In 2012, CBS News accepted an Investigative Reporting Award given to Attkisson's reporting on ATF's "Fast and Furious" gunwalker controversy from Accuracy in Media, a conservative news media watchdog group. In June 2012, Attkisson's investigative reporting for the "Gunwalker" story also won the CBS Evening News the Radio and Television News Directors Association's National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Video Investigative Reporting. In July 2012, Attkisson's "Gunwalker: Fast and Furious" reporting received an Emmy Award.