Awards
Robertson has won numerous awards, including two Overseas Press Club Awards, a Peabody, a duPont, and several Emmy Awards for his work in war zones and disaster areas around the world, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, the Darfur region of Sudan, Northern Ireland and both the Gulf War and the Iraq War. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 CNN sent Robertson to report from New Orleans. He also reported from ground zero in Beirut, Lebanon covering the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. .
People magazine voted him Sexiest News Correspondent in 2001.
Editorial awards:
- 1992 Emmy
- 1993 New York Festival
- 1995 Emmy
- 1996 Cable ACE Award
- 1997 Cable ACE Award
- 2001 Alfred I Du Pont award
- 2002 Emmy
- 2002 Royal Television Society winner
- 2002 and 2003 David Kaplan Award
- 2002 Peabody Award
- 2003 Emmy
- 2005 Peabody
- 2008 Peabody
Shortlisted: Royal Television Society -- Reporter of the Year 2002; Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009 -- World’s Untold Stories: One Woman’s War
Technology awards: 2002 Royal Television Society Innovation award - Satellite telephone; 2006 -2007 Emmy for technology and engineering, (digital newsgathering); 2007 IBC Digital News gathering innovation award.
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