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” -- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac This year’s tours: 1. Ultralight Delivery: Crane Conservation on Our Fractured Landscape Wake up with the birds to see one of ’s SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL most endangered species. TH 2. Future Energy Choices 19 ANNUAL Join us as we head to Southeastern Wisconsin to talk carbon capture, big coal, solar, Great Lakes wind, and lithium ion batteries. CONFERENCE 3. Cruising Lake Michigan Hop aboard an EPA research vessel as we talk invasive species, bad ballast water, contaminated Hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison sediment and Great Lakes fi sh populations. 4. Roiling the Waters Some deep thinking in a Deep Tunnel about sewage October 7-11, 2009 overfl ows, and then we surface to look at Great Lakes Water Diversion. 5. Wetlands, Wildlife, and Wind A visit to one of the largest wetlands to talk about Among confi rmed speakers this year are water quality, birds and nearby wind turbines. ... Maude Barlow and Andy Revkin. 6. Feeding Cities: Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Justice For more see our website at www.sej.org. A visit with a noted urban farmer in to talk of local food, better health and reducing our carbon footprint. 7. Canoe the Wisconsin River October 7-11, 2009 Paddle along as we hear about the 20th anniversary of a unique effort that protects the Lower Wisconsin River. REGISTER NOW! 8. A Different Kind of CAFO A large rural farm that tries to be green. www.sej.org 9. CSI Madison: Wildlife Forensics Who ya gonna call?

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FROM THE EDITOR What’s Ailing the CONTENTS News Business SEPTEMBER 2009 Welcome to the second issue of NewsPro. I’m happy to report that the response to our debut FEEDS edition was overwhelmingly positive. News coverage suffers as stations cut I wish I could say the same for the state of the corners ..... Page 4 news business. Stations use news to stretch their The challenged economy and the effects it has budgets ...... Page 5 had on the field of journalism continues to be a Moving to evenings poses story of major consequence to news professionals. a morning problem for ABC ...... Page 6 As detailed in our Feeds section, even as the paved the way for ’s shortfalls of tightened budgets are being reflected on the air, many cable pundits ..... Page 7 stations are adding newscasts as a way to maximize their existing sees a future for middle-of- expenditures. the-road cable news ...... Page 8 As if things weren’t bad enough for a profession already threatened Two U.S. presidents say a public by instant technologies and the defection of young news consumers. goodbye to ...... Page 9 At CBS News’ Sept. 9 memorial service for Walter Cronkite, President Obama underscored all of those concerns when he spoke COVER STORY of the state of journalism today versus the way things were when Town Hall debates on health care reform more calm than chaotic..... Page 10 Cronkite was a key player three decades ago. “We know that this is a difficult time for journalism. Even as SPECIAL REPORT appetites for news and information grow, newsrooms are closing. The Online News Association to Despite the big stories of our era, serious journalists find themselves convene in San Francisco ..... Page 12 all too often without a beat. Just as the news cycle has shrunk, so Hyperlocal the new wave in online has the bottom line.” news ..... Page 12 He then summed up the crux of the dilemma we are all feeling TOM SHALES when he said: “We seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom The late was both a dynamo and a hero ..... Page 54 line and what harms us as a society. Which price is higher to pay? Which cost is harder to bear?” SIGNOFF Tom Petner mulls the best uses for local Tom Gilbert digital channels ..... Page 30 Editor DEPARTMENTS Newsmakers ..... Page 55

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ECONOMIC FALLOUT years because stations could find advertisers willing to pay for the viewers News Coverage Feeling they would get during newscasts, but Potter predicts that recently added or the Pinch of Tighter Budgets, marginal news times — like weekend mornings — will be cut due to economic pressures. The 5 p.m. newscasts in Loss of Experienced Voices several major markets have already been BY HILLARY ATKIN compounded by the stresses everyone is replaced with talk or entertainment under to constantly feed the beast, that programming. Television news directors in Los moment of quality control is often lost.” Layoffs have largely come from the Angeles came under attack last month for This year began as a tough one ranks of higher-paid and more experienced their initial lack of coverage of the arson- economically for television stations. The employees, which media analysts say caused Station fire, which killed two temporary lift that campaign commercials means a less experienced staff with a firefighters, destroyed about 80 homes provided the previous fall was history, and shorter-term investment in the community. and became the largest wildfire in Los the auto industry ads, from which so “The era of the mid-six-figure anchors Angeles County history. much revenue is derived, took a nosedive, and above has come to an end. Their The fire was already spreading out of intertwined with the worst general contracts are not being renewed if they control on Saturday, Aug. 29, the day of economic downturn in decades. don’t take pay cuts,” Potter said. “We’ve Sen. Edward ’s funeral, an event seen a trend of departures of people who that received widespread coverage. Ratings Pressure in previous years were considered Viewers in the fire-affected areas as well With about 50 percent of a local absolutely safe. I can’t tell you how many as local politicians and television critics television station’s budget coming from its times I’ve typed ‘veteran anchor not complained that L.A. stations had news department, and an acceptable renewed.’ It seems to be the most dropped the ball that weekend by not annual profit for the station in the range prevalent headline of the year in TV providing extensive fire coverage. newsrooms.” Times critic Mary “Institutional knowledge is walking out McNamara went so far as to call it “a “What’s going on is the door, and errors in judgment and virtual, and inexplicable, news blackout.” at a molecular level. mistakes of omission will happen,” Quinnipiac ‘s Hanley said. “Journalism is Thinning Ranks There’s a more a craft, learned by doing under people Was it because of the economy? It’s sloppy presentation. who’ve done it for a long time. Without common knowledge that news that mentoring within a newsroom, the departments operate on the weekends When you drain a probability of error will increase. When with only a fraction of their Monday- newsroom of its that experience leaves the newsroom that through-Friday staff, but that additional experienced staffers insight on how to handle sources, sticky personnel is called in — or simply shows situations and how to know a good story up — when a big story breaks. ... quality control is also walks. Losing that experience is Not a single news executive would often lost.” detrimental to the organization internally, admit that any budgetary cutbacks - Richard Hanley, Quinnipiac University and externally to its role in society.” affected the initial fire coverage, saying With the increased importance of their stations provided comprehensive station Web sites bringing more demand reporting before the fire turned deadly and of 40 to 50 percent, the pressure to get for fresh content, news departments are threatened residents. ratings — which translate into advertising expected to do more with less. In some All the same, media watchers have dollars — is greater than ever. markets, who used to go out in been warning recently that layoffs and “Adding to that economic malaise, the field with a photographer may go out cuts are having an enormous on there is the technological-digital change, alone. Producers may also be responsible the quality of television news. draining money to get that done in time,” for posting Web video. “The thing with journalism is we don’t said Deborah Potter, a former CBS and know what we don’t see,” said professor CNN correspondent who is the executive Small-Time All the Time Richard Hanley, graduate journalism director of Newslab.org. “Meanwhile, “Newspeople are busier than ever with director of the Quinnipiac University audience declines continue, which feeds three screens to feed: television, Web and school of communications. “What’s going the downward cycle of income. It’s hard to mobile,” said Potter. “Now you have to on is at a molecular level. There’s a more believe it all happened at once.” learn multiple jobs, including shooting sloppy presentation. When you drain a The amount of news on the air has and editing stories. In years past, you did newsroom of its experienced staffers, dramatically increased in the past 10 that in small markets and thought you left

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that behind when you moved up.” With local station ad revenue down 27 move. Stations are “doing more with Yet from a station’s standpoint, it gains percent in the first half of the year, less,” said Hofstra University professor some flexibility with younger journalists according to the Television Bureau of Bob Papper, chairman of the school’s who have multimedia skills and are more Advertising, stations are looking anywhere journalism department. open-minded about what their jobs entail. they can to cut costs. Although in many Stacey Woelfel, chairman of the Radio- “The good ones have figured out people cases that has meant news layoffs, getting Television News Directors Association, have to be trained,” Potter said. “Newsrooms rid of a pricey syndicated show is another said newscast automation is a driving can say ‘We expect this of you and we’ll way, especially since stations keep all the force behind many of the switches, and he teach you how to do it.’ I think that’s revenue from spot sales in news, instead of predicts it could only accelerate the trend. essential.” ❑ giving some over to the syndicator. Content For a seven-figure investment, he said, pooling in some markets has also helped stations can buy an automated system stations save money that can be put LOCAL COVERAGE toward new programming. “The biggest overriding factor would be the “[The economy] in Stations Cut Costs current economic climate,” said Bill Carroll, some cases [has] vice president-director of programming for meant cutbacks in By Using News Katz Television Group. “That’s in some cases meant cutbacks in the number of the number of hours —MoreorLess hours of news and in some cases, it’s of news and in some meant the elimination of a syndicated By Elizabeth Jensen program, and looking at the positive cases, it’s meant ... As ad dollars continue to decline, TV economic impact of expanding news the positive stations are looking at new options with coverage.” economic impact of news: In some cases, cutting back, but in Indeed, there are a few stations that others, actually expanding the amount of have dropped news to save money, expanding news local news they offer. including KAIL-TV, the MyNetworkTV coverage.” By stretching their existing news resources affiliate in Fresno, Calif., which had been -Bill Carroll, Katz Television Group into longer or additional news programming airing a struggling 10 p.m. weekday they open up more revenue opportunity newscast produced for it by KSEE-TV, the without adding too much to costs. local NBC affiliate. On Sept. 14 KAIL that will replace the entire control room When viewers tune to WXMI-TV in started to run “Judge Judy” episodes in staff with one person. “You can basically Grand Rapids, Mich., at 6 p.m. Sept. 21 the hour instead. In New York, WWOR-TV record the moves of your best director in they’ll see a new hour-long newscast, over the summer trimmed one hour of late every show,” he said, calling it a “player replacing reruns. The Fox affiliate news by half and cut its weekend piano approach.” is just the latest in a stream of stations newscasts to save money. While the systems aren’t cheap, he that have been adding newscasts at an said, and only a small number of stations accelerating clip. ‘Live at Five’ Retired have taken the plunge, “the savings on NBC WNBC-TV in New York personnel are pretty serious.” New Fox, Tribune Adding also on Sept. 14 dumped its long-running newscasts can be added, he said, “for Although many station groups have little or no marginal costs.” added news, the trend has been particularly In many cases, pronounced among Fox-owned stations, as Syndication May Suffer well as those of , which stations are adding Woelfel said his own KOMU-TV, the is currently in bankruptcy. Tribune-owned the newscasts but not University of -owned NBC Fox affiliate WPMT-TV in ’s affiliate in Columbia, Mo., where he is Harrisburg-Lancaster--York market more on-air talent, the news director, already added an hour is adding a 6:30 p.m. newscast Sept. 21, and anchors are to its morning show a year ago and is counterprogramming the national newscasts doing double-duty. contemplating adding a noon newscast. airing elsewhere in the market. Tribune’s CW It’s looking at buying an automation affiliate KDAF-TV in will add a 5:30 system, as well. p.m. newscast. “Live at Five” for the new “LX New York” The moves could hurt the license fees Tribune flagship WPIX-TV in New York lifestyle program, with fashion, arts, travel syndicated shows eventually get, or even added a 6:30 p.m. newscast early in and pop culture coverage. eliminate some of them, Carroll said, September, replacing reruns of “Two and a But overall, the trend seems to be to noting, “The fewer hours there are, the Half Men.” add news. Stations that are already news fewer the opportunities.” Meanwhile a number of Fox-owned leaders in their markets are finding it a He predicts there could be another stations including WHBQ-TV in Memphis, particularly compelling move, said Carroll. big change in 2012, when Oprah Tenn.; WOFL-TV in Orlando, Fla.; and “It’s an incremental cost to what you’re Winfrey has said she’ll discontinue her WJBK-TV in Detroit just this month already doing.” syndicated daily talk show. She’s said expanded their local news programming in that before, and always changed her the mornings after the cancellation of Fox’s Doing More With Less mind. But, says Carroll, “If Oprah “The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet.” In many cases, stations are adding doesn’t come back, then you’re probably The Detroit station already added more the newscasts but not more on-air talent, going to see a significant amount of local news last year at 11 p.m. and 4:30 and current anchors are being asked to news expansion. There’ll never be a.m., to ratings success. do double duty, making it a cost-efficient another Oprah.” ❑

