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

[TullyMars]

Can we throw in an award for best legs, too?

[Daw8it]

What happened to the gender bias in the media.... this is pure crap!!!

[ebanks84]

NOTICE:

Everyone should look at Brian Williams tonight at 9pm on NBC because you will hear exactly why IRAN does NOT want war with Israel or the US. So whatever Bush or McCain tells you about Iran, you'd better take it with a grain of salt because they will definitely be trying to brainwash you into their WAR MONGERING mindset again. Iran wants to do business with us. It's Israel who is trying to make the US take action against IRAN. And guess what, it's all about MORE OIL, believe it or not.

Check him out tonight, please so we can stop Bush from lying as usual to the people.

[mondobleu]

Good for her and CBS. Can't stand watching Gibson or Williams they are too affected and boring !

[ebanks84]

You really need to watch Williams tonight at 9pm about IRAN. It's real interesting and everyone needs to watch it.

[ebanks84]

Oops, wrong night I guess. Must have heard that ad incorrectly. Will get back to when it's really coming on.

[ebanks84]

Good grief, charlie brown. Somebody got paid for that to happen. Behind the scenes negotiating will never cease to exist.

[readyfornewleadership]

Gross

[LiberalBuzz]

Murrow must be turning over in his grave at the rate of 1000 RPM.

I also wonder how much that "award" cost.

Any guesses?

[wm1066]

Three trillion dollars and four thousand dead and counting.
We are paying for that award.

[PuppaX]

And now you know why her ratings are poor.

[ebanks84]

I prefer nbc news.

[darthdarcy]

I'm sure Murrow is just thrilled..

[Hagrid]

Who is watching Katie?

[dagnew]

I am. What's with all the Katie bashing, anyway?

[WatchIt]

I want news reporting, not features. For features we have the rag sheet programs. Just watch the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company), the BBC, or Deutsch Welle. Listen to the various news services from South America, Spain, Poland, Russia, and China. What you see is NEWS, not features. 'Course ya have to be able to habla more languages than Amurrikan. Anyway... I want news, not cutesy.

[dadw5boys]

CBS the only one with no BS!

[ebanks84]

C__ ...what?

[JMDavis]

Congraulations Ms. Couric. I have been watching for several weeks now and I really like the CBS Evening news.