The International Emmy Award for Best News is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) to recognize the best news programming produced and initially broadcast outside the United States. The award was first presented in 1999. The categories for international journalism were previously presented at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards alongside their U.S. counterparts.
In 2025, they began to be presented at the International Emmy Awards Gala, along with the other categories.
Winners and nominees 1990s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country1999 Dispatches "A Witness to Murder" Hardcash Productions / Channel 4 News 23 Special "A Discussion with President Clinton" Tokyo Broadcasting Kosovo: Liberation Day Sky News
2000s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2000 The Mozambique Floods ITN News Correspondent: Inside Chechnya BBC / Wilton Films Zone Interdite "Chile: Torturers Running Free" Tony Comiti Productions / Metropole Television 2001 Not awarded2002 BBC News at Ten "Fall of Kabul" BBC News Jornal Nacional "September 11" TV Globo ITN for ITV "Attack on America" ITN Production RTL aktuell "Terror Against America" RTL Television 2003 Channel 4 News "The Fall of Sadam" Channel 4 Looting at Baghdad Museum France 2 Gulf War II AP Television Radioactive Ammunitions: Deployed Again Despite Scientists' Warnings ARD / Westdeutscher Rundfunk 2004 Channel 4 News "The Madrid Bombing" Channel 4 Good Morning Japan "Eclipse in the Antarctic" NHK News 7 "Terrorist Bombing of UN Headquarters in Iraq" Sky News "Liberia" Sky News 2005 Return to Belsan NCRV ITV News "Beslan siege" Associated Press Television News Jornal Nacional "Re-election of George W. Bush" Rede Globo ITV News "Tsunami: Seven Days that Shook the World" Associated Press Television News 2006 Hunting for Taliban NPS / VARA Television Sky News "London Bombings July 7, 2005" Sky News Summit of the Americas Artear / El Trece BBC News 24 "London Bombings July 7, 2005" BBC News The First Mehlis Report on Hariri's Murder Al Arabiya 2007 BBC News "Lebanon Crisis" BBC News Bandila "The Subic Rape Case Promulgation" ABS-CBN Pro TV News "Tibetans at the Chinese Border" Pro TV Jornal Nacional "Caravana JN: Elections" Globo TV 2008 Pro TV News "Any Idea of What Your Kid is Doing Right Now?" Pro TV Al Jazeera English Kuala Lumpur News Hour "Popular Uprising in Myanmar & Military Crackdown" Al Jazeera English ITV News "Zimbabwe: The Tyranny and the Tragedy" ITV News / ITN / ITV1 Jornal Nacional "TAM Accident" TV Globo 2009 ITV News "China Earthquake" ITV News Al Jazeera News Hour "Russia-Georgia War" Al Jazeera English Details "South Ossetian War" National Information Systems / INTER TV Channel Jornal Nacional "Eloá's Story" TV Globo
2010s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2010 Pakistan: Terrors' Front Line Sky News Al Jazeera English News Hour "Gaza War" Al Jazeera English RT News "Extended News Coverage on Obama's Visit to Russia" RT Channel Jornal Nacional "Blackout in Brazil" TV Globo 2011 Jornal Nacional "Guerra contra as Drogas" TV Globo RÚV News "Volcano Eruption at Eyjafjallajokull" RUV Icelandic National Broadcasting Service Sky News Live at Five "Inside the Taliban" Sky News TV Patrol "Manila Hostage Crisis" ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation 2012 Great East Japan Earthquake Emergency News NHK Jornal Nacional "Rains in the Mountain Region of Rio" TV Globo Newshour "Fall of Tripoli" Al Jazeera Network / Al Jazeera English Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Movement RT Channel 2013 Channel 4 News "The Battle for Homs" ITN / Channel 4 News 24 Oras "Typhoon Pablo" GMA Network Jornal Nacional "Collapse in Rio" TV Globo Pro TV News "Romania Buried in Snow" Pro TV 2014 Syria's Descent ITV / Channel 4 News Fantástico and Jornal Nacional "Fire in a Nightclub" TV Globo RT News Guantanamo Hunger Strike Coverage RT News Channel TV Patrol Weekend "Most Powerful Storm" ABS-CBN 2015 CBC News: The National "The Ebola Effect (Ebola Outbreak in West Africa)" Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Buck Stops Here: "Srinagar Floods Coverage" New Delhi Television Limited The National Day of Mourning NOS Broadcasting Organization Jornal Hoje and Jornal Nacional "The Death of Eduardo Campos" TV Globo 2016 Sky News "Migration Crisis" Sky News Nepal Earthquake Coverage: "Nepal Earthquake and its Aftermath" Al Jazeera English News RT News "UNGA: Special Coverage" RT Jornal Nacional and Fantástico "Microcephaly/Zika" TV Globo 2017 Inside Aleppo: Battle for Aleppo Channel 4 News / ITN Jornal Nacional "The Ryan Lochte Scandal" Globo Comunicação e Participações Le Journal: "Paris/Jaffa: Republican National Convention, Cleveland" i24NEWS TV Patrol "Super Typhoon Lawin's Trail of Damage" ABS-CBN 2018 Sky News "Rohingya Crisis" Sky News #MosulSOS RT Jornal GloboNews "Dozens Killed and Wounded in Alcacuz Prison Riot: The Collapse of Brazil's Prison System" GloboNews / TV Globo Newsgrid "Qatar Crisis Special" Al Jazeera English 2019 Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks: The Cambridge Analytica Scandal ITN / Channel 4 News Indonesia: Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami Al Jazeera English Jornal do Globo, Jornal Nacional and Fantástico "The Murder of Marielle Franco" TV Globo / GloboNews Siberia Fire: Kemerovo Tragedy RT
2020s Year Program (English Title) Episode/Story Production company/Network Country2020 Channel 4 News "Hong Kong: A Year of Living Dangerously" ITN RJ2 "Ghost Staff" TV Globo Russian Jet Crash-Landing in Moscow: Timeline and Survivors RT International The Battle for Burkina Faso Al Jazeera English 2021 Sky News "A Warning from Italy" Sky News Beirut Blast Al Jazeera English Jornal Nacional "COVID-19 in Brazil" Globo Nagorno-Karabakh War: Bloodshed and Path to Ceasefire RT (ANO TV-Novosti) 2022 ITV News "Storming of the Capitol" ITV Productions / ITV News Afghanistan: Taliban Takeover Al Jazeera English Afghanistan Crisis News Coverage Euronews Jornal Nacional "Prevent Senior Case" Globo 2023 The Battle for Bucha & Irpin Sky News TV4 Nyheterna "Beyond Enemy Lines" TV4 News Shireen Abu Akleh's Killing Al Jazeera English Jornal Nacional and Fantástico "The Murder of Bruno and Dom" Globo 2024 Channel 4 News "Israel-Hamas at War" Channel 4 News GloboNews & RJ2 "Secret Payrolls" TV Globo Tragediata v lokorsko Nova War on Gaza Al Jazeera English 2025 Gaza, Search for Life Al Jazeera News Directorate Fantástico "El Salvador: Safety's Somber Side" Globo Sky News "The Gangs of Haiti" Sky News Syria – The Truth Coming Out TV4 2026 Fantástico "Isolated in the Amazon" Globo Remember Me TVI Missing In Gaza Al Jazeera Arabic Channel Sky News "The World: 24 Hours in the Kill Zone" Sky News
See also List of International Emmy Award winners British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage
References
External links International Emmy Awards