{"id":408187,"date":"2026-02-04T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:35:11","slug":"sky-news-nominated-for-nine-royal-television-society-tv-journalism-awards-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408187\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News nominated for nine Royal Television Society TV journalism awards | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky News has been nominated for nine Royal Television Society TV journalism awards, including for news channel of the year.<\/p>\n

A number of Sky News<\/a> journalists have been acknowledged for outstanding work in their field, including Yalda Hakim<\/a>, who hosts the international news show, The World With Yalda Hakim<\/a>, and has been recognised in the network presenter of the year category.<\/p>\n

Special correspondent Alex Crawford<\/a> and Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir<\/a> take two of the three slots in the network television journalist of the year group,<\/p>\n

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Crawford, who travels the world covering major stories, often from war zones, reported from countries including Syria, Libya and Somalia in 2025. She stars in our Hotspots<\/a> series, which takes viewers straight into some of the world’s most hostile environments.<\/p>\n

Elbagir has reported extensively on the war in Sudan, including an investigation into the “killing fields<\/a>” where thousands have been targeted.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire<\/a> is nominated for specialist journalist of the year, deputy political editor Sam Coates<\/a> is shortlisted in the politics category, and news correspondent Mollie Malone<\/a> is recognised in the emerging talent shortlist.<\/p>\n

Cheshire’s work in 2025 included reporting from a far-right “whites only” settlement in Arkansas<\/a>, while Malone has reported on a number of exclusives on UK prisons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As well as exclusive interviews and analysis from Westminster, Coates is also co-host of our Politics At Sam And Anne’s podcast<\/a>, alongside Politico’s Anne McElvoy.<\/p>\n

In the news channel of the year category, Sky News – which has won the award for eight consecutive years<\/a> – is up against BBC News and Al Jazeera English.<\/p>\n

Our international coverage has been recognised in multiple categories – as well as nods to Hakim, Crawford amd Elbagir, international correspondent John Sparks<\/a> is up for a digital award for 24 Hours In The Kill Zone – for which he joined Ukrainian troops in an area targeted by explosive-carrying drones.<\/p>\n

He is up against BBC News’ reporting on militia in Sudan, and ITV’s political coverage on TikTok.<\/p>\n

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Our reporting on life in Syria following the downfall of Bashar al Assad<\/a> is in the running for the RTS international news coverage award, alongside Channel 4 News, which has also been recognised for its coverage on Syria, and Associated Press’ reporting on famine in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Adrian Wells, chair of the RTS Television Journalism Awards, said it had been “an exceptional year of very high-quality submissions”.<\/p>\n

He continued: “UK-based broadcasters and content producers have demonstrated their skill, endeavour and bravery in pursuing the most important stories both on domestic and international fronts.<\/p>\n

“Despite many other challenges in the media industry, the calibre of journalism demonstrated across the news categories has been extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

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The RTS awards will take place on 4 March, hosted by journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Vine.<\/p>\n

There will also be an outstanding contribution award and an RTS special award, which will also be presented during the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky News has been nominated for nine Royal Television Society TV journalism awards, including for news channel of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-408187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}