page_title: Richard Engel
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Engel / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Richard Engel, Madeleine Haeringer and Bredun Edwards 68th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel New York, NY USA May 18, 2009
context_page_description: Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".
  Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, And Then All Hell Broke Loose, published in 2016, is about his two decade career in the Middle East as a freelance reporter.
  Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War.
context_section_description: 2006, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award
  2006, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2007, Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism
  2008, Peabody Award, for his coverage of the Viper Company, a remote U.S. Army unit in Afghanistan
  2008, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
  2008, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2008, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long Form
  2008, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2009, George Foster Peabody Award
  2009, Edward R. Murrow Award
  2009, Society of Professional Journalism Award
  2009, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2010, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2010, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
  2010, Gracie Award
  2010, OPC David Kaplan Award for spot news reporting for a series of three reports from Afghanistan
  2011, David Bloom Award, Radio and Television Correspondents' Association, for Excellence in Enterprise Reporting
  2011, Daniel Pearl Award
  2011, Overseas Press Club Award
  2012, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
  2013, "Tex McCrary Award for Journalism Excellence, Congressional Medal of Honor Society"
  2013, John Chancellor Award 
  2014, Peabody Award for his comprehensive look at the rise of ISIS
  2015, Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast 
  2015, Outstanding Hard News Report  in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
  2015, Fred Friendly First Amendment Award
caption: Richard Engel, Madeleine Haeringer and Bredun Edwards for Tip of the Spear at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards
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