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The Foreign Press Association ( FPA ) in 11 Carlton House Terrace , London , is a Foreign Correspondents' Club.

It is a umbrella organization for foreign journalists, offering support, social events, and a venue for press briefings in London.

History

  • The FPA was founded in 1888 and claims to be one of the oldest clubs for foreign correspondents in the world. The organization has 700 members representing around 1,000 media from some 70 countries.
  • In 1913 it was merged with the Society of Foreign Journalists.

Chair

The Foreign Press Association Media Awards

'Dialogue of Cultures'

  • 2006: photojournalist Gabriele Torsello, known as 'Kash'. Making his first public appearance since being released by the Taleban on 3 November.

TV News Story of the Year

  • 2010: Nick Martin, Mexican Girls, Channel 4 News
  • 2024: Yousef Hammash, Inside the Gaza Siege, Channel 4 News
  • 2024: Stuart Ramsay, Toby Nash, Dominique Van Heerden, The struggle to reach America, Sky News
  • 2024: Darshna Soni, Undercover inside Reform UK's campaign, Channel 4 News

TV Feature/Documentary

  • 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO
  • 2024: Daniele Hamamdjian, Kieron O’Dea, Marc D’Amours, Inside the ‘Little Gaza’ of the West Bank, & Living under Israeli Lockdown in Hebron, Global News, Canada
  • 2024: Tiziana Prezzo, Child Slavery in the UK

Radio

  • 2010: Tim Whewell, Keith Morris, Crossing Continents: Uganda, BBC Radio Current Affairs
  • 2024: Gabi Biesinger, 85 years of “Kindertransport” to Great Britain, ARD, German Radio

Financial/Economic Story of the Year

  • 2010: James Sterngold, Who Cares About Another $200 Million, Bloomberg Businessweek
  • 2024: Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, Alex Longley, Angus Bennett, Leila Hussain, Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Bloomberg, David Collins, Will Roe
  • 2024: Cocaine Inc: how British drugs cash is turned into solid gold in Dubai, The Sunday Times Magazine
  • 2024: Amanda Chicago Lewis, Secrets of a ransomware negotiator, 1843 Magazine
  • 2024: Fatima Lianes, Fanon Kabwe, Diego Barrero, Fran Pigni, Dying Earth – Beyond the Oil Age, Al Jazeera English

Environment

  • 2010: Lindsey Hilsum, Rare Earth, China, Channel 4 News
  • 2024: Jenny Kleeman, Why are so many young people getting cancer?, The Sunday Times Magazine
  • 2024: Callum Macrae, Mark Williams, People & Power – A Crude Mistake?, Al Jazeera English
  • 2024: Grace Malie, Tuvalu: Losing Paradise

Web Innovation

  • 2010: BBC News website Election 2010 team, General Election Live, BBC News Website

Sports

  • 2010: Alex Perry, Playing the Rebel Game, TIME

Travel/Tourism Story of the Year

  • 2010: Horatio Clare, Rock of Ages, Conde Nast Traveller
  • 2024: Miles Johnson, What happened to Russia's seized superyachts?, Financial Times,
  • 2024: David Rose, 11,000 metres from daylight -- the inside story of the remotest ever cave dive, The Sunday Times Magazine
  • 2024: Sue-Lin Wong, The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard, 1843 Magazine

Feature Print/Web

  • 2010: Dan McDougall, The Return of the Bloody Diamonds, Live Magazine, Mail on Sunday

Print & Web News

  • 2010: Ed Crooks, BP: Inside Story, Financial Times, FT Weekend Magazine
  • 2024: Mark MacKinnon, The Fearless, The Globe & Mail, Canada
  • 2024: Michael Neudecker, Die Wut der Abgehängten (The anger of those left behind), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
  • 2024: Niels Posthumus, Merlin Daleman 'De brexit heeft een aanzuigende werking op bootmigranten' ('Brexit has a pull effect on boat migrants'), Trouw, Netherlands

Woman Journalist of the Year

  • 2010: Marie Colvin, Swift and Bloody: the Taliban's revenge, The Sunday Times

PRINT&WEB News Story of the Year

  • 2024: Will Coldwell, A teenaged migrant piloted a dinghy that sank in the Channel. Then he was charged with manslaughter, Prospect
  • 2024: Stephen Grey, Maayan Lubell, Ryan McNeill, Hunted by Hamas, Reuters
  • 2024: Neggeen Sadid, Why I opened a secret school for Afghan girls, 1843 Magazine

RADIO/PODCAST of the Year

  • 2024: Chloe Hadjimatheou, Claudia Williams, Hannah Varrall, Gary Marshall, Jasper Corbett, The Gas Man, Tortoise Media
  • 2024: Fiona Hamilton, David Collins, Stephen Drill, Cocaine Inc., The Times, The Sunday Times & News Corp Australia
  • 2024: Poonam Taneja, Bloodlines, BBC Asian Network, BBC Sounds, CBC Podcasts

FPA Member

  • 2010: Catherine Mayer, Here Comes the Junior Partner, TIME

Journalist of the Year

  • 2006: Dominic Waghorn of Sky News, for his report "China: Human Rights", in which interviewees risked their lives and Waghorn was physically assaulted three times to get his extraordinary report.
  • 2010: Antony Thomas, Saeed Kamali Dehghan, For Neda, Mentorn and HBO

See also

Notes

  1. A foreign journalist is a journalist that has not the citizenship of a referring state and is subjext to alien law of the referring state.

References

  1. "Foreign Press Association – The Parliamentary Press Gallery". Parliamentary Press Gallery. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  2. Cathie Burton, Alun Drake, Hitting the Headlines in Europe: A Country-by-country Guide to Effective Media Relations, 2004,
  3. Sonja Hillerich, Deutsche Auslandskorrespondenten im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Entstehung einer transnationalen journalistischen Berufskultur, 2018, p. 78
  4. French Writer Adalbert de Segonzac January 4, 2002,
  5. The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK, edited by: Federation of Swiss Societies in the United Kingdom, 1950,
  6. Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 2016,
  7. S. J. Goldsmith, Britain in the Eye of the World: The Foreign Press Association in London 1888–1988, London 1988, p. 5
  8. Anna Politkovskaya had attended the FPA Media Awards in 2001,
  9. fpalondon,
  10. The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2024 - Winners,
  11. The Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2010 - Winners,
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