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British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage - Wikipedia

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British Academy Television Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1961
Currently held by	Channel 4 News: "Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas at War" (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "an individual news programme"^[1]

The category has been through some name changes and has been merged a couple of times with other categories like Best Sport and Live Event and Best Current Affairs:

In 1961 and 1962 an individual award named Best Current Events was presented, later in 1970 a category called Best Factual Current Affair was awarded.
From 1978 to 1985 and also in 1992 it was presented as Best Actuality Coverage.
From 1986 to 1991 it was presented as Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage.
From 1993 to 1994 and then from 1998 to 2001 it was presented as Best News and Current Affairs Journalism.
From 1995 to 1997 and then since 2002 it has been presented as Best News Coverage.

Winners and nominees

1960s

Year	Recipient(s)
1961	Sportsview unit (BBC)
1962	Bill Allenby

1970s

Best Factual Current Affair

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1970	News at Ten
	Man on the Moon Apollo 11 Moon Landing Special	David Nicholas, Geoffrey Hughes
	The Money Programme	Michael Bunce

Best Actuality Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1978	A Day of Celebration	Anthony Craxton
	BBC Coverage of Wimbledon '77	Sports Production Team
	Blow Out at Bravo	Grampian Production Team
	Jubilee '77	Outside Broadcast Production Team
1979	The Open Golf Championship	AP Wilkinson
	Home from the Sea	John Vernon
	ITV Coverage of The World Cup	Sports Production Team
	Wimbledon '78	AP Wilkinson

1980s

Best Actuality Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1980	Last Night of the Proms	Ian Engelmann
	Cosi Fan Tutte	Peter Hall, John Vernon
	Earl Mountbatten's Funeral	Mike Lumley
	BBC News Coverage of Fastnet Boat Race
1981	ITN Coverage of the Iranian Embassy Siege	David Goldsmith and the Production Team
	BBC Coverage of the Iranian Embassy Siege	News Production Team
	80 Gracious Years	Jim Pople
	Embassy World Snooker Championship	Nick Hunter
	Wimbledon 1980 Men's Final	Jonathan Martin
1982	ITN Coverage of Poland
	International Snooker	Nick Hunter
	BBC Royal Wedding Coverage	Michael Lumley and the Production Team
	ITV Royal Wedding Coverage	Jim Pople, Stewart Purvis and the Production Team
1983	BBC Coverage of the Falklands	BBC Television News
	News at Ten
	ITN Coverage of the Falklands	ITN Production Team
	Raising of the Mary Rose
1984	ITN Coverage of the Lebanon Crisis	ITN Production Team
	Die Fledermaus	Humphrey Burton
	The Nation Decides	ITN Production Team
	1983 London Marathon	John Shrewsbury
1985	Nine O'Clock News: Ethiopian Famine	Michael Buerk, Mohammed Amin
	Breakfast Time, Friday, October 12th - The Brighton Bomb	David Lloyd, Peter O'Kill, Sandy McCourt
	Channel 4 News	Stewart Purvis and the Production Team
	Coverage of the Brighton Bomb	BBC News Team

Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1986	BBC Live Aid for Africa
	Channel 4 News	Stewart Purvis and the Production Team
	News at Ten	Alastair Burnet and the Production Team
	Newsnight	Richard Tait
1987	Channel 4 News	Stewart Purvis
	Hospital Watch	Fiona Holmes, Caroline Van Den Brul
	News at Ten: Coverage of the American Bombing Raid on Libya	David Nicholas
	Newsnight	Richard Tait
	Nine O'Clock News: Coverage of the American Bombing Raid on Libya	Rick Thompson and the Production Team
	The Queen in China	Tim Marshall
	The Royal Wedding	Tim Marshall
1988	Special Edition Of Channel 4 News: Coverage of the Zeebrugge Disaster	Stewart Purvis
	BBC News Coverage of the Zeebrugge Disaster	Ron Neil
	Channel 4 News	Richard Tait, Stewart Purvis
	News at Ten	Nick Pollard
1989	Channel 4 News
	The Kirov Ballet Live in London	John Michael Phillips
	Nelson Mandela Concert	Mike Appleton, Tim Marshall, Neville Bolt
	Newsnight	John Morrison

1990s

Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1990	BBC News: Tiananmen Square Massacre	Steve Selman
	BBC Berlin Wall Coverage	John Mahoney
	Nine O'Clock News: Kate Adie Secret Report from Chinese Hospital	Kate Adie
	ITN Coverage of Romania
1991	Channel 4 News
	Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti in Concert	Brian Large
	ITN Coverage of Mrs Thatcher's Resignation	David Mannion
	World Cup 1990	BBC Sport Production Team

