DFID's first youth jury shine at the prestigious One World Media Awards ceremonyOn Monday 22 June, amongst celebrities including environmental activist Trudy Styler and broadcaster Fergal Keane, four young people from all over the UK presented an award that they had judged for the One World Media Awards.
The awards celebrate excellence in media coverage of developing countries and development issues, and help persuade the media industry that these programmes can be both very high quality and attractive to UK audiences Most people in the UK get most of their knowledge about the developing world from TV, so it is important that UK audiences have access to a variety of programmes about the developing world.
This is the first time in the history of the awards that a group of young people have decided on an award. The category they judged was the Children's Rights Award, and they decided that Dispatches: Saving Africa's Witch Children would take the prize. Their participation was funded by DFID which wants more and better media coverage of development issues.
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