ABC, CBS and PBS win business Emmys

ABC’s “Nightline” and CBS’s “60 Minutes” were among the winners Tuesday night for business and economics reporting in the 35th annual news and documentary Emmys.

“Nightline” won the Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a regularly scheduled newscast category for “Billion Dollar Losers — China Fraud and U.S. Markets.”

“60 Minutes” won Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a news magazine category for “China’s Real Estate Bubble.”

In addition, PBS’s “Frontline” won the Outstanding Business and Economics Reporting — long form category for “The Retirement Gamble.”

Also, National Public Radio’s “Planet Money” won an Emmy for New Approaches in Documentaries for “Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt.”

KNXV-TV in Phoenix won an Emmy in the Outstanding Regional News Story: Investigative Reporting category for “Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect.”

See all of the winners here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.