Strike a pose

The journalist judging panels of the Royal Television Society put their warm and protective embrace around the BBC in general and Newsnight in particular last night in their 2020 awards.

Newsnight won Daily Programme of the Year; Emily Maitlis was Network Presenter of the Year; Prince-Andrew-On-The-Rack-Of-Total-Unawareness was Interview of the Year and Scoop of The Year. Other BBC winners included reporter John Sudworth for The Missing Muslims of Xinjiang, for International News Coverage, with his cameramen Wang Xiqing also awarded; at home, reporter Angus Crawford for coverage of The Death of Molly Russell; around the country, BBC Scotland's Samantha Poling took the current affairs gong for Disclosure: Who Killed Emma ?, and BBC South East took the news medal for coverage of the Shoreham air crash.

Riz Lateef of BBC London was regional presenter of the year, but the night was really Emily's, who'd clearly been practising for the camera.