We are proud to share that Unbias the News reporting has made it onto the One World Media Awards longlist – not once, but three times! – with stories about creative resistance to extractivism and conflict.
One World Media awards the global best of underreported stories, “stories that break through stereotypes, change the narrative and connect people across cultures.”
Environmental Reporting Award
Two Unbias stories have been nominated for the Environmental Reporting Award, which recognises “impact and creativity in telling an environmental story” with a focus on the relationship between people and the planet.
A beautiful resistance: How art, science and law saved Goa’s forests
In A beautiful resistance: How art, science and law saved Goa’s forests Rishu Nigam explores how local creative protest action and street protests protected a beloved ecosystem in Goa, India.
Written by Rishu Nigam
Illustration by Alia Sinha
Edited by Ankita Anand
“The lines blurred. Who was a scientist, who was an artist? It didn’t matter. We were citizens living in and wanting a democratic world”
Svabhu Kohli, mollem Artist and Activist
On the verge of silence: Why Oaxaca’s biodiversity needs Indigenous languages to survive
On the verge of silence: Why Oaxaca’s biodiversity needs Indigenous languages to survive is a multimedia series of three parts – connected by the common struggle for Oaxaca’s Indigenous languages, people and the ecosystems integral to their survival.
Text by Magdalena Rojo
Photography by Noel Rojo
Illustrations by Aminta Espinoza Ulloa Félix
Edited by Ruby Russell
Multimedia editing by Gabriela Ramírez
Digital design by Sofia Kounti
“Every word spoken is an act of restoration, a promise that regeneration begins not only in the soil but in the stories we choose to tell.”
Magdalena Rojo
Women’s Solutions Reporting Award
The Women’s Solutions Reporting Award spotlights empowering stories of how “girls and women successfully tackled the societal challenges they faced” through advocacy and civic engagement, and its longlist includes our piece by Tina Mehnpaine:
Prayers, protest and peace: How women helped end Liberia’s civil conflict
“Prayers, protest and peace: How women helped end Liberia’s civil conflict”: Overcoming the odds in a divided country, Liberian women organized across Muslim and Christian faiths to pressure men of power into peace negotiations.
Written by Tina S. Mehnpaine
Illustration by Marie Schwab
Edited by Purple Romero
“We saw each other not through the lens of our religion, but through the lens of our womanhood.”
Leymah Gbowee, peace activist
Unbias the News strives to bring underreported local stories to a global audience, with a focus on shared experiences and what those fighting for human rights and ecological wellbeing can learn from one another. It is a great honour to see these stories on the One World Media Awards longlist, which stands for these values and for the highest quality reporting. Many congratulations to our authors – and all the other outstanding reporters on the list – for this well-deserved recognition! We are excited to see what the coming awards announcements bring:
- Shortlist announced: 6 May 2026
- Awards day: 17 June 2026