As editor of ITV News, Turness was in charge of news coverage and business operations.
In that category, it beat rival evening bulletins the BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten.
Turness, who is 46, became editor of ITV News in 2004, the first woman and youngest person to hold that job.
Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News in Britain, replaces Steve Capus, who resigned earlier this year, and will begin her new job in August.
He told ITV News the comedian's tax affairs were "straightforward tax avoidance" and it was unfair on the people who pay to watch the comic perform that he was not paying his taxes in the same way that they did.
The East Anglian Archive's website has video dating from 1885 to 2008, much of it sourced from BBC and ITV local news reports.
And even if they can work that out, can they really understand what is behind the ITV Evening News's deep blue, purple, red and orange?
Following prolonged negotiations between the three political parties and BBC, ITV and Sky News ahead of the 2010 debates, strict rules were agreed on the style of questioning and the division of time for leaders' answers.
The government had come up with the plan because "there is a serious real question mark over whether ITV can continue to provide regional news", he added.
South of the border, there are indications ITV will also continue to provide regional news - although the nature of the service may evolve.
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In the third minute of extra time in the Real Madrid and Bayern Munich game, cameras cut to ITV newsreader Mark Austin preparing for the News At Ten.
ITN, which is 40 percent owned by ITV, is Britain's top commercial news producer.
But ITV plans to increase the number of distinct regional news programmes shown at 18:00 in return for a cut in the length of the bulletins at lunchtime, 22:30 and at the weekend.
Plymouth's role as the regional media capital would have been even stronger if ITV had not switched the hosting of its nightly news programme to Bristol - a result of the same pressures facing the newspapers.
Wilson also revealed he preferred radio news to television news and thought the presentation was better on ITV than BBC Television.
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And he was emphatic in stating that Channel 4 would not introduce regional news bulletins, in response to comments by ITV chairman Michael Grade that his network's regional coverage may be outsourced in future.
Channel 4 would be unable to win as many viewers for regional news compared to "50 years plus of regional ITV companies having real local roots in the way they appeal to the local area".
"This is not another ITV - all of our stations will be locally run with local news editors and producers and local editorial control, " he said.
Mrs Clwyd's husband, a former head of news and current affairs for BBC Cymru Wales and an ITV executive, had been treated for multiple sclerosis before his death in October.
He comes to the Saturday lunchtime slot from ITV where he spent more than 20 years as a presenter on Central News and Thames Valley Tonight, the nightly news programmes.
"We are saddened to hear the terrible news of Sophiya's death, " said a statement from ITV.
The report then goes on to list errors it says have been made by other news organisations over the years, including the BBC, New York Times and ITV.
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What is more "it's good news for Sky, because it makes the DTT (digital terrestrial) marketplace more coherent compared with ITV Digital", said WestLB analyst Simon Wallis.
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