CBS Evening News Wins Murrow Award For "Best Newscast"

Katie Couric's CBS Evening News, which has suffered through dismal ratings during her entire tenure as anchor (and for some time before that), got some much needed good press Tuesday when it was announced that it was the winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast for its August 9, 2007 broadcast.

ABC News was the big winner, taking in six awards, including one for Overall Excellence. CBS News won four awards, while NBC won just one (for writing).

Iraq coverage was also a major award winner, with Lara Logan's "Boots on the Ground" series winning the "Continuing Coverage" award and Kimberly Dozier's "The Way Home" feature winning the "Feature Reporting" award for CBS, and Bob Woodruff's "To Iraq and Back" winning the "News Documentary" award and Dan Harris' "Children of War" winning the "Hard News" award for ABC.

In a statement, CBS Evening News Executive Producer Rick Kaplan said he was very proud of both Couric and Logan:

"I'm very proud of all the women and men of CBS News who have been honored by winning so many of the Edward R. Murrow Awards. The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric winning a Murrow on what many would call an average news day just illustrates that the broadcast is a stand-out, on any given day. Katie and the team work diligently every day and it really is gratifying when your work is recognized. Lara Logan's series for the Evening News about American troops in Baghdad is just part of the great journalism Lara brings to viewers in her fearless and insightful reporting. My congratulations go out to everyone at the various CBS News broadcasts, radio and website who were recipients today."

List of network awards below:

Television Network/Syndication Service

Overall Excellence: ABC News
Continuing Coverage: CBS News, Boots on the Ground
Feature: Hard News: ABC News, Children of War
Feature Reporting: CBS News, The Way Home
Investigative Reporting: ABC News, Brian Ross Investigates: Prescription for Error
News Documentary: ABC News, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports
News Series: ESPN Deportes, Sobrevivientes - Still Alive
Newscast: CBS News, The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Sports Reporting: ESPN, ESPN SportsCenter: Sister Andrea Jaeger
Spot News Coverage: ABC News, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
Videography: ABC News, Key to the World: Kiribati
Website: CBS News, cbsnews.com
Writing: NBC News - The Today Show, American Story with Bob Dotson

For the full winners list, click here.

Comments

[Rondo]

Pee Wee Herman for President!

[SanityClaus]

I didn't know they had a category for "Best Application of Lip Gloss."

[scornflakes]

Hahahahahaha! Hoooooo boy! I thought for a moment that it said Katie Couric won an award for journalistic excellence named after Edward R. Murrow! Hahahahahahaha! Good one! Hahahahahaha!

[racom]

The latest best reason to NOT pay any attention to any award shows or announcements!!!

[Axolotl]

Couric is so bad. How could this happen? She should interview McCain about his perfidy.

[WatchIt]

I will never watch Couric. Never. Not after she stooped to appease the Bush administration and their surrogates placed in CBS and so on... No. Never.

[Ozy]

Murrow is spinning in his grave!

Moonvees has run CBS in the groud. Someone got paid off by CBS to give them this award.

We have no news in the US it's been canceled by the corporations.

The public will not recognise this conjob! Go ahead and pat yourselves on the ass for No Job well done!

Pathetic!

[personalpolitical]

Ick, ABC doesn't deserve anything. And seriously, who watches CBS? NBC has always been the best.

[KarateKid]

Yup, the best broadcast no one watches.

[UnknownSoldier]

LMAO, if a tree falls in the forest when no one is around does it make a sound?

[raker]

CBS, ABC and NBC's The Toady Show. Excellence in news broadcasting— if you've never seen a real news broadcast. Katie Couric's turning CBS news into a supermarket woman's magazine with special guest star Rush LImbaugh is only the latest abomination in a long list of abominations in the dead news business. Turn them all off. They're not news. They're political ads, periodically interrupted by Cialis ads. They're hurting you.

[Bulbul]

Really ?
Reading HuffPo, I thought NBC would be the best , Charlie or Katie are hardly in any pages.
It is always about Mathews / Olberman , they did not get any pat in their back ?

[VivaZapata]

now all she needs is an audience to go with it

[VOTER]

Oh, well said! Kudos!

[Nonamnesiac]

Amazing. The same liars who cheerled us into Iraq based on lies they knew were lies and who now use the airwaves to maintain the lie they know is a lie that we cannot immediately, safely withdraw all troops and contractors or a calamity of biblical proportions would occur, are awarding themselves prestigious awards. All awards should only go to Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann. An up-and-coming award should go to Rachel Maddow, although she needs to get her bearings again.

[wm1066]

She was better with Kent Jones.

[SmootyBooty]

This is solace for getting whupped by the 70+ year old who preceded her?

[edwarvir]

I always like listening to a good joke. Katie sucks. I rush past her as fast as
I can to get to Williams. Gibson makes me laugh he reminds me of a kid
trying to hang out . with the adults

[ebanks84]

Me too. Katie is so boring to me.