Awards
Audio Production Awards (Audio UK)
Nominee, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2024 (TBD)
Silver, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2023
Gold, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2022
“A combination of high quality production values, creativity and skilful storytelling. James excelled in detailing the painful consequences of war for real people. Impactful and compelling.”
— 2022 judges
Nominee, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2021
Nominee, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2020
Silver, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2019
Bronze, Best News & Current Affairs Producer, 2018
Gold, Best New Producer, 2016
Gold, Best Podcast Producer, 2016
“James Shield’s work is as fun and engaging as it is heavy-hitting. Great creative value, using an inventive mixture of interviews, music, archive and discussion. James’s production brought slick, flavoursome storytelling to complex and (usually rather dry) economic issues. Highly diverting and entertaining.”
— 2016 judges
ARIAS (Radio Academy)
Silver, Best News Coverage, 2023
Nominee, Best Single Factual Programme, 2023
Both for ‘The British man rescuing Ukrainians from Putin’s war’, produced with Federica De Caria for Stories of Our Times.
Silver, Best News Coverage, 2021
I produced Manveen Rana’s two-part Stories of Our Times investigation into Russian disinformation campaigns targeting the Oxford vaccine.
British Podcast Awards
Bronze, Best Daily Podcast (for Stories of Our Times), 2023
Gold, Best Interview Show (for Stories of Our Times), 2022
Gold, Best True Crime Podcast, 2021 (I sound designed and mixed the first episode of Who Killed CJ Davis? with Karla Patella)
Nominee, Best Daily Podcast (for Stories of Our Times), 2021
Nominee, Best Current Affairs Podcast (for Stories of Our Times), 2021
Nominee, Best Current Affairs Podcast (for the Weekly Economics Podcast), 2018
Bronze, Best Current Affairs Podcast (for the Weekly Economics Podcast), 2017