Channel 4 recognised as most successful commissioner with multiple finalists in three out of four categories, including two from Katie Arnold in the same category. For the first time, winning entries across all four categories focus on one story, Gaza.
Since the Rory Peck Trust was formed in 1995 it has helped over 3,300 journalists, but 2024 saw its crisis fund all used up by August. Recently appointed Executive Director of the Trust Jon Williams (former Managing Director of RTÉ News and Current Affairs) arose to tell the audience that the 30th year was like none before. “This is the toughest role I have ever had,” he confessed. “There has never been a year like this; more countries are involved in more conflicts today than at any time since the end of WWII.
“A record number of journalists and media workers have been killed in the last 12 months, 137 of them in Gaza alone according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Some 72 journalists have been killed since January, and it does not stop there........
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