Nima Elbagir Receives ‘TV Journalist of the Year’ Award at RTS Television Awards 2020

CNN senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir has received the Television Journalist of the Year award at Royal Television Society (RTS) Television Awards 2020.

Congratulations to all of the winners from tonight’s RTS Television Journalism Awards! Find out the full list of winners here: https://t.co/go8vmVif5M #RTSAwards pic.twitter.com/d53CW4Z3yC

— Royal Television Society (@RTS_media) February 26, 2020

Sponsored by media platform Avid, the prestigious awards were presented at a ceremony hosted by Sky News presenter Anna Botting on 26 February 2020 at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

The awards, which span both news and current affairs, seek to recognise creative and excellent journalism by organisations whose broadcasts are transmitted on a UK-based platform, or who create online video content from a UK production base.

Elbagir was nominated for the award along with journalists Gabriel Gatehouse (Newsnight BBC Two) and Stuart Ramsay (Sky News).

The award-winning Sudanese-British international journalist and television correspondent has garnered acclaim specifically for her in-depth investigating and uncovering slave auctions of African refugees in Libya, child slavery on Lake Volta in Ghana, use of child labour in the cobalt mines in the Congo, the sale of displaced children to Boko Haram, and more recently the use and transferring of American-made weapons to Al Qaeda-linked groups and other hardline militias in Yemen.

The London-based Sudanese-British Elbagir has racked up a variety of awards. She has been honoured with a duPoint Award, a Polk Award in 2017, the International Center for Journalists 2018 Excellence in International Reporting Award and the 2018 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in October. In June 2019, LA Press Club honoured Elbagir with the 2019 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.

Elbagir’s younger sister and Channel 4 News journalist, Yousra Elbagir, was also nominated for an award at the RTS Television Awards 2020. However, the Young Talent of the Year award was given to Sky News journalist Martha Kelner.

I can’t fully put in to words how incredibly proud I am and I absolutely can not promise not to cry if my baby sister wins! It was a privilege for both of us to cover Sudan’s historic year. Witnessing the Sudanese people’s bravery and persistence was an honour in and of itself. https://t.co/dut7GPipz4

— Nima Elbagir (@NimaCNN) February 2, 2020

COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF @NimaCNN – JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR. https://t.co/f8X9kfjfWv

— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) February 26, 2020

For more information or to see the full list of winners, visit the RTS website.

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