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The 30th Annual Emmy® Awards for News & Documentary
The Nominations
OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
Myanmar Cyclone
Executive Producer
Jon Banner
Senior Producer
Kate Felsen
Producers
Susie Banikarim, Richard Coolidge, Thomas Fasano, Matt McGarry, Diane Mendez
Anchor
Charles Gibson
Correspondents
Jim Sciutto, Elizabeth Vargas
BBC World News America BBC America
Chaos in DR Congo
Executive Producer
Rome Hartman
Producer
Tara Neill
Correspondent
Orla Guerin
Head of News
Richard Porter
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Bailout Talks Collapse
Executive Producer
Alexandra Wallace
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bob Epstein
Senior Producers
Doug Adams, Tracey Lyons, Albert Oetgen
Producers
Jay Blackman, Gene Choo, Christine Colvin, Patrice Fletcher, Kerri Forrest, A.J. Goodwin, Aarne Heikkila,
John Holland, Kenneth Strickland, Mike Viquierra
Anchor and Managing Editor
Brian Williams
Correspondents
Maria Bartiromo, Tom Costello, Steve Liesman, Andrea Mitchell, Kevin Tibbles, Chuck Todd
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
The Death of Tim Russert
Anchor and Managing Editor
Brian Williams
Executive Producer
Alexandra Wallace
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bob Epstein
Producers
Doug Adams, Buba Adschiew, Mario Garcia, Maralyn Gelefsky, Sylvie Haller, Michael Kosnar
Director
Brett Holey
Senior Producers
Jay Blackman, Subrata De, Mary Laurence Flynn
Correspondents
Tom Brokaw, Pete Williams
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
China's Earthquake: Covering the Disaster
Executive Producer
Jon Banner
Senior Producer
Kate Felsen
Producers
Christina Babarovic, Cao Jun, Beth Loyd, Alice Maggin, Diane Mendez, Chito Romana, Justine Schiro,
Wonbo Woo
Anchor
Charles Gibson
Correspondents
Neal Karlinsky, Stephanie Sy
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
Iraq Five Years Later: Where Things Stand
Executive Producers
Jon Banner, Vinnie Malhotra
Senior Producers
Kate Felsen, Michael Kreisel, Gary Langer, Chuck Lustig, Tom Nagorski, David Reiter, Marcus Wilford
Producers
Susan Aasen, Mike Gudgell, Almin Karamehmedovic, Matt McGarry, Faisal Sidiq
Correspondents
Chris Bury, Terry McCarthy, Martha Raddatz, Bob Woodruff
Reporters
Hisham Alwan, Nadeem Aziz, Omar Abdul Kadir Omar, Mustafa Tukamachi
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric CBS
Campaign Questions
Executive Producer
Rick Kaplan
Producers
Brian Goldsmith, Jennifer Yuille
Anchor and Managing Editor
Katie Couric
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric CBS
The Carmelo Rodriguez Story
Executive Producer
Rick Kaplan
Producers
Betty Chin, Rodney Comrie
Reporter
Byron Pitts
CNN’s Coverage of Myanmar Cyclone CNN
Correspondent
Dan Rivers
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Tip of the Spear
Executive Producer
Alexandra Wallace
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bob Epstein
Senior Foreign Producer
Mary Laurence Flynn
Producers
Madeleine Haeringer, Joo Lee, Michelle Neubert
Anchor and Managing Editor
Brian Williams
Director
Brett Holey
Correspondent
Richard Engel
OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST
BBC World News America BBC America
Chinese Openness
Executive Producer
Rome Hartman
Producer
Melanie Marshall
Correspondent
Rupert Wingfield‑Hayes
Head of News
Richard Porter
CBS News Sunday Morning CBS
Frost/Nixon
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Broadcast Producer
Estelle Popkin
Senior Producer
Gavin Boyle
Producers
Ed Forgotson, Jr., David Small
Correspondent
Anthony Mason
CBS News Sunday Morning CBS
Harvey Milk
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Broadcast Producer
Estelle Popkin
Senior Producer
Gavin Boyle
Producers
Benjamin McCormick, George Osterkamp
Correspondent
John Blackstone
CBS News Sunday Morning CBS
RFK
Executive Producer
Rand Morrison
Senior Broadcast Producer
Estelle Popkin
Senior Producer
Gavin Boyle
Producers
David Bhagat, Mary Raffalli
Correspondent
Jeff Greenfield
Worldfocus PBS
21st Century Africa
Executive Producer
Marc Rosenwasser
Producer
Yuval Lion
Correspondent
Martin Seemungal
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST
Anderson Cooper 360 CNN
Online Drugs
Senior Executive Producer
David Doss
Senior Producers
Kathleen Friery, Barclay Palmer
Producer
David Fitzpatrick
Correspondent
Drew Griffin
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric CBS
V.A. Suicides: Cover‑Up Exposed
Executive Producer
Rick Kaplan
Senior Producer
Keith Summa
Producer
Pia Malbran
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Armen Keteyian
Good Morning America, World News & Nightline ABC
Brian Ross Investigates: America's Corporate Royalty
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Brian Ross
Chief of Investigative Projects
Rhonda Schwartz
Producers
Avni Patel, Joseph Rhee, Madeleine Sauer
Field Producers
Asa Eslocker, Roy Garlisi, Joanna Jennings, Anna Schecter
Senior Executive Producer
Jim Murphy
Executive Producers
Jon Banner, Tom Cibrowski, James Goldston
Editorial Producer
Justin Rood
The Situation Room CNN
