EMMY AWARDS

36th ANNUAL
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NEWS &DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS
PIX11 News (New York, NY)WPIX-TV
Metro-North Train Derailment
At approximately 7:19 in the morning on December 1, 2013
a Metro-North Hudson Line train roaring southbound along
the banks of the Hudson River derailed as it entered the turn at
Spuyten Duyvil, which is located at the southwestern most tip
of the Bronx. PIX 11 News had reporters on the scene speaking
with survivors and eyewitnesses, and providing pivotal live interviews
with officials and politicians.
Senior Executive Producer: Amy Waldman
Senior Producer: Zack Smith
Digital Executive Producer: Rolando Pujol
Assignment Editor: Mike Graham
Photojournalist: Kenneth Evseroff
Anchors: Tamsen Fadal, Scott Stanford
Reporters: Mario Diaz, James Ford, Nicole Johnson, Greg
Mocker
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of
a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled
Newscast
CBS Evening News with Scott PelleyCBS
Challenge Academy
Every year, about three million students drop out of high schools
across this country. But there is a little known, unheralded program
quietly making a huge dent in these numbers. About 20
years ago, the National Guard came up with a program called
‘Youth Challenge Academy’. So far more than 121,000 drop-outs
between the ages of 16-18, have successfully made it through
this five month academic quasi-military residential program, and
have either decided to continue their education or get a job. CBS
News got unprecedented and unlimited access to the academy, its
students, military staff and teachers.
Executive Producer: Steve Capus
Senior Broadcast Producer: Kimberly Godwin
Producer: Alturo Rhymes, Simon Bouie, Michael Comfort,
Miles Doran, Seth Fox
Correspondent: Michelle Miller
CBS Evening News with Scott PelleyCBS
The War Against Ebola
In the Fall of 2014, a single word terrified the world — Ebola.
CBS Evening News correspondent Debora Patta and producers
Jack Renaud and Abdi Cadani traveled with a medical and biosafety
expert to Monrovia. They learned how to decontaminate
themselves with chlorine several times a day and how to don their
protective clothing. Every member of the team wore sunglasses or
protective eye gear at all times to avoid a sneeze or coughed saliva
during interviews. The team also learned how to retrace their
steps after visiting a burial site or a slum where a contaminated
person had been, leaving a trail of infection. The result was a gripping
series that showed the relentless devastation of Liberia.
Executive Producer: Steve Capus
Senior Producer: Heather Abbott
Producers: Abdi Cadani, Jack Renaud, Jane Whitfield
Correspondent: Debora Patta
CBS This Morning and CBS EveningCBS
News with Scott Pelley
Immigration Coverage
CBS News’ immigration coverage took viewers to Mexico,
Guatemala and El Salvador, where waves of unaccompanied
children, women and teenagers were risking everything, fleeing
their homes to come to the United States. In El Salvador, Raul, a
teenager, was desperate to flee gang violence. Several miles north,
on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, entire families
prepared to cross the Suchiate River. Along the Texas-Mexico
border, where police forces were overwhelmed by the surge of
migrants, volunteers were joining them not just to give cops a
hand, but frequently to help the migrants.
Executive Producer of CBS This Morning: Chris Licht
Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley:
Steve Capus
Senior Broadcast Producers: Marsha Cooke, Ryan Kadro
Senior Producers: Heather Abbott, Peter Burgess, Guy Campanile,
Jill Jackson, Len Tepper, Eric Bloom, Cari Strassberg
Producers: Adriana Diaz, Paul Facey, Mark Hooper, Jennifer
Janisch, Wendy Krantz, Molly Mazilu, Alberto Moya, Karen
Raffensperger, Jack Renaud, Nicole Sanseverino, Ashley Velie
Reporters: Vicente Arenas, Manuel Bojorquez, Ben Tracy
NBC Nightly NewsNBC
Hooked: America’s Heroin Epidemic
NBC News provides an extraordinary, in-depth look at the heroin
epidemic in the United States — an epidemic that resulted in a
39 percent increase in overdose deaths between 2012 and 2013.
NBC brought viewers inside the homes of addicts and their
families to reveal their struggles, examine the causes, search for
potential solutions and challenge outdated assumptions about
who is affected by the heroin epidemic. “Hooked: America’s
Heroin Epidemic” brought depth and perspective on an underreported
national crisis that poses a growing threat to individuals
and communities across America.
Executive Producers: Patrick Burkey, James Kraft
Senior Producers: Janet Klein, Katie Boyle
Producers: Erika Angulo, Scott Feinstein, Vincent Genova,
Candace Kuo, Jody Henenfeld, Victor Limjoco, Paul Manson,
Molly Paul, Jorge Pujol, Savannah Sellers, Barry Silverman,
Gabriel Valdes, Wonbo Woo
Correspondent: Mark Potter
National Correspondent: Kate Snow
NightlineABC
The Ebola Crisis: Inside the Hot Zone
ABC News was there to bear witness, providing viewers with
comprehensive, responsible and riveting coverage, never losing
perspective of the tragic loss of life on the other side of the world,
even as the disease made its way to the U.S.
