by NASD, plans $100 million Hedge
Fund" Bloomberg News
Gavin Lee, Bridget Harney, Ibrahim Sannie, Edward Main: "Assignment:
Football Fraudsters" BBC World Service
Brian Oliver, Kevin Mitchell, James Robinson, Richard Gillis : "21st
Century Sport" The Observer

Travel & Tourism Story of the Year: Print

Martin Fletcher: "One day in Baghdad" The Times
Will Self: "Head to Head - Easter Island" Conde Nast Traveller
Stanley Stewart: "The old ones are the best - Damascus" Conde Nast
Traveller

Travel & Tourism Story of the Year: TV & Radio

David Clews, Nick Mirsky, Marco Crivellari: "Wonderland: The End of the
World Bus Tour" BBC
Lesley Curwen: "Business Daily: Gambia Tourism" BBC World Service
Channel 4 News Team: "Olympics: From inside the Tibetan areas" Channel 4
News

Radio Story of the Year

Thomas Dalhaus, Alastair Elphick, Mark Whittaker, James Reynolds, Max
Pearson, Quentin Somerville, Jill McGivering, Julian Marshall: "The
World Today: Chinese Congress" BBC World Service
David Goldblatt, Anna Raphael, Maria Balinska: "Crossing Continents:
Football in the Holy Land" BBC Radio 4
Robert Hodierne, Celina Dunlop, Rosie Goldsmith, Maria Balinska: "The My
Lai Tapes" BBC Radio 4

Print/Web News Story of the Year

Marie Colvin: "I felt a new terror on Basra's streets" The Sunday Times
Christina Lamb: "Shrapnel rained down, Bhutto's return became a
bloodbath" The Sunday Times
Afif Sarhan, Caroline Davies, Mark Townsend: "The Iraqi teenage girl
killed for loving a British soldier" The Observer

Print/Web Feature Story of the Year

Jamil Anderlini: "Losing the countryside: a restive peasantry calls on
Beijing for land rights" The Financial Times
Stephanie Kirchgaessner; "'One big country club' How a marketing business
from Britain leads the field in Washington's power game" The Financial
Times
Alex Renton" "The Rape Epidemic" Observer Woman

Story of the Year by a member of the FPA

Alan Fisher: "Russian Advance from Gori to Tbilisi" Al Jazeera English
Jonah Hull: "The War in Georgia" Al Jazeera English
Annalisa Piras: "The Italian Patient" BBC Radio 4

Environment Story of the Year

David Edmonds, Mark Gregory: "One Planet: Carbon Trading" BBC World
Service
Jonathan Green: "The Dirty Secrets of Your NHS" Live Magazine
James Sales & Team: "The Bangladesh Boat Project" BBC World Service

Source: Foreign Press Association

For any inquiries please contact Christopher Wyld, Director, Foreign Press Association christopherwyld@foreign-press.org.uk , Office +44(0)207-930-0445, Mobile +44(0)7961-113-876.

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