WASHINGTON, September 30 (RIA Novosti) – The winners of the 2014 International Emmy Awards will be announced Tuesday at the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Ceremony in New York, hosted by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the world's largest organization of television and radio broadcasters.
The RT news channel is among the finalists for the award, which is given annually in two categories: current affairs and news. RT's coverage of the 2013 hunger strike at the US Guantanamo Bay prison earned the channel its third nomination for Emmy's News Awards, and its second in just three years.
Finalists for Emmy's Current Affairs and News Awards are selected among entries from top international TV news channels by a panel of jurors made up of experienced television and journalism professionals. Emmy is widely considered to be the most prestigious award in television journalism.
RT is a Moscow-based, international TV network, broadcasting in English, Spanish and Arabic in over 100 countries worldwide. RT America, which focuses on US News, broadcasts from its own studio in Washington. In addition, the network has its own documentary channel RTDoc and owns the full-service video news agency RUPTLY.
RT was the first news television channel to break the 1 billion views mark on YouTube and is the only Russian TV channel to become a three-time finalist in the run for the Emmy Awards in the news section.