Executive Producer: Almin Karamehmedovic, Roxanna Sherwood
Senior Producer: Geoff Martz
Managing Editor: Jon Williams
Producers: Michael Cappetta, Adam Desiderio, Carielle Doe,
Jackie Jesko, Jackeline Pou, Candace Smith, Dan Childs,
Jennifer Harrison, Janice McDonald
Coordinating Producer: Molly Hunter
Chief Medical Editor: Dr. Richard Besser
Correspondent: Steve Osunsami
Outstanding Hard News Report in a
Regularly Scheduled Newscast
NBC Nightly NewsNBC
Inside Kobani
To enter Kobani, Richard Engel and his team had to cross the
Turkish border illegally, weave their way between Turkish soldiers
— who’d fired on people crossing into Syria — and avoid
ISIS patrols. They were the first journalists inside for months.
After threading the needle through town — sometimes running
behind sheets and blankets — they soon linked up with Kurdish
fighters, and lived with them for four days on the front lines.
Unlike so many other cities in Syria and Iraq that had fallen to
ISIS, often without a fight, Kobani was dug in and determined
to survive.
Executive Producers: Patrick Burkey, Madeleine Haeringer
Senior Broadcast Producer: Sam Singal
Senior Producers: Andy Franklin, Ben Plesser
Producers: James Novogrod, Yuka Tachibana
Field Producers: Randall Brown, Aziz Akyavas
Chief Foreign Correspondent: Richard Engel
NightlineABC
Brian Ross Investigates: Olympic Gold, Olympic Greed
With the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia fast approaching,
ABC News reported exclusively on the dramatic charges of rampant
corruption, stories of bribes, suitcases filled with cash and a
whistleblower who claims there’s a contract on his life because he
dared to speak out.
Executive Producer: Jeanmarie Condon, Almin Karamehmedovic
Producer: Cindy Galli
Field Producer: Patrick Reevell
Chief Investigative Producer: Rhonda Schwartz
Chief Investigative Correspondent: Brian Ross
Digital Producer: Lee Ferran
NightlineABC
Ebola: The Gates of Hell
This report from ABC News was rigorous, complex, scientific,
and heartbreaking. ABC’s Chief Medical Editor Richard Besser’s
reporting put a face on those who were most affected by the devastating
epidemic and those who were responding to the disease.
The story demonstrated the incredible need for medical help and
for international responders.
Executive Producer: Almin Karamehmedovic
Senior Producer: Geoff Martz
Managing Editor: Jon Williams
Producers: Adam Desiderio, Carielle Doe, Jackie Jesko, Jackeline
Pou, Dan Childs
Coordinating Producer: Molly Hunter
Correspondent: Dr. Richard Besser
NightlineABC
Moscow is Burning
While plans for an opulent winter Olympics were front and
center in media reports, a violent and systematic hate campaign
against the LGBT community was unraveling the country’s
oldest and most symbolic gay venue, a Moscow nightclub called
Central Station. From citizens to politicians, Nightline’s quest for
answers and accountability in Moscow revealed not only nonchalance
toward human rights, but a deep and unflinching hatred
and repulsion for the LGBT community.
Executive Producers: Jeanmarie Condon, Almin Karamehmedovic
Producer: Melia Patria
Correspondent: Terry Moran
PBS NewsHourPBS
Impossible Choice
PBS NewsHour partnered with inewsource (an independent nonprofit
focused on in-depth, data-driven journalism) to expose a
world — little known even within the medical field — where
more than 4,000 people are kept alive on machines. Reporter
Joanne Faryon and videographer Brad Racino revealed a network
of ‘vent farms’ to the nation through documents, data and
unprecedented access to a facility in San Diego County that is
home to people spending years, sometimes more than a decade,
on life support. They are at the end of the line, the place people
go once medicine has saved them, but where there is little hope
for recovery.
Executive Producers: Sara Just, Linda Winslow
Executive Editor: Lorie Hearn
Producers: Joanne Faryon, Brad Racino
Outstanding News Discussion and
Analysis
All In with Chris HayesMSNBC
All In America: A New Frontier in Women’s Healthcare
All In with Chris Hayes tells the story of a Buffalo, NY doctor
who opened a natural childbirth center inside an abortion clinic.
A veteran of the abortion wars of the 1990s, Dr. Katharine Morrison
made the difficult choice to return to work as an abortion
provider after her friend and mentor, Dr. Barnett Slepian was
murdered by an anti-abortion extremist in 1998. Now, with the
radical coupling of abortion and natural childbirth under one
roof, she’s trying to ignite revolutionary change in the way women
are treated by doctors and hospitals. Her story leads a rare, candid
discussion about the state of women’s healthcare in America
today, and the surprising ways that choices around abortion and
childbirth alike can stir up controversy.
Executive Producer: Denis Horgan
Senior Producers: Tina Cone, Rebekah Dryden, Kim Harvey,
Brendan O’Melia
Producers: Sheara Braun, Gregg Cockrell, Todd Cole, Carey
Fox, Jessica Kerry, Allison Koch, Joelle Martinez, Brendan
McDonald, Brian Montopoli, Diane Shamis
Digital Producers: Erin Delmore, Collier Meyerson
Director: Christian Alicea
Host: Christopher Hayes
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