Best TV interpretation or documentary on foreign affairs
Award Year: 1996
Award Name: The Edward R. Murrow Award 1996
Recipient: Peter Arnett, Bernard Shaw, John Holliman
Affiliation: CNN
Honored Work: “CNN Presents: Back to Baghdad”
The CNN correspondents who kept the nation glued to its seat during the Persian Gulf war return to Iraq for a look five years later at what war has wrought. They find Saddam Hussein with a firm grip on power, presiding over a suffering nation, reduced by the international trade and oil embargo to a place where babies are dying by the hundreds for lack of medicine, even as Saddam builds palaces to glorify himself and his regime.
Citation for Excellence:
Sherry Jones
PBS/Frontline
“Loose Nukes”