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EVENING NEWS DIANE THE FIFTH Diane Sawyer will be the fifth ABC Robs A.M. woman to have held a permanent anchor seat at a broadcast network evening to Pay P.M.With newscast. Sawyer Ascent

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The news came out of the blue, just before Labor Day weekend, as though ABC News had something to hide: Charlie Gibson, 66, plans to step down at the end of the year as anchor of “World News,” and Diane Sawyer, 63, will take his place. The unexpected switch leaves the network with a hole in the more profitable morning, where Sawyer has kept the network a competitive No. 2 for 10 years. For the evening newscast ABC News President promised a seamless transition. In an interview with he phrased it as “the DNA of the newscast will not change,” although several ABC News insiders said there was considerable nervousness that the new anchor will want to shake up the producing staff. Sawyer, who by Although Sawyer will be the fifth woman to Cultivated by Roone have held a permanent anchor seat at one of With Gibson’s decision to cut back from dint of her new post the broadcast network evening newscasts daily work, Sawyer, who by dint of the post will also be the (after Walters, , Vargas and will also be the face of ABC News, becomes face of ABC News, Couric), it will be the first time two women the last of the -groomed ABC anchors air opposite each other at the same News stars still standing, said Andrew becomes the last of time. ( and will also Tyndall, who monitors the nightly newscasts the Roone Arledge- become permanent rotating co-anchors with at www.tyndallreport.com. (Among others, of PBS’ “” this fall.) and have groomed ABC passed away, left the network, News stars still ‘Throwback’ and now devotes most of her standing. “I’m very pleased for her, she’s been energies to the morning show “The View.”) waiting forever for it,” said Susan Stamberg, Sawyer will inherit a program that is a National Public Radio correspondent. But currently second in the ratings to the “NBC that time slot “is in irreversible decline,” as the first U.S. woman to anchor a national Nightly News,” anchored by , Tyndall said. The role of an evening news daily news program (outside of the morning with CBS’ “Evening News,” anchored by anchor, he said, “is to try and grow a shows), when she was named host of NPR’s Couric, a distant third. After Gibson multiplatform online new media audience “All Things Considered” in 1972, Stamberg stepped into the anchor job in 2006 — faster than the traditional old media said the focus on the Couric-Sawyer replacing , who was injured in audience declines.” matchup seemed like “a throwback. You’d , and co-anchor , who He continued: “Your job isn’t to corral think another woman anchor would be a became pregnant — the broadcast at one aging baby boomers for another five years; little ho-hum, congratulations.” point surpassed that of NBC, but it has it’s to use the visibility you do have in that Women made early gains at NPR, since fallen off. time slot to work out how to showcase your Stamberg noted, “largely for economic As a whole, the evening newscasts institution so there can be buzz about it, so reasons”; they tolerated the low salaries continue to wane in the face of online news that it can thrive in the next decade.” He that men wouldn’t. But NPR may have had and changing lifestyles, drawing a combined said he is unsure whether Sawyer “has that the last laugh. Noted Tyndall: “The only 21 million to 23 million on average each expertise.” major news organizations to have grown in night this summer. Inevitably, the move was seen by some the last three decades are NPR and Fox The institution of the evening newscast in commentators through the lens of gender. News Channel.” ❑

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ROBERT NOVAK,1931-2009 The syndicated newspaper columnist Street Journal then joined forces in 1963 appeared on CNN — with his longtime with correspondent Novak Blazed the writing partner, Rowland Evans — from the Evans, who was as cool and collected as cable network’s first week in 1980. Perfecting Novak was contentious. Their widely Trail for Cable’s in subsequent years the role of in-your-face distributed column, “Inside Report,” broke TV pundit, Novak helped spawn a genre that news. When CNN launched, “Evans and Outspoken Pundits was well suited to cable networks with Novak” (, “Evans, Novak, Hunt and unlimited air time trying to grab viewers’ Shields”) became a fixture. Evans retired in By Elizabeth Jensen attentions. 1993, and died in 2001. Novak, conservative and contrarian, When Robert D. Novak died Aug. 18 at Legendary Feuds proudly wore his nickname “The Prince of the age of 78 from a malignant brain tumor He became a co-host of CNN’s Darkness,” which he appropriated for the his rueful prediction came true: The “Crossfire” in 1985, and founded CNN’s title of his 2007 memoir. But his out- journalistic uproar he unleashed late in his “The ” in 1988 after a falling rageousness got the better of him: In 2005, career by disclosing the identity of CIA out with John McLaughlin, host of the under pressure from his Plame disclosure, operative Valerie Plame Wilson dominated similar broadcast TV shout-fest, “The he got in a verbal fight on CNN’s “Inside his obituaries. McLaughlin Group.” (His feuds were Politics” with Democratic strategist James legendary: Fellow TV pundit Mort Carville, uttered an expletive and stormed off Cable Pioneer Kondracke once called Novak “the troll the set. He never appeared on CNN again, The 2003 controversy — which brought under the bridge of American journalism.”) and later became a Channel down I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Born in Joliet, Ill., in 1931, Novak began contributor. ’s chief of staff — overshadowed his professional journalism career at the In August 2008, Novak disclosed the other aspects of Novak’s career, including his , eventually landing in brain tumor. He is survived by Geraldine, his pioneering role in . , D.C. He jumped to the Wall wife;ason;andadaughter.❑

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ember, he stunned the world and an- A BELIEVER nounced that he would be going to CNN's Wolf Blitzer believes there is a future for down-the- Jerusalem to address the Knesset and make middle journalism on cable. peace with . On the eve of his departure, he was asked why he changed his mind, and, among other factors, he cited my question to him at Blair House. He said my question had ’germinated’ in his mind. did a piece about me entitled ’The Reporter Who Started It All,’ and I got some good publicity, which was very nice. I covered all 16 months of the Israeli-Egyptian peace process, including the Camp David Accords in September 1978, and the signing of the peace treaty in March 1979.

NewsPro: Some of your CNN colleagues and many of your cable news rivals feel quite comfortable playing openly partisan roles in the key debates of our times, and they’ve NEWSPRO Q&A During this first year of the Obama ad- found ratings success doing so. Is there a ministration, we have incorporated many of future for down-the-middle journalism on Blitzer: Give Me those breakthroughs in our day-to-day cable? reporting in ‘The Situation Room.’ We also Blitzer: I am a proud member of the Old That Old-School marked both the first 100 and 200 days of the School of Journalism. I don’t offer my new presidency with our National Report opinions on the air. I try to be as responsible Journalism Card, which gave viewers a chance to weigh and objective as possible. As a result, the in on a whole range of questions. answer to your question is yes, I still very We have tried to focus our attention on the much believe there is a future for down-the- Wolf Blitzer anchors CNN’s afternoon “The most important domestic and foreign policy middle journalism on cable. That is what we Situation Room” and is CNN’s lead political issues facing the country, and between the do in ‘The Situation Room’ every day. I know anchor. During last year’s political campaign economy, health care, education, energy, that our CNN viewers want that, and I feel he also moderated numerous debates and Iraq, , , North , there’s privileged that I can do that. Having said that, anchored the Sunday newsmaker show (John no shortage. In the end, good serious I think there is also a very good place for King has since taken over). journalism is what’s most important. Our opinion journalism on cable. In my mind, it’s Blitzer’s regular presence on the channel viewers have come to rely on us for that, and sort of like Old School newspapers: There was earned him a nomination in FishbowlDC’s poll we don’t want to let them down. a clear division between the hard news pages of Hardest Working Washington Journo of and the editorial pages. News and Opinion 2009 (he lost out to Roll Call’s Shira Toeplitz.) NewsPro: In a new documentary, ‘Back Door were clearly labeled. And that’s the way it Before joining CNN in 1990, covering Channels: The Price of Peace,’ you discuss should be on cable as well. military affairs and later the Clinton White your role, while working in Washington, D.C., House, he spent 15 years as a Washington for The Jerusalem Post, leading up to the 1979 NewsPro: Recently, 11-year-old correspondent for The Jerusalem Post. Israel/ Peace Treaty. Damon Weaver called you his role model. Blitzer, who started out in 1972 working Blitzer: I had a rather modest role. In April What advice would you give him if he really for in , recently discussed 1977, I attended Egyptian President Anwar wants to follow in your footsteps in journalism? his career with NewsPro correspondent Sadat’s news conference at Blair House Blitzer: Igave Damon the same advice I give Elizabeth Jensen. across the street from the . I all aspiring journalists. You first need the asked him what I thought was a fair question basics — a good, solid education. Second, you NewsPro: You’ve just come off a heady about breaking through the psychological need the curiosity and passion surrounding presidential election year. Election coverage at barrier and establishing some direct human- journalism. And, then, you need to practice. any news organization takes on a life of its to-human contact with Israel. I asked if he If you want to be a player, you need to own. How do you recalibrate in the first year of would consider an exchange of athletes, practice. If you want to be a cellist, you need a new administration? scholars, scientists or journalists. I was to practice, If you want to be a reporter, you Wolf Blitzer: You are right — our 2008 thinking of ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’ as practiced need to practice. Work for the school election coverage was exciting and intense earlier by the U.S. and . Sadat said that newspaper and radio/TV station. Get out and, indeed, historic. We experimented with would have to wait until there was an Israeli- there and report. Do it every day. If you have some new technology, including our magic Egyptian agreement ending the state of the basic skills and if you practice, you, too, map, and had lots of fun in the process. belligerency. Seven months later, in Nov- will be a good journalist. ❑