Hurricane Giveaway
Investigative Correspondent
Abbie Boudreau
Senior Investigative Producer
Scott Zamost
Executive Producer
Eric Sherling
Senior Producer
Patricia DiCarlo
Director of Programming
Scott Matthews
OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
60 Minutes CBS
The Bailout
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producers
David Gelber, Henry Schuster
Co‑Producers
Joel Bach, Rebecca Peterson
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
60 Minutes CBS
The Inner Circle
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Producer
Michael Radutzky
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producers
Andy Court, L. Franklin Devine
Correspondent
Steve Kroft
NBC News NBC
Hurricane Gustav
Executive Producer
David Corvo
Senior Producers
Subrata De, Bob Epstein, Ellen Mason
Executive Editor
Liz Cole
Producers
Maite Amorebieta, Tim Beacham, Matt Carluccio, Katherine Chan, Carol Gable, Meade Jorgensen, Sarah
Karlson, Tom Keenan, Lynn Keller, Susan Kroll, Benita Noel, Marianne O'Donnell, Rayner Ramirez, Sue
Simpson, Dan Slepian, Vince Sturla, Tim Uehlinger, Don Wood, Esther Zucker
Anchor and Managing Editor
Brian Williams
Director
Brett Holey
Correspondents
Ann Curry, Hoda Kotb, Keith Morrison, Dennis Murphy, Chuck Todd
Special Correspondent
Tom Brokaw
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer PBS
Terror In Mumbai
Executive Producer
Linda Winslow
Senior Producer
Michael Mosettig
Producers
Dennis Levkovitch, Daniel Sagalyn
Correspondent
Simon Marks
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
60 Minutes CBS
Financial Crisis
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editors
Patti Hassler, Bill Owens
Producers
L. Franklin Devine, Jennifer MacDonald
Correspondent
Steve Kroft
60 Minutes CBS
War Against Women
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bill Owens
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Producers
Paul Bellinger, Michael Gavshon, Drew Magratten
Correspondent
Anderson Cooper
Dateline NBC NBC
A Twist of Fate
Executive Producer
David Corvo
Executive Editor
Liz Cole
Producers
Joe Delmonico, Matthew Glick, Lauren Sugrue
Correspondent
Matt Lauer
FRONTLINE/World PBS
State of Emergency
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Senior Producers
Ken Dornstein, Stephen Talbot
Producer/Reporter
David Montero
NOW on PBS PBS
Afghanistan: The Forgotten War
Executive In Charge
Lesley Norman
Executive Producer
John Siceloff
Senior Producer
Ty West
Producer
Bill Gentile
OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
60 Minutes CBS
Coach Carroll
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producers
Joyce Cordero, Catherine Olian
Co‑Producer
Richard Koppel
Correspondent
Byron Pitts
60 Minutes CBS
Justice Scalia
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bill Owens
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Producer
Ruth Streeter
Correspondent
Lesley Stahl
60 Minutes CBS
Lifeline
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editors
Patti Hassler, Bill Owens
Producer
Henry Schuster
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
60 Minutes CBS
Rex
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producer
Shari Finkelstein
Co‑Producers
Meghan Frank, Matthew Lev
Correspondent
Lesley Stahl
ABC News Primetime ABC
Living With Tourettes Syndrome
Executive Producer
David Sloan
Senior Producer
Jessica Velmans
Producer
Muriel Pearson
Correspondent
Jay Schadler
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
60 Minutes CBS
Assault on Pelindaba
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Producer
Michael Radutzky
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producers
Michael Karzis, Graham Messick
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
60 Minutes CBS
The Wasteland
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producer
Solly Granatstein
Co‑Producer
Nicole Young
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
ABC News 20/20 ABC
Brian Ross Investigates: Bodies ‑ The China Connection
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Brian Ross
Chief of Investigative Projects
Rhonda Schwartz
Executive Producer
David Sloan
Senior Producer
Carla DeLandri
Producer
Anna Schecter
ABC News Nightline ABC
How To Buy A Child In Ten Hours
Executive Producer
James Goldston
Senior Producer
David Scott
Producer
Aude Soichet
Correspondent
Dan Harris
Dateline NBC NBC
To Catch A Baby Broker
Executive Producer
David Corvo
Senior Producer
Ellen Mason
Executive Editor
Liz Cole
Producer
Benita Alexander‑Noel
Correspondent
Victoria Corderi
OUTSTANDING LIVE COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY‑‑LONG FORM
CNN’s Coverage of the Democratic National Convention CNN
Executive Producers
Sam Feist, Jane Maxwell
Senior Executive Producer
David Bohrman
Senior Producers
Melissa Block, Anne Brown, Jeff Kepnes, Kate Lunger, Alec Miran, Leslie Perrot, Eric Sherling, Lucy Spiegel,
Paul Steinhauser
Producers
Laura Bernardini, Carey Bodenheimer, Josh Braun, Claire Brinberg, Melanie Buck, Jennifer Buesinger, Lori
Chapman, Jill Chappell, Rick DiBella, Patricia DiCarlo, Ted Fine, Lydia Garlikov, Evan Glass, Jack Gray, Matt
