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Business Emmy winners: “PBS News Hour” and “60 Minutes”

“PBS News Hour” and CBS’ “60 Minutes” received Emmys on Thursday for business news stories.

PBS and the Center for Investigative Reporting won in the regularly scheduled newscast category for “Deadly Oil Fields.” The executive producer was Sara Just, and the reporter was Jennifer Gollan.

“60 Minutes” won for outstanding business and economics reporting from a news magazine for “The Swiss Leaks.” The executive producer was Jeff Fager, and the correspondent was Bill Whitaker. This story was reported in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

In addition, PBS won the Emmy for outstanding business and economics reporting in long form for “The Homestretch” on “Independent Lens.” The executive producers were Justine Nagan, Gordon Quinn, Andrew Schwertfeger, Lois Vossen and Sally Jo Fifer.

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.

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