ABC News wins Murrow Award

ABC News won the award for Video Continuing Coverage for its reporting of Iran's election in 2009.

"ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto traveled to Iran to cover the country's presidential election and the excitement leading up to it. This was an election that was expected to be different; there was an unprecedented level of political participation in Iran, complete with debates, campaign events and voter rallies," the network said in a news release.

"Sciutto, who also covered the election in 2005, witnessed the tides shift on election night -- the election results were being disputed and brutal violence broke out," the statement said. "At a time when journalists were confined to their hotels, Sciutto and his team defied the ban in an effort to bring audiences reporting from the epicenter of the clashes, despite direct police harassment. As censorship from the Iranian government became a greater issue, new technologies played a significant role in how video was filmed and fed and how information was gathered."

ABC News is to be presented with the prize at this year's Edward R. Murrow Awards dinner Oct. 11.

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