Hoye, Sasha Johnson, Stephanie Kotuby, Bob Kovach, Jennifer Mikell‑Barthlow, Mark Preston, Patrick Reap,
Justine Redman, Mike Roselli, Josh Rubin, Emily Schultze, Alan Silverlieb, Vaughn Sterling, Rachel
Streitfeld, Alex Wellen, Robert Yoon
Anchors
Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper
Directors
Turner Bridgforth, Renee Cullen, Howard Lutt
Correspondents
Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, Joe Johns, John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Bill Schneider, Abbi
Tatton, Jessica Yellin
CNN’s Coverage of Election Night 2008 CNN
Executive Producers
Sam Feist, Jane Maxwell
Senior Executive Producer
David Bohrman
Senior Producers
Melissa Block, Anne Brown, Steve Dolce, Jeff Kepnes, Kate Lunger, Mike Maltas, Alec Miran, Leslie Perrot,
Eric Sherling, Lucy Spiegel, Paul Steinhauser, Alex Wellen
Producers
Emily Atkinson, Laura Bernardini, Josh Braun, Jennifer Buesinger, Lori Chapman, Anne Clifford, Anastasia
Diakides, Rick DiBella, Patricia DiCarlo, Chris dos Santos, Lydia Garlikov, Evan Glass, David Gracey, Peter
Hamby, Trisha Henry, Brad Hodges, Keating Holland, Matt Hoye, Sasha Johnson, Alexander Marquardt,
Jennifer Mikell‑Barthlow, Richard Morris, Lindsey Pope, Mark Preston, Megan Rafferty, Mike Roselli, Molly
Shiels, Alan Silverlieb, Vaughn Sterling, Rachel Streitfeld, Chris Welch, Robert Yoon, Shirley Zilberstein
Anchors
Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Anderson Cooper
Directors
Turner Bridgforth, Renee Cullen, Howard Lutt
Correspondents
Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Soledad O'Brien, Bill Schneider
NBC News ‑ Decision 2008 NBC
Election Night
Executive Producers
Philip Alongi, Alexandra Wallace
Senior Producers
Bob Epstein, Cliff Kappler
Producers
Heather Allan, John Baiata, Denise Baker, John Boxley, Patrick Burkey, Martha Caskey, John Cheang, Jack
Chesnutt, Amy Chiaro, Catherine Corrigan, Subrata De, Robert Dembo, Carol Eggers, Lauren Fairbanks,
Betsy Fischer, Patrice Fletcher, Kerri Forrest, Scott Foster, Roxanne Garcia, Hilary Guy, Madeleine Haeringer,
Al Henkel, Stephanie Himango, Mark Hudspeth, Christina Jamison, Leo Juarez, Naomi Karam, Les Kretman,
Susan Kroll, Courtney Kube, Laura Kurinsky, Richard Latour, Margaret Lehrman, Sarah Lusk, Geraldine
Moriba‑Meadows, Neil O'Brien, Terry Pickard, Alexandra Pournaras, Samira Puskar, Meghan Reader, Tom
Rotunno, Antoine Sanfuentes, Olivia Santini, Joel Seidman, Robin Skolnick, Kenneth Strickland, Bethany
Thomas, Adam Verdugo, Mike Viquierra, Huma Zaidi, John Zito
Anchor
Brian Williams
Anchor/Correspondents
Tom Brokaw, Ann Curry, Lester Holt, Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd
Directors
Jim Gaines, Ray Herbert, Brett Holey, John Libretto
Correspondents
Peter Alexander, Ron Allen, Kevin Corke, Tom Costello, Lee Cowan, Rehema Ellis, Richard Engel, Dawna
Friesen, Savannah Guthrie, Tamron Hall, Michelle Kosinski, Phil Lebeau, Ron Mott, Kelly O'Donnell, Norah
O'Donnell, Jeannie Ohm, Michael Okwu, Darren Rovell, Luke Russert, Kerry Sanders, Mara Schiavocampo,
Janet Shamlian, Mike Taibbi, Don Teague, Anne Thompson, Kevin Tibbles, Mike Viqueira, Ian Williams, John
Yang
Elections Director
Sheldon Gawiser
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY‑‑LONG FORM
ABC News Special ABC
China Inside Out
Executive Producer
Tom Yellin
Senior Producer
Kayce Jennings
Producer
Gabrielle Tenenbaum
Reporter
Bob Woodruff
FRONTLINE PBS
Bush's War
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Producer/Director
Michael Kirk
Producer/Reporter
Jim Gilmore
Co‑Producer
Mike Wiser
FRONTLINE PBS
The War Briefing
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Producer
Marcela Gaviria
Co‑Producer
Will Cohen
Correspondent
Martin Smith
Wide Angle PBS
Birth of a Surgeon
Executive Producer
Pamela Hogan
Senior Producer
Nina Chaudry
Producer
Loui Bernal
Director
Karin Falck
Wide Angle PBS
Lord's Children
Director/Producer
Oliver Stoltz
Executive Producer
Pamela Hogan
Senior Producer
Nina Chaudry
Director
Ali Samadi Ahadi
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM‑‑LONG FORM
FRONTLINE PBS
Rules of Engagement
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Senior Producer
Raney Aronson‑Rath
Producer/Director
Arun Rath
Co‑Producer
Amy Rubin
HBO Documentary Films HBO
Taxi to the Dark Side
Executive Producers
Sidney Blumenthal, Don Glascoff, Robert Johnson, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
Producer/Director
Alex Gibney
Producers
Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman
Co‑Producers
Blair Foster, Sloane Klevin
llicit: The Dark Trade PBS
Executive Producer
John Bredar
Co‑Executive Producer
Moises Naim
Producer/Director
Helen Fitzwilliam
National Geographic Explorer National Geographic Channel
Gorilla Murders
Executive Producer
Jonathan Halperin
Senior Producer
Robert Zakin
Series Producer
Max Salomon
Producer/Director
Michael Davie
P.O.V. PBS
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Director
Kieran Fitzgerald
Producer
Brendan Fitzgerald
Executive Producers
Peter Gilbert, Michael Fitzgerald
Executive Director
Patricia Boero
Executive Producer for POV/American Documentary Inc.
