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The Emmy-award winning News Editor/Producer Peter Chhun is currently with NBC Network News.

  
     

1975-Present. Over 31 years, assignments have included US Presidential Elections, Olympic Games, Where In The World Is Matt Lauer, the funeral of Pope John Paul II, 911, the funeral of Princess Diana, the fall of President Marcos (People Power), recovering the remains of NBC and CBS missing crews in Cambodia, the last Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Cambodia, the 10th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, the Columbine shooting, the Waco standoff, hurricanes and earthquakes. 

2002. - Produced first successful live show in television history from Angkor Watt temple, Cambodia. The show “Where In The World Is Matt Lauer” brought awareness to millions of viewers around the world to the Angkor temples and showed how Cambodia’s land is now safe to visit.

2000. - Chosen by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Editors of Outstanding General Coverage of “THE GAMES OF THE XXVII OLYMPIAD”, NBC.  

1997. - Chosen by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Editors of Outstanding General Coverage of Single Breaking News Story  “L.A.HEAT: MINUTE BY MINUTE (DATELINE NBC). NBC.

1997. - 1st Place Award from The 40th Southern California Journalism Awards for Editors of News Programming “NBC News, Kissing”.

1996. - Award of Excellence from The Southern California Journalism Awards for Editors of News Programming “NBC News, Family Plot”.

1994. - 1st Place Award from The 38th Southern California Journalism Awards for Editors of News Programming “NBC News, 1st Place School”.

1992. - Led a 30 man-team from the U.S Department of Defense into Cambodia to search and recover the remains of missing NBC and CBS journalists who were captured and killed by the Khmer Rouge.

1984. - Nominated by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Editors of Outstanding Individual Achievement in News and Documentary Programming “Labor – 1984”.

1981. - Nominated by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, for Editors of News Programming “Hockey”, KNBC NewsCenter 4.