International Emmys: CBC's Ebola coverage earns nomination
Winners to be announced Sept. 28 in New York
CBC's coverage of the Ebola crisis has earned a nomination for the International Emmy Awards.
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed Thursday the news and current affairs nominees for 2015, with the contenders hailing from seven countries across four continents.
- The National: Ebola Checkup Panel
- The National: Orphans of Ebola
- Ebola in Liberia: Adrienne Arsenault interviews the president
- Worst-ever Ebola outbreak, by the numbers
- More CBC News coverage of the Ebola outbreak
"With an increasingly accelerated news cycle and competition for audiences on a global scale, the high-quality, reliable news coverage exemplified in our 2015 nominees has never been more in demand," academy president Bruce L. Paisner said in a statement.
Nominated in the news category are:
- The Buck Stops Here: Srinagar floods coverage (New Delhi Television, India)
- CBC News: The National — The Ebola Effect (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
- The National Day of Mourning (NOS Broadcasting Organization, the Netherlands)
- Jornal Hoje and Jornal Nacional — The death of Eduardo Campos, (Globo, Brazil)
Nominated in the current affairs category are:
- Stray Bullets (101 East/Al Jazeera English, Malaysia)
- Dispatches: Children on the Frontline — Children of Aleppo (ITN Productions, U.K.)
- ZDFzoom: The Soccer Empire — The dealings of FIFA (ZDF German Television, Germany)
- GloboNews Documentário — Tower of David (GloboNews, Brazil)
The International Emmys for news and current affairs will be awarded alongside the American news and documentary categories at a ceremony at New York's Lincoln Center on Sept. 28.