Simon Kilmurry
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING ‑ LONG FORM
FRONTLINE PBS
Growing Up Online
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Producer/Directors
Rachael Dretzin, John Maggio
HBO Documentary Films HBO
Resolved
Executive Producers
Sarah Clark, Mark Iola Clark, Lisa Kraus, Peter Kraus, Sheila Nevins, Marc Stanley, Wendy Stanley, Andy
Waters, Liz Waters
Senior Producer
Nancy Abraham
Producer/Director
Greg Whiteley
HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Executive Producers
Diana Barrett, Sheila Nevins
Supervising Producer
Nancy Abraham
Producer/Director
Lisa Jackson
Independent Lens PBS
Hard Road Home
Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
Producer
Selina Lewis Davidson
Director
Macky Alston
NOVA PBS
A Walk to Beautiful
Executive Producer / Producer
Steve Engel
Senior Executive Producer
Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Producer/Director
Mary Olive Smith
Co‑Producer
Allison Shigo
Director
Amy Bucher
P.O.V. PBS
In The Family
Director/Producer
Joanna Rudnick
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Gordon Quinn
Co‑Producer
Beth Iams
OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL PROGRAMMING ‑ LONG FORM
Cinemax Reel Life Cinemax
Nanking
Producer/Director
Bill Guttentag
Producers
Michael Jacobs, Ted Leonsis
Co‑Producer
Violet Du Feng
Director
Dan Sturman
Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI PBS
Photographers
Producer
Jeanine Butler
Co‑Producers
Catherine Butler, Alastair Reill
Koppel on Discovery Discovery Channel
The Last Lynching
Executive Producer
Tom Bettag
Senior Producer
Hallye Galbraith
Producers
James Blue, Steve Cain, Lete Childs, Peter Demchuck, Bob Fahringer, Guy Federico, Jay LaMonica, Elissa
Rubin, Alissa Shapiro
Anchor/Correspondent
Ted Koppel
MSNBC Films MSNBC
Witness to Jonestown
Executive Producers
Benjamin Ringe, Knute Walker
Senior Executive Producer
Scott Hooker
Senior Producers
Daniel Bregman, Vicki Sufian
Producer
Stephen Stept
Vice President ‑ Long Form Programming
Michael Rubin
P.O.V. PBS
The Judge and the General
Director/Producer
Patricio Lanfranco
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Richard Pearce
Producer/Director
Elizabeth Farnsworth
Executive Director
Patricia Boero
The Rape of Europa PBS
Producer/Directors
Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham
OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW
60 Minutes CBS
Saddam's Confessions
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bill Owens
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Producer
Henry Schuster
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
An Historic Interview During an Historic Year: Interview with Sarah Palin
Executive Producer
Jon Banner
Senior Producers
Nancy Gabriner, Stu Schutzman
Producers
James Hill, Judy Isikow, Alice Maggin, Wonbo Woo
Anchor
Charles Gibson
Bill Moyers Journal PBS
Interview with Representative Henry Waxman
Executive Producer
Judy Doctoroff O'Neill
Co‑Executive Producer
Sally Roy
Executive Editors
Bill Moyers, Judith Davidson Moyers
Producer
Gail Ablow
Fareed Zakaria GPS CNN
Wen Jia Bao Interview
Executive Producer
Liza McGuirk
Anchor
Fareed Zakaria
P.O.V. PBS
Inheritance
Director/Producer
James Moll
Executive Producers
Simon Kilmurry, Chris Malachowsky, Ryan Malachowsky
Producer
Christopher Pavlick
OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING
60 Minutes CBS
Alec Baldwin
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bill Owens
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Producers
Deirdre Naphin Curran, Katy Textor
Correspondent
Morley Safer
ABC News 20/20 ABC
Drama High
Executive Producer
David Sloan
Senior Broadcast Producer
Jessica Velmans
Producers
Bram Harris, Muriel Pearson
Cinemax Reel Life Cinemax
Salim Baba
Producers
Francisco Bello, Raja Dey, Scott Mosier
Director
Tim Sternberg
HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale
Executive Producers
Diana Holtzberg, Sheila Nevins
Supervising Producer
Sara Bernstein
Producer/Director
Jeff Stimmel
In The Footsteps of Marco Polo PBS
Executive Producers
Tom Casciato, Josh Nathan, Stephen Segaller, Lisa Taylor‑Belliveau
Senior Producer
Eva Anisko
Producer/Directors
Denis Belliveau, Francis O'Donnell
Producer
Emir Lewis
P.O.V. PBS
Belarusian Waltz
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer, Miroslaw Grubek, Therese Jebsen, Simon Kilmurry, Jan Ramstad, Krzysztof Talczewski
Producer
Torstein Grude
Director
Andrezj Fidyk
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING
EVOLVE History Channel
Eyes
Executive Producers
Beth Hoppe, Charles Nordlander
Series Producers
Jonathan Grupper, Neil Laird
Producers
Stephanie Angelides, Kurt Tondorf
National Geographic Channel Presents National Geographic Channel
