EMMY AWARDS

36th ANNUAL
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NEWS &DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS
A Meredith Vieira Special: A Leap of FaithNBC
A Leap of Faith takes viewers to the very frontiers of medical
science. The program explores the emerging field of “regenerative
medicine,” focusing on a bold and controversial doctor who
tries to save lives with artificial organs created in a laboratory.
Eye-opening, educational, sensitive and compassionate, A Leap
of Faith brings to light the promise and peril at the cutting edge
of medicine.
Senior Executive Producer: David Corvo
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Cole
Senior Broadcast Producer: Adam Gorfain
Producer: Benita Alexander
Additional Producers: Sergei Ivonin, Brooke Nevils, Justin Cece,
Ed Eaves
Correspondent: Meredith Vieira
Dateline NBCNBC
A Bronx Tale
“A Bronx Tale” tells the extraordinary story of one inmate’s
determination to expose a breathtaking miscarriage of justice. To
report the story, Dateline analyzed more than 30,000 pages of trial
testimony, police reports and court records and gained rare access
to the criminal justice system to document Eric Glisson’s journey
as it unfolded in real time. In the end, Glisson and five other
innocent people were freed after spending 18 years in prison for a
murder they did not commit.
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Cole
Senior Executive Producer: David Corvo
Senior Broadcast Producer: Adam Gorfain
Senior Producer: Allan Maraynes
Additional Producers: Andrew Hongo, Tommy Nguyen
Supervising Producer: Dan Slepian
Correspondent: Josh Mankiewicz
E:60ESPN
Carmen: A Survivor’s Story
In the wake of Ray Rice’s assault on his fiancee, the issue of
domestic violence came to the forefront of the sports world. By
telling the story of Carmen Tarleton — a mother, NFL fan and
domestic violence survivor — ESPN’s E:60 hoped to expand
its viewers’ understanding of the issue. Tarleton was the victim
of a horrific domestic attack in 2007 that left her with 3rd and
4th degree burns over 80% of her body. Her recovery and her
work combating domestic violence demonstrate her refusal to be
destroyed by an act of unspeakable violence.
Executive Producer: Andy Tennant
Producer: Michael Farrell
Coordinating Producers: Michael Baltierra, Ben Houser
Supervising Producers: Vin Cannamela, Heather Lombardo
Co-Producers: Ian McGrew, Tom Bartlett, Matt Rissmiller,
Michael Sciallis
Reporter: Jeremy Schaap
Outstanding Business and Economic
Reporting in a News Magazine
20/20ABC
Brian Ross Investigates: Confessions of a Counterfeiter
In an exclusive interview, a master counterfeiter explains how
he was able to produce millions in near perfect U.S. $20 bills,
following security measures widely publicized on the U.S. Secret
Service’s own website. The U.S. is awash in counterfeit twenties
and small merchants and consumers are stuck with the fake bills
that banks won’t cash.
Senior Executive Producer: David Sloan
Producers: Rhonda Schwartz, Michele McPhee
Field Producers: Angela Hill, Rym Momtaz
Chief Investigative Producer: Rhonda Schwartz
Chief Investigative Correspondent: Brian Ross
Digital Producer: Lee Ferran
60 MinutesCBS
Chairman Ma
When 60 Minutes began reporting about the Chinese internet
commerce company Alibaba, its founder, diminutive 50-year
old Jack Ma, was seen in the west as a quirky novelty. 60 Minutes
traveled to Alibaba’s headquarters in the provincial city of
Hangzhou determined to capture the rags to riches tale of Jack
Ma. With no computing or engineering background, the onetime
English teacher was an unlikely tech titan. In just 15 years,
starting with a stake of about $60,000 contributed by friends
and former students, he built the world’s largest e-commerce
company.
Executive Producer: Jeff Fager
Executive Editor: Bill Owens
Producer: Howard L. Rosenberg
Co-Producers: Julie Holstein, Patrick Lee
Correspondent: Lara Logan
60 MinutesCBS
Falling Apart
Steve Kroft and 60 Minutes spent nearly a year investigating our
nation’s infrastructure deficit and how it relates to our global
competitiveness, the economy, jobs and the safety of our citizens.
As President Obama’s former Secretary of Transportation Ray
LaHood told Kroft, this is a crisis of epic proportions, and we
have a golden opportunity as a nation right now to lay the foundation
for economic growth, but we can’t even keep up with basic
maintenance of our infrastructure.
Executive Producer: Jeff Fager
Executive Editor: Bill Owens
Producers: James Jacoby, Michael Karzis
Co-Producers: Maria Gavrilovic, Matthew Lev
Correspondent: Steve Kroft
60 MinutesCBS
Over a Barrel
“Over a Barrel” is 60 Minutes’ investigation into BP’s claims that
businesses not impacted by the gulf oil spill were swindling them
out of hundreds of millions of dollars in false damage claims.
During this six month investigation, CBS read thousands of
pages of court documents, spoke with dozens of claimants, and
interviewed representatives from all sides. BP told CBS that more
than a thousand businesses with glaring red flags were awarded
$500,000,000 by the claims administrator. But Pat Juneau, the
claims administrator, told CBS that he was just following the
rules agreed to by BP and the lawyers representing the victims.
