International Emmys: CBC's Ebola coverage earns nomination

CBC's coverage of the Ebola crisis has earned a nomination for the International Emmy Awards.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed Thursday the news and current affairs nominees for 2015, with the contenders hailing from seven countries across four continents.

• The National: Ebola Checkup Panel
• The National: Orphans ofEbola
• Ebola in Liberia: Adrienne Arsenault interviews the president
• Worst-ever Ebola outbreak, by the numbers
• More CBC News coverage of the Ebola outbreak

"With an increasingly accelerated news cycle and competition for audiences on a global scale, the high-quality, reliable news coverage exemplified in our 2015 nominees has never been more in demand," academy president Bruce L. Paisner said in a statement.

Nominated in the news category are:

• The Buck Stops Here: Srinagar floods coverage (New Delhi Television, India)
• CBC News: The National The Ebola Effect (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
• The National Day of Mourning (NOS Broadcasting Organization, the Netherlands)
• Jornal Hoje and Jornal Nacional The death of Eduardo Campos, (Globo, Brazil)

Nominated in the current affairs category are:

• Stray Bullets (101 East/Al Jazeera English, Malaysia)
• Dispatches: Children on the Frontline Children of Aleppo (ITN Productions, U.K.)
• ZDFzoom: The Soccer Empire The dealings of FIFA (ZDF German Television, Germany)
• GloboNews Documentrio Tower of David (GloboNews, Brazil)

The International Emmys for news and current affairs will be awarded alongside the American news and documentary categories at a ceremony at New York's Lincoln Center on Sept. 28.