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ABC, CBS, CNBC and PBS nominated for biz Emmys

ABC and CBS were each nominated twice for outstanding business and economic reporting in a regularly scheduled newscast on Thursday when the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

In the category of outstanding business and economic reporting in a news magazine, CBS and PBS received two nominations, while NBC received one nomination. Both of the CBS nominations in this category came from “60 Minutes.”

Meanwhile CNBC, CNN, HBO and PBS were the nominees for outstanding long form business and economics reporting. The CNBC nomination was for “The Costco Craze” with Carl Quintanilla.

Bloomberg TV’s nomination was in the outstanding graphic design and art direction category for “The Economy of Caterpillar.”

The winners will be announced Oct. 1 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City.

To see all of the nominees, go 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.