Awards and honors
2020: CNN's Ed Lavandera was awarded a Peabody for "The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America." CNN Films was awarded a Peabody for the documentary "Apollo 11." 2019: The USC Annenberg School awarded CNN with a Walter Cronkite Award for its Parkland Town Hall. 2018: CNN won a network-record six news & documentary Emmy Awards. They are, Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Live Interview, Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding News Special, Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report. 2018: CNN's Nima Elbagir to receive 2018 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. 2018: CNN received the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting for uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya. Reporting done by Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek. 2018: CNN received the Overseas Press Club of...