At the RTS Awards in Pictures- Photobombed

I’m at the RTS Television Journalism Awards. I’ve been a juror for a decade, following a journalism career producing for the likes of the BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, ABC News and reporting for the World Service and BBC Reportage.

The RTS is the opportunity to look at trends, meet old friends and make new acquaintances and of course see if the programme you voted for won.

I’m a seasoned photographer, so here in photos is my flashback of the RTS Awards.

Mary Nightingale presenting, BCU DIana Kemp, Lloyd Watson and BJTC CEO Jon Godel

BBC Clive Myrie. I’d bump into Clive in the mid 90s covering crime stories as a Videojournalist for Channel One. Wonder if he remembers :) Members of the BJTC, for which I have been a director. The BJTC regulates the standard of journalism teaching in Universities.

Channel 4’s Symeon Brown and Guardian Editor Columnist Joseph Harker. I’ve known Joseph since the early 1990s when he published a newspaper

With Ian Pannell, we both started at BBC Leicester together in 1988; Nick Pollard my Head of Programmes at Channel One and now a mentor and good friend

The James Bond of News, Inigo Gilmore — former Channel 4 News colleague and a friend, and Jon Snow whom I used to produce.

Dr David Dunkley Gyimah is the first Brit to win the coveted (US) Knight Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism. He’s also an international award winning video journalist and former artist in residence at the Southbank Centre. As a journalist and producer, he’s worked for the likes of the BBC, Channel 4 News and ABC News (South Africa) and start-ups spanning almost thirty years. An academic, creative and technologist he’s behind the Cinema Journalism & Digital LAB movement. He’s the Asper Visiting Professor for Journalism at UBC (2018), and is currently at the Cardiff School of Journalism. He publishes viewmagazine.tv