NOMINEES FOR THE 37th ANNUAL

NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS

ANNOUNCED

September 21st Award Presentation at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P Rose Hall in NYC

New York, N.Y. – July 21, 2016 (revised 8.17.16) – Nominations for the 37th 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 Wednesday, September 21st, 2016, at a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P Rose Hall in the Time Warner Complex at Columbus Circle 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. Awards will be presented in 46 categories.

“From the beginning of my career in television, the News & Documentary Emmy Awards have held a special place for me,” said Bob Mauro, President, NATAS. “These awards are a tribute to the outstanding work being done by men and woman at the highest level of the broadcast journalism and documentary filmmaking professions. They honor the organizations and people who often put their lives on the line to bring us the most critically important stories of our times. The network, cable and online news organizations deliver immediate and immersive coverage of important national and international stories, as well as thoughtful analysis of contemporary events. The many documentaries nominated this year offer the viewer a wide range of in-depth explorations of critical topics that affect us all. It is with great pleasure that The National Academy honors the achievements of these many organizations and individuals as they continue to strive for excellence in the television industry.”

The 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming distributed during the calendar year 2015.

The list of nominees is also available on the National Television Academy's website: www.emmyonline.tv

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 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards. Accounting services for the competition are provided by the firm of Lutz & Carr, LLP.

United Airlines is the official airline of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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

PBS / 54 / CCTV America / 1
CBS / 37 / Direct TV Audience / 1
HBO / 19 / Discovery Channel / 1
NBC / 14 / ESPN / 1
CNN / 13 / Fusion / 1
ABC / 11 / Guardian US / 1
Al Jazeera America / 10 / Investigation Discovery / 1
The New York Times / 9 / The Intercept/Field of Vision / 1
Univision / 7 / International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/ Center for Public Integrity / 1
Telemundo / 6 / MSNBC / 1
BBC World News / 4 / National Geographic Wild / 1
Smithsonian Channel / 3 / National Geographic/ Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism / 1
Center for Investigative Reporting / 2 / National Geographic Magazine / 1
CNN en Español / 2 / Newsy / 1
National Geographic Channel / 2 / Online / 1
American Heroes Channel / 1 / Stanford Medicine Magazine / 1
BBC America / 1 / Showtime / 1

Regional Nominees

WPIX-TV / 2 / KTVI-TV / 1
WSB-TV / 2 / KUSA-TV / 1
KGTV-TV / 1 / KXAS-TV / 1
KING-TV / 1 / WJXT -TV / 1
KNXV-TV / 1

About TheNationalAcademyof Television Arts & Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a service organization 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 Technology & Engineering.NATAS membership consists of over 15,000 broadcast and media professionals represented in 19 regional chapters across the country. 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 atwww.emmyonline.tv

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Executive Vice President, CNN International

Tony Maddox

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Deborah Rayner

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Senior Producers

Susan Chun, Kerry Rubin, Sean Yates

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Field Producers

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Anchors

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Executive Producer

Kate Farrell

Senior Executive Producers

Andrew Roy, Anna Williams

Senior Broadcast Producers

Jacky Martens, Nick Springate

Executive Editor

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Producers

Ankit Babu, Anthony Clifford, Peter Emmerson, Sanjay Ganguly, Adrienne Murray, Kate

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Chief Foreign Correspondent

Ian Pannell

Reporters

Tom Martienssen, Clive Myrie, Justin Rowlatt

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Patrick Burkey, James Kraft

Senior Broadcast Producers

Samuel Singal, Jennifer Suozzo

Senior Producer

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Supervising Producer

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Patrick Burkey

Senior Broadcast Producers

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Senior Producers

Katie Boyle, Tracey Lyons

Producers

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Wonbo Woo, Ziad Jaber, John Holland, Craig Stanley, Shaquille Brewster, David Verdi,

