Palestinian Journalist Bisan Owda Wins News Emmy After Campaign to Get Nomination Rescinded
09/25/2024 11:38 PM
Palestinian journalist Bisan Atef Owda has won the Emmy for Outstanding Hard News Feature: Short Form for her ongoing project "It's Bisan From Gaza and I'm Still Alive." The win comes 5 days after a campaign to get her nomination at the 2024 News and Documentary Emmy Awards rescinded was rejected by the Television Academy. The project documents Owda's daily life in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the region since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 of last year. She previously won a Peabody Award for "It's Bisan From Gaza and I'm Still Alive" earlier this . . .
