By The Canadian Press

TORONTO - A Globe and Mail multimedia series based on interviews with dozens of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has won an Emmy award.

"Talking to the Taliban" was named the winner in the New Approaches to News and Documentary category at the 30th-annual News and Documentary Emmys in New York Monday night.

The series was built upon individually taped interviews with 42 Taliban foot soldiers, each of whom were asked a set of standardized questions.

Talking to the Taliban beat out two projects each from the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as one from Reuters, for the Emmy, the Globe and Mail reported.

The Globe and Mail's Afghanistan correspondent Graeme Smith equipped a local Afghan researcher with a camera and the lists of questions, and used the responses to build the multimedia series online, as well as the print articles.

In his acceptance speech, Smith told the crowd he was honoured to work in an era where a Canadian newspaper can compete with the best of the world's broadcast news organizations and investigative units.