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NOMINEES FOR THE 34th ANNUAL
NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS
ANNOUNCED BY
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES

Winners to be Announced at a Gala Event
at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center

David Fanning, Executive Producer of FRONTLINE, to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

New York, N.Y. – July 11, 2013 (revised 9.25.13) – Nominations for the 34th Annual News and Documentary
Emmy® Awards were announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
The News & Documentary Emmy® Awards will be presented on Tuesday, October 1 at a ceremony at
Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York
City. The event will be attended by more than 1,000 television and news media industry executives, news and
documentary producers and journalists. Emmy® Awards will be presented in 42 categories, including
Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, Outstanding Interview, and Best Documentary, among others.

"Congratulations to our esteemed nominees," said Malachy Wienges, Chairman, National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences. "We are honoring this year's outstanding news stories, and we are also pleased
to have David Fanning as this year's Lifetime Achievement recipient. David has guided FRONTLINE to the
pinnacle of public affairs television. This year's event promises to be a wonderful evening honoring the best
that news and documentary television can be."

David Fanning is the founder of FRONTLINE and has been executive producer of the series since its first
season in 1983. FRONTLINE is US television’s longest-running investigative documentary series. The series
has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism: 57 Emmys, including a special Emmy Award for
excellence in documentary filmmaking; 27 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards; 15 Peabody
Awards; 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards; eight Television Critics Awards; and eight Banff
Television Awards.

Yangaroo, Inc. is the official provider of the Digital Media Distribution System Awards Management Solution
(“DMDS”) for the submission, judging and voting of all programs in the 34th Annual News & Documentary
Emmy® Awards. Accounting services for the competition are provided by the firm of Lutz & Carr, LLP.

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The 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming distributed during the calendar
year 2012.

The list of nominees for the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards is also available on the
National Television Academy's website: www.emmyonline.tv

The numerical breakdown, by media entities, as compiled by the independent accountancy firm of Lutz and
Carr, LLP, follows:

Over-the-Air, Cable, Satellite and Internet Broadcast Nominees
CBS 46 CCTV America 1
PBS 45 Center for Investigative 1
Reporting
HBO 21 Bloomberg 1
ABC 14 APT 1
NBC 13 Investigation Discovery 1
CNN 8 MTV 1
MSNBC 5 The Washington Post 1
National Geographic 5 Univision 1
Channel
The New York Times N ational Geographic 1
4 Magazine Digital
Smithsonian Channel 4 National Geographic Wild 1
Discovery Channel 3 NPR 1
History Channel 2 UNC Chapel 1
Hill/Powering A Nation
AXS-TV 2 Science Channel 1
BBC World News 2 Showtime 1
America
JFK Presidential Museum 2 Slate 1
CNBC 2 The Commercial Appeal, 1
Memphis, TN

Regional Nominees
KING 5-TV 1 WMAQ-TV 1
KNXV-TV 1 WNBC-TV 1
WABC-TV 1 WTTG-TV 1
WBZ-TV 1 WXYZ-TV 1

About The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a service organization of over 13,000
media professionals dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of
creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. It
recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy® Award for News & Documentary, Sports,
Daytime Entertainment, Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment, Public & Community Service, and
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Technology & Engineering. Regional Emmy® Awards are given in 19 regions across the United
States. Beyond awards, NATAS has extensive educational programs including Regional Student Television
and its Student Award for Excellence for outstanding journalistic work by high school students, as well as
scholarships, publications, and major activities for both industry professionals and the viewing public. For
more information, please visit the website at www.emmyonline.tv

For Press Information contact:

Paul Pillitteri – [email protected]

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34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards

