Rachel Maddow Wins Emmy For Coverage Of Flint Water Crisis

The Rachel Maddow Show won two Emmy awards. 

The Rachel Maddow Show won two Emmy awards Thursday in the News and Documentary category.

Maddow won an Emmy for her coverage of the Flint water crisis, Variety reports.

In addition, the show won a second Emmy for Maddow’s interview of Kellyanne Conway.

Other winners included PBS which led with 12 Emmy wins, CBS, ABC and HBO.

The nominations for the News and Documentary category were announced in July with Maddow and her MSNBC colleagues Chris Hayes and Laurence O’Donnell also receiving nominations.

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