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Sky picks up news channel of the year award
Thursday 28 January, 2010
By Becca Talbot - becca@consumerchoices.co.uk
Sky News has been named as this year’s news channel of the year at the Royal Television Society awards.
Satellite TV giant Sky (www.sky.co.uk) is celebrating after its channel Sky News took the title of news channel of the year for the seventh time, by the Royal Television Society at a ceremony on Wednesday.
Sky News won four awards in total, with Alex Crawford taking the crown as TV journalist of the year for her work on Afghanistan and the Mumbai attacks.
The chief correspondent for Sky News, Stuart Ramsay, won the award for best international news for his team’s coverage of the war in Pakistan.
Judges said of the online TV tribute: “Combining high production values with users’ own content, it provided a Remembrance Day tribute that was truly moving.”
Other awards
BBC News at Ten was named news programme of the year for the second year in a row, while ITV’s Julie Etchingham was awarded news presenter of the year.
The BBC scooped up seven awards during the ceremony, including a special honour for Panorama journalist Paul Kenyon.
Panorama’s Tamanna Rahman was named young journalist of the year for helping produce “some of the most gripping television of the year”. And the programme also won the domestic current affairs award for the “agenda-setting” What Happened to Baby P?.
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