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‘60 Minutes’ sweeps News and Documentary Emmys

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‘60 Minutes’ was the big winner at the News and Documentary Emmys on Monday night in New York, winning seven awards, including that for coverage of a breaking news story and for reporting in a news magazine for ‘The Blowout,’ regarding the ‘Deepwater Horizon’ oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. See video below.

Other big champs: PBS’ program ‘P.O.V.’ won four trophies, including informational programming (long form) and documentary for ‘Food Inc.,’ an expose of the food industry that was nominated for doc at the 2009 Oscars.

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Check out a full list of News and Documentary Emmy winners here.

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