The 40th annual News and Documentary Emmys took place last night, and HBO, once again, came out the winner with 10 awards. PBS snared nine awards during last night’s affair at the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. CBS came in third with six Emmy wins, and CNN Worldwide nabbed five.
PBS led all networks with 47 nominations, with 12 for Independent Lens and 10 for Frontline.
“Vice News Tonight is leading the charge in broadcast news with its unparalleled international reporting across Yemen and Iraq, and distinctive coverage of the issues dividing our country today,” executive producer Madeleine Haeringer said in a statement. “I’m beyond proud of this incredible team who are breaking through the media landscape with their compelling, brave journalism.”
Vice News Tonight’s move to Vice Media’s cable channel Viceland later this fall, and its flagship programming block coincides with expansion of its news division, led by the Washington DC bureau’s growth by over 50% this year.
ABC World News Tonight Weekend anchor and chief national affairs correspondent Tom Llamas headed across the street to emcee the ceremony.
NBC’s chief foreign correspondent and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell, who has called NBC home for more than 40 years, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award “for her groundbreaking 50-year career covering domestic and international affairs.” Her NBC News Washington bureau colleague Kristen Welker introduced and presented her with the award.
“She’s unstoppable. She’s relentless. She’s the one to beat. A shining example of journalism at its best…and she’s not just a friend to so many – but a hands on mentor,” said Welker.
NBC News made a tribute video to celebrate Mitchell, with congratulatory messages from former U.S. secretaries of state Colin Powell, Madeline Albright, Condoleezza Rice and John Kerry.
“That was a great tour of my hair color!” Mitchell later quipped, before giving some more serious acceptance remarks.
None of us achieves anything on our own in this business, television news is a team sport. I owe everything to my mentors at NBC and MSNBC, [NBC News chairman] Andy Lack, [NBC News president] Noah Oppenheim and [MSNBC president] Phil Griffin.
To my anchors and colleagues over the years: David Brinkley, Tom Brokaw, Brian Willians, Lester Holt, and Chuck Todd. And of course, the heart and soul of our Washington bureau, Tim Russert. But in particular tonight I want to speak about the women who have taught me so much, especially Jenn Suozzo, Libby Leist, Michelle Perry, Yvette Miley, Rashida Jones and the great Savannah Guthrie.
I owe a special debt to a sisterhood of broadcast pioneers: Lesley Stahl, Judy Woodruff, my great friend, – and most memorably, Cokie Roberts. Cokie represented the best of New Orleans and Washington, having been nurtured in the south but raised – literally – in the halls of Congress. Watching her on This Week or listening to her on NPR, people were drawn to her enchanting laugh, her keen wit, her fundamental kindness and empathy. She was a founding mother not only of NPR, but of all us women journalists in Washington.
We are in an entirely new environment. In my experience during more than four decades covering the White House, Congress and national security in seven administrations, politics was invariably adversarial. But this is different. Now we are called “the enemy of the people.” Our credibility as journalists is deliberately targeted as part of a re-election strategy. Today, time-honored norms are ignored: Press secretaries and senior officials deliver “alternative facts.” Traditions such as White House briefings, State Department expanded travel pools, and formal news conferences are replaced by shouted exchanges on the South Lawn, often drowned out by the whirling rotor blades of Marine One…
Winners from some of the most notable categories can be found below. For a full list of winners, click here.
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast
HBO – Vice News Tonight – Moment of Truth: Kavanaugh and Ford
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast
HBO – Vice News Tonight – Yemen’s Forgotten War
Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast
HBO – Vice News Tonight – Zero Tolerance
Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast
PBS – PBS NewsHour – Yemen’s Spiraling Hunger Crisis is a Man-Made Disaster
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast
PBS – PBS NewsHour – Rape, Harassment and Retaliation in the U.S. Forest Service: Women Firefighters Tell Their Stories
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine
CBS – 60 Minutes – The Students of Stoneman Douglas
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine
CBS – 60 Minutes – War Crime
Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine
CBS – 60 Minutes – The Legacy of Lynching
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
Al Jazeera International USA – Fault Lines – Adoption Inc.
Outstanding Breaking News Coverage
ABC – ABC News Special Events – Hurricane Michael
Outstanding News Special
CBS – 48 Hours & CBS This Morning – 39 Days
Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis
CNN – AC360 – Finding Hope: Battling America’s Suicide Crisis
Outstanding Live Interview
CNN – Amanpour – Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, interviewed by Christiane Amanpour
Outstanding Edited Interview
NBC – Dateline NBC – Bringing Down Bill Cosby: Andrea Constand Speaks
Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report
The Weather Channel – AMHQ – Dangers of Tornadoes Depicted Through Immersive Mixed Reality
Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report
Great Big Story – Art and Soul
Outstanding Business, Consumer and Economic Report
The Weather Channel Digital, Telemundo Network and Efran Films – Hidden Cost: Our Laws Have Not Kept Up With the Climate
Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary
HBO – HBO Documentary Films – It Will Be Chaos
Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary
World Channel – Doc World – Armed With Faith
Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Hulu – Crime + Punishment
Outstanding Investigative Documentary
PBS – Frontline – Documenting Hate
Outstanding Historical Documentary
HBO – HBO Documentary Films – King in the Wilderness
Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary
PBS – Independent Lens – I Am Not Your Negro
Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary
National Geographic – Science Fair
Outstanding Nature Documentary
CNN – CNN Films – Trophy
Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary
HBO – Vice Special Report – Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis
Outstanding Short Documentary
them / Condé Nast Entertainment – Trans in America: Texas Strong
Best Story in a Newscast
HBO – Vice News Tonight – Yemen’s Forgotten War
Best Story in a Newsmagazine
CBS – 60 Minutes – War Crime
Best Documentary
HBO – HBO Documentary Films – I Am Evidence
Outstanding Newscast or Newsmagazine in Spanish
Telemundo – Noticias Telemundo Mediodia (Telemundo News at Noon)