EmmyWatch: 36th Annual News and Doc Nominations

Following last week’s Primetime Emmy nominations, the Television Academy announced today the 36th Annual News and Documentary Emmy nominations. Featuring 45 categories, the awards honor documentaries, news reports, and multimedia projects within the field of broadcast journalism. PBS lead the pack with 57 nominations followed by CBS’s 44 nominations.

The awards will be presented on September 28, and some of the major nominations are as follows:

 

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

  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Life and Death in Gaza
  • Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline: Making History: The U.S. and Cuba
  • NBC Nightly News: Without Warning: The Mudslide
  • NBC Nightly News: Ukraine
  • The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: Rescue from Mt. Sinjar

 

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

  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Challenge Academy
  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: The War Against Ebola
  • CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Immigration Coverage
  • NBC Nightly News: Hooked: America’s Heroin Epidemic
  • Nightline: The Ebola Crisis: Inside the Hot Zone

 

Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

  • 60 Minutes: Pope Francis
  • ABC World News with David Muir and Nightline: Stolen Childhood
  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: On The Road: Pay It Forward
  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: On The Road: Secret Santa
  • CBS This Morning: Note to Self: Scott Ostrom
  • Nightline: Brian Ross Investigates Lawrence of Afghanistan … And His Woman
  • PBS NewsHour: Senegal’s Child Beggars

 

Outstanding Hard News Report in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

  • NBC Nightly News: Inside Kobani
  • Nightline: Brian Ross Investigates: Olympic Gold, Olympic Greed
  • Nightline: Ebola: The Gates of Hell
  • Nightline: Moscow is Burning
  • PBS NewsHour: Impossible Choice

 

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

  • Anderson Cooper 360: Crisis At The VA, Veterans Dying While Waiting For Care
  • Anderson Cooper 360: Theme Parks Investigation
  • CBS News Investigative Unit: Bringing Home America’s Fallen
  • CBS This Morning: Death in Paradise
  • PBS NewsHour: Hazardous Work: Diving into the Philippines’ Dangerous Underwater Mines

 

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

  • Anderson Cooper 360: GM Blamed for Death
  • Nightline: Brian Ross Investigates: Herbalife– The Dream and The Reality
  • Nightline: Yoga Guru Under Fire
  • PBS NewsHour: The Minimum Wage Debate in Seattle
  • PBS NewsHour: Who’s Behind The Chinese Takeover Of The World’s Biggest Pork Producer?

 

Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine

  • 60 Minutes: Ebola Hot Zone
  • Fault Lines: Ferguson: City Under Siege
  • Fighting Ebola Street by Street
  • FRONTLINE: Ebola Outbreak
  • FRONTLINE: The Battle for Ukraine
  • VICE News: Russian Roulette 

 

Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine

  • 48 Hours: Perilous Journey
  • 60 Minutes: 3 Years Later
  • 60 Minutes: Chernobyl
  • 60 Minutes: The Islamic State
  • 60 Minutes: War and Hunger

 

Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine

  • 60 Minutes: The Lion Whisperer
  • 60 Minutes: The Shooting at Chardon High
  • Dateline NBC: A Bronx Tale
  • E:60: Carmen: A Survivor’s Story
  • A Meredith Vieira Special: A Leap of Faith

 

Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a News Magazine

  • 20/20: Brian Ross Investigates: Deadly Impact
  • 60 Minutes: Denied
  • 60 Minutes: Nowhere to Go
  • 60 Minutes: The Case of Alex Rodriguez
  • Fault Lines: American War Workers
  • FRONTLINE: Hunting Boko Haram

 

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting in a News Magazine

  • 20/20: Brian Ross Investigates: Confessions of a Counterfeiter
  • 60 Minutes: Chairman Ma
  • 60 Minutes: Falling Apart
  • 60 Minutes: Over a Barrel
  • 60 Minutes: Rigged

 

Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis

  • All In with Chris Hayes: All In America: A New Frontier in Women’s Healthcare
  • All In with Chris Hayes: Fifty Year War: The Changing Face of Poverty in America
  • Face the Nation: 60th Anniversary Episode with President Obama and President Bush
  • Face the Nation: Summer War in Gaza
  • This Week with George Stephanopoulos: June 22, 2014

 

Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story-Long-Form

  • ABC News Special Events: The Downing of Malaysia Flight M17
  • ABC NEWS Special Events: Your Voice/Your Vote 2014
  • Anderson Cooper 360: NYC Chokehold Death Protests
  • CNN: Ukraine: Shooting in Independence Square
  • NBC News Specials: Malaysia Flight 17

 

Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story-Long Form

  • E-Team
  • FRONTLINE: The Rise of ISIS
  • FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets
  • HBO Documentary Films: Terror at the Mall
  • POV: After Tiller
  • POV: American Promise

 

Outstanding Investigative Journalism-Long-Form

  • FRONTLINE: Firestone and the Warlord
  • HBO Documentary Films: Hunted: The War Against Gays in Russia
  • HBO Documentary Films: The Newburgh Sting
  • Independent Lens: The State of Arizona
  • Pimp City: A Journey to the Center of the Sex Slave Trade

 

Outstanding Informational Programming-Long-Form

  • HBO Documentary Films: Private Violence
  • Independent Lens: Bully
  • Mission Blue
  • POV: Fallen City
  • POV: When I Walk

 

Outstanding Historical Programming-Long-Form

  • Brothers in War
  • HBO Documentary Films: Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words
  • Independent Lens: The Trials of Muhammad Ali
  • MAKERS
  • The Unknown Known

 

Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting-Long Form

  • America ReFramed: Fate of a Salesman
  • CNN Films: Ivory Tower
  • FRONTLINE: To Catch a Trader
  • Independent Lens: Medora
  • POV: Big Men

 

Outstanding Interview

  • 60 Minutes: Recruiting for ISIS
  • 60 Minutes: The Director
  • Meet the Press: Former Vice President Dick Cheney Interview
  • Surviving An ISIS Massacre:
  • VICE News: The Architect

Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming

  • HBO Documentary Films: Banksy Does New York
  • HBO Documentary Films: Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus
  • Independent Lens: Muscle Shoals
  • POV: Dance for Me
  • Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

 

Outstanding Science and Technology Programming

  • American Experience: The Poisoner’s Handbook
  • CNN Films: Dinosaur 13
  • How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson: Clean
  • NOVA: Alien Planets Revealed
  • Your Inner Fish

 

Outstanding Nature Programming

  • Nature: Ireland’s Wild River
  • Nature: Snow Monkeys
  • Nature: Touching the Wild
  • Saving Africa’s Giants With Yao Ming
  • Wild Hawaii

 

Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast

  • CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Life and Death in Gaza
  • NBC Nightly News and Today: Hooked
  • Nightline: Moscow is Burning
  • Nightline: The Ebola Crisis
  • Noticiero Univision: Recorrido a Bordo de la Bestia (The Dangerous Journey in “The Beast”)

 

Best Report in a News Magazine

  • 60 Minutes: Denied
  • 60 Minutes: Inside Homs
  • 60 Minutes: Nowhere to Go
  • 60 Minutes: The Case of Alex Rodriguez
  • Dateline NBC: A Bronx Tale

 

Best Documentary

  • E-Team
  • FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets
  • Independent Lens: The Trials of Muhammad Ali
  • Independent Lens: BULLY
  • POV: After Tiller
  • POV: American Promise
  • POV: Big Men

The full list of nominations is available at the Television Academy’s website.

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