Tina Carr (director, Rory Peck Trust): I'd like to thank Jim Gold and News Xchange, for yet again giving us a platform to talk about our work. It is about the only platform we have for all of you here to do this. The Rory Peck Trust exists to help freelancers in need and the families of those who are killed, injured, persecuted or in hiding. We give very small grants - we don't have a huge amount of money. But the grants we give make a tremendous difference to people's lives. We'll give a bit of money that will help pay for the education of children, where the father has been killed. We will give a little bit of money that will help pay for medical treatment if a freelancer has been injured and can't carry on working. We'll give a little bit more money to someone who has no roof over their head or needs to pay the rent, needs to pay a mortgage, just needs to survive - sometimes it even puts food on the table.

In the past 12 months, we've given 24 grants to the families of freelancers who have been killed. We've given 10 grants to freelancers who've been injured in the course of their work or who've lost their equipment in a natural disaster. And we've given 11 grants to the families of freelancers who have been imprisoned or persecuted.

Our work is growing. We're supported very much, and have been for a long time, by the broadcasters in Europe and in the States, and we're very grateful to them. In particular, we're grateful to those who give us long-term support, that is, the commitment to more than one-off support. For that, I'd like to thank BBC, APTN, Reuters, CNN and please forgive me if I've left anybody out. We're delighted to add to this list of long-term supporters the Al Jazeera channel, and we look forward very much to working with them.

One of the main things we do to raise money is to run the Rory Peck Awards, which is a unique ceremony for freelance newsgatherers around the world.

Jonathan Munro (deputy editor, ITN News): Thank you Tina, for all the work that you and your group do. In this year that's coming to an end now, the news agenda has been dominated by natural disasters, by tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes, to name but three. In such an incredibly busy year, it would be all too easy for broadcasters and agencies to turn their backs on other stories, and concentrate our firepower and our airtime and our money on those big events.

Today's winners of the Rory Peck SONY Impact Award have helped us make sure that another big story has stayed on the world map. There are two winners this year. One of them is not here because she doesn't want her identity to be revealed outside her home country. That tells you everything there is to know about the lack of freedom of the press in Zimbabwe. The unfolding and deepening crisis there, which has been caused by the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe, has been the subject of their work, which has often been courageous and has been done in the most difficult of circumstances. Let's take a look at the winning entry, filmed by our two winners and voiced by ITV News Africa correspondent Neil Connery.

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[ITN videotape]

Neil Connery : It is a wasteland, street after street after street, razed to the ground. It looked to me like a natural disaster. The hundreds of thousands who have been left homeless call this Zimbabwe's tsunami. It is no exaggeration. But man, not nature, is to blame for the destruction enveloping this country. The whole force of the state is busy destroying homes and lives. The government calls this Operation Restore Order. All I could see around Zimbabwe was chaos and trauma. There is no compassion here, only brutality, carefully executed.

Even though there are still hundreds of police and security forces on the streets, I've been able to witness first-hand the sheer scale of the destruction of the past two weeks. So far, the United Nations estimates that at least 200,000 people have been left homeless. As you can see all around me, families have been shattered and livelihoods crushed. Every day, the numbers of those forcibly removed grows by tens of thousands. Once it was safe to do so, I managed to speak to the Chechwaza family, struggling like so many here.

"We are very scared. We don't know what will happen here, what will happen in the evening. They can come and chase us, and they're demanding items we have."

They show me the permission given to them by the government four years ago allowing them to live here. It's worthless now. For so many here, survival is all that matters, and holding on to whatever remains.

At Hatcliffe orphanage, they've been given 24 hours to get out before it's knocked down. Many of the children have lost their parents to AIDS; others are disabled. Now, thanks to the government, they're losing the roof over their heads. They've got nowhere to go.

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Jonathan Munro: That was one of a series of reports filmed by our winners, operating with our correspondent, who was working illegally in Zimbabwe. Our winners were also working for the Reuters news agency, who have been enormous supporters of their endeavour and bravery in the country. Sara, which is not her real name, shot some of that material and cannot be here today for the reasons I explained. But please welcome the other Rory Peck Sony Impact Award winner, Cyrus Nhara.

Cyrus Nhara (freelancer): I'd like to thank all the people who have supported my efforts. This particular report and the pictures you've just seen, was the only time we were given access by the government to film whatever we wanted. I'm pretty happy that that access managed to make an impact, and the UN subsequently sent out an envoy to try and understand what was going on in Zimbabwe.

Jonathan Munro: You obviously operate under very difficult circumstances. Many of your contemporaries spend a lot of time being arrested and having other problems. Why do you carry on doing it?

Cyrus Nhara: It's just a calling, and that as a freelancer you would want to be able to feed your family and look after yourself and ultimately to let the world know about the areas that you cover.

Jonathan Munro: Tell us what you can about Sara and her work. You've worked with her closely for a long time.

Cyrus Nhara: Sara is a courageous woman. She is the only woman camera person that is left in the country. There are very few people operating in Zimbabwe, and I wish she could have been here, to put her face before the rest of you here, so that you'd be able to identify talent, and courageous women that work hard as freelancers.

Jonathan Munro: We wish you and your colleagues well. Thank you for everything you've done. You're a very deserving winner, and the Zimbabwe story will I'm sure be one that all of us will want to keep coming back to, no matter how difficult it is, over the next few years. It's my pleasure to hand over to Elizabeth Palmer for the annual INSI safety debate.

Elizabeth Palmer (international correspondent, CBS News): I'd like to begin today with a video that was put together by Reuters of some of the incidents that happened to be captured on film of journalists running the risks that they do in the field.

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[Reuters videotape of journalists injured, assaulted, shot at on the job]