Channel 4 dominates the nominations for this year’s Rory Peck Awards, which recognise freelance news and current affairs journalism.
The broadcaster has seven of the 12 programme-related nominations, five of them for Channel 4 News reports and two for the Dispatches strand.
Self-shooting producer director Katie Arnold has picked up two nods in the News Feature category for her reports Inside Myanmar’s Rebel Advance and West Bank Settler Expansion: A Year on the Frontline.
Other nominees in the category are Ibrahim Al Olta for Al Jazeera English’s Witness – Rescue Mission Gaza and Raul Gallego Abellan for TV3 3Cat Catalonia’s Ukraine Frontline Sacrifice – Point of No Return.
The News category pits two Channel 4 News reports – Sara Creta’s Journey to Dafur and Youssef Hamash’s Inside the Gaza Siege – against two entries from AFP.
The Sony Impact Award for Current Affairs shortlist includes two Dispatches docs: Vanessa Bowles and Jaber Jehad Badwan’s Kill Zone – Inside Gaza (Basement Films, main picture) and Hunting Russia’s Lost Boys, a co-production between Evan Williams Productions and Russia's ROMB, and BBC Africa Eye’s Mayor on the Frontline: Democracy in Crisis, from Paul Myles and Chris Walter.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony on 28 November.
