News And Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations For 2020 Announced. Congratulations To All The Women Journalists Nominated In Different Categories.
Date: August 7, 2020
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News and Documentary Emmy Awards nominations for 2020 announced. Congratulations to all the women journalists nominated in different categories.
The Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) congratulates the incredible and talented women journalists nominated for the 41st News &Documentary Emmys this year. We are proud of the amazing work by women journalists around the world.
With women journalists nominated in various different categories, we wanted to wish the nominees all the best and emphasize how recognizing the impact of women in journalism is important.
The News & Documentary Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in recognition of excellence in American national news and documentary programming.
Congratulations to everyone on the much-deserved recognition, including (but by no means limited to):
1. Madeleine Haeringer got nominated in four different categories for her work at Vice News Tonight: Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast & Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast & Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report & Best Story in a Newscast. Since 2007, Madeleine has taken home 10 different Emmys.
Madeleine who started working with Vice worked for MSNBC for over a decade, where she was executive producer of news coverage. Previously, she was the executive producer of all of NBC’s international news coverage and has overseen the network’s Olympic news coverage, as well as having spent a decade in the Middle East as a producer.
2. Christiane Amanpour of CNN is nominated for the Outstanding Live Interview category with two different interviews she conducted. One is the interview with the U.S. Secretary of and the other is the interview with Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
Christiane is a British-Iranian journalist and the Chief International Anchor for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. She is also the host of Amanpour & Company on PBS.
CNN Chief International Correspondent has earned every major television journalism award, including 11 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards and the Courage in Journalism Award. She has received nine honorary degrees, has been named CBE (a British honor awarded by the Queen of England, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and was this year inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. She is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom of the Press and the Safety of Journalists.
3. Jane Pauley’s coverage on CBS Sunday Morning got the nomination for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast.
Jane, who is the anchor of CBS Sunday Morning has been active in news reporting since 1972. She held a 13-year position on NBC's Today program, followed by 12 years as co-host of Dateline NBC. Jane Pauley is the recipient of multiple Emmy Awards as well as the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
4. Juju Chang is nominated for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast for her work at Nightline.
Juju is a television journalist for ABC News, and currently serves as an anchor of Nightline. She previously served as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline, and was also the news anchor for ABC News’ morning news program Good Morning America from 2009–2011.
For her work in television journalism, Juju has received a number of awards including: two Gracie Awards, one for a report on judicial activism for NOW, a newsmagazine on PBS, and one for Women and Science, a profile of Ben Barres, a transgender neurobiologist, for 20/20. She has won three Emmy awards for her work with ABC, including one for her role as a correspondent on ABC's live coverage of California wildfires in 2008.
5. Gayle King from CBS This Morning is nominated for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast category.
Gayle is co-hosting CBS flagship morning program, CBS This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine.
In 2018, Gayle was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She was also chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.
6. Sara Just is the executive producer of PBS NewsHour and she is nominated in three different categories namely: Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast & Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis & Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report.
Sara became the executive producer of PBS NewsHour and a WETA senior vice president in September 2014 where she leads the editorial and production of the nightly broadcast and online content. She is the recipient of five different Emmys.
7. Savannah Guthrie from NBC’s Today is nominated for three different awards: Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast & Outstanding Live Interview & Best Story in a Newscast.
Savannah is both a journalist and an attorney. She is the main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position she has held since July 2012.
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2007 as a legal analyst and correspondent, regularly reporting on trials throughout the country. After serving as a White House correspondent between 2008 and 2011 and as co-anchor of the MSNBC program The Daily Rundown in 2010 and 2011, Guthrie was announced as the co-host of Today's third hour.
8. Lesley Stahl is nominated for six different awards for her work at 60 minutes, namely: Outstanding Edited Interview & Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine & Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine & Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine & Outstanding Live Interview & Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report.
Lesley began working as a producer for CBS in 1971. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS's 60 Minutes. She is the recipient of 2004 Gerald Loeb Award for Television Long Form business journalism for "The Jobless Recovery"
9. Laila Al-Arian is nominated for Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine & Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Report categories. Laila is an Emmy-award-winning broadcast journalist for the Al Jazeera Media Network and the producer for Al Jazeera English documentary series Fault Lines.
Laila produced the Al Jazeera English special on the Palestine Papers in January 2011, a four-day program on the largest diplomatic leak in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She raised national attention with her column on Homeland which described it as "TV's most Islamophobic show". She has produced several documentaries, including The Abortion War and the Peabody-winning investigative report Made in Bangladesh.
On October 1, 2018, Laila won an Emmy for her film, The Ban: The human cost of Trump's travel ban.