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FINAL TRIBUTE “If we choose to live up to Walter’s on the moon because he was one of the men example,” he concluded, “if we realize that the — to singer and “Grateful Cronkite Memorial kind of journalism he embodied will not Dead” percussionist Mickey Hart, who taught simply rekindle itself as part of a natural cycle, Cronkite how to drum. Carries a Call for but will come alive only if we stand up and demand it and resolve to value it once again, Kindness to Clinton Return to Basics then I’m convinced that the choice between Cronkite’s human side wasn’t given short profit and progress is a false one — and that shrift. President met him on By Elizabeth Jensen the golden days of journalism still lie ahead.” Martha’s Vineyard long after the anchor had stepped down. He praised Cronkite’s It’s been close to three decades since 'A Curious' Fellow “inquiring mind” but also his “caring heart,” Walter Cronkite had a regular presence in Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening recalling a kind invitation to go sailing in the the homes of the nation, long enough that an News” from 1962 until took over “tumultuous summer” of 1998, when Clinton entire generation never knew him except in in 1981. “” anchor Bob and his family were dealing with the fallout history class clips. So at a time when straightforward journalism is under siege financially and technologically, his memorial service in New York on Sept. 9 served alternately as a platform for a wistful reminiscence of a golden era and exhortation to return to the values he once embodied. Cronkite’s “stature and influence will never be duplicated,” CBS News President Sean McManus said in opening the more-than-two- hour service honoring the late “CBS Evening News” anchor, who died July 17 at age 92.

Obama Lays It out But President , who closed the event, which was held at Lincoln Center, urged the hundreds of gathered media members — Cronkite’s CBS colleagues, anchors and executives from ABC News, NBC News and CNN and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, among others — to try anyway. Cronkite, the President said, believed “that the American people were hungry for the truth, unvarnished and unaccompanied by theater or spectacle.” Today, he said, that has been replaced too often “with instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that Walter disdained, rather Schieffer called him “the most curious man I from the Monica Lewinsky affair. Cronkite, he than the hard news and investigative have ever met.” Former “NBC Nightly News” said, “was important in all our lives, a great journalism he championed. ‘What happened anchor remembered him as “the citizen and a profoundly good human being.” today?’ is replaced with ‘Who won today?’ godfather who showed us the way to be good , Cronkite’s friend of more The public debate cheapens. The public trust journalists.” And the current executive than six decades who broke down when falters. We fail to understand our world or producer of the “CBS Evening News,” Rick trying to eulogize him at his July funeral, one another as well as we should — and that Kaplan, recalled that “Walter knew nothing is appeared in a video tribute although he was has real consequences in our own lives and more important to a democracy than an in attendance. in the life of our nation.” informed public, and he took that After poking gentle fun at his friend’s The President admitted he never knew responsibility very seriously. We still do.” penchant for accepting awards and honors Cronkite, but said he was nonetheless sure The rich life his status as the “most trusted in his post-“Evening News” years, the “60 that the anchor, were he active today, would man in America” gave him entrée to was Minutes” commentator concluded: “If it can be able to “cut through the murky noise of evident from those who honored him from the be said that anybody in our business was a the and the tweets and the sound bites stage, from astronaut Buzz Aldrin — who force for good in the world, Walter Cronkite to shine the bright light on substance.” missed Cronkite’s “Oh boy” when men landed was that person.” ❑

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Cover Story Going to Town Over Health Care Reform Prepared for Contentious Local Debates, Journalists Find the Calmer Side of Town Hall Meetings a More Accurate Picture

By Debra Kaufman “We thought it would be World War 3,” Mackel said. “But there was no war. There To the viewers at home, and the was some yelling and screaming, there pundits at their PCs, the TV reports looked were some fireworks.” More or less normal like a civil war brewing: At town hall contentious local politics, in other words. meetings across the country, angry groups of citizens seemed to confront their elected Louisville ‘Tame’ officials with enraged shouting and Melanie Kahn , a reporter for Belo’s disruptive behavior. WHAS-TV, the Louisville, Ky., ABC But was that really the true picture the affiliate, attended her first town hall MATURE ADULTS Many gatherings were TV news crews were seeing? meeting Sept. 2, and characterized the much quieter than According to reporters and camera meeting as “tame” compared with others journalists expected. operators interviewed by NewsPro,the she’d seen broadcast. Her challenge was actual town hall meetings were not nearly similar to Mackel’s. as overwhelmingly confrontational as the “If they were there, they had a strong videos on YouTube seemed to indicate. opinion and wanted to be heard,” she than those assigned to cover them expected. In fact, for TV news crews, the issue said. “The challenges are that you have “The town halls haven’t been raucous was how to tell the true story of the town way too much to work with. Everyone — they’ve been pretty sedate,” said news halls without letting the loudest people wants to talk with you and share their director Joe Hengemuehler at KNXV-TV, a take center stage. opinions and that slows down my ability Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in Phoenix. “The biggest challenge was to try to get to work while at the event.” “People have brought their passions, but it people who knew what they were talking She also noted that the most aggressive hasn’t been like what we’ve seen in other about — not just the yellers,” said Travers attendees at the town hall were more likely parts of the country by a long stretch.” Mackel, a reporter for Hearst-Argyle NBC to get attention. “When they use fighting affiliate WDSU-TV in . language, they’re more likely to get on air,” ‘We Don’t Shout’ “We were trying to get people with a she said. “Of course I interview those Hengemuehler noted that when Sen. legitimate question; to stay away from the people, but I also try to interview those John McCain, R-Ariz., held a town hall in sensationalistic stuff and get to the root of standing to the side, taking it all in. Those Sun City, Ariz., last month (and he’s held the story.” people want to get their questions answered several recently), he sternly admonished Mackel said that when he prepared to but aren’t as aggressive and passionate as one screaming attendee that “we don’t cover his first town hall meeting on health some other people are.” shout at a McCain town hall.” care reform, he was geared up for battle. Many gatherings were much quieter “I wonder if people have seen the yelling

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and screaming [on TV] and thought they “The town meetings that caught fire on “If they were there, might want to engage in a real dialogue,” national television had already happened said Hengemuehler. “Having lawmakers when these were scheduled,” said Carey. they had a strong stand in front of a large group and explain “We were curious to see how people in opinion and wanted [health care reform] is a great way to hold Iowa would behave. And they behaved them accountable. Maybe screaming is without incident. There were no outbursts, to be heard. The turning out not to yield much in the way of nothing raising the decibel level, and that challenges are that results and information.” became our story.” you have way too In the Quad Cities (the Iowa- metropolitan area), GM/news director Bill Iowa Pride much to work with.” Carey of WQAD-TV, an ABC affiliate owned “Iowa leads the way with the first -Melanie Kahn, WHAS-TV by Local TV LLC, said the station covered caucuses and may be leading the way in a several town halls, including ones with forum where people speak but don’t Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, in hyperventilate,” he said. “From a Bettendorf, Iowa, and another with Rep. community news point of view — and Phil Hare, D-Ill., in Moline, Ill., where without our trying to steer it this way — it

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conducted themselves like mature adults.” That doesn’t mean that Iowans weren’t passionate about the topic. “Both sides called to complain about the coverage,” Carey said. “To me, that’s a healthy sign that you’re doing a good job.” The Fox stations have taken a centralized approach to their coverage. When President Obama took office in January, Fox executives launched an initiative to cover health care reform and, in April, appointed Pam Vaught, VP of news for KTBC-TV, the Austin, , station, to head up reform coverage for the group’s 17 O&Os.

Fox's Approach “Part of that includes the town hall meetings,” said Vaught, who reports there have been four or five town halls so far in Austin. “We’ve been covering it as an individual station and then offering up clips to affiliate stations. Some stations have been streaming them as they come in.” KTBC’s coverage also included a meeting convened by the Travis County Medical Association, one by a local ‘tea FOCUS The most party,” objecting to the overall health care aggressive Town Hall reform package and a protest at the local attendees were most likely to get attention. Whole Foods store over a Journal opinion piece written by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey criticizing health “Both sides called to complain about the care reform. coverage. To me, that’s a healthy sign that One town hall, held by Rep. Lloyd Dogget, D-Texas, did become unruly. you’re doing a good job.” Vaught reports that 200 to 300 people -Bill Carey, WQAD-TV squared off outside in 105-degree heat. “There weren’t any arrests,” she said. “But had to prepare her station for a visit by resources at their disposal; draconian people were right up in each others’ faces, President Obama. The city has been in the budget cuts have meant fewer dedicated shouting.” national spotlight since the June 1 issue of health care journalists who have the The New Yorker carried an article knowledge and experience to tease out Beyond the Yelling describing its unique low-cost, high- complex issues. “We didn’t anticipate crazy town hall quality health care solution. meetings [when we launched this initiative] “Covering a presidential visit comes Wading Through the Bill in January,” she continues. “If they get with a little bit more fanfare and a little bit Some station news directors have crazy, that’s part of the story. But we’ve more controversy,” said Bresnahan, who expressed an interest in digging into the absolutely told the reporters that they have said she had reporters covering the arrival details of the proposed bill, a 1,018-page to get beyond the yelling, the signs and the and departure of Air Force One, and others document available on the Internet as a PDF. arguing to find out what people really want covering the town hall and local protests. WQAD’s Carey said one of his station’s done with health care.” “More protesters come out of the reporters is reading the bill and will describe Calmer heads prevailed on the Fox woodwork, and the city is turned upside its contents in a series of reports. O&O Web sites, where visitors were asked down by all the security.” The station “Most reporters haven’t read it — most to vote on which of the top 25 issues were covered several different gatherings congressmen haven’t,” said Carey. “We’ll use of greatest importance to them. throughout the day, including one that to our advantage.” “There were no surprises, but we took attended by 4,000 people. “There was a Fox’s Vaught agrees that the focus will these issues and began to help people in street separating the two sides and change as town halls wind down. “The the communities solve those problems,” everyone was very peaceful,” she said. congressional members will go back to said Vaught, who cites lack of health care Since the town hall meetings that got Washington, and the rhetoric is dying down,” insurance, lack of affordable health care the most attention reduced health care she said. “Once the town halls are over, we’ll and lack of affordable prescriptions as reform into angry slogans, some station follow what’s going on in Congress, what the three of the top topics. groups and news directors are planning to bill is and how it’s passed in its final form. In Grand Junction, Colo., CBS affiliate dig into the issues with more nuanced This isn’t a story that ends with the president ❑

