Best television spot news reporting from abroad
Award Year: 1987
Award Name: Best Television Spot News Reporting from Abroad 1987
Recipient: Brian Ross, Ira Silverman and William Wheatley Jr.
Affiliation: NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
Honored Work: “Brian Ross’s International Drug Investigations”
Ranging from the Bahamas to Europe to the Middle East, this series shows airplanes dropping cocaine to boats, smugglers bringing drugs into Europe and cash out of Lebanon and acres of opium poppies and hashish under cultivation. It interviews smugglers and exposes the corruption of officials that makes this trade possible.
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