10. Alexandra King of CNN is nominated for the Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish award. Alexandra is part of CNN's award winning digital team, reporting and producing compelling written features, breaking news stories and innovative video specials for CNN.com.
Prior to CNN, Alexandra was a Multimedia Producer for United Nations Television. During her six-year stint at the UN, she spearheaded digital and social storytelling, covering everything from human rights abuses to conflict to humanitarian crises, and reporting from the field in Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia, among others.
11. Ursula Macfarlane is nominated for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage with “A Deadly Weekend in America”. Ursula is an award-winning documentary and drama director and executive producer. Her body of high profile documentaries and docu-dramas showcases her ability to capture truthful and beautifully observed characters, combined with compelling storytelling and visual flair.
She has been nominated for a BAFTA four times and has a clutch of wins and nominations for the Grierson, Broadcast and Royal Television Society Awards.
12. Amy Robach of 20/20 is nominated for Outstanding News Special for her Jeffrey Epstein story.
Amy is a television presenter for ABC News. She is the co-anchor of 20/20 and the breaking news anchor/fill-in anchor for Good Morning America. She was a national correspondent for NBC News, co-host of the Saturday edition of NBC's Today, and anchor on MSNBC. Since May 2018, she has been the co-anchor of 20/20 alongside David Muir.
13. Almudena Carracedo is nominated for Best Documentary from Spain for her work recent documentary “The Silence of Others” revealing the struggle of victims of Spain’s 40 year dictatorship under General Franco. She is the recipient of many awards including: Goya Award for Best Documentary Film, Platino Award for Best Documentary, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form.
13. Almudena Carracedo is nominated for Best Documentary from Spain for her work recent documentary “The Silence of Others” revealing the struggle of victims of Spain’s 40 year dictatorship under General Franco. She is the recipient of many awards including: Goya Award for Best Documentary Film, Platino Award for Best Documentary, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form.
15. Erin Lee Carr is nominated for the Best Documentary category. Erin is a documentary filmmaker best known for Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop, Mommy Dead and Dearest and the HBO documentaries I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter and At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal. She is the recipient of the Webby Award for Click. Print. Gun and she was listed in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018.
16. Safa Al Ahmad from Frontline is nominated for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine. Safa is a Saudi Arabian journalist and filmmaker. She has directed documentaries for PBS and the BBC focusing on uprisings in the Middle East. On November 19, 2019, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal at the University of Michigan. She is the joint winner of the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Journalism and was a finalist for the 2014 Sony Impact Award.
17. Rachel Maddow is nominated for Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion with her show that takes her name. The Rachel Maddow Show is a nightly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event co-anchor alongside Brian Williams.
Rachel is the recipient of many awards including four Emmys, a Gracie award, In April 2009, she was listed at No. 4 in Out magazine's Annual Power 50 List and in December 2017 The Advocate named her as a finalist for its "Person of the Year”.
18. Patricia Clarembaux & Almudena Toral from Univision are nominated for Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish, Outstanding New Approaches: Current News.
Patricia Clarembaux is a Venezuelan reporter. She is a Breaking News reporter at Univision News Digital. With Univision she has won, as a part of a team, the Ortega y Gassett Award, the Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award and the POY Latam Award. In 2018 she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Almudena Toral is a visual journalist and filmmaker currently heading films and video at ProPublica as its executive producer. Previously, she led the enterprise video team at Univision News Digital – the team covered the U.S. and Latin America through documentaries, photo essays, visuals for interactives and special projects, illustration and animation. Prior to joining Univision, she taught video storytelling at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, pursued her own projects worldwide as a freelance journalist and worked at The New York Times and TIME. Her work has also been published by The Guardian, AlJazeera, VICE, The Intercept, Canal+, NPR, PBS and other outlets.
Toral's work has also been recognized by three News & Documentary Emmys, two Edward R. Murrow awards, a Webby, a Hillman prize, Pictures of the Year International, RFK Human Rights Journalism awards, PDN Photo Annual, the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism, the Gracie Awards, an Ortega & Gasset, a Gabo Prize, a Rey de España award and others.
19. Hiroko Tabuchi from NYT is nominated for Outstanding New Approaches: Current News.
Hiroko Tabuchi is a climate reporter for The New York Times, based in New York. She previously wrote for the paper on Japanese economics, business and technology from Tokyo.
In 2013, Hirokoi was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting “for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.”
In 2011, Hiroko was part of a team whose coverage of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.
20. Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein are nominated for the Outstanding Social Issue Documentary category. Lynn began her film career as a production assistant at WNET, a public television station in Manhattan. She then worked on Bill Moyers' projects Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth and A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers before moving to Florentine Films in 1989 to work on Burns's 1990 series, The Civil War, as an associate producer for post-production.
In 1994, she produced Burns's nine-part series, Baseball, (1994) for which she received an Emmy Award. In 1998, she was director and producer (with Burns) of two-part biographical documentary, Frank Lloyd Wright, for which she received a Peabody Award.
Sarah Botstein has been producing award-winning documentaries at Florentine Films since 1997. Sarah, (along with Burns and Novick) also produced Prohibition (2011), a three-part series about the rise, rule, and fall of the 18th Amendment, and The War (2007), a seven-part series about the American experience of the Second World War. The War and Prohibition each received numerous awards, including several Emmy Awards, and were among the most-watched series on PBS in the past ten years.
21. Elaine McMillion Sheldon from PBS is nominated for the Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine & Best Story in a Newsmagazine category.
Elaine is a documentary filmmaker, best known for her documentary, Heroin(e) for which she received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject nomination with husband Kerrin Sheldon at the 90th Academy Awards. She is also the recipient of 5 Emmy Awards.
22. Zoeann Murphy of Washington Post is nominated for the category Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary. Zoeann is a visual journalist on staff at The Washington Post. She reports largely on humanitarian and environmental crises as well as covering breaking news. She has worked in over 20 countries. In recent years, she’s focused on migration, climate change and natural disasters. She is the recipient of many honors and awards including three Emmys.
23. Ranjani Chakraborty of VOX is nominated for the category Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary. Ranjani is a Brooklyn-based video journalist and a producer at Vox.com, where she focuses largely on social justice, criminal justice, and inequality — and how they all intersect. She previously produced with National Geographic on Explorer and Al Jazeera America on America Tonight. Prior to that, she was an associate producer with the NBC News Associates program in New York, where she contributed to Dateline, The Today Show, and Nightly News.
24. Maggie Bowman & Stacy Robinson’s work is nominated for the Outstanding New Approaches: Documentary category. Maggie Bowman is a documentary film producer and director. She is the co-director of We Are Witnesses: Chicago—a series of short films about Chicagoans who have been touched by the criminal justice system. The series, released in September 2019, is a collaboration with The Marshall Project and Illinois Humanities. As Series Producer for Hard Earned, she led the team at Kartemquin that made the 6-hour series about American families working low-wage jobs. Hard Earned won a duPont-Columbia Award in 2016, following domestic and international broadcasts on Al Jazeera. She was Fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley in 2017 and recently served as Kartemquin’s inaugural Artistic Fellow, a position in which she provided mentorship and creative guidance to members of the Kartemquin community at various stages of the filmmaking process.
25. Rebecca Lieberman from NYT got a nomination on Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture. Rebecca is a Graphics/Multimedia Editor at The New York Times. Previously, she has designed and prototyped interactive storytelling experiences, digital tools, and new interfaces using everything from cardboard to code.
Her work has been commissioned and exhibited by IDFA DocLab, the National Film Board of Canada, Arte, 3LD Art and Technology Center (NYC), Flux Factory (NYC), New York Daily News Innovation Lab, Institute for the Future, Red Bull Studios (NYC), Anthony Greaney Gallery (Boston), and the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, MA).
26. Kassie Bracken & Ora DeKornfeld of NYT are also nominated for Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture. Kassie Bracken is currently an international correspondent and video producer for The New York Times. Prior to that, she reported, shot and edited short documentaries and news features for the Times, focusing on human rights issues through personal narratives.
Her work has been recognized by the Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best in Photography, The National Association of Black Journalists, and the Katherine Schneider Journalism Award. In 2019 she was part of the FRONTLINE team to be recognized with the Alfred I. duPont Gold Baton.
She has been awarded fellowships with the International Women’s Media Foundation, RIAS/RTNDA, and the Peter Jennings Foundation.
Ora DeKornfeld is a visual storyteller that seeks to shed light on the human condition. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she went on to create work for the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, CNN’s Courageous, Great Big Story and TED. Ora’s independent work has received awards from Picture of the Year International (1st place), the White House News Photographers Association and South by Southwest Film Festival. In 2015, she was named on PDN’s 20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film and Video. Her work has been showcased on National Geographic, The Atlantic, The Webby Awards, and the New Orleans Film Festival, among others.
27. Estelle Caswell from VOX is another nominee for the Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture category. Estelle is an animator and a pop culture storyteller. For Vox she produces Earworm, which earned more than 24 million views for its first season, and is the producer of K-Pop, Explained, an episode of Vox's recent Netflix show.
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