BBC News wins Media Awards

Journalists from BBC News and BBC World Service have won five out of thirteen Foreign Press Association Media Awards at a ceremony last night.BBC correspondent Paul Wood won Journalist of the Year for his team’s courageous coverage of the bombardment of Homs. Cameraman Fred Scott was part of the team reporting from Syria.
Robert Peston’s BBC Two programme on the banking crisis, The Great Euro Crash, won the prize in the Financial/Economic Story of the Year category. Peston shared the award with his production team, John Thynne and Sam Bagnall.
Natalia Anteleva and Wesley Stephenson’s moving programme for World Service Assignment and Radio 4’s Crossing Continents on human rights abuses of women in Uzbekistan received the Radio Story of the Year award.
Steph Atkinson, Rob Unsworth and the BBC Current Affairs team in Salford won the TV Feature/Documentary of the Year award for Escape from the World’s Most Dangerous Place. The BBC Three programme is an account of a Somali-born model’s trip back to the home of her birth.
Mark Daly, Murdoch Rodgers and Marcus Ryder of BBC Scotland Investigates won the award in the Sports Story of the Year section for their programme Rangers – The Men Who Sold the Jerseys.