Al Jazeera English has received prestigious awards from organisations across the globe. The network has been honoured for overall excellence in achieving its mission, in addition to praise for Al Jazeera's individual reporters and their work.

2015

• New York Film Festival Gold for 101 East's The Return of the Lizard King, The Dolphin Hunters and Stray Bullets.
• New York Film Festival Gold Award for Steve Chao as Best News Reporter/Correspondent
• Mohamed Amin Awards Best Documentary Africa Investigates – Liberia: Living with Ebola''
• Online Media Awards Outstanding Digital Team: Palestine Remix, Al Jazeera English Online
• Online Media Awards Best Technical Innovation Palestine Remix
• Online Media Awards Best Use of Photography Portrait of an Yogi
• One World Media Awards Best Digital Media Award: Pirate Fishing
• One World Media Awards Women's Rights in Africa Award: Witness - Casablanca Calling
• Native American Journalists Association TV Best Feature Story to Shihab Rattansi & Anar Virji for Havasupai water story
• Native American Journalists Association TV Best News Story to Shihab Rattansi and Anar Virji for Tar Creek

2014

• Women's Empowerment Journalism Broadcast Story Of The Year: 101 East: Nepal's Slave Girls
• The George Foster Peabody Award Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
• The George Foster Peabody Award Fault Lines: Made in Bangladesh
• Webbys Award for Best Online Film in the News and Politics category: The Stream, Meme-ifying Black Interviewees
• Hong Kong Human Rights Awards Al Jazeera English took home the highest number of awards this year, with four for 101 East programmes, and for Witness’s Wukan: Flame of Democracy.
• ChopShots Documentary Film Festival Best International Documentary: Wukan
• Monte Carlo TV Festival Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary: Identity and Exile
• Online Media Awards Simon Hooper - Best Freelance Journalist
• Online Media Awards for Outstanding Digital Team Commendation: AJE Interactives
• Peabody Awards Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera, and Made In Bangladesh.
• International Emmys Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
• World Media Summit award 101 East for ‘Exemplary News Team in Developing Countries’.
• New York Festivals Gold for 101 East: It’s a Man’s World, 101 East: Murder in a God’s Name, and Everest 60th Anniversary.

2013

• CINE Golden Eagle Award "What Killed Arafat" for Best Investigative Journalism
• CINE Golden Eagle Award "Syria: Songs of Defiance" for Best Investigative Journalism
• CINE Golden Eagle Award "So Close So Far Away" for Best Television Documentary
• Gracie Award for Outstanding News Talk Show: The Stream
• EMMY Award for Outstanding Investigation: "Fault Lines: Haiti In a Time of Cholera"
• Peabody Award :Fault Lines: Haiti In a Time of Cholera"
• Peabody Award Fault Lines: Made In Bangladesh
• Webbys People Voice Award for Best News (Tablet), in the Mobile Apps category: Al Jazeera English Online Magazine
• Grierson Awards|Grierson – Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme: "Law of the Jungle"
• The George Foster Peabody Award Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighbourhood
• AIBD TV AWARD 2013 “The Best TV Programme on Cross-Cultural Exchange”: Camels In the Outback
• Online Media Awards for Best Technical Innovation: Syria Defector Tracker
• Online Media Awards for Outstanding Digital Team Commendation: The Stream
• Online Media Awards for Best World News Website Commendation: Al Jazeera English Online
• Online Media Awards for Best Crowd Sourcing Commendation : Al Jazeera English Online Kenyan election coverage
• Online Media Awards for Best Twitter Feed Commendation : The Stream
• New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards : Bronze Prize for 101 East: Australia's Lost Generation
• New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards : Silver Prize for Lockerbie: Case Closed
• Human Rights Press Awards : 101 East: Nowhere To Go
• Human Rights Press Awards: 101 East: Battered and Bruised
• Foreign Press Association Award: The Cure: Doctors on Everest best science story
• Foreign Press Association Award: Earthrise: Urban Oil Men best environment
• Asia TV Awards: 101 East, Best Current Affairs Programme

