United States Agency for Global Media

2020 Winners

Álvaro Alba is an ethical, experienced journalist with more than 22 years of work at OCB, having contributed on all three informative platforms: radio, television and digital.  

The amazing work of Radio Free Asia’s  Hong Kong Bureau Team enabled the network to cover the massive anti-extradition law protests that rocked the former British colony in 2019, bringing fresh, uncensored…

“All the protesters are scared, because maybe we will die,” a student protester told VOA reporter Bill Gallo in Hong Kong last November. “But we think if we don’t stand…

RFE/RL nominates Radio Ozodi, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, for the 2019 David Burke Award in acknowledgement of the Service’s remarkable reporting work, which literally changed lives for Tajik audiences despite months of near-constant official harassment. 

In this daring investigation, the team unveils the corruption of Iraqi religious leaders, both Sunni and Shia – corruption about which no one speaks openly but so many suspect throughout the country.  With…