RTS Awards 2014

BBC’s Peter Taylor wins the Lifetime Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

And the final award of the night goes to BBC investigative reporter Peter Taylor, who is awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

The RTS Judges’ Award goes to Deborah Turness

The Judges’ Award

The Judges’ Award for 2012/2013 goes to former ITV News Editor Deborah Turness.

Deborah is currently working in America as President of NBC News.

Jeremy Bowen picks up Journalist of the Year award

Journalist of the Year

The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen has been named Journalist of the Year 2012/2013 at the RTS awards tonight!

He was up against ITV News’ Bill Neely and Mark Stone of Sky News.

Michael Crick wins Specialist Journalist of the Year

Specialist Journalist of the Year

Channel 4 News’ Michael Crick has won the award for Specialist Journalist of the Year 2012/2013

Accepting the award, Crick said: “Thanks to Channel 4 for lifting me from Newsnight and proving there is life after death”

Channel 4 News named Daily News Programme of the Year

Daily News Programme of the Year

Channel 4 News wins RTS Daily News Programme of the Year, seeing off ITV News at Ten and Channel 5 News.

ITV News wins Scoop of the Year for Woolwich Attack

Scoop of the Year

ITN for ITV News has won the Scoop of the Year 2012/2013 for coverage of the Woolwich Attack.

Nominated for this award were Dispatches ‘Plebgate Investigation’ and BBC’s ‘Attack on a Syrian School’

CNN International is RTS News Channel of the Year.

News Channel of the Year

CNN International has won the RTS News Channnel of the Year award for the second year running.

Mark Austin wins National Presenter of the Year Award

National Presenter of the Year

ITV News’ Mark Austin has won the RTS Award for National Presenter of the Year 2012/2013.

Channel 4 presenters Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Jon Snow were also nominated for the award.

BBC’s Darren Conway wins Camera Operator of the Year

Camera Operator of the Year

RTS Camera Operator of the Year is Darren Conway for BBC News, seeing off AP’s Raul Gallego Abellan and CNN’s Mark Phillips

RTS Independent Award goes to Dispatches

The Independent Award

Dispatches picks up yet another RTS Award.. This time The Independent Award 2012/2013 for ‘Plebs, Lies & Videotape’

The BBC picks up the ‘Innovative News’ award

Innovative News

The winner of Innovative News 2012/2013 is ‘Don’t Panic: The Truth About Population’ from Wingspan for BBC Two

C4’s Dispatches picks up Current Affairs award

Current Affairs – Home and Current Affairs – International

Channel 4’s Dispatches has won the Current Affairs – Home RTS award for ‘The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs’ from True Vision.

Panorama’s ‘Broken’ and ‘Hillsborough: How They Buried The Truth’ were also nominated for the award.

Dispatches also picks up the Current Affairs – International award for ‘Syria: Across the Lines’