Best Actuality Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1992	ITN News Coverage of the Gulf War	Brent Sadler, Production Team
	BBC News Coverage of the Gulf War
	Pavarotti in Hyde Park	Christopher Swann, Andy Ward
	Newsnight: Soviet Coup Collapses	Tim Gardam

Best News and Current Affairs Journalism

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1993	Serbian Prison Camps Discovery	Penny Marshall, Ian Williams
	BBC Coverage of Sarajevo	Martin Bell
	BBC Coverage of the Barcelona Olympics	Martin Hopkins
	Newsnight	Tim Gardam
1994	Channel 4 News
	BBC1 Coverage of the Bosnian Massacre	Martin Bell
	BBC2 Newsnight Coverage of Kurdistan	George Alagiah
	News at Ten Coverage of the Storming of the Moscow White House and the Civil War in Georgia

Best News Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1995	ITN1 Coverage of the Crisis In Rwanda
	Channel 4 News Coverage of the Estonia Ferry Disaster
	Channel 4 News Coverage of the South African Elections
	BBC1 News Coverage on Rwanda	John Simpson
1996	Channel 4 News Coverage of War Crimes in Former Yugoslavia
	BBC1 News Coverage on Bosnia	Martin Bell
	BBC2 Newsnight	Peter Horrocks
	ITN Coverage of the War in Chechnya
1997	BBC Newsnight: BSE Coverage	Peter Horrocks
	Channel 4 News Coverage of the Refugee Crisis in Zaire and Rwanda
	BBC Newsnight: Dunblane Massacre	Peter Horrocks
	ITV News at Ten: Coverage of Dunblane

Best News and Current Affairs Journalism

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1998	Panorama: Valentina's Story	Mike Robinson
	BBC Election Night Programme	Peter Horrocks
	Channel 4 Coverage of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales	Jim Gray
	ITV Coverage of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales	Nigel Dacre
1999	Dispatches: Inside the Animal Liberation Front	David Monaghan, Deborah Davies, Graham Hall
	Correspondent: ETA - Coming in from the Cold	Ewa Ewart, Fiona Murch, Orla Guerin
	ITN's Coverage of the Omagh Bomb and its Aftermath	Nigel Dacre and the Production Team
	Newsnight: Coverage Of the Northern Ireland Peace Process	Martha Kearney, Sian Kevill

2000s

Best News and Current Affairs Journalism

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2000	Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict	John Simpson and the BBC News Team	BBC One
	Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict	Sky News Production Team	Sky News
	The Paddington Crash	The Channel 4 News Team	Channel 4
	Tonight with Trevor McDonald: Interview with the Lawrence Suspects	Jeff Anderson, James Goldston, Ingrid Kelly	ITV
2001	Out of Africa	Sorious Samura, Ron McCullagh	Channel 4
	Mozambique Floods	BBC News Team	BBC News 24
	Mozambique Floods - The Event and the Aftermath		ITV
	Panorama: Who Bombed Omagh?	Eamon Hardy, John Ware	BBC One

Best News Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2002	Sky News: September 11th/12th		Sky News
	BBC News Coverage of The Fall of Kabul - 12/13 November		BBC News 24
	Channel 4 News: Attack on America - 11 September		Channel 4
	ITV News: Attack on America - 11 September		ITV
2003	Soham – August 16/17		Sky News
	Collapse of the Paul Burrell Trial		BBC News 24
	Jenin and Bethlehem - What Chance of Peace?		Channel 4
	The Death of the Queen Mother		ITV
2004	Channel 4 News - Fall of Saddam		Channel 4
	Newsnight		BBC Two
	The Ten O'Clock News		BBC One
	Sky News: Fall of Baghdad		Sky News
2005	BBC Ten O'Clock News: Madrid Bombing		BBC One
	BBC News 24: Hutton		BBC News 24
	Sky News: The Tsunami Disaster		Sky News
	Tsunami: Seven Days that Shook the World	ITV News Team	ITV
2006	BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005: London Bombs		BBC One
	Channel 4 News - The Attorney General Story	Jon Snow, Gary Gibbon, Robert Hamilton	Channel 4
	ITV Evening News - The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes		ITV
	Sky News - 7 July Bombings		Sky News
2007	Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay		ITV
	BBC Ten O'Clock News - Terrorism Plot at Heathrow	Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards, Kate Robinson, Daniel Sandford	BBC One
	Channel 4 News - News from Iran	Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett	Channel 4
	ITV Evening News - The Israel/Lebanon Crisis	Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles	ITV
2008	Sky News - Glasgow Airport Attack		Sky News
	BBC Ten O'Clock News: War in Afghanistan	Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards, Alastair Leithead, Thea Fairley	BBC One
	ITV Evening News: Zimbabwe - The Tyranny and the Tragedy		ITV
	Channel 4 News: Iraq - The Surge	Jim Gray, Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Ed Fraser	Channel 4
2009	News at Ten - Chinese Earthquake	Bill Neely, John Ray, Rob Bowles, Lu Bo	ITV
	Channel 4 News	Jim Gray, Jonathan Miller, Ben De Pear, Soren Munk	Channel 4
	Sky News - Canoe Man	Gerard Tubb	Sky News
	Sky News - Mumbai		Sky News

