PBS dominated the 36th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which were doled out tonight at at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in Manhattan. The pubcaster lapped the field with 17 trophies, nearly doubling runner-up CBS’ nine. NBC was third with four. Univision (three) and The New York Times (two) were the only other outlets to score more than a single statuette.
Amid a rocky 2015, NBC Nightly News took home the plum Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for its reporting on Ukraine. The program also won two others. CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley also won a pair of awards.
CNN founder Ted Turner was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary, which was presented by Larry King.
“The journalists and documentarians we pay tribute to this evening are our eyes and ears across the globe, bringing back the stories...
Amid a rocky 2015, NBC Nightly News took home the plum Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for its reporting on Ukraine. The program also won two others. CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley also won a pair of awards.
CNN founder Ted Turner was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary, which was presented by Larry King.
“The journalists and documentarians we pay tribute to this evening are our eyes and ears across the globe, bringing back the stories...
- 9/29/2015
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
NEW YORK -- Former NBC News president Lester Crystal will move from executive producer of PBS' The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer to president of McNeil Lehrer Prods. in a round of management changes announced Thursday. Crystal will be replaced as NewsHour executive producer by Linda Winslow, deputy executive producer and one of the original staff members of the 30-year-old PBS newscast. Crystal is replacing Dan Werner, who is leaving the president's post to become executive producer of McNeil Lehrer Prods. and focus on two projects.
- 10/7/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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