KREX-TV news director Keira Bresnahan programming. They’re doing so with fewer signing the bill.” PHOTOGRAPH BY GETTY IMAGES / ALEX WONG

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30th Annual News & Documentary Letter From the Chairman Emmy®Awards It’s my great pleasure as the chairman of the National Academy of Presented September 21, 2009 Television Arts & Sciences to welcome you to the News & Documentary Emmy awards. These Emmys are among the most prestigious that we bestow. The journalists honored this evening CONTENTS represent the best and the brightest in the business. We at the Academy wish to congratulate all of the nominees. Though S3 Letter from the Chairman only a few will take home an Emmy this evening, all of the nominees should be proud of their work. S4 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT I would also like to thank all of the professionals from the ranks of the HONOREE - BARBARA WALTERS broadcast journalists and documentary filmmakers who generously gave S6 She Set the Standard / By of their time to evaluate and judge the nearly 1,200 entries this year. We at the Academy are especially pleased to honor Barbara Walters, one of the most acclaimed S8 First and Foremost / By correspondents and interviewers in the history of television journalism, as this year’s Lifetime Achievement honoree. S8 It’s About Time / By CNN Productions, the documentary unit of CNN, is also receiving special recognition this evening for its distinguished contribution to the craft of documentary filmmaking and also for its continued S9 The Real Thing / By Richard C. Wald commitment to covering the most pressing issues of our time. I join with all of you in mourning the passing of two broadcast giants this past year: Walter Cronkite and S10 PRESIDENT’S AWARD - Don Hewitt. Tonight we will pay tribute to them. CNN PRODUCTIONS Finally, please join with me in thanking and congratulating the members and staff of NATAS who worked so hard to make this evening possible, especially David Ashbrock, our awards chair, Bill Small, S10 Capturing the Stark Truth of Reality / By chairman of the News & Documentary Awards, along with David Winn, our director, Steve Head, Jonathan Klein manager, and Lauren Saverine, our manager of special events. S12 REMEMBERING WALTER Herb Granath, chairman, National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences CRONKITE S12 Sean McManus S12 Don Hewitt S12 About the National Academy of Television S14 Chip Cronkite S14 Nancy Cronkite Arts & Sciences S14 Kathy Cronkite S14 The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a professional service organization Brian Williams S15 dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership S15 Bill Small for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. It recognizes excellence S15 Sandy Socolow in television with the coveted Emmy® Award for News & Documentary, Sports, Daytime Entertainment, Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment, Public & Community Service, Technology & Engineering, and S17 DON HEWITT: TV LEGEND AND Business & Financial Reporting. Regional Emmy® Awards are given in 19 regions across the United GENIUS States. NATAS also presents the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Global Media Awards™ which recognizes excellence in the world-wide intersection of digital entertainment and S18 International Emmy Awards Recognize technology. Excellence in Primetime programming and international programming is recognized by its Journalistic Excellence from Around the affiliate, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Beyond awards, NATAS has extensive educational Globe / By Bruce Paisner programs including National Student Television and its Student Award for Excellence for outstanding journalistic work by high school S18 The Judgment on this Year’s Nominees: students, as well as scholarships, publications, and major activities for Remarkable! / By Bill Small both industry professionals and the viewing public. For more information, please visit the website at www.emmyonline.tv. S20 The Nominees

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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE BARBARA WALTERS This year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for News & Documentary, is Barbara Walters, one of the most acclaimed correspondents in the history of television news and creator and co-host of ABC’s “The View.” Ms. Walters is one of the medium’s great interviewers, a top-notch correspondent, and an inspiration to women who, as a result of her pioneering role, now work in every phase of . When Ms. Walters began her career few women could expect to get ahead in news, but she did, with skill, intelligence and perseverance. Ms. Walters first received national attention during her 15 years on NBC’s “Today” show. In 1976 she joined ABC News, becoming the first woman to co-host the network news. For 25 years she served as co-host and chief Pages 4,5,6,7,8,9.qxp:Template 9/15/09 3:49 PM Page 2

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correspondent of ABC News’ “20/20,” and has hosted numerous primetime specials, as well as the top-rated Barbara Walters Specials. She has interviewed every American president and first lady since , as well as world figures such as Margaret Thatcher, Premier of China, Iraq’s , Fidel Castro and Russian President . Her joint interview with Egypt’s President and Israel’s Prime Minister in 1977 made world headlines. Her interview hours have also included the greats of the entertainment world, including , Bing Crosby, Lawrence Olivier, John Wayne, , Aubrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Harrison Ford and many others. Among her many honors are the President’s Award of the Overseas Press Club, induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Media Foundation, numerous News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, a Daytime Emmy® Award for “The View” and five honorary degrees. And now she can add a Lifetime Achievement Emmy for News & Documentary from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to this long and distinguished list. Pages 4,5,6,7,8,9.qxp:Template 9/15/09 3:51 PM Page 3

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She Set the Standard on an equal footing with her male counterparts. interviewed. After all the inside covers of her book list By Charles Gibson Who cared in the early days if she couldn’t ask a 638 ‘gets’ – progressing alphabetically from King question until her male co-host had asked Abdullah of Jordan to Catherine Zeta-Jones and What is there to say three? Hers would be better. She always understood includes everyone in between. (She didn’t get – well, about Barbara Walters that she’d have to succeed on the same playing field she hasn’t gotten yet – Queen Elizabeth.) that hasn’t already been as her counterparts. She asked for no concessions There is an aspect to Barbara’s interviewing that is said? Books have been and she received none. She succeeded on merit. not mentioned much – how she has always written by others about Pretty soon the male co-host was gone and Barbara maintained her credibility. She has been able to her. A book has been written by her about her. In was conducting the interviews on her own. Barbara interview presidents and kings, then turn around the the latter case Barbara wrote 579 pages and entitled was a one-woman feminist movement, without ever next day and interview scoundrels and sex symbols the final chapter, “To Be Continued...” declaring herself one. – and no one thinks twice of it, least of all the She may be getting Lifetime Achievement She was the first female anchor on a network presidents and kings. Awards, but she ain’t done yet!! evening newscast. And if that wasn’t a smashing People talk to Barbara because they trust her. Above all else, Barbara has been a pioneer for success, if television wasn’t ready for that – or her co- She won’t pull a punch. She doesn’t throw only women in broadcasting. She paved the way. She did anchor either for that matter – then she’d reinvent softballs. She instinctively knows the questions that it with tenacity and a relentlessness that never would herself and move on. people want asked. But she listens with a accept the status quo. She set the standard. She did She anchored “20/20” for 25 years. “The View” sympathetic ear, and she protects the dignity of that through hard work. No one out-hustles Barbara. has been on for 12. And that’s not to mention the those she interviews, even if at times they don’t do Walter Cronkite may have said it, but many Barbara Walters Specials. much to protect it themselves. others have thought it. “Did Barbara get anything I Barbara was the first broadcast journalist to No, there’s not much to say about Barbara that didn’t get?” So often the answer has been ‘yes’. receive a seven figure salary, and perhaps the greatest hasn’t been said. But superlatives fit her nicely. They Barbara would likely say that women would have tribute to her, none of her co-workers ever are quite becoming. And very well deserved. eventually succeeded in broadcasting – it was begrudged her the money. To be continued... inevitable. But Barbara accelerated the revolution. It is tempting, when looking at Barbara’s career to Charles Gibson is anchor, “ABC’s World News with She was the first female morning anchor to succeed focus on her interviews, and those she has Charles Gibson” 09np0036.qxp 9/11/091:42PMPage1

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First and Foremost And an inspiration to every woman who has there and done that,” as they say, first and better By Katie Couric pursued a career in broadcast journalism. than anyone before her. Whether she was interviewing Fidel Castro, I keep that note on the wall of my office in a While I am happy to Monica Lewinsky or Cher, she has had (and still brown wooden frame. It’s written on plain, take credit for being the has) a knack for asking exactly that question you cream-colored stationary. No frills. Just a direct first woman to anchor a might be shouting at your television … the and thoughtful message. So Barbara. nightly newscast, I know thing we all want to know. And Barbara is the I love that she’s still going strong and is that’s only partly true. type of reporter who is always prepared for the better than ever. I’m so happy to celebrate all I am the first woman unexpected. she’s accomplished and can’t wait to see what to anchor a nightly When I was at the “Today” show in the early she’ll do next! newscast solo. The road to that chair was paved 1990’s, I conducted a lengthy interview with Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of by the hard work and determination of many President George H. W. Bush, when he suddenly the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” women journalists before me, first and foremost, and unexpectedly walked in while the first lady, Barbara Walters. Barbara Bush, was giving me a tour of the White In 1976, Barbara made history when she House. Afterwards, it reminded me so much of a It’s About Time became co-anchor of a “Big Three” broadcast moment from Barbara’s career. She was on By Whoopi Goldberg alongside . She had come from assignment, traveling to and with NBC and a big, sunny office overlooking the Jackie Kennedy, and managed to land a news- Barbara Walters is a skating rink at . It was a leap of making interview with Indira Gandhi. good woman, a smart faith to leave a coveted seat as co-host of “Today,” Imagine my thrill when a note arrived at my woman. I really like a show she’d worked on since the 1960s beginning office in Rockefeller Center. Barbara had seen my her. She and I share as a writer, to head to a new, unknown and interview with the president. She wrote, “You are moments of parent- historic endeavor. so darn good.” hood that belong only Yes, I am aware of the similarities. I was on top of the world, humbled and awed to us. We talk about

