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.