ONE News Wins Best Coverage Breaking News Award

ONE News Wins Best Coverage Breaking News Award

TVNZ’s ONE News, Breakfast, Close Up and Sunday have picked up key awards at the 2012 New Zealand Television Awards.

This year saw the introduction of the Kordia Best Coverage Breaking News award, which was given to ONE News for their coverage of the Carterton ballooning tragedy in January. TVNZ Head of News and Current Affairs Ross Dagan says the ONE News team is always working hard to bring New Zealanders news as it happens.

“Every night more New Zealanders turn to ONE News than any other network, and we know that Kiwis trust us to bring them the most up-to-the minute and accurate information on breaking stories as they develop. It’s great to see that we have been recognised by the judges of the New Zealand Television Awards, as well as by our audience.”

Other big winners were reporter Gill Higgins and producer Chris Lynch for their story exposing online predators, which was filed for Close Up earlier in the year. Taking out the Best Current Affairs Reporting for a Daily Programme award, this story lead to an investigation by police, and a man was arrested and convicted for exposing himself to who he believed was a 14-year-old girl.

In the Best Current Affairs Reporting for a Weekly Programme or One-Off Current Affairs Special, reporter Mark Crysell and producer Julie Clothier won for their story on the parents of the Japanese students who lost their lives in the CTV building. Crysell and Clothier’s story aired on Sunday.

Also on Sunday was the story “Devil in the Detail”, a piece about franchisees for fast-food chain Hell’s Pizza. For this story, Vinay Ranchhod picked up the Best Graphics award.

In the category of Best News Editing, Luis Portilio won for the piece entitled “Fashion” for TV ONE’s Breakfast, discovering Melbourne’s male fashion scene.

It was a successful evening for TVNZ’s non-news shows as well, scooping up awards including Best Factual Series for Radar Across the Pacific, Best Observational Reality Series for SPCA Rescue - Christchurch Earthquake Special, Best Constructed Reality Series for The Food Truck, Best Information Series for Global Radar, and Best Drama Series for Go Girls, among others.

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