2012

• Webby People's Choice Award: for News and Politics in the online film and video category, The Stream
• Royal Television Society: News Channel for the Year
• Royal Television Society: Most Innovative Programme, The Stream
• George Polk Award for Television Documentary: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
• The Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards: Freedom of Speech and Expression Medal
• Alfred I DuPont Award, Best Documentary: Haiti: Six Months On
• Foreign Press Association Awards (FPA): Best Environmental Story of the Year for Bee Fence: Earthrise episode 1 (series 2)
• CINE Golden Eagle Award: Burma Boy for History Programming, Profession Telecast Non-fiction Category
• CINE Golden Eagle Award: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark for Investigative Programming, Profession Telecast News Division
• CINE Golden Eagle Award: The Crying Forest for Investigative Programming, Professional Telecast News Division
• CINE Golden Eagle Award: Witness: Dream on Hold for Informational Programming, Professional Telecast News Division
• Monte Carlo TV Festival: Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
• Amnesty International Media Award: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark for International TV and Radio
• Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark for International Television
• Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award: Grand Prize, Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
• One World Media Award: Tanzania: Spell of the Albino for Children’s Rights
• The George Foster Peabody Award: Al Jazeera’s Coverage of the Arab Awakening
• Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting: Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
• International Gold Panda Award: Best Short Documentary for 101 East: Bangladesh - Too Young to Work
• New York Festival: Silver Medal for 101 East: Nepal – Children for Sale

2011

• Rory Peck Awards: Best Feature, Libya: Through the Fire
• Foreign Press Association: Documentary of the Year, Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
• Huffington Post Ultimate Media Gamechanger Award
• Freesat Awards: Best News Channel of the Year
• Freesat Awards: Coverage of a Single News Event, for the channel's coverage of the Arab Spring
• Arab-British Centre: Culture and Society Award
• Wincott Awards: Best Television Coverage of a Business Issue, Nablus: The Business of Occupation
• Columbia University Journalism Awards
• Promax Awards Arabia, Gold, Best In-House Station Image
• Promax Awards Arabia, Gold, Best Promo Campaign
• Promax Awards Arabia, Gold, Counting the Cost
• TIME magazine: Top 100 most influential people, Ayman Mohyeldin
• Fast Company: Most creative thinker of the year, Wadah Khanfar

2010

• Association for International Broadcasting: Clearest Coverage of a Single News Event
• Freesat Awards: Best News Channel of the Year
• Monte-Carlo Television Festival: Best Television News Item, Mexico in the Crossfire
• Amnesty International Media Awards: International Television and Radio Award, People and Power
• Concentra (Belgium): Breaking News Award, Casey Kauffman - Baby Feras

2009

• International Emmy Awards nomination, Finalist in Documentary category, Shooting the Messenger
• International Emmy Awards nomination, Finalist in News and Current Affairs, Russia-Georgia War" and Witness: Return to Nablus
• Concentra (Belgium): Breaking News Award, Subina Shreshta : Up the Irrawaddy Delta
• International Digital Emmy Awards: nominee non-fiction, 2008 US election special

2008

• Foreign Press Association: News Story of the Year by a full member, Jonah Hull's "Russia-Georgia War"
• Association of International Broadcasters Editors Award: Sami Al Haj, suffering endured and courage shown
• Amnesty International Media Awards Best International TV Documentary: Tony Birtley's "The Lost Tribe - Secret Army of the CIA"
• YouTube European Partners Awards: Community Champion Award, Al Jazeera Network
• Monte-Carlo TV Festival: Golden Nymph Award - Best 24 Hour News Programme, on Gaza siege
• CONCENTRA Award (2008): Breaking News, Tony Birtley’s "Inside Myanmar - The Crackdown"
• Royal Television Society Journalism Awards: Young Journalist of the Year, Hamish Macdonald
• Asian Television Awards: Best Current Affairs Programme, Tony Birtley’s "Inside Myanmar - The Crackdown"

2007

• Asian Television Awards: Best News Report, Kylie Grey: Agent Orange
• Association for International Broadcasting: Editors Award, Everywoman

2006

• Association of International Broadcasters: Best Magazine or Documentary Programme, Abdallah el-Binni's "Prisoner 345"

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