{"id":29389,"date":"2024-02-29T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sky-news-wins-news-channel-of-the-year-for-seventh-year-in-a-row-at-rts-journalism-awards-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:33:09","slug":"sky-news-wins-news-channel-of-the-year-for-seventh-year-in-a-row-at-rts-journalism-awards-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/sky-news-wins-news-channel-of-the-year-for-seventh-year-in-a-row-at-rts-journalism-awards-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News wins News Channel of the Year for seventh year in a row at RTS journalism awards | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sky News has been named News Channel of the Year for the seventh consecutive year at the Royal Television Society journalism awards – as political editor Beth Rigby was awarded Political Journalist of the Year.<\/p>\n

The jury said Sky was given the award for “the comprehensive way it covered the main news stories of the year both in the UK and around the world”.<\/p>\n

Rigby was described as “the stand-out winner” among stiff competition as she was named Political Journalist of the Year.<\/p>\n

“She is always exciting to watch and her packaging is excellent, always asking the questions we are all yelling at the telly,” the jury said.<\/p>\n

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Sky News and its partner Tortoise Media were also awarded the Innovation Award for their “pioneering work” on the Westminster Accounts<\/strong>, a publicly available tool to give voters the chance to explore how much their MP earned above their base salary since the last election, how much they have declared in donations – and from whom.<\/p>\n

The jury praised their “public service journalism that opened up an opaque world, was innovative and made available to everyone.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Levy, Sky News executive editor, said: “Thirty-five years on it’s great that the Sky News team is still getting recognised for its breaking news, eyewitness journalism and explanation and analysis.<\/p>\n

“In an increasingly competitive field we never take anything for granted.”<\/p>\n

Presenter Kay Burley said: “Thirty-five years of breaking news. Nothing has changed and everything has changed.<\/p>\n

“We continue to nurture the insatiable beast of rolling TV news. Now we also feed podcasts and digital journalism to a global audience of tens of millions.<\/p>\n

“We’re grateful to the judges for recognising our continued contribution in this competitive field where we’re kept constantly on our toes; we never take anything for granted.”<\/p>\n

Other winners included Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid, who was named Network Presenter of the Year, while Martin Lewis was honoured with the RTS Special Award.<\/p>\n

Hardcash Productions was given two awards for its investigation Russell Brand: In Plain Sight, which aired on Channel 4’s Dispatches.<\/p>\n

Channel 4 News was named Network Daily News Programme of the Year, while BBC World won the international news coverage award and ITV News took home the award for home news coverage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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