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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, June 2, 2017
Middle East Eye recognised at top media awards ceremony
MEE contributor Peter Oborne won best blogging/commentary and Suraj Sharma was "highly commended" as online freelancer
The Online Media Awards is a major UK awards ceremony that highlights exemplary journalism in digital media (OMA)
Thursday 1 June 2017
The
award for best blogging/commentary went to MEE contributor Peter Oborne
while MEE's Suraj Sharma was "highly commended" by the judges as online
freelancer.
MEE was also nominated for best national news site and breaking news story of the year.
The Online Media Awards is a major awards ceremony that highlights exemplary journalism in digital media.
Peter Oborne
Oborne was the first Western correspondent to be allowed into the Houthi stronghold of Saada in Yemen, speaking to doctors who revealed that babies were dying in their incubators for lack of basic medicines.
He also highlighted the existence of cluster bombs months before the UK government was forced to admit that British-made munitions had been dropped in Yemen.
“I’m
delighted to have won this award because Middle East Eye is a new voice
about what’s happening in the Middle East; it really gets to the heart
of the issues, and it’s an amazing privilege to work for it,” Oborne
said after the ceremony.
Oborne exposed last year the claim told by then-prime minister David
Cameron about Suliman Gani, an imam from Tooting, who was falsely
accused of being a supporter of Islamic State group during the London
mayoral campaign.
Oborne’s series of articles eventually forced an apology and retraction from the UK government.
Last year, Oborne won the Online Media Award for best freelance writer for his reporting from Damascus. The other nominees this year included Robert Peston at ITV News and Guardian Opinion.
Suraj Sharma
In a year when events in Turkey have dominated world news headlines, Sharma has
established himself as an ever-present, even-handed and authoritative
voice in a country where independent-minded journalists are routinely
jailed and intimidated.
During
the failed July 2016 coup, Sharma filed thousands of words and multiple
stories that caught the mood of a nation standing on a precipice. Since
then he has covered the purges of public officials, complaints about Turkey’s drift towards authoritarianism and a poignant piece on Turkey’s fractured psyche after the New Year’s Eve bomb attacks.
He has also found time to cover lighter subjects, such as tracing Boris Johnson’s Turkish roots to
a village in central Anatolia - where the local headman pledged to
sacrifice a herd of sheep in honour of the British foreign secretary.
The other nominees were Danielle Rossingh and Motez Bishara, who both write for CNN.