Zecharias Zelalem
Pleased to announce that my Globe & Mail investigation has been nominated for the 2024 Refugee Reporting prize by the One World Media awards committee in London! 🥳 I'm told there were 540 entries from 117 countries across 15 award categories this year.
Thanks for your support here! Whether I win or not is immaterial. Being longlisted alongside 9 other fantastic entries from Al Jazeera, NY Times, Washington Post, BBC & ICIJ is cool as it is.
#OWMAwards @onewm
Zecharias Zelalem
It looks even better in print. It's the third time since 2021 that One World Media nominate me for something. Every year when the longlists are announced, journalists would flood Twitter with tweets celebrating their nominations. The hashtag #OWMAwards2023 and #OWMAwards2022 and those for every previous year would trend widely.
There is literally nothing, not a single post under #OWMAwards2024. It's dead. X isn't worthy of it anymore. The last of the journalists packed up and left in 2023.
Zecharias Zelalem
My entry was a data journalism project that took 7 months across 2023 to complete. My story revealed that the Ethiopian government was engaged in a Facebook campaign to mislead, misinform and lure 500,000 poor women into enrolling for domestic work employment in Saudi Arabia, as a scheme to rake in foreign currency. The women face horrendous abuses in Saudi Arabia, and the campaign facilitates human trafficking. The investigation exposed the complicity of Meta itself.
Sean Bala
@ZekuZelalem Congratulations on the article! I've saved it to read this weekend.
Where have all the journalists ended up or are they still wandering looking for a new home?
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