It was an honour to attend the UNCA Gala in New York on Friday to receive the medal and wonderful to meet so many interesting journalists from around the world. And it was a great excuse to explore New York at Christmas time - a real bucket list tick for a very big career moment ✅ 🥹

Big thanks also to Content Editor Cathy Edwards who attended the awards with me, and without whom these programmes would not have been anywhere near as good!

I’d like to give a massive thanks to the contributors - without whom there is no programme, no story and no hope. Their resilience and commitment to protecting coastlines in Puerto Rico and beyond is incredible.

(The second programme is here for those interested: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...)

The award is for reporting on UN Agency work, and I’m especially thrilled it was awarded to programmes we made about my favourite subject (geography). The first of the two winning programmes is here:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...