Sky News wins News Channel of the Year for sixth year in a row

Sky News has been named News Channel of the Year for a sixth consecutive twelvemonth astatine the Royal Television Society journalism awards - with main analogous Stuart Ramsay winning writer of the year

Judges praised Sky's "impressive scope of coverage, beardown presentation, originative accumulation and committedness to reporting the issues that substance astir to the assemblage beyond regular events".

Our sum successful 2022 included being connected the crushed successful Ukraine since the archetypal time of Russia's penetration and getting the archetypal UK TV interrogation with President Zelenskyy.

Political highlights included the 'Battle for Number 10' special, which saw Kay Burley putting Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak connected the spot, and our Political Editor Beth Rigby drafting a memorable apology from Boris Johnson implicit the Partygate scandal.

Sky News was besides the archetypal broadcaster to study the decease of Queen Elizabeth, with Dermot Murnaghan making the announcement to the gasps of the crowds adjacent to him astatine Buckingham Palace.

Chief analogous Stuart Ramsay was besides named web TV writer of the year.

He was praised for being a "visual storyteller whose professionalism shines done successful each his work".

Ramsay's reporting from Ukraine past twelvemonth included melodramatic footage of him and his squad coming nether occurrence and being forced to tally for information arsenic bullets peppered their car.

The wins travel aft TV watchdog Ofcom past twelvemonth recovered Sky News was the astir trusted UK quality broadcaster.

Other winners astatine the ceremony, held astatine the Hilton connected London's Park Lane, see Jeremy Paxman - who won an outstanding publication award.

RTS judges called the erstwhile Newsnight and University Challenge presenter a "legend successful the tv manufacture whose vocation arsenic a newsman and presenter has spanned aggregate decades".

Among different winners, ITV News and the BBC were honoured for champion UK and planetary quality sum - for Partygate and the Ukraine warfare respectively.