Channel 4 News scoops five RTS Awards

Channel 4 News swept the board in TV's Awards for journalism.

Channel 4's flagship news and current affairs programme won five Royal Television Society awards, a record for the programme now in its 24th year.

The programme, which is made by ITN for Channel 4, won awards for the best home and foreign journalism, for the best young journalist, specialist journalist and best journalist of the year.

Presenter Jon Snow won the award for best journalist for his scoop in revealing the Attorney-General's legal advice on Iraq and for powerful reports from New Orleans, Pakistan and from Africa. The scoop on Iraqi legal advice also won the best home news award.

Jonathan Miller, the programme's Foreign Affairs Correspondent was voted best Specialist Journalist of the Year and also won the International News Award. Faisal Islam was voted the best Young Journalist of the Year.

Editor Jim Gray said: "This is a terrific testament to the dedication, industry and skill of the Channel 4 News team. I'm especially pleased that we continue to enhance the reputation of our flagship 7pm programme for breaking original stories.

"Moreover, this has happened in a period in which we have been expanding our output rapidly, with the launch of More4 News in October 2005, and an increasing commitment to multimedia journalism via our broadband, online and mobile services. Channel 4 and ITN have big ambitions for the Channel 4 News service, but original journalism will always be at the heart of what we do.'