The Nominations

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

ABC News Special Events, World News with Diane Sawyer and Nightline ABC
Tragedy at the Elementary School
Executive Producers
Michael Corn, Jeanmarie Condon, Marc Burstein
Senior Broadcast Producers
Tom Johnson, Almin Karamehmedovic
Chief Investigative Producer
Rhonda Schwartz
Senior Producers
Melinda Arons, Felicia Biberica, Claire Brinberg, David Reiter, Catherine McKenzie, Nancy Gabriner, Jon Meyersohn,
Pete Austin, Christine Brouwer
Senior Editorial Producer
Richard Esposito
Coordinating Producers
Mark Lima, Drew Millhon, Wendy Fisher, Greg Croft
Executive Editorial Producer
Santina Leuci
Producers
Ned E Berkowitz, Katie Hinman, Brandon Baur, Nick Capote, Nikki Battiste, Eric Noll, Bartley Price, Jack Date, Jack Cloherty,
Lana Zak, James Wang, Sarah Netter, Candace Smith, Diane Mendez, Susan Archer, Christine Romo, Daniel Steinberger,
Robin Weil, Faisal Jamil and Mary Compton, Angela Hill, Catherine Cole, Roy Garlisi, Katie Bosland, Katie Conway, Courtney
Condron, Alison Ehrlich, Sabina Ghebremedhin, Mi Seon Lee, Jenn Leong, Patty Neger, Shahriar Rahmanzadeh John T.
Santucci, Emily Stanitz, Jason Stine, Justin Weaver, Megan Chuchmach, Elicia Dover, , Ashley Jennings, Megan Chuchmach,
Melia Patria, Claire Pedersen, Beth Loyd, Cynthia Galli, Emily Friedman, Shushannah Walshe, Thomas Fasano
Anchors
Diane Sawyer, Cynthia McFadden, David Muir
Correspondents
Pierre Thomas, Dan Harris, Chris Cuomo, Brian Ross, Juju Chang
Directors
David Distini, Jeff Kay

BBC World News America BBC World News
Egypt: Second Round of Revolution
Executive Producers
Andrew Roy, Kate Farrell, Jon Williams
Correspondents
Jon Leyne, George Alagiah, Wyre Davies
Middle East Bureau Chief
Paul Danahar
Producers
Jeannie Assad, Jacky Martens, Ben Allen

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Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
Continued

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
Attack on Benghazi
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Heather Abbott
Producer
Agnes Reau
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondent
CharlieD'Agata

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
House Arrest, A Daring Escape From China
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Heather Abbott
Producers
Marsha Cooke, Andrew Portch
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondent
Holly Williams

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
The Fight For Idlib
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Heather Abbott
Producers
Agnes Reau, Ben Plesser
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondent
Clarissa Ward

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Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled
Newscast
BBC World News America BBC World News
Inside Syria’s Uprising
Executive Producers
Paul Danahar, Kate Farrell, Andrew Roy, Jon Williams
Producers
Richard Colebourn, Sara Halfpenny
Correspondents
Ian Pannell, Paul Wood

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
Inside Syria
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Heather Abbott
Producers
Agnes Reau, Ashley Velie, Justine Redman
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondent
Elizabeth Palmer

CNN’s Coverage of the War in Syria CNN
Correspondents
Arwa Damon, Nick Paton Walsh, Nic Robertson, Ivan Watson, Ben Wedeman
Producers
Thomas Evans, Nada Husseini, Kareem Khadder, Neil Hallsworth, Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, Sarmad Qaseera, 
Khalil
Abdallah, Christian Streib, Mary Rogers, Raja Razek,
Joe Duran, Alessandro Gentile
Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CNN International
Tony Maddox
Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering, CNN Worldwide
Parisa Khosravi
VP and Managing Editor for CNN International | Europe/Middle East/Africa
Deborah Rayner,
Senior Operations Director for CNN International
Will King

The CNN International Newsgathering Team
Senior Directors of Coverage
Cynde Strand, Roger Clark, Samson Desta, Thomas Evans
Supervising Editors
Lonzo Cook, Jennifer Deaton, Paul Ferguson, Pierre Meilhan, Mitra Mobasherat, Waffa Munayyer, John Raedler, Stefan
Simons
News Editors
Salma Abdelaziz, Saad Abedine, Amir Ahmed, Roba Alhenawi, Hamdi Alkhshali, Yasmin Amer, Azadeh Ansari, Zarifmo
Aslamshoyeva, Yousuf Basil, Eve Bower, Marilia Brocchetto, Ben Brumfield, Kass Cohen, Yesim Comert, Helena De Moura,
John Dear, Umaro Djau, Claudia Dominguez, Tracy Doueiry, Tess Eastment, Neda Farshbaf, Christabelle Fombu, Kamal
Ghattas, Deanna Hackney,Elizabeth Joseph, Joyce Joseph, Nana Karikari-apau, Aliza Kassim, Talia Kayali, Jessica King,
Igor Krotov, Chandrika Lakshminarayan, Jack Maddox, Alden Mahler, Sara Mazloumsaki, Joseph Netto, Larry Register,
Nicky Robertson, Samira Said, Esprit Smith, Karen Smith, Kathryn Tancos, Christine Theodorou, Deb Traynor, Brian
Walker.
Director of International Planning
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Earl Casey
Futures Supervising Editor
Gena Harper-Somra
Futures Editor, Middle East
Bruce Conover
Futures Editor, Asia/Latin America
Emer Sutin

