CBS News Wins Three Edward R. Murrow Awards for 60 MINUTES & More

CBS News won three Edward. R. Murrow Awards for excellence in radio and television journalism. The winners were announced today by the Radio-Television & Digital News Association, which will present the awards at a gala on Oct. 10 in New York City.

CBS Radio News' "World News Roundup" won Best Audio Newscast for the fourth year in a row. This time it was for its coverage on June 19, 2015, that began with CBS EVENING NEWS Anchor Scott Pelley's report from Charleston, S.C., on the aftermath of the church shootings. The rest of the broadcast was anchored from New York by CBS Radio News Anchor Steve Kathan and covered the Aurora, Colo., theater-shooting trial and the manhunt for two escaped prisoners in northern New York.

60 MINUTES won in the category of Reporting: Hard News for "Iraq's Christians," the Lara Logan story on the plight of Christians in northern Iraq, who were forced by ISIS to flee their ancestral lands. Faced with converting to Islam, paying a tax or execution, 125,000 were dispersed, jeopardizing the future of a religious sect that's 2,000 years old.

The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY was named winner of the Writing award for network news for Steve Hartman's weekly "On the Road" series. Every Friday, Hartman brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he encounters and the special places he visits on his travels around the country.

Steve Capus is the Executive Producer of the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY and Executive Editor of CBS News. Jeff Fager is the Executive Producer of 60 MINUTES. Harvey Nagler is the Vice President of CBS Radio News.

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