British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage

The British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards, the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "an individual news programme"
The category has been through some name changes and has been merged a couple of times with other categories like Best Sport and Live Event and Best Current Affairs:

In 1961 and 1962 an individual award named Best Current Events was presented, later in 1970 a category called Best Factual Current Affair was awarded.
From 1978 to 1985 and also in 1992 it was presented as Best Actuality Coverage.
From 1986 to 1991 it was presented as Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage.
From 1993 to 1994 and then from 1998 to 2001 it was presented as Best News and Current Affairs Journalism.
From 1995 to 1997 and then since 2002 it has been presented as Best News Coverage.

Winners and nominees

1970s

Best Factual Current Affair
Best Actuality Coverage

Year	Title	Recipient
1978	A Day of Celebration	Anthony Craxton
1978	BBC Coverage of Wimbledon '77	Sports Production Team
1978	Blow Out at Bravo	Grampian Production Team
1978	Jubilee '77	Outside Broadcast Production Team
1979	The Open Golf Championship	AP Wilkinson
1979	Home from the Sea	John Vernon
1979	ITV Coverage of The World Cup	Sports Production Team
1979	Wimbledon '78	AP Wilkinson

1980s

Best Actuality Coverage
'''Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage'''

1990s

Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage
Best Actuality Coverage
Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
Best News Coverage
Best News and Current Affairs Journalism

Year	Title	Recipient
1998	Panorama: Valentina's Story	Mike Robinson
1998	BBC Election Night Programme	Peter Horrocks
1998	Channel 4 Coverage of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales	Jim Gray
1998	ITV Coverage of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales	Nigel Dacre
1999	Dispatches: Inside the Animal Liberation Front	David Monaghan, Deborah Davies, Graham Hall
1999	Correspondent: ETA - Coming in from the Cold	Ewa Ewart, Fiona Murch, Orla Guerin
1999	ITN's Coverage of the Omagh Bomb and its Aftermath	Nigel Dacre and the Production Team
1999	Newsnight: Coverage Of the Northern Ireland Peace Process	Martha Kearney, Sian Kevill

2000s

Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
'''Best News Coverage'''

2020s

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.