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raising a child and trying to have a career. We It’s a little spooky, but when you think about it, ABC and a headline-making salary, me, a bit often ask each other "at what cost?" We don't what do you give to Barbara Walters? I mean if later, to the Times-Mirror Corporation, we met have an answer, but we do ask. you're a guy running a country, and you want to for lunch at the Polo Lounge to talk over what I first met Barbara when I was asked to be on send her something from where you live, what do happened to each of us. It was sort of painful fun, one of the Barbara Walters Specials. I was excited. you send? And someone decided to send her that. thinking of all the things that might have been I was out of my mind with It cracks me up. and what might happen now. excitement. I'd seen her do interviews with And now she is getting an Emmy Award for When lunch was over, we walked out to the Anwar Sadat and various presidents and here she Lifetime Achievement. It’s about time, but hotel entrance while Barbara was trying to make was talking to a girl from the projects. My mom Barbara is not even half way done. She is the up her mind about laughing at or crying over was really impressed. One thing I tried hard to hardest working woman in show business. Harry Reasoner. Laughing won. Her driver pulled do was figure out how not to cry. Barbara had a Whoopi Goldberg is an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and up and off she went. reputation for making people cry. Did I cry? Tony award winner. The woman handing car jockeys the keys Hell no. looked at me and said, “That was Barbara I really enjoy working with Barbara on “The Walters, right” View.” It’s fun. She laughs. She makes jokes. She The Real Thing “Yup.” is also someone who knows exactly what she is By Richard C. Wald “I love her.” doing, and if there's something I can do better I “Why?” can trust her to tell me. And it's never done in an Of Barbara Walters there “Because she taught all you stupid men how to uncomfortable way, where you feel like an idiot. are endless anecdotes, make television real. Here’s your car.” She is very civil. She just gives you her opinion, most involving famous Richard C. Wald was the managing editor of the which is valuable. people, many true. My New York Herald Tribune, president of NBC News, She knows that I am a bit of a recluse and I favorite happened to me assistant to the chairman of the Times-Mirror don't hang out much but I’ve been to her and the car key woman at Company, senior vice president of ABC News and is apartment a few times for dinner. Her apartment the Beverly Hills Hotel. now professor of media and society at the Columbia has one strange thing – a full sized mummy case. About a year after she and I left NBC, she to University Graduate School of Journalism.

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to outstanding long-form work – documentaries, investigative and enterprise CAPTURING THE STARK reporting. We’re not content to deliver a laundry list of what happened today – our TRUTH OF REALITY mission is to help viewers and online users understand why it happened, and who’s behind it. By Jonathan Klein It was ’s passion for documentary film that led to the launch of CNN Productions documentary unit in 1998. Having witnessed the broadcast networks’ It was 1993 – the tapes were flying as we madly scrambled retreat from documentaries in favor of empty-calorie newsmagazines, he recognized to straighten up our edit bay’s flotsam and lay out a proper the potential of CNN’s global resources to deliver compelling in-depth programs tea service, complete with genuine Portmeirion china about the most important subjects of our time. One of the most noteworthy results flown in from Wales. was on his way – was the epic 24-part series “Cold War,” which aired over six months, took viewers today Sir Howard, chairman and CEO of Sony around the globe in exhaustively examining the East vs. West struggle, and won the Corporation, but back then the president of CBS and the 1998 Peabody Award. best known Welshman since Richard Burton – about to grace the nether regions of Today, some of the best journalists in television are tackling some of the most his empire to screen the documentary I’d just finished directing for CBS News. It complex issues of our time with multi-hour, prime-time documentaries on was the first doc I’d ever made, and Howard, a legendary documentarian himself before becoming Dan Rather’s “CBS Evening News” producer and eventually head of the company, had taken an interest from the beginning. I was grateful – but boy, was I nervous. For all the forethought, however, my boss’s boss’s boss wound up taking little notice of the tea and scones as he swept in. Howard wasn’t there for the royal treatment – he’d come to the factory floor to touch the product and, it turned out, to run his own past through his fingers. When the lights came up, he neither delivered a scathing critique nor shoved off to a board meeting or some other presidential-type activity. Instead, he grabbed a scone and stayed for another hour CNN. The “Amanpour Reports” have probed the birth of global terror, the rise of … sinking deep into the sofa, swapping stories of his “CBS Reports” days in the field fundamentalism, the horror of genocide today and the menace of nuclear trailing FBI agents and IRA gunmen, asking detailed questions about our shoots proliferation. Soledad O’Brien’s “In America” series enables viewers to face often and our editing process; giving vent to a passion that ran close beneath the bespoke uncomfortable truths about race and society, while investigations such as “MLK: pinstripes. Too soon for all of us, it was time for Howard to stop being our fellow Words That Changed a Nation” “Eyewitness to Murder – The King Assassination” filmmaker and transform back into a suit. and “Escape From Jonestown” shed new light on people and events that have been Documentaries have a way of sticking with a person, whether you’ve created baked into the public consciousness, sometimes inaccurately. and them or simply watched them. They’re harder to make than dramas because you have traveled the globe documenting environmental assaults in can’t invent your characters, dictate their actions, and fabricate a happy ending. In “Planet in Peril” and its sequel, while has catalogued the causes and tragic fact, many docs don’t even have endings to speak of – since they illuminate ongoing, effects of poor equipment for American troops in Iraq. intractable issues like health care discrepancies, global warming, poverty, terror, or In the Age of , which has shaved the notion of “living for the moment” even the of the universe itself. But that wrenching realism is what makes down to the nanosecond, long form reporting plays a more vital role than ever – it documentaries so powerful to watch, and so lasting in their effects – we know that provides crucial context. It explains “why,” not just “what.” It attempts to make sense the drama we’re seeing and the emotions we’re feeling haven’t been manufactured of a world that is awash in more information than ever, yet finds itself more confused by the Hollywood dream machine – they’re driven by the stark truth of real life. than ever. That is CNN’s mission to the core, and we are grateful to NATAS for its This is why documentaries can be such an important weapon in the arsenal of recognition of our commitment. a television news organization, and why we at CNN have renewed our commitment Jonathan Klein is President, CNN/U.S. 09np0034.qxp 9/10/09 4:44 PM Page 1

“AT A TIME WHEN THE TRADITIONAL COMMERCIAL NETWORKS HAVE DRASTICALLY CURTAILED THEIR DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION, CNN HAS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE LONG FOR M DOCUMENTARIES ON TOPICS OF PRESSING INTEREST. THEIR WORK IS REMARKABLE FOR ITS SCOPE AND QUALITY.”

– Bill Small Chairman of News and Documentary Emmys at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences CNN PRODUCTIONS IS PROUD TO BE THE RECIPIENT OF THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD

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S12 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION CUSTOM th ARTS & SCIENCES / SUPPLEMENT 30 EMMY AWARDS / NEWSPRO REMEMBERING WA LT ER CRONKITE Family, and colleagues remember the legendary newsman

Sean McManus on Walter Cronkite Don Hewitt on Walter Cronkite One of the absolute best aspects of my CBS News job is One of the things that dawned on me in preparing this that I have been able to spend some of the most memorable tribute to the news legend I first met in in the moments of my life with Walter Cronkite. Two memories weeks leading up to the allied invasion of is that stand out above the rest. In November of ’08 Walter made my contention that I never went to journalism school is what was to be his last visit to the CBS newsroom. As he just not true – especially when I spent as many years as I walked in unannounced, it was remarkable to watch the did at the side of the man we are honoring here today. reaction of everyone who saw him, from young production assistants to 30-year The fact is it’s hard to come up with a news event that Walter Cronkite and CBS News veterans to cameramen and technicians. Everyone was just so I hadn’t covered together. The dateline “Cape Canaveral, ” comes to thrilled – actually in awe – to see the great man. It was like Thomas Jefferson mind the most. It sums him up the best, and sums up a unique working walking unannounced into a political science class at the University of partnership that I treasure as the most memorable of my life. . As he talked to everyone young and old, some of whom he This was where John Glenn’s mother was asked, on her first visit to the had worked with on the “CBS Evening News,” you could feel the memories launch site where her son was about to be fired into space, what she wanted to come flooding back, both for Walter and the CBS News team. The uniqueness see most of all at Cape Canaveral. Her reply: “Walter Cronkite”. of the moment was not lost on anyone, and it remains a warm and lasting Don Hewitt was executive producer of “” from 1968-2004. He died memory for anyone who was lucky enough to be in the newsroom that day. on August 19, 2009. On my visits to Walter’s apartment during the last year and a half, believe it or not we would always end our time by playing the drums. That’s right, the John Hendricks on Walter Cronkite drums. Walter had become a close friend of Mickey Hart, the drummer for the It is fair to say there would be no Discovery Channel Grateful Dead, and over the years he had collected a number of drums, from without Walter Cronkite. When we struggled for funding bongos to snares and others. As we were sitting there each trying with more and viability in the early 1980s, Walter was one of the first enthusiasm than skill to keep a rhythm, I had to remind myself that I was to see the possibility of a 24-hour channel dedicated to playing the drums with one of the true legends in the news business, someone high quality storytelling about the world around us. His who left an indelible mark on this entire industry and one of the most famous guidance, support and commitment were instrumental in and beloved men in the entire world. But during those moments he was just securing the resources and distribution to first launch Discovery in 1985. He Walter, having a wonderful time, love with life and trying to trick me remained a friend, mentor and invaluable counselor to me. Walter also into the wrong beat. He would always end with a dramatic flourish and great contributed many outstanding programs to help inform our global audience smile. How lucky I was to spend those moments with the most trusted man including telling his life story to Discovery Channel viewers through a in America. remarkable 8-part series called “Cronkite Remembers” in 1996, which we re- Sean McManus is president, CBS Sports, and president, CBS News. aired after his passing. I will miss him greatly, and on behalf of the 4,000 Discovery employees worldwide, we mourn the passing of our dear friend and colleague who inspired the world with his boundless sense of curiosity. We will continue to live up to his standard of excellence and integrity in everything we do each and every day. John S. Hendricks is founder and chairman of Discovery Communications. Pages 12,13,14,15.qxp:Template 9/15/09 4:11 PM Page 2 Pages 12,13,14,15.qxp:Template 9/15/09 4:12 PM Page 3

