FPA awards TV programmes Earrise and the Cure

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FPA awards TV programmes Earthrise and The Cure --

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:28

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The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has recognised Al Jazeera English for its innovative health and environment programmes at the FPA s annual media awards ceremony in London.

Al Anstey, managing director, commented on the win: Al Jazeera English has consistently provided a refreshing approach to reporting in health and environment issues. We are proud to be recognised for this for the second year.

Both programmes are produced by the same Al Jazeera English team based in the UK. Series editor Neil Cairns said, Rather than just report on the problems, both series provide an upbeat style, highlighting the innovative work in the areas of health and environment .

For the second year running, Earthrise was recognised for its solutions-focused approach to environmental journalism. The piece Urban Oil Men was awarded Environment Story of the Year by the FPA, which noted that it was an optimistic and unexpected piece, illustrating the human urge for entrepreneurship.

In Urban Oil Men, reporter Russell Beard joins workers from Grease Lightning, one of more than 30 companies in New York now collecting used cooking oil from restaurants to turn into clean burning bio-diesel.

Although the idea is not new, the commercial scale of today s operations means it stands out as a leading example of the growing green economy, and a remaking or perhaps a recycling of the American Dream.

Urban Oil Men is one of the many topics in the series, which explores ecological, scientific and technological solutions to the environmental challenges we face.

Al Jazeera English s new health series, The Cure, showcases innovations in world health, from cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs to advances in affordable healthcare.

Doctors on Everest, one of The Cure s episodes, won Science Story of the Year. The programme covered the ground-breaking research taking place in the foothills of Mount Everest into the impact of oxygen deprivation on critically ill patients, with the judges praising its cinematography.

Watch and embed:

Urban Oil Men: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FXLsqpvVxc.

Doctors on Everest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCJ8sMVeiU

Both award-winning series are now available online

Earthrise: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise

The Cure: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/thecure/

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