Five Years on Mars
Executive Producer
Howard Swartz
Producer/Director
Mark Davis
Senior Vice President, Production
Michael Cascio
NOVA PBS
Ape Genius
Executive Producer
John Bredar
Senior Executive Producer
Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Supervising Producer
James Donald
Producer/Director
John Rubin
NOVA PBS
Secrets of the Parthenon
Senior Executive Producer
Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Producer
Gary Glassman
Secrets of the Dead PBS
Doping for Gold
Executive Producers
Phil Craig, Sally Jo Fifer, Jared Lipworth
Producer/Director
Alison Rooper
BEST STORY IN A REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
Iraq Five Years Later: Where Things Stand
Executive Producers
Jon Banner, Vinnie Malhotra
Senior Producers
Kate Felsen, Michael Kreisel, Gary Langer, Chuck Lustig, Tom Nagorski, David Reiter, Marcus Wilford
Producers
Susan Aasen, Mike Gudgell, Almin Karamhemodovic, Matt McGarry, Faisal Sidiq
Correspondents
Chris Bury, Terry McCarthy, Martha Raddatz, Bob Woodruff
Reporters
Hisham Alwan, Nadeem Aziz, Omar Abdul Kadir Omar, Mustafa Tukamachi
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
Son of a Soldier
Executive Producer
Jon Banner
Senior Producer
Kate Felsen
Producer
Christine Romo
Anchor
Bob Woodruff
BBC World News America BBC America
Chaos in DR Congo
Executive Producer
Rome Hartman
Producer
Tara Neill
Correspondent
Orla Guerin
Head of News
Richard Porter
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Tip of the Spear
Executive Producer
Alexandra Wallace
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bob Epstein
Senior Foreign Producer
Mary Laurence Flynn
Producers
Madeleine Haeringer, Michelle Neubert
Anchor and Managing Editor
Brian Williams
Director
Brett Holey
Correspondent
Richard Engel
Worldfocus PBS
War in Congo
Executive Producer
Marc Rosenwasser
Producers
Lisa Biagiotti, Taylor Krauss
Reporter
Michael Kavanagh
BEST REPORT IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
60 Minutes CBS
Lifeline
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Broadcast Producer
Bill Owens
Executive Editor
Patti Hassler
Producer
Henry Schuster
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
60 Minutes CBS
Road to the White House
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Senior Producer
Michael Radutzky
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producers
Tom Anderson, L. Franklin Devine, Jennifer MacDonald
Correspondent
Steve Kroft
60 Minutes CBS
The Wasteland
Executive Producer
Jeff Fager
Executive Editor
Bill Owens
Producer
Solly Granatstein
Co‑Producer
Nicole Young
Correspondent
Scott Pelley
Videographer
Michele Monteleone
Videojournalists
Stephen Crowley, Doug Mills, Erik Olsen, Damon Winter
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Cinemax Reel Life Cinemax
Nanking
Producer/Director
Bill Guttentag
Producers
Michael Jacobs, Ted Leonsis
Co‑Producer
Violet Du Feng
Director
Dan Sturman
HBO Documentary Films HBO
China's Stolen Children
Executive Producers
Sheila Nevins, Kevin Sutcliffe
Supervising Producers
Nancy Abraham, Mark Roberts
Producers
Kate Blewett, Brian Woods
Director
Jezza Neumann
HBO Documentary Films HBO
Taxi to the Dark Side
Executive Producers
Sidney Blumenthal, Don Glascoff, Robert Johnson, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider
Producer/Director
Alex Gibney
Producers
Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman
Co‑Producers
Blair Foster, Sloane Klevin
National Geographic Explorer National Geographic Channel
Gorilla Murders
Executive Producer
Jonathan Halperin
Senior Producer
Robert Zakin
Series Producer
Max Salomon
Producer/Director
Michael Davie
The Devil Came on Horseback National Geographic Channel
Producers
Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells
Directors
Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg
P.O.V. PBS
Inheritance
Executive Producers
Simon Kilmurry, Chris Malachowsky, Ryan Malachowsky
Producer/Director
James Moll
Producer
Christopher Pavlick
NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: CURRENT NEWS COVERAGE
Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War Reuters.com/Mediastorm.org
Executive Producer
Brian Storm
Producer
Bob Sacha
Directors
Jassim Ahmad, Ayperi Karabuda Ecer
Interactive Designer
Tim Klimowicz
Choosing a President NYTimes.com
Producers
Andrew DeVigal, Nancy Donaldson, Tom Jackson, Amy O'Leary, Katherine Seelye, Ben Werschkul, Zach Wise
How the Pentagon Spread Its Message NYTimes.com
Reporter
David Barstow
Multimedia Producers
Gabriel Dance, Amy O'Leary
Video Producer
Michele Monteleone
Talking To The Taliban Globeandmail.com
Reporter
Smith Graeme
Multimedia Producer
Jayson Taylor
Interactive Designer
Chris Manza
