RTS Awards

From what I've seen so far Al Jazeera has won news channel of the year.

Anna Botting has won news presenter of the year.

Alex Crawford wins journalist of the year.

Paul Mason - Newsnight wins Special Journalist of the year.

From TV Newsroom ( Winners in bold ):

Camera Operator of the Year
Darren ‘DC’ Conway, BBC News
Raul Gallego Abellan, AP Television News, APTN Global Video Wire
Stuart Webb, Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4 News

Current Affairs – Home
Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence, Hardcash Productions for Channel 4
Panorama: Undercover Care, BBC Current Affairs for BBC One
Dispatches: How to Buy a Football Club, Vera Productions for Channel 4

Current Affairs – International
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, ITN for Channel 4
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark, Al Jazeera English
This World: Spain’s Stolen Babies, BBC Current Affairs for BBC Two

Innovative News
Confronting The Looters, Sky News
Sky News for iPad, Sky News
The Stream: Bahrain, Al Jazeera English

Nations and Regions Current Affairs and News Event
Inside Out South West: Multiple Sclerosis – CCSVI, BBC South West
Week In Week Out: Cash for Qualifications, BBC Wales
Insight: The Resurrection of Brendan Smyth, UTV Insight

Nations and Regions News Programme
Calendar, ITV Yorkshire
London Tonight, ITN for ITV London
Granada Reports, ITV Granada

News Channel of the Year
Al Jazeera English
BBC News Channel
Sky News

News Coverage – Home
UK Riots, Sky News
Phone Hacking, Newsnight BBC Two
The Summer Riots, ITN for Channel 4 News

News Coverage – International
Disaster in Japan, ITN for Channel 4 News
Libya, Sky News
Misrata, ITN for ITV News

News Programme of the Year
BBC News at Ten, BBC News for BBC One
Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4 News
Newsnight, BBC Two

Presenter of the Year
Mark Austin, ITV News, ITN for ITV News
Anna Botting, Sky News
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4 News

Scoop of the Year
Panorama: FIFA’s Dirty Secrets, BBC Current Affairs for BBC One
The Fall of Tripoli, Sky News
Panorama: Undercover Care, BBC Current Affairs for BBC One

Specialist Journalist of the Year
Jeremy Bowen, Middle East Editor, BBC News
Faisal Islam, Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4 News
Paul Mason, Newsnight, BBC Two

Television Journalist of the Year
Alex Crawford, Sky News
Alex Thomson, Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4 News
Richard Watson, Newsnight, BBC Two

The Independent Award
Somali Olympic Dreams, Jamal Osman for ITN/Channel 4 News
People and Power: Seeds of Change, Elizabeth C Jones and Caroline Pare for Al Jazeera English
FIFA’s Dirty Secrets, Andrew Jennings for BBC One

Young Journalist of the Year
Joe Casey, BBC Panorama, BBC Current Affairs for BBC One
Rohit Kachroo, ITV News, ITN for ITV News
Tim Lawton, Channel 4 News/True Vision, ITN/True Vision for Channel 4 News

Judges’ Award
NHK for the Japan Tsunami coverage

Lifetime Achievement
Sir David Nicholas of ITN

BBC: 5
Sky News: 4
Channel 4: 3
ITV: 2 (inc. UTV Insight)
Al Jazeera: 2
NHK: 1

ITN were involved in receiving 4 awards.

Good for AJ, very much deserved.

I think they pretty much got it right with those awards.

Panorama was a powerful piece of journalism, Sky's reporting on Libya and the UK riots was superb, Alex Crawford definitely was journalist of the year for me, Newsnight had an excellent year, Al Jazeera English is a great channel and I've been a fan of Anna Botting since her days hosting with Bob Friend so I was pleased to see she won.

Caught fault RTS there. They had worthy winners.

Indeed, well deserved. The only inovative presentation channel at the moment really.

I was hoping of something like this on the News channel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAV56slpu8s

Albeit they didn't win News channel of the year this year this year!

Interesting the main national BBC1 and ITV1 bulletins went home empty handed. Unlike previous years I don't think ITV News deserved anything really - though Newsnight has come in some flack over recent months so whether it is a deserving winner of News Programme of the Year I don't know. Frankly though all news programmes have not been at their best in the last 12 months.

Newsnight had a great year in 2011 with coverage of Libya, Egypt, phone hacking. It was way ahead of ITV/BBC News At Ten and JUST ahead of Channel 4 News in my view.