RTS Names Winners for TV Journalism Awards

LONDON: The Royal Television Society (RTS) has presented its honors for creativity and excellence in journalism in U.K. news and current affairs, with Sky News named Channel of the Year.

ITV News at Ten won for News Programme of the Year. BBC Northern Ireland scored both the Nations and Regions Current Affairs and News Event and Scoop of the Year prizes for Spotlight: The Iris Robinson Investigation. Films of Record and BBC Current Affairs’ Panorama: Kids in Care won for Current Affairs (Home). The broadcaster also won the Current Affairs (International) award for The Wounded Platoon, produced by Mongoose Pictures for WGBH/BBC Two.

Sky News again took Channel of the Year and was also honored in the News Coverage (Home) category for its Student Protest report.

Presenter of the Year went to Channel 4’s Jon Snow. The win for Innovative News was given to CNN International for its World Cup Twitter Buzz Data Visualisation. Camera Operator went to to Raul Gallego Abellan of Associated Press Television News.

The Independent Award, launched last year, went to Inigo Gilmore for the Channel 4 News report Baby Landina, and Gary Gibbon collected the Specialist Journalist award for his work at ITN for Channel 4 News. The Judges’ Award went to the BBC, ITV and Sky negotiating teams for the Prime Ministerial Debates.

The Lifetime Achievement award was given to David Dimbleby, honoring his 50 years at the BBC.