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CNBC, PBS each win two Emmys for business coverage

CNBC and PBS each won two Emmys Tuesday at the Fifth Annual Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting at a luncheon in New York, while networks CNN, CBS and NBC each won one award. (Photos from the luncheon can be found here.)

The Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting are given in seven categories and recognize outstanding achievement in business & financial reporting telecast from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.

CNBC‘s “Business Nation” won for investigative reporting in the magazine or long form category for a story about prescription drugs, and its documentary “Big Brother, Big Business” with David Faber as the correspondent won in the documentary category.

“NOW on PBS” won for outstanding coverage of a busines news event in the magazine or long form format for a story on franchising health care in developing countries, while the “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” of PBS won in the category of outstanding interpretation or analysis of a business news story in the magazine or long for format for a story on the cost of war.

CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” won in the category for outstanding coverage of a business news event in a regularly scheduled newscast, while NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams” won in the category for outstanding investigative report of a business news story in a regularly scheduled newscast.

CBS News “Sunday Morning” won in the category of outstanding interpretation or analysis of a business news story in a regularly scheduled newscast.

Read more about 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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  • :roll:David Faber did an outstanding job of researching and interviewing on the Biz Nation specials. I would like to add that Maria Bartiromo did a beautiful job with the help of Jonathan Wald on a Greenspand Special......don't know if it got any recognition but, it sure should have.......Maria at her best. Ted

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