Anti-Slavery Day Awards 2025: Media Shortlist
MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS SHORTLIST
The shortlist for best news piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
BBC South East Investigations Team (Georgia Poncia and Duc Ha), 'Trafficked to a cannabis farm over family's debt'
Big Issue (Isabella Mcrae), Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens
Metro (Josh Milton), I never thought I’d be a slave until I went to work in Ibiza
The Telegraph, Villagers use council’s anti-slavery policy to fight solar farm plan
The shortlist for best investigative news article dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
BBC England Investigations (William McLennan, Phil Shepka and Jon Ironmonger) McDonald’s and supermarkets failed to spot slavery
BBC Eye Investigations (Mike Rudin and Sarah Buckley), ‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Daniel Murphy), How big brands and foreign money prop up Chinese forced labour
The Guardian (Seán Columb), ‘For me, there was no other choice’: inside the global illegal organ trade
The shortlist for best written broadcast piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
BBC One (William McLennan and the rest of the team), Slavery on the High Street
BBC One Disclosure (Chris Clements, Rachel Coburn, Shelley Jofre, Calum McKay), Slavery at Sea
BBC Three (James Blake and Strident Media Team), Hunting the Online Sex Predators
ITV News (Julie Etchingham), Could AI stop livestreamed child abuse in its tracks?
The shortlist for best written opinion piece dealing with modern slavery comprises of:
The Critic (James Mildred), The double standards of surrogacy
Metro (Joy*), My employer took my passport – then forced me to move countries
Politics Home (Patrick Ryan and Talia Coroniti), MPs must wake up to the scale of our modern slavery crisis
The Times (Dame Sara Thornton), McDonalds appears to have no interest in modern slavery victims
*pseudonym used to protect anonymity