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Brian Williams on Walter Cronkite Chip Cronkite When I left CBS to come work at NBC, my colleagues I learned a few things about my dad after he died. I organized a farewell gathering at a bar on the West Side of learned that there are a lot of people in the news business . It had originally been scheduled for my last day of who thought of him as a mentor: generous with his employment, February 26, 1993. However, that day, a truck wisdom, his warmth, and his time. I learned that he bomb went off beneath the World Trade Center – and I was contributed to dozens more charities than I had on the air covering the story until my contract expired at the imagined. And I learned that when he used to hug me, stroke of midnight. The party was re-scheduled for a few days later. At a certain point and it felt natural to me, to others it was an extraordinary act for a man of his in the evening, a television was wheeled into the room and the crowd was shushed generation. for the playing of the “going-away tape,” a collection, usually, of well-wishers making My mother injected a lot of humor into his life. Sometimes so much that jokes and blowing kisses goodbye. This particular tape was different, because it it almost got in the way of his job. As he was about to start his coverage of the featured a personal message from Walter Cronkite. coronation of Queen Elizabeth, he had to keep trying to forget her I had already lived a charmed enough life to be able to tell Walter that he was the observation that “there sure were a lot of coroners here for the fornication.” guy I wanted to be when I was a small boy. He’d heard the same thing about countless other people during the course of his career, and yet because of his Nancy Cronkite extraordinary kindness, there he was on my tape, with a personal message for me. He Dad often took me for rides in his beautiful ivory-colored said it had come to his attention that I grew up in a household where dinner was not Austin Healy along the back lanes in Putnam County, at served until the “CBS Evening News” was over each night – until the moment my that time unspoiled countryside. One time when I was mother heard him say, “That’s the way it is...” He looked into the camera and said, quite small, I noticed that he was driving 45 mph past a “Brian, I never want you to miss another meal, so consider this your personal copy sign that clearly stated a 35 mph speed limit. When – “That's the way it is.” I was floored that he knew who I was, amazed that he had I asked him why, he said, in his most authoritative voice, taken the time and the trouble – and feeling pretty lucky about life’s good fortune. “Those are suggested speed limits designed for people who don’t know how I didn’t know then that just over a dozen years later I’d be anchoring a network to drive.” evening newscast, the job I watched Walter perfect so many years before. I have said Driving with Dad was fun at any speed. for years, and to all who will listen: He’s the guy I grew up wanting to be. Of course, there’s only one Walter. All I can do now is hope that his example continues to guide Kathy Cronkite me, and others, in work and in life. While in retirement and in his old age, he long He and Mom gave us the advantages of playfulness, ago left the public spotlight, now he’s truly gone. As long as he was with us, there intellectual curiosity, compassion and a love of fairness was always “Cronkite” to point to, to hold up as a living example. Now it is and democracy. In other words, Truth, Justice and the Walter’s memory that lives with us all. American Way. Brian Williams is anchor & managing editor of the “NBC Nightly News”. Chip, Nancy and Kathy Cronkite are the children of Walter and Betsy Cronkite. EmmY Sec Part.qxp 9/15/09 4:32 PM Page 1

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Small on Cronkite At the 1976 Republican convention in Kansas City, where was nominated, Walter said to me, “I’m going to lunch with (Senator) Hugh Scott. You know him. Why don’t you join us?” As we walked to the Muehlebach hotel, a teen- aged girl stopped us. She was a member of an extremely conservative GOP youth group and began to chastise Walter for his reporting on the “Communist Broadcasting System.” He listened patiently to her outburst, and then spotting her name on one of the many pins and ribbons she wore, asked if she was related to a Republican he knew. She said that was her uncle. Walter proceeded to say what a special guy her uncle was. Within minutes he had charmed her completely and our encounter ended with her asking for and getting his autograph. That was the strength and the goodness in the man. Other television journalists might have walked away in anger. Walter took the time to make still Lesley Stahl on Walter Cronkite one more admirer. One of Walter’s favorite things to do was conduct “Stars and Bill Small is chairman, News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Stripes” at the New York Pops. I saw him do it in Carnegie Hall just a few years ago, and it struck me that what he had Sandy Socolow – Overheard, Walter & Betsy Cronkite been was our national concert maestro, leading us as a moral discussing the end of the road: force, and an emotional barometer. WALTER: I’d like to sail off with a beautiful 18-year-old He would bring us all together as a country during crises, on a 79-foot sailboat. elections and national celebrations. These were the times when Walter excelled. BETSY: Knowing you, Walter, it would more likely be He would calm in turbulence, express just the right emotion (including anger), a 79-year-old on an 18-foot sailboat. and, as someone recently said, stabilize like, ahem, an anchor. Sandy Socolow was Walter Cronkite’s last executive producer And through it all, he was The Conductor. Which reminds me of July 4th, and worked with him, in several other capacities, for 16 years. 1976, and the big-bash celebration for the country’s Bicentennial. We were on the air all day and all night, with Walter anchoring almost non-stop in one of his memorable marathon broadcasts, tossing from one reporter at a “live remote” to another: from at the parade of tall ships in New York Harbor, to Bruce Morton at the Lincoln Memorial, to at Valley Forge, to Terry Drinkwater at a Rodeo in Greeley Colorado, to me in an ersatz cornfield on the Washington mall. That night I threw a party on my roof, which had a clear shot of the fireworks. Walter had called me the day before. He was a little hesitant, a little embarrassed. “Would I…” he paused. “Would it be an imposition? Would it be asking too much… “ humpha humpha.” “What?” I said. “Anything. Just ask.” “Could my mother come to your party?” I thought: WHAT? YOU HAVE A MOTHER? But there are stairs. There’ll be booze. I said: “Of course. I’d love it!” So Helen arrived alone, in pink slacks, proving that you can be in your 80s and still be spicy and spry. She bounded up the stairs, laughed with my friends, and joined in. After the fireworks, she sat on my bed with everyone else to watch Walter Cronkite wish the country a happy birthday. Walter was being Walter: enthusiastic and charming. There was an equilibrium to the way he conveyed his patriotism, without effusion. Well, of course there was! Walter Cronkite 1916–2009 Night after night, on the “Evening News,” he always seemed to strike exactly the right note. When President Kennedy died, Walter choked up – just a little. With the space shots, he was a cheerleader without the rah rah. He never seemed to exaggerate, lose his sense of balance. Walter didn’t gush. He had perfect pitch Colleague. Friend. Legend. As we watched him that night in 1976, Helen blurted out: “He’s such a good boy!” And I thought: Holy moly: that’s Uncle Walter’s MOTHER! »CBS NEWS She was right. He was a good boy, a wonderful man, and a great leader. Lesley Stahl has been a “60 Minutes” correspondent since 1991.

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inventor of the “super” print identifications across the bottom of the screen (though later, he insisted that “60 Minutes” never use them). His inspiration, he DON HEWITT, said, was the menu sign in a diner he was eating at during a 1952 political TV LEGEND AND GENIUS convention. He originated cue cards later replaced by electronic TelePrompTer. He had convention reporters put earphones on political interviewees so they He always said it was simple: “tell me could hear Cronkite's questions. a story.” Ideas poured forth from the man. But when not debating one of his people, But it was much more than that, and even when doing so, he was always fun and funny. “60 Minutes” producer and when Don Hewitt died, from all Ira Rosen remembers Hewitt calling after being impressed by a story the 26-year- parts of television journalism came old Rosen did on WOR-TV, and when his mother answered the phone, said “I’d words like “genius” and “TV like to offer your son a job.” Mrs. Rosen said “He’s not interested. He has a job legend.” He was both. already.” When Rosen heard this, he quickly called Hewitt back. Don said, Don Hewitt, best known as the “Listen kid, I don’t know about you, but I like your mother. If you don’t want the man who created “60 Minutes” in job, it’s hers.” 1968 and produced it until 2004, Everyone who has ever worked with Hewitt can testify to his genius. Morley came to television at the beginning. Safer said, “Don Hewitt really, in a certain way, created guys like me, Mike and Ed He dropped out of New York and the others. He is the father of us all.” University to be a copy boy at the Hewitt’s successor as executive producer at “60 Minutes,” said, “Don New York Herald Tribune. During was a giant figure in our lives and will always have an impact on this broadcast – World War II, he joined the there’s a part of him in every one of us and it affects every decision we make.” merchant marine and then wrote for Stars and Stripes and covered operations in said, “There isn’t a show on television – I don’t care what variety both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres, including the D-Day invasion. news show – that didn’t have Don’s DNA.” In 1948, he was invited to join CBS and something called “television.” He said But Hewitt always said, “I hire people who are smarter than me and they make he did not own a TV set and didn’t know anyone else who did. But he became a me look good.” Producer Ira Rosen, however, said “No one was fooled by that director and in May directed the first network newscast with . He since Don was smarter than all of us.” moved rapidly upwards and became director and later producer of the “CBS Don Hewitt died on August 19, 2009. Evening News with Walter Cronkite.” His production credits ultimately included elections (he produced the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate), space shots and virtually every major new story in the years that followed. When Cronkite anchored networks' first half-hour newscast, Hewitt was at the helm. His most famous creation was, of course, “60 Minutes.” It first aired in September of 1968 and Hewitt would be its producer until 2004. During that time, it won over 70 Emmys, 13 Dupont and nine . It was in the top 10 rated shows in all of television for two decades and at its peak in 1979-80 was watched in an estimated 28 million homes. It also made lots of money for CBS. In 2003 Hewitt and his correspondents were jointly given Lifetime Achievement Emmys and, in an appearance at earlier that day, he was asked if it was true that “60 Minutes” had made $2 billion for CBS. He said, “That’s old news. The figure is much larger today.” Hewitt often said the formula for success was simple – just tell me a story. In 2001, he even wrote a memoir entitled “Tell Me a Story.” He said the inspiration was Life magazine, which told a story, inserted advertising pages, told another, etc. And while there would be features, he said, “We could look into Marilyn Monroe’s closet, so long as we looked into Robert Oppenheimer’s laboratory, too.” Don Hewitt But in reality it wasn’t that simple. The real genius of Hewitt was in the 1922–2009 editing room. It had to hold his interest or it was redone. There were ferocious fights, especially with , but Hewitt’s feel for what the public would like usually prevailed. In addition to Wallace he had a galaxy of superb reporters Brilliant Innovator. – Harry Reasoner, , Dan Rather, Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Andy Master Storyteller. Rooney, Diane Sawyer, , , , and . Their questions were often as interesting as the answers. »CBS NEWS And there was always innovation inspired by Hewitt. He was said to be the

