BBC News reporter Angela Saini has won a prestigious European journalism award, the Prix Circom, for an investigation into bogus universities that was broadcast on BBC London and the Ten O’Clock News in January 2008. It was also featured in the Guardian newspaper and New Statesman magazine.

(left to right: producers Nigel Morris and Sharif Sakr, with Angela Saini, president of Circom Anita Bhalla and BBC London TV editor Antony Dore)

The investigative piece won the BBC London Programme the best Magazine Programme award, which was presented at a ceremony in the Slovenian city of Maribor. 27-year-old Angela has been a reporter at BBC London for almost two years, prior to which she was a ITN News trainee.

“It’s great to see your work recognised internationally.” she told AIM Magazine.