Chris Hayes and J. Craig Wilson, winner of the "Outstanding Writing, News Script - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin, Or Breaking Report" Award for "Surprise Attack! " (CBS Weekend News) pose during the 2024 Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on Sunday in New York City.--Photo courtesy Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America East
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Medicine Hat native Craig Wilson has won a third Writers Guild of America award for TV news writing, it was announced Sunday.
Wilson, who is employed by CBS News in New York, was honoured with the 2023 award for “best news script – regularly scheduled, bulletin or breaking” for co-authoring “Surprise Attack!”
It detailed early reports of the attack by Hamas in Israel in early October.
Colleague Ambrose Raferty shared in the award, presented on April 14
It was Wilson’s fifth nomination.
