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Al Jazeera Media Network has won a total of five Gold World Medals, 14 Silver World Medals and seven Bronze Medals at the prestigious New York Festivals awards. A special award of Broadcaster of the year was also awarded to Al Jazeera English, as the channel bagged three Gold, twelve Silver, five Bronze and 10 Finalist Certificates for various content on news, programmes and online. Al Jazeera's Investigative Directorate picked up two Gold, two Silver, two Bronze and one Finalist Certificate for a variety of investigations which were aired across the network. 101 East won one Gold World Medal for Good Morning Pakistan in the Best Public Affairs Programme category. Afghanistan: Medics Under Fire and Too Young to Wed both won Silver World Medals, while Guns, Goons and the Presidency, Hong Kong: Aged and Abandoned and India's Miracle Babies all were awarded Bronze World Medals. South Korean Hangover and The Orangutan Whisperer both picked up Finalist Certificates.
Foundation, an episode in The Caliph series picked up a Gold World Award in Religious Programs category, while the episode Division from the Caliph series won a Silver World Medal. ISIL and the Taliban won a Gold World Medal for the Best Television-Documentary on Social Issues category and a Bronze World Medal in the Television-Documentary/ National/International Affairs category.
People and Power picked up two Silver World Medals for Syria: Under Russia's Fist and Borderless: Undercover with the People Smugglers was also awarded a Bronze World Medal.
Witness were awarded two Silver World Medals for Syria's White Helmets and Kisulu: The Climate Diaries. Syria's White Helmets along with China's Fake Boyfriends were also awarded Finalist Certificates as well. Al Jazeera English also picked up three more Silver World Medals were awarded to the The Stream, My Nigeria — Sandra Aguebo: Lady Mechanic and the People's Health: Thailand's Remote Lifesavers. The episode of UpFront -Islam and Democracy: What's the Problem? Women Make Change - Going Places: Girls' Education in Ghana and Al Jazeera Correspondent - Off the Rails - A Journey Through Japan all picked up Finalist Certificates.
Al Jazeera English news was awarded a Silver World Medal and a Finalist Certificate in the Breaking News Story category for the coverage of the Turkey Failed Coup. Senegal: The Continuous Cycle of FGM picked up a Silver World Award Medal and a Finalist Certificate which gave Al Jazeera English a total of three Gold World Medals, Twelve Silver World Medals, five Bronze World Medals and ten Finalist Certificates.
This year's tally of 27 World Medals from the New York Festivals awards are significantly higher than the total of 19 which the network won in 2016.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera Media Network's studio 14 was awarded Best TV Studio for 2016 (Set of the year), by NewscastStudio; the international trade publication for television creative professionals.
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