Nigerian sports journalist, Lolade Adewuyi, on Tuesday, 9 May, received a special mention for his story on the threat of violence his colleagues are confronted with in his homeland.
TOP MEDIA reports that Deutsche Welle (DW‘s) Adewuyi’s piece for the Germany-based outfit was given an honourable mention following the fifth edition (for year 2022) of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Sport Media Awards. The event came to a conclusion this morning (Tuesday) with a gala in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Adewuyi’s stand-out article titled ‘Nigerian sports writers under threat of violence’, was specially commended in the Safeguarding Journalism Working Condition genre.
Since 2020, the AIPS has introduced the special commendations it offered to top-rated works whose values are aligned with the cornerstone values of the association. These values include defending Human Rights and gender equality, fighting against racism and all forms of discrimination, promoting a clean sports environment, offering hope towards sports, promoting sports as an answer to violence in conflict zones, reporting with independence and freedom, defending the importance of access to sources for interviews, contributing to the development of women’s sport, acknowledging the future of sports, detecting and featuring original sports stories, raising awareness about mental health, and presenting innovative ways of sports reporting, among others.
Apart from the award winners who were present to pick up their prizes (some — not all of them), 25 “special” works of 2022 were acknowledged for “deserved” note. And Adewuyi’s work was part of it.
Winners at 2022 AIPS Sport Media Awards [Full List]
At the fifth edition of the AIPS Sport Media Awards, five continents were represented.
TOP MEDIA reports that AIPS Sport Media Awards allows works in all languages to compete for free, prompting a result of 1830 submissions from 138 different countries, judged over five voting stages until reaching the podium.
But who’s made it in the podium? Check out in full below:
PHOTOGRAPHY SPORT ACTION
1st John Walton (UK), Flying into the crowd – PA Media
2nd Andy Couldridge (UK), Derek Chisora vs Kubrat Pulev – Reuters
3rd Xavier Bonilla (Spain), Thanks halo – DPPI Images
PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO
1st Oliver Scarff (UK), Anita Alvarez rescue – AFP
2nd Dario Belingheri (Italy), Cycling and its Beauties – Getty Images
3rd Ezra Shaw (USA), Flying and Sliding – Getty Images
VIDEO ATHLETE PROFILE
1st Nikolaus Mahatsek, Nikolaus Strecha (Austria), MAXimum Verstappen: The Flying Dutchman – ServusTV
2nd Nicolas Delloye (France), Donovan Carrillo: First Mexican Olympic figure skater – Olympic Channel
3rd Joanna Mitchell, Tania Page (New Zealand), The Real Ruby – Sunday Television
VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
1st Louis Myles (UK), Croatia: Defining a nation – FIFA+
2nd Benjamin Unger (Germany), Olympics 1972: The GDR and the terror – NDR
3rd David Tryhorn (UK), The Figo Affair: The transfer that changed football – Netflix
VIDEO SHORT FEATURE
1st Maziyar Koopidar (Iran), I’m a girl, I’m a boy – YouTube
2nd Mike Stypulkoski, David Swartz (USA), A face for her people: Rosalie Fish – CBS Sports
3rd Adam Pretty (Australia), Bo Kramer – Getty Images
WRITING BEST COLOUR PIECE
1st Bernt Jakob Oksnes (Norway), A sick skiing nation – Dagbladet
2nd Adam Williams (USA), An indigenous women’s softball team beats opponents, and machismo – The New York Times
3rd Josiane Kouagheu (Cameroon), “Football makes me forget the Boko Haram attacks for a few hours” – Le Monde Afrique
WRITING BEST COLUMN
1st Alaa Abdel-Ghani (Egypt), Overseas aid – Al-Ahram
2nd Marcela Mora y Araujo (Argentina), Thrown into the World Cup: The challenge of telling things as they are and at the same time believing in magic – eldiario.ar
3rd Morgan Campbell (Canada), WNBA star Brittney Griner, detained in Russia, is guilty only for pursuing a salary that matches her skill – CBC
AUDIO
1st James Graham, Jessica Halloran, Jasper Leak, Claire Harvey, Lia Tsamoglou (Australia), Head Noise – The Australian
2nd Moritz Cassalette, Martin Seidemann (Germany), Jan Ullrich temporary hero – Norddeutscher Rundfunk
3rd Kayley Thomas, Jenny Johnson, Lorraine Walsh, Cathy Robinson (UK), Transfer: The Emiliano Sala Story – BBC Wales
Each of these finalists received a trophy and a prize money ranging from 2,000 US Dollars (3rd place), 3,000 (2nd place) and 8,000 (1st place).
YOUNG REPORTERS (ALL CATEGORIES)
1st Broadcasting, Henrique Arcoverde (Brazil)
1st Writing, Farai Shawn Matiashe (Zimbabwe)
1st Photography, Will Palmer (UK)
Winners in this category receive an AIPS scholarship at a top international event.
SPECIAL CATEGORIES The two special categories, not open to submissions, also were part of the gala.
“Investigation is very difficult, the conditions and the risks are very different, too, and this is why we pick people from different parts of the world that is doing a fantastic job,” emphasised Gianni Merlo.
