Sky News secures two nominations for best news coverage at the BAFTA TV Awards

Sky News has received two nominations in the best ‘news coverage’ category at this year’s BAFTA Television Awards. 

Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay’s eyewitness reporting from Myanmar and a special programme broadcast at the start of the Israel and Hamas conflict have secured nominations.  

David Rhodes, Executive Chairman, Sky News Group said: “We’re delighted that our newsroom has been recognised with these prestigious BAFTA nominations for best news coverage. All of us at Sky News strive to give audiences the full story, first. We hope these nominations give encouragement to everyone involved in journalism in Myanmar, in the Mideast and everywhere we work.” 

Inside Myanmar: The Hidden War takes viewers into the long, yet largely unreported civil war that is devastating this Southeast Asian nation. Very little is known about what’s actually happening in Myanmar, but Ramsay and his team spent a month undercover in the country, living in the jungle with the resistance fighters, volunteers, and medics fighting the government.    

They were shown positions where the bodies of dead Myanmar army soldiers still lie, witnessed the targeting of civilians with air strikes and artillery and met some of the thousands of internally displaced people.  

The team also embedded in a secret frontline hospital built into the Myanmar jungle, where they witnessed a "conveyor belt of horror" as the medical staff tried to save the lives of severely injured civilians and resistance fighters.   

[Search for Inside Myanmar: The Hidden War to watch wherever you get your news ]

Israel-Hamas War a one-hour special live programme hosted by chief presenters Mark Austin and Anna Botting aired two weeks after the October 7th attacks in Israel.  

At these early days of the conflict, the Sky News team offered the latest news and analysis live and on the ground from Israel, as IDF air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza increased and diplomats rushed to find ways to deescalate the situation.  

The programme also covered the release of the first hostages by Hamas and how aid convoys started to reach the Rafah border crossing. 

[Watch the Israel-Hamas War special programme on YouTube]

This year Sky News won the Royal Television Society’s TV Channel of the Year for a seventh consecutive time.  

In 2023 Stuart Ramsay was named journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society Awards and received the Society of Editor’s Media Freedom Award for foreign journalist of the year for his reporting from Myanmar. 

Sky News will be in line for an eighth BAFTA when the winners are announced at an awards ceremony at London’s Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday 12 May.

Previous BAFTA wins for Sky News: 

• 2002 for September 11th/12th coverage 
• 2003 for coverage of the Soham murders  
• 2008 for Glasgow Airport Attack 
• 2015 for coverage of the Ebola crisis 
• 2018 the Rohingya crisis 
• 2020 Hong Kong Protests 
• 2021 Inside IDLIB

Credits: 

INSIDE MYANMAR: THE HIDDEN WAR: SPECIAL PROGRAMME 

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, SKY NEWS GROUP: David Rhodes  

MANAGING DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE EDITOR, SKY NEWS: Jonathan Levy  

DIRECTOR OF NEWSGATHERING & OPERATIONS: Sarah Whitehead  

DIRECTOR OF CONTENT: Cristina Nicolotti Squires  

HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Tim Singleton 

PRESENTER: Anna Botting  

CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: Stuart Ramsay  

ASIA CORRESPONDENT: Helen Ann Smith  

SENIOR FOREIGN PRODUCER: Dominique Van Heerden  

CAMERA OPERATORS: Richie Mockler, Lex Ramsay  

OUTPUT EDITOR: Ronan Hughes  

DIRECTOR: Stuart Dixon

ISRAEL HAMAS WAR: SPECIAL PROGRAMME  

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, SKY NEWS GROUP: David Rhodes  

MANAGING DIRECTOR & EXECUTIVE EDITOR, SKY NEWS: Jonathan Levy  

DIRECTOR OF NEWSGATHERING & OPERATIONS: Sarah Whitehead  

DIRECTOR OF CONTENT: Cristina Nicolotti Squires  

HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Tim Singleton  

PRESENTERS: Mark Austin Anna Botting  

CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: Stuart Ramsay  

CORRESPONDENTS: Yousra Elbagir, Alistair Bunkall, Sadiya Chowdhury, Deborah Haynes, Adele Robinson, Alex Rossi, John Sparks  

SENIOR FOREIGN PRODUCER: Dominique Van Heerden  

FOREIGN PRODUCERS: Sameer Bazbaz, Vauldi Carelse, Sophia McBride, Katy Scholes  

MIDDLE EAST NEWS EDITOR: Zein Ja’far  

GAZA PRODUCER: Ameera Ibrahim  

GAZA CAMERA OPERATOR: Ahmed Abu Ajwa  

CAMERA OPERATORS: Martin Limbrick, Dean Massey, Garwen McLuckie, Richie Mockler, Toby Nash, Olivia Prutz, Jess Sestili  

OUTPUT EDITORS: Ronan Hughes, Lucie Charlton 

OUTPUT PRODUCER: Thomas Newton  

DIRECTOR: Kevin Donaldson

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