Al Jazeera English named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’

Doha, Qatar: Al Jazeera English channel was named Broadcaster of the Year at the 2024 New York Festivals TV Film Awards for the eight consecutive...

Doha, Qatar: Al Jazeera English channel was named ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ at the 2024 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards for the eight consecutive year.

The channel collected an impressive array of gold, silver and bronze medals for its news and programmes coverage.

The ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ award, considered the premier prize by the organisers, goes to the media organisation that wins the highest number of gold medals. The winners were announced online on April 16.

The awards featured entries from over 50 countries, covering content screened on US and international broadcasters including ITV, BBC, NBC and CBC.

Al Jazeera English won a total of six gold medals. One of the gold medals went to its news coverage of the Sudan conflict in 2023, at a point in which over half a million Sudanese have fled the conflict in their country, most to neighbouring Chad. Correspondents Zein Basravi and Ahmed Idris spent weeks with them, getting an accurate picture of the dire situation in which the refugees are living. Most have fled from West Darfur, where ethnically driven violence and mass killings erupted again this month in the state capital, el-Geneina, pushing thousands more people to flee.