Regional journalists have been recognised for their reporting on refugees.

The shortlist has been announced for this year’s Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards.

The awards celebrate outstanding coverage of issues around forced migration and its impact on individuals and communities.

The shortlist spans five categories and represents a broad spectrum of coverage from news reports, features and interviews to first-person pieces. The winners will be revealed tomorrow.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Independent media
Milk Glasgow, Substack: The Asylum Seeker Diet; surviving, not thriving, on £5 a day.
Billy Briggs, The Ferret: Torture charity asks governments to better protect women from violence
Tabassum Niamat & Pinar Aksu, Greater Govanhill: ‘These are our Neighbours’: Three years on from Kenmure Street, what’s changed?
Sadia Sikandar, Greater Govanhill: Facing hatred with hope

Features
Rory MacNeish, The Glasgow Bell: The Chessmaster of Woodlands Road
Kirsteen Paterson, Holyrood Magazine: Towers of Strength: How Ukrainian refugees found home in a Scottish town
Lindsay Bruce, Press and Journal: From refugee to royal recognition, the remarkable story of Aberdeen professor Mirela Delibegovic
Alasdair Ferguson, The National: Huss: How a queer Egyptian artist won right to stay in Scotland

News
Diane Taylor, The Guardian: Syrian refugee says Home Office ‘breaking my heart’
Xander Elliards, The National: Syrians in Scotland ‘scared and in limbo’
Jane Bradley, Scotland on Sunday: 5,500 Ukrainians issued ‘use it or lose it’ letter over right to take refuge in Scotland
Hamish Morrison, The National: English riots gave me ‘flashbacks’ to being hunted by trafficking gang

Broadcast
Vidushi Tiwari, STV: Asylum seekers and refugees create art to explore mental health
Vanessa Taaffe, STV: City council say they are struggling to cope with asylum housing
Tara Fitzpatrick, STV: ‘Skills being wasted’: Calls to lift ban on work for asylum seekers
Vanessa Taaffe, STV: ‘I felt like a nobody – refugees must be treated with more dignity’

Local media
Alasdair Clark, The Courier: Syrian refugee family see Dundee future after violent end to Assad rule
Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times: Visa rules leave Glasgow’s Ukrainian refugees ‘unemployable’
Susan Lochrie, Greenock Telegraph: Afghan war hero now safe in Inverclyde helps refugees
Rosemary Lowne, Press & Journal: The refugees making meals for Aberdonians to give back to the city that took them in