Best television spot news reporting from abroad
AWARD DATE: 1990
AWARD NAME: Best Television Spot News Reporting from Abroad 1990 (Shared)
AWARD RECIPIENT: Brian Ross and Ira Silverman (shared with Bob Simon)
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: NBC News
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Nuclear Trigger”
In his “Reports from the Frontline” from Saudi Arabia for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Bob Simon offered fresh, literate and incisive reporting from the Persian Gulf. The Award is based on Simon’s reports from March through December, 1990 – before he was captured by Iraqi forces. Sharing the Class 7 Award are Brian Ross and Ira Silverman, NBC’s chief investigative duo, for their report on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw titled “Nuclear Trigger.” Ross and Silverman traced the clandestine efforts by Iraqi agents to obtain critical parts for the construction of nuclear weapons.
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