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CNN and PBS win Business and Economic Emmy Awards

PBS and CNN were the winners in the business and economics news categories for the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which were announced Thursday night by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The winner for Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report was CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” for its story on Trump University.

Executive Producers

Patricia DiCarlo, Charlie Moore

Senior Producer

Nelli Black

Producer

Curt Devine

Senior Investigative Correspondent

Drew Griffin

Anchor

Anderson Cooper

The winner for outstanding business and economic documentary was PBS’ “Independent Lens” for “In Football we Trust.”

Director

Tony Vainuku

Co-Director / Producer

Erika Cohn

Executive Producers

Gavin Dougan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Mark Lipson, Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen

Supervising Producer

Amy Shatsky-Gambrill

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.