HRH The Prince of Wales Will Attend This Year's Foreign Press Association Media Awards at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel on Tuesday November 25th

HRH The Prince of Wales Will Attend This Year's Foreign Press Association Media Awards at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel on Tuesday November 25th

LONDON, November 12/PRNewswire/ -- HRH will give the keynote speech at the Awards, which mark the 120th anniversary of the Foreign Press Association in London. HRH will also be attending a reception beforehand to meet a number of members and supporters of the Foreign Press Association.

There are eleven categories of Awards. The short-list for the Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2008 is announced today and listed below.

          Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2008 short-list      TV News Story of the Year      Neil Connery: "Burma Cyclone: Deep inside the Irrawaddy Delta" ITV News     Alex Crawford, Akbar Shinwari, Jamie Matthews, Neville Lazarus:      "Afghanistan: Trail of Death" Sky News     Abdullahi Farah, Nima Elbagir, Ben de Pear: "Somalia" Channel 4 News      TV Feature Story of the Year      Chris Boulding: "Blood on the Nile" BBC Arabic     Joshua Dugdale: "The Unwinking Gaze" http://www.unwinkinggaze.com     Ivan O'Mahoney, Laura Winter, Karen O'Connor: "The Boys from Baghdad      High" BBC This World & Renegade Pictures Ltd      Financial Story of the Year      David Dietz, Darrell Preston: "The Insurance Hoax" Bloomberg News     Faisal Islam, Andrew MacFadyen: "Iraqi Oil Fields: Iraq Five Years On"      Channel 4 News     Jeremy Skeet, Michael Robinson, Neal Razzle: "Debt Threat" BBC World      Service      Sports Story of the Year      David Evans: "Big Brown Owner fined by NASD, plans $100 million Hedge      Fund" Bloomberg News     Gavin Lee, Bridget Harney, Ibrahim Sannie, Edward Main: "Assignment:      Football Fraudsters" BBC World Service     Brian Oliver, Kevin Mitchell, James Robinson, Richard Gillis : "21st      Century Sport" The Observer      Travel & Tourism Story of the Year: Print      Martin Fletcher: "One day in Baghdad" The Times     Will Self: "Head to Head - Easter Island" Conde Nast Traveller     Stanley Stewart: "The old ones are the best - Damascus" Conde Nast      Traveller      Travel & Tourism Story of the Year: TV & Radio      David Clews, Nick Mirsky, Marco Crivellari: "Wonderland: The End of the      World Bus Tour" BBC     Lesley Curwen: "Business Daily: Gambia Tourism" BBC World Service     Channel 4 News Team: "Olympics: From inside the Tibetan areas" Channel 4      News      Radio Story of the Year      Thomas Dalhaus, Alastair Elphick, Mark Whittaker, James Reynolds, Max      Pearson, Quentin Somerville, Jill McGivering, Julian Marshall: "The       World Today: Chinese Congress" BBC World Service     David Goldblatt, Anna Raphael, Maria Balinska: "Crossing Continents:      Football in the Holy Land" BBC Radio 4     Robert Hodierne, Celina Dunlop, Rosie Goldsmith, Maria Balinska: "The My      Lai Tapes" BBC Radio 4      Print/Web News Story of the Year      Marie Colvin: "I felt a new terror on Basra's streets" The Sunday Times     Christina Lamb: "Shrapnel rained down, Bhutto's return became a      bloodbath" The Sunday Times     Afif Sarhan, Caroline Davies, Mark Townsend: "The Iraqi teenage girl      killed for loving a British soldier" The Observer      Print/Web Feature Story of the Year      Jamil Anderlini: "Losing the countryside: a restive peasantry calls on      Beijing for land rights" The Financial Times     Stephanie Kirchgaessner; "'One big country club' How a marketing business      from Britain leads the field in Washington's power game" The Financial       Times     Alex Renton" "The Rape Epidemic" Observer Woman      Story of the Year by a member of the FPA      Alan Fisher: "Russian Advance from Gori to Tbilisi" Al Jazeera English     Jonah Hull: "The War in Georgia" Al Jazeera English     Annalisa Piras: "The Italian Patient" BBC Radio 4      Environment Story of the Year      David Edmonds, Mark Gregory: "One Planet: Carbon Trading" BBC World      Service     Jonathan Green: "The Dirty Secrets of Your NHS" Live Magazine     James Sales & Team: "The Bangladesh Boat Project" BBC World Service  

Source: Foreign Press Association

For any inquiries please contact Christopher Wyld, Director, Foreign Press Association christopherwyld@foreign-press.org.uk , Office +44(0)207-930-0445, Mobile +44(0)7961-113-876.

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