Thank you to Sony for an incredible legacy of sponsorship of our Awards. Our lucky winners also received a new Sony Z300 camera ✨

🎬…And that’s a wrap. Huge thank you to all our sponsors: Media Insurance Brokers, @sonyproeurope, @Dataminr, the Swedish Embassy in London, @AP and @aljazeera 

Our presenter @chrissymacCNN, the judges and all our friends and supporters who keep us going!

See you next year.

🏆The Winner chosen by a panel of industry experts is…Ebraheem Abu Ishaiba and Zaher Saleh, the @Channel4News camera team based in Gaza.

🏆Now, for our final Award of the night, The NEW mib (Media Insurance Brokers) Freelance Journalist of the Year! 


We had hundred of candidates and a longlist of 14 outstanding freelance journalists which made the decision extremely hard for the judes but in the end they were unanimous ….

🏆Now for the Rory Peck Fellowship, a new Award recognising outstanding services to independent journalism by an individual or team presented by @bbclysedoucet…

* The first Fellowship is awarded to the BBC Persian Team!

This evening Rachel Corp CEO @ITN joins us on stage to read some words by the late veteran ITN journalist Sandy Gall. Sandy, who passed away in June of this year, hosted the first ever Rory Peck Awards.

Members of the Peck and Gall families have joined us this evening.

⚫️Tonight is about celebrating. It is also about commemorating, remembering those who have sacrificed everything to ensure the truth can be told.

Our memorium this evening recognises all journalists who lost their lives this past year, most from the same, small corner of the world: Gaza.

And the winner is… 👏@ramitanavai + @karimtl + @jaberphotos for their film ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’.
a @Basement_Films production broadcast on  @Channel4

🏆Next up the SONY IMPACT AWARD FOR CURRENT AFFAIRS sponsored by @sonyproeurope


This Award recognises long-form journalism that had a significant impact on viewers, policies, or public awareness. 



Finalists: @jamesjonesfilm
@ramitanavai + @karimtl + @jaberphotos
Youseff Hammash + @tombesleyfilm

And the Winner of the Martin Adler Prize is…👏 Ayman Abu Ramouz a cinematographer with more than a decade of experience documenting major stories across Palestine, Israel & Syria.

🎥 The Martin Adler Prize supported by the Swedish Embassy in London celebrates the work of local freelancers whose work has made a vital contribution to newsgathering in their country. 

Finalists this year are @CSengenya, Ayman Abu Ramouz and @AbdulwaheedSof3

👏 Congratulations also to finalists @YousefHammash @Zaherwael10 (Inside Gaza: The Anatomy of an Airstrike) and Wil Davies (Crisis in Sudan: The Fight for Survival, Unreported World)

📣 The Winner of the News & Features Award 2025 is… Yasser Abu Wazna for ‘Satellite Images Track Four Gaza Businesses Upended by War’.

Sadly Yasser is in Gaza and unable to join us! Collecting the Award on his behalf, Snr Managing Producer @BusinessInsider @ReemMakhoul.

🏆First up, the News & Features Award sponsored by @Dataminr.

This category recognises short form breaking news & longer more indepth video coverage up to 30 minutes.

The Finalists in this category @YousefHammash, @Zaherwael10, Wil Davies & Yasser Abu Wazna.

Don't forget to tune into the livestream from 7.30pm GMT at www.rorypecktrust.org/awards