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S18 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION CUSTOM th ARTS & SCIENCES / SUPPLEMENT 30 EMMY AWARDS / NEWSPRO International Emmy THE JUDGMENT ON THIS YEAR’S Awards Recognize NOMINEES: REMARKABLE! Journalistic Excellence From Around the World By Bill Small women there, as in Anderson Cooper’s “The War By Bruce L. Paisner Against Women” on “60 Minutes” or HBO’s “The The pleasure of surveying Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.” As for the This year we are celebrating a the Emmy nominees in immense refugee crisis there, BBC World News landmark in the history of News and Documentary America and WNET’s new international newscast The International Emmy is not only to personally “Worldfocus” were each nominated for outstanding Awards, the 10th anniversary admire the good work, reports. National Geographic Channel’s “The of the News Category. And but to hear it praised by Gorilla Murders” investigated the killing of six what a decade it has been for news and for the the over 300 broadcast professionals who served as mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park. The organizations around the world which report it. judges. To wit: “Remarkable,” “Great journalism,” gorillas were murdered by a mafia working in the In 1999, when The International Academy “Really special,” “Better than last year.” And my park in an effort to intimidate the park’s rangers. started recognizing excellence in news produced favorite, from judges who, after many hours in The 2008 elections were not ignored. Steve outside of The , eight programs were darkened rooms, thanked us for asking them to Kroft and “60 Minutes” were nominated for “The entered into the competition. This year, we had over judge: “This has been a great experience, I saw lots Inner Circle,” his post-election discussion with the 70 entries from 22 countries, further evidence that of stuff I hadn’t seen before and was impressed by Obama campaign leadership, and the “CBS outstanding television reporting has become global, how good it was.” Evening News with Katie Couric” was nominated and that the Emmy is the preeminent television As always, the variety of subject matter was for a remarkable series of interviews with the award in the world. Who would have thought 10 invigorating. My quick survey of subjects covered presidential and vice presidential candidates, years ago that countries like Qatar, Ukraine, Brazil showed the obvious, Iraq and Afghanistan among including her much lauded interview with Sarah and The would be regular entrants into the most honored by nomination, nine for Iraq and Palin. Charles Gibson received a nod for his Sarah our competition? eight program nominations (and some in the craft Palin interview. Once again this year, we are honoring the 2009 categories) for Afghanistan. But surprisingly, with All three nominations for live coverage went to International Emmy Award Nominees with their almost as many program nominations, seven, dealt coverage of the presidential race. NBC received a American counterparts. This ceremony is a with the conflict in the Congo. Eleven program nod for their election night coverage, and CNN celebration of reporters and a recognition of the nominations and five craft nominations dealt with was recognized for their coverage of the obstacles they have to overcome to get the story and China. Surprisingly, only about a half-dozen Democratic National Convention and for their broadcast it. Tonight we honor journalists and news program nominations dealt with the 2008 election night coverage. organizations from North America, Europe, , presidential election. Investigative reportage was particularly strong The Middle-East and Latin America. During the year PBS, as usual, had the most nominations, with this year. CNN was nominated for an exposé on they work hard and compete fiercely with each other 41, many of them in the craft areas. Among the websites that sell drugs online without a prescription. to get the story. Tonight we honor them as one. traditional networks, CBS led with 23 nominations, , of the “CBS for Evening News As a one-time journalist and as president & CEO 15 of them by the perennial heavyweight, “60 with Katie Couric,” was recognized for a series of of The International Academy, I am pleased to be in Minutes.” ABC’s “World News with Charles reports on how the VA sought to conceal the risk of such distinguished company. My colleagues at the Gibson” and “NBC Nightly News with Brian suicide among veterans. on ABC did Academy join me in congratulating all the nominees Williams” each earned about half their network’s exposés on corporate influences at both national for their outstanding achievements. nominations, and the “CBS Evening News with political conventions. CNN exposed the misuse of Bruce L. Paisner is president & CEO, The Katie Couric” earned a number for CBS. HBO, aid to victims. ABC’s “” International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ever strong in documentaries, garnered 13 exposed how child domestics in Haiti are little better nominations and National Geographic Channel than slaves, and NBC’s “Dateline” exposed About The International Academy of Television received 12. questionable practices in international adoptions. Arts & Sciences Afghanistan nominees ranged from NBC’s Special awards are given to the best of regional The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is ’s reporting from the Korengal Valley Emmy winners and these local stations were also a membership-based organization comprised of leading media and entertainment figures from over 50 countries in Afghanistan, to the investigation of the role of strong in investigative reporting. KHOU-TV in and 500 companies from all sectors of television including torture in the in HBO’s “Taxi to the Internet, mobile and technology. The Academy’s yearly presented “Hidden Homicides” about schedule of events includes the prestigious International Dark Side.” Iraq coverage nominated featured several Emmy® Awards Ceremony held in New York, The under-reporting or non-reporting of local murders. International Digital Emmy® Awards at MIP-TV and a surveys of the war there, including ABC’s long-running KYW-TV in , was nominated for series of industry events such as Academy Day, The International Emmy® World Television Festival and Panels series “Iraq: Where Things Stand” and “Frontline’s” exposing nursing aides who robbed patients in a on substantive industry topics. The Academy was comprehensive account of the origins and conduct of chartered with a mission to recognize excellence in Veterans Administration facility. WWOR-TV in television produced outside of the U.S. and it presents The the conflict, “Bush’s War.” Secaucus, N.J., reported on illegal solicitation by International Emmy® Awards in 15 categories. As for the Democratic (oxymoron?) Republic of dental clinics to get Medicaid money, and Congo, many reports concentrated on the abuse of CONTINUED ON PAGE 38 09np0022.qxp 9/9/09 1:20 PM Page 1

