Get the latest gossip
RTS Will Now Give Prize Recognizing Journalists In Gaza At Next Week’s Programme Awards
The RTS will now give its special Gaza award at next week's program awards following backlash from Jonathan Dimbleby and others.
Journalists covering the Gaza conflict will finally be recognized next week by the Royal Television Society ( RTS), following a fortnight-long saga that has attracted ire from all corners of the industry. The special award was initially meant to be given at the RTS Journalism Awards earlier this month but was scrapped at the last minute, with the RTS saying 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. The news comes on a tragic day for Gaza, with hundreds reported to have been killed overnight by Israeli airstrikes as the fragile ceasefire slips.
Or read this on Deadline
