The Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting recognize outstanding achievement in business & financial reporting telecast or webcast. Watch some of the Emmy-nominated programs, online now.

Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story:
News Magazines and Long Form

NOW on PBS
Mortgage Mess
NOW connects the dots to see the extent to which recklessness, corruption and greed created this subprime mess that now threatens to undermine our entire economy.(Originally aired: 11/16/2007)

Outstanding Interpretation or Analysis of a Business News Story:
News Magazines and Long Form

NOW on PBS
India Rising
NOW reports from Pune, India, where college graduates are getting tech jobs, families are flocking to the new mall, and professionals are hoping their new-found economic might will make their country an even bigger global player. But can America’s middle-class—and the rest of the world—afford this unprecedented shift in the global economy? (Originally aired: 6/20/2008)

NOW on PBS
Taxing the Poor
NOW looks at how state policies to generate revenue by raising sales taxes and lowering property taxes come at a bigger price for low-income households than for wealthier ones. (Originally aired: 4/11/2008)

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Housing Crisis
Part one: Subprime Primer
Focuses on the volatility of the financial markets in the summer of 2007, that stemmed from the weaknesses within the mortgage industry and other risky loan operations. His report explains the problems behind the subprime market and how it has impacted the financial world. (Originally aired: 9/30/2007)

Part two: Domino Effect
Aired while the U.S. business world continued to struggle - from the subprime mortgage crisis to the Bear Stearns bailout to the plummeting value of the dollar. Paul’s report provides a step-by-step account of how the problems in the housing market spread into the wider economy. The question he sets out to answer is how $100 to $200 billion in bad housing debts multiply into billions and trillions and wind up threatening the entire world financial situation and creating a domino effect. (Originally aired 3/21/2008)