Category : Awards News
BBC Defence Correspondent wins Desmond Wettern Media Award Captain Richard Woodman awarded Maritime Fellowship Award for outstanding achievement. BBC Defence Correspondent Caroline Wyatt won the Desmond Wettern Media Award at the Maritime Media Awards 2011 for her excellence in reporting on maritime defence issues. Of her award – named in honour of Desmond Wettern – [...]
First Sea Lord to attend prestigious event at Institute of Directors THE Maritime Foundation’s annual appeal for the country’s top maritime journalists, writers and broadcasters comes has recently closed with a record number of nominations. Winners of the five following major categories will be honoured at a dinner at the Institute of Directors, in London [...]
Dan Snow wins broadcast award for BBC2 series Empire of the Seas Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope stresses importance of Royal Navy’s role protecting Britain’s sea trade DAN SNOW has won the Donald Gosling Broadcast Award at this year’s Maritime Foundation dinner for his four-part BBC2 series Empire of the Seas. The TV historian said: “This [...]
The Great Chain at Maritime Media Awards dinner – The role of sea transport and its crucial significance to Britain as an island nation.
Members of the Awards Committee had the opportunity to congratulate Maritime Media Award winner Ross Kemp in person at the Foundation’s “Strategy for a Maritime Nation” briefing which was held at the Naval Club in March. The broadcaster was unable to attend last October’s annual Media Awards dinner at which his series “In Search of [...]
Ross Kemp wins Award for In Search of Pirates TV series The End of The Line writer receives Maritime Fellowship Award Press Release – 29th October 2009 HRH The Princess Royal presented prizes to some of the country’s most outstanding journalists, broadcasters and writers at last night’s annual Maritime Media Awards. Among those honoured was [...]
HRH The Princess Royal is to present the prizes at next week’s Maritime Media Awards. The Princess, who will be accompanied to the dinner by her husband Vice-Admiral Timothy Lawrence, will meet the winners of the following five categories at the event due to be held at the Institute of Directors, in London on Wednesday, [...]
Countess Mountbatten to attend prestigious event at Institute of Directors The Maritime Foundation today launches its search for the country’s top maritime journalists, writers and broadcasters for its annual awards. Winners of the five following major categories will be honoured at a dinner at the Institute of Directors, in London on Wednesday, October 28: The [...]
The Desmond Wettern Media Award for Best Journalistic Contribution for 2008, one of the Maritime Foundation’s annual series of Maritime Media Awards, has been awarded to Julian Bray for his editorship of Lloyds List over the past eight years. Commenting on the award, Julian Parker, Chairman of the Awards Committee, said, “Under his editorship, Lloyd’s [...]
Professor Emeritus wins top Media Award The prize for the top maritime media person of the year has been awarded to Brian Lavery, Curator Emeritus at the National Maritime Museum. He received the Desmond Wettern Media Award, an engraved ships decanter and a cheque for £1,000, from Countess Mountbatten of Burma, President of the Maritime [...]