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RTS U-Turns On Special Gaza Award & Is “Discussing How This Will Take Place”
The RTS will give its Gaza journalist award after pressure and a letter to King Charles from Jonathan Dimbleby, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Orla Guerin
Following a week of intense pressure, the UK’s Royal Television Society( RTS) has U-turned on its special award recognizing the work of journalists in Gaza and is “discussing how this will take place.” The awards body sparked anger just over a week ago when it scrapped the award, telling jurors it did not wish to “add fuel to the fire” around Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, the BBC documentary that was pulled after it was revealed that the child narrator was the son of a Hamas minister. “Following the decision to pause the presentation of the award, the RTS met this week as part of the Society’s previously announced review process,” a spokeswoman said.
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