CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has won an Emmy award for outstanding writing for his reports filed from Syria and Afghanistan . The award-winning reports were `` Aleppo Airstrikes , '' `` Aleppo : Old City Fight , '' and `` Afghan Women Self-Immolation . '' In its submission to the Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards , CNN highlighted Paton Walsh 's `` poetic writing , '' saying it contrasted `` with the sobering environments from which his stories are usually drawn . '' `` His reports punch through the daily accounts of wounded and dead , and give us a fresh way to see the grinding pitilessness of war , and its quirky inconsistencies , '' the broadcaster said . `` Aleppo Airstrikes '' is the account of indiscriminate shelling in the Syrian city of Aleppo . Walsh 's piece to camera sees him crouching as a government bomber jet flies above . `` It 's that sound that terrifies ordinary residents of Aleppo daily , '' he says . Of the lone infant who survives the strike , Paton Walsh observes : `` A year old , he was born into Syria 's bloody revolution , and may yet survive it still . '' In `` Aleppo : Old City Fight , '' Paton Walsh goes right inside the fight for the historic old city . His report focuses on the improvised nature of the battle , with `` pot-shots at nothing in particular '' and what it could mean for the wider conflict . CNN said Paton Walsh 's war reporting was `` complemented by his sensitive stories about the plight of women in the developing world . '' In `` Afghan Women Self-Immolation , '' the correspondent reports on an epidemic of self-immolation among young married women in Herat . The women take the drastic measure as a form of protest against the abuse they suffer at the hands of their husbands or in-laws . CNN said Paton Walsh 's `` delicate writing has a reverential tone , bestowing upon these sad burn victims in Herat the respect they seek . '' Beirut-based Paton Walsh has worked for CNN since 2011 , focusing on the Middle East , Afghanistan and surrounding region . He topped five other contenders to take home the award for outstanding writing at the awards ceremony , which was held in New York , Tuesday . More recently , Paton Walsh has reported from scenes of conflict in Egypt and Turkey and from Dagestan , where he secured an interview with the parents of the alleged Boston bombers . CNN 's Anderson Cooper 360 also won an Emmy , for Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis for `` Kids On Race : The Hidden Picture , '' while CNN 's 2012 U.S. election night coverage saw it honored with an Emmy for `` Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story -- Long Form . '' Paton Walsh 's previous awards include the British Press Awards ' Young Journalist of the Year in 2000 and Amnesty International 's Gaby Rado Award ( 2006 ) for a reporter at the start of their career for his work in the former Soviet Union . He also won Amnesty 's television award for his work in Sri Lanka in 2010 , while he was working for British broadcaster Channel 4 News . Read more from Nick Paton Walsh : . Taliban tightens grip on Afghan schools . Baby survives as family dies in Syrian onslaught . Afghan-army style justice fails to win over locals . A sniper 's bullet , a dying child , a family 's desperation . Heart-rending choices in Syrian warzone .
Nick Paton Walsh has reported for CNN since 2011 , focusing on the Mideast and Afghanistan . The senior international correspondent has been awarded an Emmy Award . The award for outstanding writing related to his reports on Syria and Afghanistan . CNN also won awards for its coverage of the 2012 U.S. elections and race in America .