BBC World News America Scoops Prestigious Business and Financial Emmy

BBC World News America triumphed at the Emmy® Awards for Business and Financial Reporting this week.

The programme won for Return to White Horse Village in the category of 'Outstanding Interpretation or Analysis of a Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast'.

In the report, the BBC's Carrie Gracie returned to a Chinese farming village to witness first-hand how its landscape and people have been transformed by urbanisation.

The report followed-up last year's Peabody award-winning White Horse Village, a poignant three-part story detailing the village's transformation into a city.

Executive Producer Rome Hartman comments: "There's no doubt that the economy has been the most important story of the last year.

We're very proud that our peers have recognised our efforts to treat it as the global story that it is...to 'connect the dots' between economic and financial events and trends in America, Asia, and everywhere in between."

BBC World News America received two other nominations for Tokyo in the Downturn and China Rising.

Earlier this year BBC World News America also received three nominations in marquee categories at the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards bringing the programme’s total Emmy® nomination count to six.

Return to White Horse Village was co-commissioned by BBC World News America and Newsnight.

The newscast airs weeknights on BBC America and BBC World News.

The award was presented at a luncheon held at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City.