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Correspondents

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Anchor

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Stephen G. Lucas

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Producers

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Executive Producer

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Senior Executive Producers

Andrew Roy, Anna Williams

Senior Broadcast Producer

Nick Springate

Executive Editor

Jonathan Munro

Producers

Darren Conway, Zeynep Erdim, Hasan Kadoni, Goktay Koraltan, Maarten Lernout,

Rob Magee, Debbie Randle, Sandra Vsukreski

Chief Foreign Correspondents

Fergal Keane, Ian Pannell

Reporters

Damian Grammaticas, Gavin Hewitt, Mark Lowen

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Executive Producer

Kate Farrell

Senior Executive Producers

Andrew Roy, Anna Williams

Executive Editor

Jonathan Munro

Producers

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Emma Wells

Chief Foreign Correspondents

Fergal Keane, Ian Pannell

Reporter

Tom Burridge

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley CBS

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Executive Producer

Steve Capus

Senior Producer

Heather Abbott

Producers

Lynne Edwards, Mark Ludlow, Agnes Reau, Brian Robbins, Khaled Wassef, Jane Whitfield

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Steve Capus, Chris Licht

Senior Producers

Heather Abbott, Eric Bloom

Producers

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Justine Redman, Heather Spinelli

Correspondent

Charlie D'agata

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt NBC

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Executive Producer

Samuel Singal, Patrick Burkey, James Kraft

Senior Producers

Andy Franklin, Edward Deitch

Correspondents

Richard Engel, Bill Neely, Lester Holt

Producers

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Eckardt, Kristen Powers, Ben Plesser, Michelle Neubert, Cheryll Simpson, Gabriel Joselow, Marc Smith,

Shannon Urtnowski, Carlo Angerer, Aggelos Petropoulos, Mac Bishop, Paul Nassar, Madeleine

Haeringer, Adrienne Mong, David Verdi, Stacy Brady, Tony Hemmings, Ammar Cheikhomar, Aziz

Akyavas, Andrew Higgs, Rachele Webb, Richard Hobson, John Kooistra, Ricardo Gomez, Ben

Adams, Randy Brown, Stewart Scanlon, Bruno Trepanier, Maggie Kassner, Bob Croce

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Lester Holt

Director

Stephen G. Lucas

OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED

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Rand Morrison

Senior Producers

Gavin Boyle, Amy Rosner, Jason Sacca

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Senior Producers

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Executive Producer

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Senior Producer

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Senior Producer

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Producers

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Sara Just

Senior Producers

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Correspondent

Miles O'Brien

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Executive Producer

Roxanna Sherwood

Senior Producer

Jenna Millman

Producers

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Field Producer

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Correspondent

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Senior Producer

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Additional Producers

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Senior Producer

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Producers

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Ellen Weiss

Senior Producer, Foreign Affairs & Defense

Justin Kenny

Deputy Senior Producer, Foreign Affairs & Defense

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Investigative Correspondent

Mark Greenblatt

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer CNN

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Producers

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Executive Producer

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Senior Broadcast Producer

David Gelles

Correspondent

Jim Sciutto

OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN A REGULARLY

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David Muir

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Almin Karamehmedovic

Executive Producer, Investigative Unit

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Senior Producer

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Managing Editor

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Field Producers

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Roni Selig

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Supervising Producer

John Bonifield

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Senior Producers

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Senior Broadcast Producers

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Senior Producer

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Producer

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Correspondent

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Managing Editor, Investigations

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Supervising Producer

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Correspondent

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Producer

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Anchor

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Executive Producer

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Senior Producer

Richard Coolidge

National Affairs Editor

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Senior Story Editor

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Producers

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Field Producers

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Reporter

Jennifer Gollan

PBS NewsHour and The Center for Investigative Reporting PBS

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Senior Producer

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Managing Editor

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Deputy Foreign Affairs Editor & Defense Editor

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Producer

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Field Producer

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Co-Producer

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Reporter

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