Correction: The Newsroom gets International Emmy nomination

TORONTO – Ken Finkleman’s The Newsroom, which airs on CBC, received an International Emmy award nomination for comedy Monday in Cannes at MIPCOM.An earlier version of this story said it won an Emmy, but the awards are not presented until next month.Writer, director and executive producer Finkleman, who produces the show with Jan Peter Meyboom through their company 100 Percent Film & Television Inc., stars as George Findlay, the acerbic and self-absorbed news director. “We are thrilled and honored to be recognized for a second consecutive year by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences”, said Meyboom who was in...