TV Forum News Awards 2016

Best News Channel (Domestic): Sky News
Best News Programme: News at Ten
Best Regional News Programme: ITV Granada Reports
Best Breaking News Coverage: Sky News
Best EU Referendum Coverage: ITV News, GMB
Best International News Channel: CNN

Best News Presenter (Domestic): Mark Austin
Best News Presenter (International): Thomas Roberts (MSNBC)
Best News Presenter (Regional):Christine Talbot
Best News Presenter (Newcomer): Jonathan Samuels
Best News Presenter Overall: Jeremy Thompson

Best Weather Presenter: Claire Nasir
Best Business Presenter: Victoria Fritz

Hard as Nails: Alex Crawford
Most missed but not necessarily deceased: John Stapleton
Biggest disappointment in 2016: Eamonn's departure from Sunrise
Best News Music: News at Ten
Best News Graphics: Channel 4 News
Most improved in 2016: GMB (Still not perfect)
Overall Top of the Pops: NaT team of Bradby, Peston and Allegra

Best News Channel (Domestic) - Sky News
Best News Programme - ITV Evening News
Best Regional News Programme - N/A (don't watch enough to pass comment)
Best Breaking News Coverage - N/A (not watched enough to pass comment)
Best EU Referendum Coverage - N/A (didn't watch enough to pass comment)
Best International News Channel - not really sure any of the international news channels I watch deserve this this year

Best News Presenter (Domestic) - Alastair Stewart
Best News Presenter (International) - Natalie Allen
Best News Presenter (Regional) - N/A (don't watch enough to pass comment)
Best News Presenter (Newcomer) - Hannah Vaughan Jones (not a newcomer, but more a 'breakthrough'). If Hannah doesn't count, then Tom MacLeod
Best News Presenter Overall - Alastair Stewart

Best Weather Presenter - Keeley Donovan
Best Business Presenter - Carolin Roth

Hard as Nails - Andrew Neil
Most missed but not necessarily deceased - Ralitsa Vassileva
Biggest disappointment in 2016 - Sky News Glass Box
Best News Music - Newsnight
Best News Graphics - Sky News
Most improved in 2016 - Sophy Ridge
TV Forumer of the Year - N/A
Overall Top of the Pops - Richard Quest

And if I can add one more, Best Business Correspondent - Julia Chatterley. What she doesn't know about European business and politics probably isn't worth knowing

Best News Channel (Domestic) - Sky News (though neither deserve it in their current states)
Best News Programme - ITV Evening News
Best Regional News Programme - Wales at Six
Best Breaking News Coverage - GMB Brussels coverage
Best EU Referendum Coverage - ITV
Best International News Channel - CNN

Best News Presenter (Domestic) - Mary Nightingale
Best News Presenter (International) - Anderson Cooper
Best News Presenter (Regional) - Jonathan Hill
Best News Presenter (Newcomer) - Fatima Manji (C4 News)
Best News Presenter Overall - as an ITV News man I'm going to give this to Huw Edwards, mainly as I can't decided between Alastair and Mark but also I think he is pretty indespensible to the BBC.

Best Weather Presenter - Tomasz Schafernaker
Best Business Presenter - n/a

Hard as Nails - Alex Thomson
Most missed but not necessarily deceased - Julie Etchingham (once a week isn't enough)
Biggest disappointment in 2016 - the failures in challenging the lies of the Brexit and Trump campaigns
Best News Music - ITV News at Ten
Best News Graphics - C4 News
Most improved in 2016 - Tom Bradby
TV Forumer of the Year - VMPhil
Overall Top of the Pops - Alastair Stewart