NBC News Wins Fourth Consecutive EDWARD R. MURROW Award

The Radio Television Digital News Association has announced the 2012 National Edward R. Murrow Award winners. The awards honor excellence in electronic journalism. For the fourth consecutive year, NBC News won the Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence in the network television grouping. NBC News also won National Murrows for Video Newscast and Writing.

In the same television grouping, ABC News earned three Murrow Awards in 2012 – for Video Breaking News Coverage, Video Continuing Coverage and Video Reporting: Hard News.

CBS News took the awards for Video Feature Reporting and Video Investigative Reporting in the network television grouping.

In all, 67 news organizations are being honored with 99 awards, a partial list of winners follows. For complete list of winners and to view winning entries, click here! 

Television Network/Syndication Service

Overall Excellence
NBC News
Overall Excellence

Video Breaking News Coverage

ABC News
Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1

Video Continuing Coverage

ABC News
Gabrielle Giffords

Video Feature Reporting

CBS News
60 Minutes: The Gardens of the Queen

Video Reporting: Hard News

ABC News
World News with Diane Sawyer, A Cry For Help: Famine in Somalia

Video Investigative Reporting

CBS News
The CBS Evening News: Gunwalker

Video News Documentary

CNBC
Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry

Video News Series

CNN
Homs: City Under Siege

Video Newscast

NBC News
Blown Away: Southern Tornadoes

Video Sports Reporting

ESPN
E:60 Angel in the Outfield

Use of Video

CNN
Joplin Gawker

Website

CNBC
CNBC.com

Writing

NBC News
American Story with Bob Dotson

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