He says both sides agreed to a settlement with a fairly simple
formula. BP agreed to pay businesses whose income dropped after
the spill and then rebounded one year later. Trouble was some
attorneys soliciting clients took that to mean any business with a
loss of any kind.
Executive Producer: Jeff Fager
Executive Editor: Bill Owens
Producers: Robert G. Anderson, Aaron Weisz
Co-Producer: Robert Zimet
Correspondent: Scott Pelley
60 MinutesCBS
Rigged
“Rigged” aired just before the release of Michael Lewis’s book
Flash Boys, in which the author claimed that Wall Street was
rigged in favor of secretive high-frequency trading firms who
were able to front run the market to the benefit of insiders. Correspondent
Steve Kroft helped untangle the complex story for
viewers by reporting how an improbable small cast, led by an
unassuming Canadian trader named Brad Katsuyama, figured out
how the high-frequency trading firms were getting away with it.
Executive Producer: Jeff Fager
Executive Editor: Bill Owens
Producer: Draggan Mihailovich
Co-Producers: Matthew Lev, Nathalie Sommer
Correspondent: Steve Kroft
Lifetime Achievement
Ted Turner
Founder, CNN
Presented By: Larry King
Host, Larry King Now
Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current
News Story — Long-Form
ABC News Special EventsABC
The Downing of Malaysia Flight MH17
When Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crashed 30 miles from the
Russian border, the plane was flying over a war zone, the region
below embroiled in conflict between Russian separatists and
the Ukrainian government. ABC News was live on the air for
more than 4 hours as events unfolded, providing context from its
seasoned aviation experts, deep global perspective, and remarkable
on-the ground reporting.
Senior Executive Producer: Marc Burstein
Executive Producer: David Reiter
Director: Jeff Winn
Senior Producers: Hal Aronow-Theil, Felicia Biberica, Dennis
Dunlavey, John Ferracane, Tamar Gargle, Ricki Goldberg,
David Meyers, Yoni Mintz, Simone Swink, Dimitrije Stejic,
Marcus Wilford
Senior Editorial Producer: Nancy Gabriner
Managing Editor: Jon Williams
Producers: Tomomi Arikawa, Robert Henault, Nadine Shubailat,
Jessica Stallone, Justin Weaver, Matt Hosford, Daniel
Steinberger, Lee Ferran, Randy Kreider, Rym Momtaz, James
Meek
Chief Investigative Producer: Rhonda Schwartz
Coordinating Producers: Molly Hunter, Joe Simonetti
Directors: David Distinti, Robert Vint
Correspondents: Jim Avila, David Kerley, Terry Moran, Kirit
Radia, Stephen Ganyard
Chief Global Affairs Correspondent: Martha Raddatz
Chief Investigative Correspondent: Brian Ross
Chief White House Correspondent: Jonathan Karl
Anchors: David Muir, George Stephanopoulos
ABC NEWS Special EventsABC
Your Voice/Your Vote 2014
ABC News recognized the enormous importance of the 2014
midterm election and the impact it would have on the entire
country, the last two years of the Obama presidency, and the 2016
election to succeed him. For the first time the network produced
one uninterrupted program for the night that pivoted seamlessly
between live online streaming and a television simulcast.
Senior Executive Producer: Marc Burstein
Senior Executive Producer, Decision Desk: Kerry Smith Sr.
Executive Director, Decision Desk: Dan Merkle
Director, Decision Desk: Nicole Gallagher
Producer, Decision Desk: Dick Sheffield
Senior Producers: Hal Aronow-Theil, Felicia Biberica, Chris
Donovan, Dennis Dunlavey, Tamar Gargle, Ricki Goldberg,
Rick Klein, Kate McCarthy, David Meyers, Drew Millhon,
Yoni Mintz, David Reiter, Christine Romo, Simone Swink,
Shushannah Walshe, Nancy Han
Senior Editorial Producer: Nancy Gabriner
Producers: MaryAlice Aymong, Richard Coolidge, Andy Fies,
Nancy Han, Josh Haskell, Bob Henault, Polson Kanneth, Liz
Kreutz, Mindy MacInnes, Andrea Owen, Katie Scoones, Molly
Shaker, Andrew Springer, Jessica Stallone, Daniel Steinberger,
Serena Marshall, Adrianna Pratt, Claudia-Teresa Pou, Cleo
Stiller-Farrell
Director: Jeff Winn
Correspondents: Jim Avila, Donna Brazile, Ron Claiborne, Katie
Couric, Linsey Davis, Matt Dowd, Matt Gutman, Rebecca
Jarvis, Jonathan Karl, Bill Kristol, Gary Langer, Alicia Menendez,
Alicia Menendez, David Plouffe, Martha Raddatz, Cokie
Roberts, Nate Silver, Cecilia Vega, Nicolle Wallace, Mike
Wilson, Jeff Zeleny
Anchors: Dan Harris, David Muir, Diane Sawyer, George
Stephanopoulos
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