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CBS, PBS win Emmys for business reporting

Winners of the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented at a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center in New York City.

The CBS Evening News won the Emmy for best business and economic reporting in a regularly scheduled newscast for “Cancer Drug Shortages.” The executive producer of the segment was Patricia Shevlin.

For the Emmy for outstanding business and economic reporting in a news magazine, the winner was CBS’ “60 Minutes” for “A Hard Landing.” The executive producer was Jeff Fager. The correspondent was Scott Pelley.

The Emmy for outstanding business and economic reporting long form was PBS’ “Frontline” for “Money, Power and Wall Street.” The executive producer was David Fanning.

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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