Coverage of Chinese Earthquake washingtonpost.com
Senior Videojournalist
Travis Fox
The Healing Fields washingtonpost.com
Executive Producer
Tom Kennedy
Senior Producer
Amanda McGrath
Reporter
Mary Otto
Designer
Noel Smart
Multimedia Journalists
Alexandra Garcia, Whitney Shefte
NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: DOCUMENTARIES
The Boys of Christ Child House Freep.com/Detroit Free Press
Producer/Senior Videographer
Brian Kaufman
Lead Photojournalist
Kathleen Galligan
Photojournalist
Regina Boone
Executive Producer
Kathy Kieliszewski
Reporter
Robin Erb
Video Executive Producer
Craig Porter
Managing Editor, Digital Media
Nancy Andrews
Web Producer
James Thomas
FRONTLINE pbs.org/frontlline
Bush's War Timeline
Executive Producer
David Fanning
Producer/Director
Michael Kirk
Co‑Producer
Mike Wiser
Web Producers
Andrew Ott, Sarah Moughty
Editorial Director
Marrie Campbell
Director of New Media & Technology
Sam Bailey
Intended Consequences Mediastorm.org
Executive Producer
Brian Storm
Producers
Pamela Chen, Xiaoming Jia, Tim Klimowicz, Bob Sacha, Chad Stevens
Reporters
Jules Shell, Jonathan Torgovnik
NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE
Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica Livehopelove.com
Executive Producer
Jon Sawyer
Co‑Producers
Nathalie Applewhite, Stephen Sapienza
Correspondent
Kwame Dawes
Videojournalist
Doug Gritzmacher
Photoojournalist
Joshua Cogan
Interactive Producer
Josh Goldblum
P.O.V. PBS
Ars Magna
Producer
Sean Roach
Director
Cory Kelley
Tate Liverpool Tate.org
The One That Spoke To Me
Producer
Martin Percy
Tate Modern Tate.org
Tate Street Art
Producer
Martin Percy
Vanguard Current TV
Lost In Democracy
Producer
Mike Shen
Producer/Correspondent
Christof Putzel
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING
Bill Moyers Journal PBS
Essays ‑ Gilded Age, It Was Oil, Memorial Day
Writers
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
HBO Documentary Films HBO
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Writer
Lisa Jackson
MSNBC Films MSNBC
Witness to Jonestown
Writer
Stephen Stept
Take One Step PBS
The Truth About Cancer
Writer
Linda Garmon
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH
Cinemax Reel Life Cinemax
Nanking
Researchers
Marina Brodskaya, Violet Du Feng, Joann Jacobs, Zachary Leonsis, Dylan Nelson, Wan‑Shun Shih, Katie
Strand, Izumi Tanaka, Makiko Wakai
D‑Day: The True Story of Omaha Beach Smithsonian Channel
Researchers
Georgina Leslie, Simon Trew
HBO Documentary Films HBO
Taxi to the Dark Side
Researchers
Salimah El Amin, Blair Foster
NOVA PBS
Ape Genius
Researchers
John Rubin, Jonathan Sacks
P.O.V./American Documentary PBS
Traces of the Trade
Researchers
Jennifer Anderson, Catherine Benedict, Katrina Browne, Beth Sternheimer
The Rape of Europa PBS
Researchers
Sergei Beck, Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Linda Davis‑Garkow, Elena Franchi, Alexander Kandaurov,
Andrzej Lewandowski, Nicholas Lynn, Monica Nagele‑Dreher, Nicole Newnham, Sabine Ranft, Bonni Rowan,
Camille Servan‑Schreiber
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY‑‑NATURE DOCUMENTARIES
NATURE PBS
Crash: A Tale of Two Species
Camerapersons
Michael Male, Chris Szwedo, Andrew Young
NATURE PBS
White Falcon, White Wolf
Camerapersons
Ian McCarthy, Mark Smith
Wild China Travel Channel
Heart of the Dragon
Camerapersons
John Aitchison, Mike Lemmon, Justin Maguire, Gavin Newman
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY
FRONTLINE PBS
The War Briefing
Cameraperson
Timothy Grucza
Koppel on Discovery Discovery Channel
The People's Republic of Capitalism
Director of Photography
Robert Goldsborough
National Geographic Explorer National Geographic Channel
Gorilla Murders
Cinematographer
Erin Harvey
P.O.V. PBS
Up the Yangtze
Director of Photography
Wang Shi Qing
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING
The Devil Came on Horseback National Geographic Channel
Editor
Joey Grossfield
HBO Documentary Films HBO
Resolved
Editors
Brad Barber, Tom Runquist, Greg Whiteley
National Geographic Explorer National Geographic Channel
Gorilla Murders
Editors
Christine Jameson‑Henry, Max Salomon, Salvatore Vecchio
P.O.V. PBS
Soldiers of Conscience
Editors
Gary Weimberg, Josh Peterson
Wild China Travel Channel
Shangri‑La
Editors
Andy Netley, Steve Olive
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: EDITING‑‑QUICK TURNAROUND
ABC World News with Charles Gibson ABC
The Money Trail: 2008 Political Conventions
Editors
Clyde Arrington, Roy Garlisi
CBS News Sunday Morning CBS
Behind The Headlines: The Capture of Radovan Karadzic
Editor
Partick Lee
CBS News Sunday Morning CBS
Supreme Court Gun Decision
Editor
David Small
Dateline NBC NBC
Tim Russert Obituary
Editors
Robert Allen, Robert Brandel
