Television Journalism Awards 1999

RTS Television Journalism Awards

Current Affairs - Home

Winner: Why Stephen? - Black Britain Special, BBC News
Nominee: Real Estates - Newsnight, BBC News
Nominee: Can't Pay Won't Pay, Brook Lapping/Evans Woolfe for Channel 4

Current Affairs - International

Winner: Prime Suspects - Dispatches, Hardcash for Channel 4
Nominee: Sloba and Mira - Correspondent, BBC News
Nominee: Valley of the Dead - Panorama, BBC News

Interviewer

Winner: Tim Sebastian: BBC News
Nominee: Martin Bashir: Granada Television
Nominee: Jeremy Paxman: BBC News

Judges' Award

Winner: Michael Brunson

News - Home

Winner: The Paddington Crash & Its Causes - Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4
Nominee: Glasgow Drugs - Nine O'Clock News, BBC News
Nominee: After Lawrence: Institutionalised Racism - Channel 4 News, ITN fpr Channel 4

News - International

Winner: Dili Indonesia - Nine O'Clock News, BBC News
Nominee: Serbs Left Behind - Nine O'Clock News, BBC News
Nominee: NATO InvasionITN News, ITV

News Event

Winner: Kosovo Liberation Day, Sky News
Nominee: Paddington Rail Crash - BBC News 24, BBC News
Nominee: Into Kosovo - Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4

Production

Winner: Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4

Programme of the Year

Winner: The Prime Suspects - Tonight with Trevor McDonald, Granada Television

Regional Current Affairs

Winner: Soho Bombing - London Tonight Special, London News Network
Nominee: Black and Blue In The Met - The London Programme, LWT
Nominee: Life After Ledward - Meridian Focus, Meridian

Regional Daily News Magazine

Winner: Look North, BBC North East & Cumbria
Nominee: London Tonight, London News Network
Nominee: Meridian Tonight - West, Meridian

Specialist Journalism

Winner: Susan Watts: BBC News
Nominee: Science Unit: Channel 4 News, ITN for Channel 4
Nominee: Adam Boulton: Sky News

Sports Commentator

Nominee: Jim McGrath: BBC Sport

Television Journalist

Winner: John Simpson: BBC News
Nominee: Jeremy Bowen: BBC News
Nominee: Matt Frei: BBC News

Television Technician

Winner: Miguel Gil: APTN
Nominee: Darren Conway: BBC News
Nominee: Max Stahl: ITN News, ITV

Young Journalist

Winner: Matthew Price: Newsround, BBC
Nominee: Amy Aitchison: Meridian
Nominee: Simon Vigar: ITN, Channel 5 News