The Rory Peck Trust has announced the winners of its three awards for 2008, honouring the work of freelance camera workers in television news and current affairs. They are:
2008 News Award (where the focus is on coverage bringing the immediacy of the story):
Abdullahi Farah Duguf for coverage in September 2007 of the insurgency in Mogadishu, Somalia, broadcast by ITN/Channel 4 News.
2008 Features Award (which honours in-depth reports that look beyond the story's immediacy):
Tim Hetherington for a feature about the daily duties of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan, recorded in October 2007 and broadcast by ABC Nightline.
2008 Impact Award sponsored by Sony UK Ltd (which honours news footage raising humanitarian issues and producing an impact internationally or contributing to a change in perception or policy):
Jung In Taek and Han Yong Ho for Out of the North, about the struggles of North Korean refugees.
The winners were announced at a ceremony in London on 13 November.
The UK-based Rory Peck Trust was set up in honour of the British freelancer killed in Moscow during the revolt against Yeltsin in October 1993. Realising the financial vulnerability of freelance journalists and their families in the event of such death or injury, his widow worked with supporters to establish the trust which now helps freelancers' families around the world. The award ceremony event is the trust's main fundraiser for this work.
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