The Royal Television Society – Britain’s leading forum for television and related media – will dish out the Television Journalism Awards for 2013/2014 this evening.
The awards, for news and current affairs, recognise creative and excellent journalism by organisations whose broadcasts are received in the UK and by the agencies which supply UK news broadcasters.
The award ceremony, hosted by CNN International’s flagship news presenter Becky Anderson, will take place at London Hilton, Park Lane.
We will post the results on this page when the awards are handed out from around 9.30pm..
Live Updates
The #RTSTVJ Awards begin… pic.twitter.com/vbUMRZSqBF
— Richard Frediani (@BBCFrediani) February 18, 2015
The first award of the night goes to Young Talent of the Year….Mstyslav Chernov of APTN.
The RTS award for Nations and Regions Current Affairs goes to BBC West Midlands for Who Murdered Maxine?
Winner for Nations and Regions News is @bbcsoutheast 'Original, brave and hard hitting’ #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/xCB0b4Z767
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Regional Presenter of the Year at #RTSTVJ Awards. The winner is Harry Gration from @@BBCLookNorth
— Richard Frediani (@BBCFrediani) February 18, 2015
Best Home News Coverage is… @ITVNews for Jihadi Terror #RTSTVJ
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
And the winner of International News Coverage is… @ITVNews for their #Ukraine coverage w/ @jamesmatesitv #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/sZfBu0qLOb
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Next up at #RTSTVJ is Current Affairs – Home – won by @BBCPanorama – Britain’s Secret Terror Force by Twenty2vision pic.twitter.com/A9mQv1MhpL
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
We're very proud of @harrylooknorth – here he is with his @RTS_media regional presenter of the year award #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/CTrM5HgfXF
— BBC Yorkshire (@BBCLookNorth) February 18, 2015
Congrats to @C4Dispatches for Best International Current Affairs for ‘Children on the Front Line’ #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/W0US34QASL
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
News Tech award this year goes to @BBCNews for ‘A Cloud over Copacabana’ World Cup data network #RTSTVJ #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/d3Zavu1KIq
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Winner of Camera Operator of the Year is… Andriy Perun of @Reuters #RTSTVJ for ‘courageous and powerful’ coverage pic.twitter.com/I2PyrZkNM0
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
#RTSTVJ Independent Award won by Ecostorm for Bruce Lee, King of the sewers @Channel4 http://t.co/LX6kHu8qYk pic.twitter.com/4CVmoPfhI0
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
WINNER of Daily News Programme of the Year: ITV News at Ten @ITVNews #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/MWNKmwGFuj
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Another #selfie from @itvnews for winning News Programme the Year at the #RTSTVJ Awards pic.twitter.com/vGddFnKoJu
— Richard Frediani (@BBCFrediani) February 18, 2015
Congrats! MT @svaughanbrown: The big one goes to @itvnews for Daily News Programme of the Year. #RTSTVJ #ForBernard pic.twitter.com/gmWfy7c7Xi
— Britt Warg @[email protected] (@Britt_W) February 18, 2015
Scoop of the year: BBC Northern Ireland for Spotlight – A Woman Alone with the IRA #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/BsVd0aQAZ1
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Winner of News Channel of the Year is @SkyNews #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/XDRZy2PqxO
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Whoop whoop – News Channel of the Year win for @skynews at #RTSTVJ Awards
— Sky News PR Team (@SkyNewsPR) February 18, 2015
— John McAndrew (@johnlucius) February 18, 2015
Empty seats where @MFFahmy11 & @Bahrooz should have been sitting at @RTS_Media Awards tonight #FreeAJStaff pic.twitter.com/8RAheeDwFn
— Al Jazeera PR (@AlJazeera) February 18, 2015
Congrats to #RTSTVJ Specialist Journalist of the Year is @AlisonHolt1 BBC Social Affairs correspondent. pic.twitter.com/KK0HdwTW8z
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Next up – Network Presenter of the Year is @markaustinitv of @itvnews #RTSTVJ pic.twitter.com/K0xhwYijQB
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
As we enter the final stages of the #RTSTVJ awards, Television Journalist of the Year is @MattFrei pic.twitter.com/Z58kPSPSnp
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
This year, the #RTSTVJ Lifetime Achievement Award goes to… @LawrenceITV for over 40yrs of science journalism pic.twitter.com/mXtEe0Aeqc
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
This year’s #RTSTVJ Judges' Award given to @AlJazeera journalists @PeterGreste Baher Ghorab @MFFahmy11& Baher Mohamed @Bahrooz
— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 18, 2015
Collecting the #RTSTVJ Judges Awards is @PeterGreste on behalf of the three @AlJazeera journalists jailed in Egypt pic.twitter.com/r97ufpBrwU
— Richard Frediani (@BBCFrediani) February 18, 2015
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