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Background and Format: Dispatches is a current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation. The Dispatches programmes are produced by a variety of production companies. Production Company: Channel 4 Schedule Times: Dispatches is aired on an ad-hoc basis with varying schedule times. Target audience: Viewers with an interest in news and current affairs. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints. Please visit BARB at www.barb.co.uk Ad Rates:  Advertising information available here Tips for PRs: The best method of contacting the programme is via the email address dispatches@channel4.co.uk Awards: 2019 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs – International: Dispatches - Myanmar’s Killing Fields (winner)  2018 - Harold Wincott Awards, Video Journalism of the Year: The Carillion Scandal - How to lose seven billion pounds (winner)  2018 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, The Independent Award: Dispatches - Undercover: Britain's Cheap Clothes (nominated) 2018 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - International: Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad (nominated) 2017 - British Journalism Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalism: Channel 4 Dispatches, for “ISIS and the Battle for Iraq” (winner) 2017 - British Journalism Awards, Politics: Channel 4 Dispatches for The Battle for the Labour Party (winner) 2017 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - International: Dispatches: Children on the Frontline - The Escape(nominated) 2016 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - International: Dispatches: Escape from ISIS (winner) 2016 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - Home: Dispatches: Kids in Crisis (winner) 2016 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - Home: Dispatches: Politicians for Hire (nominated) 2014 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - International: Dispatches - Children on the Frontline (winner) 2014 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Current Affairs - Home: Breadline Kids (nominated) 2014 - Amnesty International Media Awards, Gaby Rado Memorial Award, Dispatches: Children on the frontline; Unreported World: Dancing in the danger zone (winner) 2014 - One World Media Awards, Television Award: Dispatches: Children on the Frontline (winner) 2014 - One World Media Awards, Television Award: Dispatches: North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State (nominated) 2013 - Wincott Awards, Wincott Television Journalism of the Year (winner) 2013 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, The Independent Award, Dispatches - Plebs, Lies and Videotape (winner) 2013 - RTS Television Journalism Awards, Scoop of the Year, Dispatches - Plebgate Investigation Blakeway (nominated) 2013 - RTS Television Journalism Aw