Channel 4 News wins home and away
Updated on 21 February 2008
Channel 4 News picked up two of the big awards at last night's prestigious Royal Television Society Awards.
Home affairs correspondent Simon Israel's piece revealing the links between the Crevice case and the 7/7 London bombings won the home award.
Those involved in making the film included Luke Jacobson, Joe Mather, Fabrizio Viani and Richard Oprychal. It was commissioned by Yvette Edwards and Jane Kinney.
7/7 an intelligence failure?
It's what everyone has had to keep quiet about, connections between those caught and those who got away, between the convicted terrorists in the fertiliser case and those who the UK's security services missed the July 7 bombers.
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The foreign award went to 'Iraq - the surge'. The film was shot by Sean Smith from the Guardian, produced by Theresa Smith and narrated by Keme Nzerem.
It was commissioned and executive produced by Deborah Rayner and Tim Lambon, who run Channel 4 News's foreign desk.
Surge on Baghdad: frontline force
In an unprecedented insight into the dangers the soldiers are facing every day, The Guardian photographer Sean Smith spent two months with US troops, following soldiers taking part in the surge and trying to contain the insurgency.
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Note: the reports contains some harrowing images.
Martin Fewell, deputy editor of Channel 4 News, said: "Sean's film was an extraordinary piece of observational journalism, showing his terrific eye and an ability to get close to his subjects.
"It demonstrates our commitment to find new ways to tell the story of Iraq.
"Simon's award is recognition for all the work he and his production team have put in to understand the nature of the terrorist threat, and how it's countered."
The RTS Journalism Awards were held at the London Hilton, Park Lane.
