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PBS and The Weather Channel win business Emmys

PBS and The Weather Channel were the winners in the outstanding business, consumer and economic categories of the 39th annual news and documentary Emmys, which were announced Monday.

The winners were:

Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report

The Weather Channel Digital, Telemundo Network and Efran Films for “The Source: The Human Cost Hidden Within a Cup of Coffee.”

Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary

PBS “Frontline” for “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.”

In addition, The Washington Post and CBS’ “60 Minutes” won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for “The Whistleblower”, a joint investigation into how the drug industry triumphed over the DEA in its effort to combat the nation’s opioid crisis, the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history.

All of the winners can be found 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.