Video agency Ruptly is nominated for the News Agency of the Year category, which also includes AFP and EFE.
Ruptly's clients are over 1,700 media companies from over a hundred countries.
The video agency RT was the only one in the world to record the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in front of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2019.
The footage was shown by major global media outlets including BBC, CNN, The Telegraph and The Guardian.
In 2021, Ruptly won the Shorty Awards in the Live Event Coverage category for live streaming from Beirut, where massive explosions took place in August 2020. In 2019, the video agency won the Shorty Awards Gold in the Best Live News Coverage category for broadcasting the Yellow Vest protests in France. In addition, Ruptly has won the prestigious Drum Online Media Awards and Digiday, as well as the German Stevie Business Award. Ruptly is ahead of AP, AFP, Reuters in terms of the number of subscribers on YouTube.
The RTD documentary film Lady Cops in Afghanistan was nominated for the International Affairs Documentary category.
RT rivals include BBC News Arabic Documentaries, as well as work done for Al Jazeera English, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Hijab Policemen won the Human Rights Press Awards in May 2021, which honors work covering human rights issues in the Asian region.
RT tape, filmed in 2020, tells about the service of women in the Afghan police.
The 2015 AIB Lifetime Achievement Award was given to legendary television journalist Larry King, who hosted Larry King Now and Politicking on RT America.
This is the 17th annual The AIBs Awards in 2021.
The awards ceremony will take place in November.
The International Broadcasting Association was founded in 1993. The members of the AIB are the leading international television and radio companies, as well as the largest professional associations. The association includes more than 25 thousand media companies.