A reporter for this programme has once again been honoured in the Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards. Zubeida Malik was named Best Radio Journalist for the second year running at the 2002 EMMAs.
The Today reporter was nominated in the category alongside Social Affairs Correspondent Barnie Choudhury for their work on the programme over the last year.
Zubeida's entry included brave investigative work from Afghanistan , Pakistan and Israel, exclusive interviews with the Taliban, Hamas Leader Sheikh Yassin, a British Muslim fighter and Mark Covell, a protestor wounded by Italian police at the G8 summit in Genoa. She was also the only British journalist to record an interview with the family of the man shot by police in Brixton when he attempted to light a cigarette with a gun-shaped lighter.
During last year's General Election, she unearthed the story of a family who had been promised support by the Prime Minister for the hospice in which their daughter was being treated. That support was not, later, forthcoming - an issue which was a front page story in the following morning's newspapers.
Barnie Choudhury's reports were at the forefront of documenting last year's racial tensions in towns across Northern England. They included evidence that Asian youths in parts of Oldham were trying to create 'no go areas' for white people, reportage of the worst race riots to hit Britain in twenty years and features trying to explain the causes of racism in modern Britain.
His work for Today has also included an exclusive election interview with Labour MP Keith Vaz and reporting on the concerns expressed about the implementation of the UK's anti-terror laws in the aftermath of September 11th.
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