NBC's Nightly News With Tom Brokaw Grabs Top Edward R. Murrow Award

Written By Rick Ellis, June 20th, 2000

NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw snagged the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence from The Radio-Television News Director Association over the weekend.

The honor, named after CBS’ legendary newsman, has been handed out to television and radio journalists since 1971.

Winners in the national television category include:

Overall Excellence:
NBC News Newscast: NBC News, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

Spot News Coverage:
CNN, Earthquake in Colombia

Continuing Coverage:
ABC News, "ABC 2000"

Investigative Reporting:
ABC News "20/20, Those Were Our Children"

Feature Reporting:
CNN, "Life. . .and Death"

Sports Reporting:
"Dateline NBC, The Rookie"

News Series:
"Dateline NBC, Color Blind?"

News Documentary:
"Dateline NBC, The Greatest Generation" (tie) CBS News "48 Hours, A Time to Kill"

Use of Video:
"Dateline NBC, Hurricane Floyd"

Writing:
CNN, "Ground Speaking"

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