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC
Uncovering the Holocaust By Bullets
Editor
Beverly Chase
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: GRAPHIC DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
Apocalypse How Discovery Channel
Art Director
Ricardo Andrade
Visual Effects Supervisor
Nick Jernigan
Senior Animator
Billy Woodward
3D Animators
Justin Knowles, Enrique Lim, Samar Shool
Visual Effects Producer
Elizabeth Andrade
America Votes 2008: Election Night CNN
Executive Director, Design
Guy Pepper
Senior Design Director
Robert Hunter
Design Director
Johnathan Kemp
Director of Graphics
Mike Kraft
Illicit: The Dark Trade PBS
Art Director
Ricardo Andrade
Visual Effects Supervisor
Elizabeth Andrade
Animator
Wen Yaun
3D Animator
Chris Jennings
Independent Lens PBS
Chicago 10
Head of Animation
Joao Amarin
National Geographic Channel Presents National Geographic Channel
Five Years on Mars
Director of Animation & Motion Graphics
Mark Davis
CGI Animators
Dan Maas, Jed Schwartz
Motion Graphics
Anna Saraceno
Illustration
Kees Veenenbos
Six Degrees Could Change the World National Geographic Channel
Director, Art & Animation
Keith Kolder
Manager Art & Animation
Jesse Gordon
Visual Effects Artists
Eric Diga, Nick Jernigan, Jason Leta, Samar Shool, Dan Speelman, William Woodward
Visual Effects Producer
Elizabeth Andrade
Art Director
Ricardo Andrade
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: MUSIC & SOUND
The Devil Came on Horseback National Geographic Channel
Composer
Paul Brill
Sound Mixer
Tom Efinger
Sound Designer
Rusty Dunn
Sound Editor
Brad Bergbom
Superpride National Geographic Channel
Composers
Mac Squier, Lenny Williams
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions Discovery Channel
Landing the Eagle
Composer
Richard Blair-Oliphant
Sound Designer
Peter Baldock
Dubbing Mixer
Cliff Jones
Conductor/Orchestration
Ben Wallfisch
Additional Music
Jody Jenkins
Music Recording Engineer
Geoff Foster
Post Production Supervisor
Richard Lloyd
Music Supervisor
Hilary Skewes
Supervising Music Editor
Richard Todman
Music Editor
Peter Clarke
Wild China Travel Channel
Heart of the Dragon
Composer
Barnaby Taylor
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: LIGHTING DIRECTION & SCENIC DESIGN
Body in Numbers Discovery Health Channel
Scenic Design
Clive Maltby, David Johnson, Phil Noall, John Davis
Lighting
David Brown, Chris Sutcliffe
CNN's Election Center CNN
Executive Director, Design
Guy Pepper
Set Design
Erik Ulfers
Lighting Designers
Steven Brill, Michael Poley
Stonehenge Decoded National Geographic Channel
Production Designer
Richard Bullock
Director of Photography
Rob Goldie
OUTSTANDING REGIONAL NEWS STORY‑‑SPOT NEWS
5 Eyewitness News KSTP‑TV (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN)
35W Bridge Collapse
News Director
Lindsay Radford
KGW Breaking News KGW‑TV (Portland, OR)
Vancouver Tornado
Executive News Director
Rod Gramer
WNBC Breaking News WNBC (New York, NY)
Upper East Side Crane Collapse
Producers
Ryan Fisher, Lamar Goering
Executive Producer
Kim Gerbasi
Anchors
Michael Gargiulo, Darlene Rodriguez
Directors
Susan McNeeley, Angie Morefield
Assignment Managers
Peter Bunin, Felix Martinez
Helicopter Reporter
Dan Rice
Helicopter Pilot
Randy Empey
OUTSTANDING REGIONAL NEWS STORY‑‑INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
11 News at 10 KHOU‑TV (Houston, TX)
Hiding Homicide
Investigative Reporter
Mark Greenblatt
CBS 3 Eyewitness News at 11pm KYW‑TV (Philadelphia, PA)
Soldiers of Misfortune
Executive Producer
Rich Edwards
Producer
Jim Barry
Editor
Dani Dolan
Photographer
Andrea Korff
Investigative Reporter/Producer
Jim Osman
My 9 News WWOR‑TV (Secaucus, NJ)
Medicaid Fraud
Editor
Brian Kartagener
Photographers
Roy Isen, Paul Tsakos, Jonathan Weaver
Reporter and Producer
Barbara Nevins Taylor
WTVT 10:00 News WTVT‑TV (Tampa Bay, FL)
Small Town Justice
Investigative Producer
Lisa Blegen
Photographer & Editor
Craig Davisson
Photographer
Nate Sylves
Investigative Reporter
Doug Smith
30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards
Breakdown by Network, Show, Program/Segment
PBS: 41
*P.O.V.: 10
-Inheritance: 2
-Ars Magna: 1
-Belarusian Waltz: 1
-In The Family: 1
-Soldiers of Conscience: 1
-The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez: 1
-The Judge and the General: 1
-Traces of the Trade: 1
-Up the Yangtze: 1
*FRONTLINE: 6
-The War Briefing: 2
-Bush's War: 1
-Bush's War Timeline: 1
-Growing Up Online: 1
-Rules of Engagement: 1
* NOVA: 4
-Ape Genius: 2
-A Walk to Beautiful: 1
-Secrets of the Parthenon: 1
* Bill Moyers Journal: 2
-Essays ‑ Gilded Age, It Was Oil, Memorial Day: 1
-Interview with Representative Henry Waxman: 1
*Illicit: The Dark Trade: 2
*Independent Lens: 2
-Chicago 10: 1
-Hard Road Home: 1
