Best TV or video interpretation or documentary on international affairs
AWARD YEAR: 2015
AWARD NAME: The Edward R. Murrow Award 2015
RECIPIENTS: Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi and Raney Aronson
AFFILIATION: PBS investigative series FRONTLINE
HONORED WORK: “ISIS in Afghanistan”
The growing global threat of ISIS, a defining story of 2015, was further revealed by this chilling FRONTLINE documentary tracking a correspondent to a remote Afghan village to see how ISIS is brutally displacing the Taliban. Najibullah Quraishi’s courageous reporting shows how ISIS offers recruits $700 a month as they outbid the Taliban and gives a glimpse of ISIS education: tutorials in beheading, grenade tossing and death chants to the United States and Israel.
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Citation Recipient: David Scott and Chapman Downes
Affiliation: HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel
Honored Work: “The Killing Fields: The Plight of the African Elephant”
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