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Inside Syria
Executive Producer
Patrick Burkey
Senior Producer
Andrew Franklin
Producers
Ghazi Balkiz, John Kooistra, Wonbo Woo, Kelly Venardos
Chief Foreign Correspondent
Richard Engel

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Washed Ashore
Executive Producer
Patrick Burkey
Senior Producer
Mike Mosher
Producer
Aarne Heikkila
Correspondent
Miguel Almaguer

Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
ABC News Nightline ABC
Arctic Journey: The Unicorn of the Sea
Executive Producer
Jeanmarie Condon
Senior Broadcast Producer
Almin Karamehmedovic
Producer
Alex Waterfield
Correspondent
Linsey Davis

ABC News Nightline ABC
Inside the New Ku Klux Klan
Executive Producer
Jeanmarie Condon
Senior Producer
Jon Meyersohn
Producer
Victoria Thompson
Additional Producers
Ming Xue, Neil Sass
Correspondent
Cynthia McFadden
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Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast continued

CBS This Morning CBS
Chuck Close: A Note to Self
Executive Producer
Chris Licht
Senior Producer
Ryan Kadro
Producer
Paige Kendig

CBS This Morning CBS
Tagging Great Whites
Executive Producer
Chris Licht
Senior Producer
Ryan Kadro
Producer
Molly Kordares
Correspondent
Jeff Glor
CBS This Morning CBS
Wynton Marsalis: An Essay for Martin Luther King, Jr.
Executive Producer
Chris Licht
Senior Producer
Ryan Kadro
Producer
Paige Kendig
Correspondent
Wynton Marsalis
Director
Robert Klug

Sunday Morning CBS
Glen Campbell
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Producers:
Gavin Boyle, Jason Sacca, Amy Rosner
Producers
Alan Golds, Ed Givnish
Correspondent
Anthony Mason

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Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast continued

Sunday Morning CBS
Starting Over
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Producers:
Gavin Boyle, Jason Sacca, Amy Rosner
Producer
Mary Walsh
Co-Producer
Remington Korper
Correspondent
David Martin

Sunday Morning CBS
Walking on Air
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Producers:
Gavin Boyle, Jason Sacca, Amy Rosner
Producer
Fernando Suarez
Correspondent
Elizabeth Palmer

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
Brian Ross Investigates: TSA Theft
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Brian Ross
Chief Investigative Producer
Rhonda Schwartz
Producer
Megan Chuchmach
Digital Managing Editor
Mark Schone
Senior Broadcast Producer
Almin Karamehmedovic
Executive Producer Nightline
Jeanmarie Condon –
Executive Producer, World News with Diane Sawyer
Michael Corn

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Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Continued

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
Ivory Poaching
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Heather Abbott
Producers
Jack Renaud, Haithem Moussa, Ortiz Alex
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondents
M. Sanjayan, Holly Williams

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS
Medevac
Executive Producer
Patricia Shevlin
Senior Producer
Ward Sloane
Producer
Mary Walsh
Anchor & Managing Editor
Scott Pelley
Correspondent
David Martin

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley; CBS This Morning Saturday CBS
Libya Dying for Security
Executive Producers
Pat Shevlin, Michael Rosen
Senior Broadcast Producer
Jim McGlinchy
Senior Producer
Ward Sloane
Producers
Kim Skeen, Maggie Dore
Investigative Correspondent
Sharyl Attkisson
Chief of Investigative Unit
Len Tepper

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