BBC News Wins Emmy for Myanmar Quake Coverage of 7.7-Magnitude Disaster

9 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 28

BBC News took the News and Documentary Emmy for outstanding continuing coverage, honoring its reports and live updates on Myanmar’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake.
Thousands were killed in the 2025 disaster, and the BBC said its coverage reached millions worldwide on TV and online despite Myanmar being largely shut off after the quake.
Yogita Limaye and colleagues became the first foreign journalists to enter Myanmar undercover after the tremor, reporting from Mandalay while risking arrest, beatings and jail, senior executive producer Paul Danahar said.
The category also included CNN’s reporting from Iran and Gaza and Scripps News’s coverage of conflict in Haiti, with the awards recognizing top US news and documentary programming from the past 12 months.

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