Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
* Anderson Cooper 360
Black Market Infertility CNN
Struggling with infertility, some couples go outside the accepted lines of medical care to offset the soaring costs of in-vitro medications. Choosing risky and illegal deals, willing to risk jail and hospitalization, desperate couples try to improve their chances of fulfilling their dream by going online to share medications. Correspondent Randi Kaye examines this disturbing trend, questioning insurance company representatives about why some medications are covered and some not, and talking with several couples risking it all to have a baby.
Senior Executive Producer
David Doss
Executive Producer
Kathleen Friery
Senior Producer
James Kraft
Producer
Audrey Gruber
Correspondent
Randi Kaye
Outstanding Investigative Reporting of a Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
* NBC Nightly News
Congress's Private Air Force and Congress à la Carte NBC
In a year in which one member of Congress went to prison and others are in serious trouble, NBC News produced two investigations into the tremendous largesse that corporations can bestow on Congress legally. When some politicians flee Washington on the weekends, their first call is often not to the airlines but to their favorite donors for bargain-basement airline flights on corporate jets. Staking out private airports and investigating hundreds of financial disclosure forms, NBC found Virginia Senator George Allen had used the corporate jets of Apple Hospitality, a major real-estate investment firm in Virginia, 39 times in the last few years, paying about a fourth of the cost of regular charter flights. And while they say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, NBC reports on Vicki Taylor, a former BellSouth employee who lost her job after revealing how lobbyists at the firm wined and dined Congress non-stop.
Executive Producer
John Reiss
Senior Producers
Jim Popkin , Albert Oetgen,
Producers
Rich Gardellla, Doug Pasternak, Aram Roston
Correspondent
Lisa Myers
Outstanding Interpretation or Analysis of a Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
* CBS News Sunday Morning
Relics of Rock CBS
One of the key traits of many successful entrepreneurs is their ability to see value where others don’t. Bill Sagan saw a warehouse full of old junk and ultimately turned a $2 million investment into a $100 million gold mine. That “warehouse full of junk” turned out to be the greatest collection of rock and roll memorabilia in the world – priceless photographs, recordings and more, of nearly all of the biggest names in rock music history...Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and more – a music archive lost and forgotten until Sagan discovered it. Correspondent John Blackstone draws the audience along step-by-step as he traces Sagan’s single-minded quest to locate, acquire and market what he alone saw as an untapped treasure.
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Broadcast Producer
Estelle Popkin
Senior Producer
Gavin Boyle
Producers
Jason Sacca, Robin Skeete
Correspondent
John Blackstone
Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story – News Magazines and Long Form
* CBS News 60 Minutes
Oil Sands CBS
In a few years the United States will import more oil from the tar pits in Alberta, Canada than from Saudi Arabia. There is enough oil in the sands of Alberta to slake America’s thirst for oil for the next century and beyond. The challenge: how to turn a tar-like goo into black gold. The biggest trucks and the biggest excavators in the world are needed to dig up the oil sands in temperatures hovering in the single digits – during the daytime. Extracting oil out of sand has turned Canada into an oil superpower and Alberta into what one energy tycoon has termed an environmental mess. Investigating how oil sands companies are resorting to extraordinary measures to comply with Canada’s environmental laws and convincing workers to come and live at the end of the earth, is perhaps one of the most important economic stories concerning the staggering cost of a barrel of crude today.
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Senior Broadcast Producer
Michael R. Whitney
Producer
Draggan Mihailovich
Co-Producer
Wendy Krantz
Correspondent
Bob Simon
Outstanding Investigative Reporting of a Business News Story – News Magazines and Long Form
* Dateline NBC
Bitter Pills NBC
“Dateline NBC” documents how counterfeit prescription drugs are invading America’s mainstream medicine supply—threatening public health and the nation’s pharmaceutical industry. Medicines for cancer, cholesterol and blood pressure are being counterfeited by international rings, and loopholes in existing government regulations have allowed the fakes to reach U.S. drug stores, even major chains like CVS and Rite-Aid. “Dateline” researched recent counterfeiting cases and reporter Chris Hansen went undercover posing as an American businessman interested in buying and selling fake medicines. His fictitious company ordered bogus drugs, and Hansen even arranged face-to-face meetings with a major Chinese counterfeiter. “Dateline” revealed that one reason the fake drugs were able to reach American pharmacies was that for nearly two decades the FDA had failed to finalize anti-counterfeiting rules. Within days of “Dateline’s” broadcast, the FDA suddenly announced new rules to require tracking every time a prescription medicine changes hands.
Executive Producer
David Corvo
Executive Editor
Liz Cole
Senior Producer
Allan Maraynes
Producer
Steve Eckert
Correspondent
Chris Hansen
Outstanding Interpretation or Analysis of a Business News Story – News Magazines and Long Form
* CNN Presents
How to Rob a Bank CNN
This story shows how modern day Bonnie and Clydes use stolen identities to rob banks. Ten million Americans are victims of identity theft each year. News reports typically focus on consumers trying to repair their credit ratings, but in fact individual victims bear only a small percentage of the $50 billion a year cost. Most of the cost is borne by banks who consider fraud a part of the cost of doing business. In order to understand the intricate scams used by criminals, “CNN Presents” mined court cases and interviewed convicted identity thieves, law enforcement agents, and victims. The sobering conclusion is that, with our personal information stored everywhere, identity theft will get worse before it gets better, and will continue to provide criminals with a low-risk way to rob banks.
Senior Executive Producer
Mark Nelson
Executive Producer
Andy Segal
Managing Editor
Kathy Slobogin
Executive Director of Production
Jody Gottlieb
Senior Editor/Producers
Mike Chedwick, Claire Cibik
Post Production Producer
Matt Scheibner
Correspondent
Drew Griffin
Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic
* FRONTLINE
Can You Afford to Retire? PBS
The baby boomer generation is headed for a shock when it hits retirement—boomers will be long on life-expectancy but short on income. “FRONTLINE” correspondent Hedrick Smith learns how corporations have shifted most of the responsibility and cost of retirement to individuals, leaving America’s two private retirement systems—lifetime pensions and 401(k) plans—in deep trouble. In this eye-opening report, financial experts spell out how much middle-class Americans now need to save for retirement and warn that many face a “rough ride.”
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Executive Producer, Special Projects
Michael Sullivan
Senior Producer/Correspondent
Hedrick Smith
Producer/Director
Rick Young
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