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Winner: Attila Turkey (Turkey) – The Backyard of football
Winner: Daniel Grefve (Sweden) – The Kvarnby case, SVT (Swedish Television)
Winner: Danilo Diaz (Chile) – El penal que se cobró desde Santiago (Tribuna Andes)
A LIFE IN SPORT
Winner: Yoon Se Young, sports administrator, founder of SBS, sports broadcaster.
SPECIAL MENTIONS IN INVESTIGATIVE WORK
Steve Menary (United Kingdom) – The English Patient – Josimar
Jamie Alter (India) – On daily allowance of Rs 100, Uttarakhand cricketers worse off than unskilled workers – News9
Eduardo López navarrete (Mexico) – The Sustainable Stadium of Yucatan hasn’t seen the light in almost two years – Diario AS
SAFEGUARDING JOURNALISM WORKING CONDITIONS
Lolade Adewuyi (Nigeria) – Nigerian sports writers under threat of violence – DW
SPORTS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
José Ignacio Pérez Hernández (Spain) – Niños rescatados por un balón
– MARCA
COMBATTING RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION IN SPORT
Shireen Ahmed (Canada) – When Nazem Kadri hoisted the Stanley Cup, he lifted a whole community along with it – CBC
SPORT FOR HOPE
Soobin Shin (Korea, Republic Of) – Batting on a Miracle – KBS
OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW
Christian González (Chile) – Luis Núñez: “A mí me gustaban el trago y las mujeres; ese fue mi gran error” – La Tercera
ORIGINAL STORY
Xabier Fortes lópez (Spain) – “Me impactó ver mi rodilla con tajo de lado a lado” – Diario AS
INTERACTIVE FEATURE
Abraham Jiménez enoa (Cuba) – La pelea imposible de Namibia Flores – Gatopardo
HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY
Esther owusua Appiah-fei (Ghana) – ‘I dreamed of representing Ghana in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, instead I was beaten up’ – The Telegraph UK
TOTAL REPORTAGE
Jeremy Story Carter (Australia) – Death of a Footy Club – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
YOUNG REPORTERS SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Jonathan Harding (United Kingdom) – ‘I’ll die with cancer and can’t change it but I can change these people’s lives’ – Racing Post
DEFENDING FREEDOM OF PRESS
Saeedeh Fathabadi (Iran) – We Are Journalists, Not Culprits / A glimpse into the troubles of being a woman sports journalist in Iran – shahraranews.ir/ Hamshahri Javan Magazine
LONG-FORM JOURNALISM
David Gardner (USA) – How a former NBA player and activist became a far-right media darling – Washington Post
RAISING AWARENESS ON MENTAL HEALTH
Dariusz Faron (Poland) – First victory, then psychiatric hospital – Wirtualna Polska
PHOTOGRAPHY SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Peter Pobyjpicz (Germany) – Coming home Munich Olympia 1972: Euro 2022 – leicamonochrom.art
PROMOTING A CLEAN SPORT ENVIRONMENT
Gaone Pearl Kerileng (Botswana) – Raising awareness about Anti-doping – Gabz FM and Gazette Stringer
CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN’S SPORT
Jeremy Wilson (UK) – From Ian Wright to Dame Laura Kenny, stars back new Telegraph campaign to close gender prize-money gap – The Telegraph
EXCELLENCE IN REMOTE REPORTING
Emmanuel Ayamga (Ghana) – The escape story of Ghanaian footballers in war-torn Ukraine – Pulse.com.gh (Pulse Ghana)
SPECIAL COMMENDATION ON LOCAL REPORTING
Diego Domínguez (Uruguay) – The rookie doctor that saved Maradona from his first death – El Observador
CELEBRATING SPORT HISTORY
Kata Olah (Hungary) – Conquering time Agnes Keleti – Makabor Studio
SPECIAL TOPIC OF THE YEAR: RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE
Miguel Gutierrez (Venezuela) – Agencia EFE
Mykola Synelnykov (Ukraine) – uspa.com.ua – Stop War
David Alvarez (Spain) – El País
Jean-Michel Brochen (France) – L’EQUIPE Le Magazine ►
Alexandra Vladimirova (Russia) – BBC
Kateryna Godunova (Ukraine) – JSC “Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine”
Nick Hope (United Kingdom) – Women’s Sports Alliance (WSA)
Mark Temnycky (United States of America) – Atlantic Council
Artem Terentiev (Ukraine) – Futsal site 5×5
Oleksiy Mandziy (Ukraine) – JSC “Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine”
SCOOP AND BREAKING NEWS
James Corbett (Ireland) – Another Man City sponsor with seemingly no staff, no active products and being run out of a mailbox – Off The Pitch
SPECIAL COMMENDATION ON PARASPORTS
Govinda raj Nepal (Nepal) – For blind cricketers in Nepal, the sport is respect, recognition and life – Onlinekhabar.com
SPECIAL REPORT, VISUAL & DATA STORY
Stefan Berndl (Austria) – Final Formula 1 drama: Why Verstappen deserves to be world champion – Kurier
CLIMATE CHANGE & SUSTAINABLE SPORT
David Garrido (United Kingdom) – Football’s toughest opponent – Sky Sports
DOCU-SERIES FORMAT
Sergio Ferraro, Juan Baldana (Argentina) – Sean Eternos – Campeones de América – Pegsa / Netflix