2010s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2010	ITV News at Ten - Haiti	Mark Austin, Bill Neely, David Harman, John Irvine	ITV
	BBC News Channel - The Haiti Earthquake	Kevin Bakhurst, Ben Brown, Matthew Price, Matt Frei	BBC News
	Channel 4 News - Haiti Earthquake		Channel 4
	Sky News - Pakistan: Terror's Frontline		Sky News
2011	ITV News at Ten: The Cumbria Murders		ITV
	BBC News at Ten: Handover of Power	Huw Edwards, James Stephenson	BBC One/BBC News
	Channel 4 News		Channel 4
	Sky News: Egypt Crisis		Sky News
2012	Channel 4 News: Japan Earthquake		Channel 4
	BBC News at Ten: Siege of Homs		BBC One
	ITV News at Ten: Battle of Misrata		ITV
	Sky News: Libya Rebel Convoy - Live		Sky News
2013	Hillsborough – The Truth at Last (Granada Reports)		ITV
	BBC News at Ten: Syria		BBC One
	Channel 4 News: Battle for Homs		Channel 4
2014	ITV News at Ten: Woolwich Attacks		ITV
	The Lee Rigby Trial: ITV Granada Reports		ITV/ITV Granada
	The Dale Cregan Verdict: North West Tonight Special		BBC One/BBC North West
	Channel 4 News: Egypt Military Coup		Channel 4
2015	Sky News Live at Five: Ebola	Alex Crawford, Nick Ludlam,Thomas Moore, David Rees	Sky News
	BBC News at Ten		BBC News/BBC One
	Channel 4 News – Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire	Jon Snow, Ben de Pear, Nevine Mabro	Channel 4
	ITV News at Ten: Iraq Crisis		ITV
2016	Channel 4 News: Paris Massacre	Jon Snow, Lindsey Hilsum, Jonathan Rugman, Ben de Pear	Channel 4
	BBC News at Six: Paris Attacks Special		BBC One
	ITV News at Ten: Refugee Crisis		ITV
	Sky News: From Turkey to Greece	Alex Crawford, Garwen McLuckie, Colin Brazier, Kirsty Walker	Sky News
2017	Victoria Derbyshire: Footballers' Abuse	Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton, Jo Adnitt	BBC Two
	Channel 4 News: Brexit		Channel 4
	BBC North West Tonight: Hillsborough Inquests		BBC One
	Sky News Tonight - Aleppo: The Death of a City		Sky News
2018	The Rohingya Crisis (Sky News)		Sky News
	The Battle for Mosul (Sky News)		Sky News
	The Grenfell Tower Fire (Channel 4 News)	Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Jackie Long, Cathy Newman, Ben de Pear	Channel 4
	The Grenfell Tower Fire (ITV News at Ten)		ITV
2019 ^[2]	Cambridge Analytica Uncovered		Channel 4
	Bullying and Harassment in the House of Commons (Newsnight)		BBC Two
	Good Morning Britain: On A Knife Edge?		ITV
	Good Morning Britain: Thomas Markle Exclusive		ITV

2020s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2020 ^[3]	Hong Kong Protests		Sky News
	ITV News at Ten: Election Results		ITV
	Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal (Newsnight)		BBC Two
	Victoria Derbyshire: Men Who Lost Loved Ones to Knife Crime		BBC Two
2021 ^[4]	Sky News: "Inside IDLIB"		Sky News
	BBC News at Ten: Prime Minister Admitted to Intensive Care		BBC News/BBC One
	Channel 4 News: Deterring Democracy		Channel 4
	Newsnight: COVID Care Crisis		BBC Two
2022 ^[5]	ITV News at Ten: Storming of the Capitol		ITV
	Channel 4 News: Black to Front		Channel 4
	Good Morning Britain: Shamima Begum		ITV
	Sky News: Afghanistan: Endgame		Sky News
2023 ^[6]^[7]	Channel 4 News: "Live in Kyiv"		Channel 4
	BBC News at Ten: "Russia Invades Ukraine"		BBC One
	Good Morning Britain: "Boris Johnson Interview"		ITV
2024 ^[8]	Channel 4 News: "Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas at War"	Esme Wren, Federico Escher, Helene Cacace, Matt Frei, Secunder Kermani, Millicent Teasdale	Channel 4
	Sky News: "Inside Myanmar - The Hidden War"		Sky News
	Sky News: "Israel-Hamas War"		Sky News

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.

References

^ "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
^ "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
^ Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

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