to get right”, but is emphatic that it is not the place of a foreign correspondent to manipulate emotive images “to make a political point”. Awards Hilsum was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex in 2004 and has won several awards including the Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year, James Cameron Award, One World Broadcasting Trust award, Amnesty, Voice of the Listener & Viewer and the Charles Wheeler Award. In 2017, she was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society She won the 2018 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography) for In Extremis. References External links C4 Biography archived C4 biography Column at Channel4.com 1958 births Living people ITN newsreaders and journalists Alumni of the University of Exeter British television executives Women television executives British journalists Channel 4 people Writers from Worcester, England People from Malvern, Worcestershire Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Patron's Medal