Media News - Thursday, February 23, 2012
UK: Al Jazeera English named channel of the year
Al Jazeera English has been named News Channel of the Year at this year's Royal Television Society Awards. Tuesday's award saw the five-year-old broadcaster beating competitors including BBC News and Sky News. The Qatar-based channel earned praise for its frontline coverage of the Arab Spring, including the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, and for being the first on the scene to report the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader. Additionally, the network's social media programme, The Stream, received the Innovative News Award for its in-depth analysis of the struggle between government loyalists and opposition protesters in Bahrain. The year-old DC-based programme, which relies heavily on social media platforms and Skype interviews for its content, brought the ongoing protests in Bahrain to the forefront and featured an intense Skype debate between Suhail Algosaibi, a government loyalist, and Zainab al-Khawajah, a Bahraini activist. Utilising content from micro-blogging service Twitter, social networking site Facebook, and video sharing site YouTube, the programme featured a series of questions posed by members of the public directly to the show’s participants via these platforms. The annual RTS Awards are decided by balanced juries of media professionals. (Al Jazeera)
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