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Finalists named for biz-related Emmys

Nominations for the 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Thursday by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Here are the finalists in the business and economics categories:

Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage

60 Minutes                                                                                                       CBS
Talent on the Spectrum

CBS Sunday Morning                                                                                  CBS
Not So Plain

Fault Lines                                                                                                      Al Jazeera International USA
Virus on the Poultry Line

New Day                                                                                                           CNN
A Family’s Struggle as Pandemic Worsens Food Insecurity

Rescuing Her Father From an Assisted Living Facility                  ProPublica
in the Coronavirus Epicenter    

VICE Versa                                                                                                        Vice

Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary

CNN Films                                                                                                 CNN
Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer

FRONTLINE                                                                                               PBS
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

FRONTLINE in partnership with Financial Times                       PBS
Opioids, Inc.

31 Days in March: The Month Coronavirus                                           Wall Street Journal
Unraveled American Business

Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller                                                         National Geographic

Scams

VOCES                                                                                                         PBS
Building the American Dream

See all of the nominees 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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