2025 Winners

Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate and thank you to the judges. A huge congratulations to our winners:  
 

Most Impactful Journalism > Nations

Southport Attack and Riots, BBC North West News Team

Most Impactful Journalism > News

Trump Butler Assassination Attempt, Gary O'Donoghue, Iona Hampson, Senior North America Correspondent and Producer and Sam Beattie, Senior Cameraman

Outstanding Initiative for Reaching Underserved Audiences

Zaza and Zuzu - Lifeline for Gaza's children, BBC Media Action North Africa team 

Outstanding Contribution to Operational Excellence - In Memory of Anthony Shelmerdine

Dan McMillan, Senior Journalist Trainer, Media Operations 

Outstanding Innovation

Joint winners - Watch Your Count Live - Geraint Thomas, News on iPlayer Assistant Editor, and team and BBC Virtual Newsroom - Lisa Santoro, Paavani Jain and Tejash Kothari, World Service Marketing

Outstanding Original Journalism / Investigation > News

Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods - Keaton Stone, Laura Gaynor, Erica Gornall, Cassie Cornish-Trestrail, Mike Radford, Joanna Carr (TV Current Affairs) and Jo Adnitt, Daniel de Simone, Olivia Davies, Rob Brown, Hannah Price, Ed Campbell (News Investigations team)

Outstanding Original Journalism / Investigation > Nations

The Emma Caldwell investigation - Sam Poling and the Disclosure production team, BBC Scotland

Rising Stars of the Year

Merlyn Thomas, Senior Reporter, BBC Verify and Patrick Fee, Assistant Producer/Producer/Correspondent, Spotlight, BBC NI

Team Leader of the Year

Jacky Martens, Director, BBC News India

Gold Award

Mina Al-Lami, Chief Jihadist Media Specialist, BBC Monitoring

The Gillard Award

Shelley Jofre, Editor, Disclosure, BBC Scotland

Unsung Hero (Editorial)

Gaza Freelance Crews, World News Content

Unsung Hero (Non-Editorial)

Wasim Sadi, Operations Engineer, International