*NATURE: 2
-Crash: A Tale of Two Species: 1
-White Falcon, White Wolf: 1
*The Rape of Europa: 2
*Wide Angle: 2
-Birth of a Surgeon: 1
-Lord's Children: 1
*Worldfocus: 2
-21st Century Africa: 1
-War in Congo: 1
*Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI: 1
Photographers
*FRONTLINE/World: 1
-State of Emergency: 1
*In The Footsteps of Marco Polo: 1
*NOW on PBS: 1
-Afghanistan: The Forgotten War: 1
*Secrets of the Dead: 1
-Doping for Gold: 1
*Take One Step: 1
-The Truth About Cancer: 1
*The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: 1
-Terror In Mumbai: 1
CBS: 23
*60 Minutes: 15
-Lifeline: 2
-The Wasteland: 2
-Alec Baldwin: 1
-Assault on Pelindaba: 1
-Coach Carroll: 1
-Financial Crisis: 1
-Justice Scalia: 1
-Rex: 1
-Road to the White House: 1
-Saddam's Confessions: 1
-The Bailout: 1
-The Inner Circle: 1
-War Against Women: 1
*CBS News Sunday Morning: 5
-Behind The Headlines: The Capture of Radovan Karadzic: 1
-Frost/Nixon: 1
-Harvey Milk: 1
-RFK: 1
-Supreme Court Gun Decision: 1
*CBS Evening News with Katie Couric: 3
-Campaign Questions: 1
-The Carmelo Rodriguez Story: 1
-V.A. Suicides: Cover‑Up Exposed: 1
ABC: 13
*ABC World News with Charles Gibson: 7
-Iraq Five Years Later: Where Things Stand: 2
-An Historic Interview During an Historic Year: Interview with Sarah Palin: 1
-China's Earthquake: Covering the Disaster: 1
-Myanmar Cyclone: 1
-Son of a Soldier: 1
-The Money Trail: 2008 Political Conventions: 1
*ABC News 20/20: 2
-Brian Ross Investigates: Bodies ‑ The China Connection: 1
-Drama High: 1
*ABC News Nightline: 1
-How To Buy A Child In Ten Hours: 1
*ABC News Primetime: 1
-Living With Tourettes Syndrome: 1
*ABC News Special: 1
-China Inside Out: 1
*Good Morning America, World News & Nightline: 1
-Brian Ross Investigates: America's Corporate Royalty: 1
*The Devil Came on Horseback: 3
*National Geographic Channel Presents: 2
-Five Years on Mars: 2
*Six Degrees Could Change the World: 1
*Stonehenge Decoded: 1
*Superpride: 1
HBOCinemax: 13
*HBO Documentary Films: 9
-Taxi to the Dark Side: 3
-Resolved: 2
-The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo: 2
-China's Stolen Children: 1
-The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale: 1
*Cinemax Reel Life: 4
-Nanking: 3
-Salim Baba: 1
NBC: 10
*NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: 5
-Tip of the Spear: 2
-Bailout Talks Collapse: 1
-The Death of Tim Russert: 1
-Uncovering the Holocaust By Bullets: 1
*Dateline NBC: 3
-A Twist of Fate: 1
-Tim Russert Obituary: 1
-To Catch A Baby Broker: 1
*NBC News: 1
-Hurricane Gustav: 1
*NBC News ‑ Decision 2008: 1
-Election Night: 1
CNN: 8
*America Votes 2008: Election Night: 1
*CNN's Election Center: 1
*Coverage of Myanmar Cyclone: 1
*Democratic National Convention: 1
*Election Night 2008: 1
*Anderson Cooper 360: 1
-Online Drugs: 1
*Fareed Zakaria GPS: 1
-Wen Jia Bao Interview: 1
*The Situation Room: 1
-Hurricane Giveaway: 1
Discovery Channel: 4
*Koppel on Discovery: 2
-The Last Lynching: 1
-The People's Republic of Capitalism: 1
*Apocalypse How: 1
*When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions: 1
-Landing the Eagle: 1
BBC America: 3
*BBC World News America: 3
-Chaos in DR Congo: 2
-Chinese Openness: 1
Travel Channel: 3
*Wild China: 3
-Heart of the Dragon: 2
-Shangri‑La: 1
MSNBC: 2
*MSNBC Films: 2
-Witness to Jonestown: 2
NYTimes.com: 2
*Choosing a President: 1
*How the Pentagon Spread Its Message: 1
Tate.org: 2
*Tate Liverpool: 1
-The One That Spoke To Me: 1
*Tate Modern: 1
-Tate Street Art: 1
washingtonpost.com: 2
*Coverage of Chinese Earthquake: 1
*The Healing Fields: 1
Current TV: 1
*Vanguard: 1
-Lost In Democracy: 1
Discovery Health Channel: 1
*Body in Numbers: 1
freep.com/Detroit Free Press: 1
*The Boys of Christ Child House: 1
Globeandmail.com: 1
*Talking To the Taliban: 1
History Channel: 1
*EVOLVE: 1
-Eyes: 1
Livehopelove.com/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: 1
*Livehopelove.com: 1
-Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica: 1
mediastorm.org: 1
*Intended Consequences: 1
Reuters.com/Mediastorm.org: 1
*Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War: 1
Smithsonian Channel: 1
*D‑Day: The True Story of Omaha Beach: 1
REGIONAL REPORTING NOMINEES
KGW‑TV (Portland, OR): 1
*KGW Breaking News: 1
-Vancouver Tornado: 1
KHOU‑TV (Houston, TX): 1
*11 News at 10: 1
-Hiding Homicide: 1
KSTP‑TV (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN): 1
*5 Eyewitness News: 1
-35W Bridge Collapse: 1
KYW‑TV (Philadelphia, PA): 1
*CBS 3 Eyewitness News at 11pm: 1
-Soldiers of Misfortune: 1
WNBC (New York, NY): 1
*WNBC Breaking News: 1
-Upper East Side Crane Collapse: 1
WTVT‑TV (Tampa Bay, FL): 1
*WTVT 10:00 News: 1
-Small Town Justice: 1
WWOR‑TV (Secaucus, NJ): 1
*My 9 News: 1
-Medicaid Fraud: 1