section_path: Awards and honors
section_name: Awards and honors
paragraph_text: Awards and honors
  
  1998: CNN received the Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Speech.
  
  2017: CNN received the Prince Rainier III Special Prize at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for the documentary, Midway: A Plastic Island about sea pollution.
  
  2018: CNN received the Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan Award for best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad for reporting on the fall of ISIS by Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon.
  
  2018: CNN received the George Polk Award of Long Island University 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's Nima Elbagir received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.
  
  2018: CNN won a network-record six News and Documentary Emmy Awards of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for 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.
  
  2019: The USC Annenberg School awarded CNN with a Walter Cronkite Award for its Parkland Town Hall event.
  
  2020: CNN's Ed Lavandera was awarded a Peabody Award for "The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America", and CNN Films was awarded a Peabody for the documentary "Apollo 11".
  
  2021: CNN won a George Polk Award of Long Island University for Foreign Reporting for their reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, and later reporting under quarantine in Beijing.
  
  2021: CNN and Clarissa Ward were named finalists for the DuPont-Columbia Award of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for their "Russia's Secret Influence Campaigns" investigation.