Bowel Cancer - A National Lottery
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Anthony Day has won the top TV journalism prize at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council’s annual awards in 2012. Anthony was voted the winner of the TV News Feature award – described by the ceremony’s presenter, ITN newscaster Alastair Stewart, as perhaps the hardest category of the competition. Anthony’s feature was entitled ‘Bowel Cancer – a National Lottery’ and was commended by the judges as “a confident and powerfully told story, ready for transmission at every level.” Anthony looked at pioneering new treatment in Leeds for bowel cancel using robotic surgery. He also investigated the ‘postcode lottery’, highlighting the case of a woman who had been misdiagnosed thirteen times before receiving the new surgery.
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