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PBS / Wide Angle / Birth of a Surgeon NOMINATIONS Wide Angle follows the journey of student Emilia Cumbane from her home in the Mozambican capital Maputo through intensive medical classes to night shifts in the delivery ward, where she fights for OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE internationally accepted definition of . recognition of her surgical competence. Working in a JOURNALISM IN A Executive Producer: makeshift delivery room so crowded that women in Senior Producer: David Scott labor sometimes share beds, Cumbane becomes one CBS / 60 Minutes / Assault on Pelindaba Producer: Aude Soichet of the first midwives in the world granted the right to In the fall of 2007 there was a mysterious assault at Correspondent: perform surgery. a nuclear power plant called Pelindaba, which Executive Producer: Pamela Hogan holds thousands of pounds of highly enriched NBC / Dateline / To Catch A Baby Broker Senior Producer: Nina Chaudry uranium and lies just outside the capital of South To Catch a Baby Broker was the culmination of 18 Producer: Loui Bernal Africa. A worker there successfully fought off four months of investigation into problems associated Co-Producer: Erin Chapman armed men inside the plant’s Emergency Control with international adoptions. The report focused on Director: Karin Falck Center and was shot in the chest for his efforts. some particularly questionable practices involving Anchor: Hours later, the heavily sedated man granted a Guatemalan adoptions, including unscrupulous brief interview to a local reporter from the facilitators taking advantage of emotionally volatile PBS / Wide Angle / Lord’s Children hospital’s Intensive Care unit. Then, he vanished. parents, and children being kidnapped and sold for Lord’s Children is the compelling story of three Executive Produce: Jeff Fager adoption. former child soldiers in Uganda who escaped from Executive Editor: Bill Owens Executive Producer: David Corvo the bush and are trying, with the help of two Senior Producer: Michael Radutzky Senior Producer: Ellen Mason counselors at the rehabilitation center, to overcome Producers: Graham Messick , Michael Karzis Executive Editor: Liz Cole their physical and emotional scars so they can start Correspondent: Scott Pelley Producer: Benita Alexander - Noel their lives again. Field Producer: Leonor Ayala Director/Producer: Oliver Stoltz CBS / 60 Minutes / The Wasteland Correspondent: Victoria Corderi Executive Producer: Pamela Hogan When well-meaning American consumers give Senior Producer: Nina Chaudry their electronics to so-called recyclers, the waste is OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE Co-Producer: Tamara Rosenberg often sold to middlemen who take it to China and OF A NEWS STORY: LONG FORM Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi other parts of the Third World, where it is broken Anchor: Aaron Brown or melted down for the precious metals inside. ABC / ABC News Special / China Inside Out The material inside is so toxic, and the methods Correspondent Bob Woodruff explores the stunning OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE used to extract it so rudimentary, that it threatens global transformation that is taking place at the PROGRAMMING both the environment and the people of some of outset of the new century as a result of China’s the poorest and most polluted places on earth. staggering growth. Woodruff, who speaks Mandarin CBS / 60 Minutes / Alec Baldwin Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Chinese, traveled to China, Angola, Brazil, Morley Safer sat down to interview actor Alec Executive Editor Bill Owens Cambodia and the United States to report on how Baldwin during the winter of 2007 when his Producer: China’s growing wealth, power and influence has had outstanding work on the television program Co-Producers: Tom Honeysett, Nicole Young an impact on all of us. began receiving rave reviews. Around this same time Correspondent: Scott Pelley Executive Producer: Tom Yellin Baldwin was criticized for his shocking behavior Senior Producer: Kayce Jennings during an angry voice mail message that he had left ABC / 20/20 / Brian Ross Investigates: Bodies- Producer: Gabrielle Tenenbaum for his daughter, which had been replayed constantly The China Connection Reporter: Bob Woodruff in the media. Brian Ross and his team uncover the dark truth Executive Producer: Jeff Fager about the origins of ‘unclaimed’ Chinese corpses PBS / FRONTLINE / Bush's War Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens exhibited for profit at BODIES shows in major Drawing on FRONTLINE’s extensive reporting on Executive Editor: Patti Hassler American cities and museums around the world. the , as well as interviews with key players at Producers: Deirdre Naphin Curran, Katy Textor The company that puts on the shows claims that the White House, State Department, Defense Correspondent: Morley Safer the bodies are leased legally from a medical school Department and CIA, Bush’s War gives viewers an in Dalian, China, but ABC News found evidence inside account of an administration at war with itself ABC / 20/20 / Drama High that up to one third of the bodies had come from over how to respond to the devastating 9/11 attacks Drama High chronicles the dream of Scott Pafumi, executed prisoners. and how to manage the aftermath of the invasion of an idealistic theater arts teacher who aspires to teach Chief Investigative Correspondent: Brian Ross Iraq. The film is perhaps the definitive documentary the students in his predominantly white upper Chief of Investigative Projects: Rhonda Schwartz analysis of the Iraq war. middle class high school a lesson about diversity by Executive Producer: David Sloan Executive Producer: David Fanning staging The Wiz, the black musical version of The Senior Producer: Carla DeLandri Producer/Director: Michael Kirk Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Producer: Anna Schecter Producer/Reporter: Jim Gilmore Executive Producer: David Sloan Co-Producer: Mike Wiser Senior Broadcast Producer: Jessica Velmans ABC / Nightline /How To Buy A Child In Producers: Bram Harris, Muriel Pearson Ten Hours PBS / FRONTLINE / The War Briefing Anchor: Nightline’s special investigation highlights the The War Briefing offers harrowing on-the-ground unique form of bondage in which an estimated reporting from the Korengal River Valley, the / Cinemax Reel Life / Salim Baba 300,000 children in Haiti live and toil. In the deadliest battlefield in Afghanistan. The film takes Salim Baba is a portrait in miniature of Salim early 1900’s wealthy families brought poor rural viewers to the militant safe havens deep inside the Muhammad, a 55-year-old man who lives in North children in to their homes to work as domestics in Pakistani tribal areas, probing some of the most Kalkata with his wife and five children. Since the age exchange for paying their school fees. However, urgent foreign policy challenges facing the Obama of ten he has made a living screening spliced together the practice rapidly devolved into widespread administration. discarded film scraps from the big movie theaters of exploitation. 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projector with his sons in hopes that they will carry NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / uncover the truth behind the murders, the on his legacy. Superpride filmmakers worked side by side with investigators to Producers: Francisco Bello, Raja Dey, Scott Mosier Superpride shows how a large group of female lions unmask a powerful mafia network at the heart of the Director: Tim Sternberg functions as a kind of Praetorian Guard for their National Park itself. This mafia murdered the gorillas vulnerable cubs, protecting the cubs against to intimidate the National Park’s rangers, who were HBO / HBO Documentary Films / The Art of aggressive males and other predators. fighting against the destruction of the gorilla’s Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale Composers: Mac Squier, Lenny Williams habitat. When neo-expressionist Chuck Connelly burst on Sound Mixer: Robert Fritts Cinematographer: Erin Harvey the New York art scene in the 80s, he found himself Sound Editor: Kate Hopkins Wildlife Cinematography: Robert Poole compared to Van Gogh, and his work was discussed Foley Artist: Andrew Bozza in the same breath as that of successful PBS / P.O.V. / Up the Yangtze contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian DISCOVERY CHANNEL / When We Left Earth: Up the Yangtze is an epic journey up this storied river Schnabel. During that time, Connelly sold more The NASA Missions – Landing the Eagle on one of the luxury cruise ships that feed the hunger than a million dollars’ worth of art and was In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s of tourists to have a last look at the legendary Yangtze represented by one of New York’s most successful space program, the producers gathered astronauts, River Valley, where even the mythical ‘Gates of Hell’ dealers. Today however, he is remembered primarily flight directors and NASA personnel to give their at the Ghost City of Fengdu soon will be inundated for alienating every collector and gallery owner with own intimate on-camera accounts of NASA’s to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. whom he worked. pioneering missions. Director of Photography: Wang Shi Qing Executive Producers: Diana Holtzberg, Sheila Nevins Composer: Richard Blair-Oliphant Supervising Producer: Sara Bernstein Sound Designer: Peter Baldock OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY Producer/Director: Jeff Stimmel Dubbing Mixer: Cliff Jones NATURE DOCUMENTARIES Conductor/Orchestration: Ben Wallfisch PBS / In the Footsteps of Marco Polo Additional Music: Jody Jenkins PBS / NATURE / Crash: A Tale of Two Species Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild Music Recording Engineer: Geoff Foster Each year a small bird called the red knot makes a idea – retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000 mile land Post Production Supervisor: Richard Lloyd 10,000 mile journey from the tip of South America and sea route from Venice to China and back – and Music Supervisor: Hilary Skewes to its nesting grounds in the Arctic. Along the route, spent two incredible years turning that idea into reality. Supervising Music Editor: Richard Todman its most important stopover is the Delaware Bay Executive Producers: Tom Casciato, Joshua C. Music Editor: Peter Clarke where the bird refuels on tiny eggs left by spawning Nathan, Stephen Segaller, Lisa Taylor - Belliveau horseshoe crabs. In recent years, the horseshoe crab Senior Producer: Eva Anisko TRAVEL CHANNEL / Wild China / Heart of the population has fallen dramatically due to over- Producer/Directors: Denis Belliveau, Francis Dragon fishing, and now, bird numbers have begun to crash. O'Donnell Wild China explores the wildest regions of the world’s This is the story of nature’s ability to make fragile Producer: Emir Lewis most populous nation, revealing its little known connections among the most unexpected creatures, natural treasures and secret wildlife havens. The film and humans’ ability to destroy or restore them. PBS / P.O.V. / Belarusian Waltz focuses on what remains of its natural heritage and Camerapersons: Michael Male, Andrew Young , A nation of almost 10 million people, Belarus has investigates the place of nature in Chinese culture and Chris Szwedo been called Europe’s last dictatorship. One of the the current fortunes of China’s wildlife. nations formed in 1991 from the breakup of the Composer: Barnaby Taylor PBS / NATURE / White Falcon, White Wolf , Belarus is indeed a strange and little- On Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, winter known country in a region of growing strategic OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY arrives in September and stays for nine cold and dark importance. POV’s guide to the country, the post- months. The other seasons get just one month each. modern performance artist Alexander Pushkin, PBS / FRONTLINE / The War Briefing June is spring. July is summer. August is autumn. A exposes the Stalinist scowl hiding behind the The War Briefing offers harrowing on-the-ground pair of snowy white gyrfalcons and a pack of Arctic dictator’s technocratic smile. reporting from the deadliest battlefield in wolves must work hard to raise their families during Director: Andrezj Fidyk Afghanistan. The film takes viewers inside militant the brief respite the sun provides. By the end of Producer: Torstein Grude safe havens deep within the Pakistani tribal areas, August, their jobs as parents must be complete, their Co-Producer: Miroslaw Grubek probing some of the most urgent foreign policy young ready to take on the return of the snows. Executive Producer for Piraya Film: AS challenges facing the Obama administration. Camerapersons: Ian McCarthy, Mark Smith Torstein Grude, Bjarte Morner Tveit Cameraman: Timothy Grucza Executive Producer for MG Productions:Miroslaw TRAVEL CHANNEL / Wild China / Heart of the Grubek DISCOVERY CHANNEL / Koppel on Discovery Dragon Executive Producer for the Rafto / The People's Republic of Capitalism Wild China explores the wildest regions of the world’s Foundation:Therese Jebsen, Jan Ramstad Chongqing, China, a city of 13.5 million people, most populous nation, revealing its little known Executive Producer for TVP: Krzysztof Talczewski could be the most populous city most natural treasures and secret wildlife havens. The film Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer have never heard of. The largest migration in human focuses on what remains of its natural heritage and Executive Producer for American history is underway as millions of peasants are on the investigates the place of nature in Chinese culture and Documentary/POV: Simon Kilmurry move from China’s countryside, and as the central the current fortunes of China’s wildlife. government tries to increase Chongqing’s population Camerapersons: John Aitchison, Mike Lemmon, OUTSTANDING MUSIC & SOUND to 20 million. This population redistribution, Justin Maguire, Gavin Newman combined with the emergence of capitalism, is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / The having a dramatic effect on Chinese culture, and the OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE Devil Came on Horseback Koppel on Discovery camera crew was there to JOURNALISM - LONG FORM The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the genocide document it. in Darfur, as seen through the eyes of an Director of Photography: Robert Goldsborough PBS / FRONTLINE / Rules of Engagement American witness, former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Additional Cameramen: Dennis Boni, Mitch Farkas In November of 2005 a us Marine and 15 Iraqi Steidle, who served as an unarmed military observer civilians were killed in Haditha. At the time it was with the African Union from 2004 through 2005. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / reported that all were killed by a roadside bomb, but Composer: Paul Brill National Geographic Explorer / Gorilla Murders soon after Time Magazine reported that U.S. Marines Sound Mixer: Tom Efinger Gorilla Murders investigates the July 2007 murder of had killed the unarmed Iraqi civilians. Rep. Jack Sound Designer: Rusty Dunn six mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, an Murtha charged that the Marines had killed the Sound Editor: Brad Bergbom ecological oasis in war-ravaged eastern Congo. To 09np0033.qxp 9/10/09 4:36 PM Page 1

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Iraqis in “cold blood.” FRONTLINE examines what tragic death and its torturous aftermath. Alan Silverlieb, Alta Spells, Vaughn Sterling, Rachel really happened that day, telling a far more complex Director: Kieran Fitzgerald Streitfeld, Chris Welch, Robert Yoon, story that gets at the heart of the war troops are Producer: Brendan Fitzgerald Shirley Zilberstein fighting. Co-Producer: Shane Slattery-Quintanilla Anchors: Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Executive Producer: David Fanning Executive Producer: Peter Gilbert Anderson Cooper Senior Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath Executive Producer for POV/American Senior Director: Renee Cullen Producer/Director: Arun Rath Documentary Inc.: Simon Kilmurry Directors: Turner Bridgforth, Howard Lutt Co-Producer: Amy Rubin Correspondents: , , Candy OUTSTANDING LIVE COVERAGE OF A Crowley, John King, , Soledad HBO / HBO Documentary Films / Taxi to the CURRENT NEWS STORY O'Brien, Bill Schneider, Dark Side LONG FORM The heart of Taxi to the Dark Side is an inquiry into NBC / Decision 2008 / Election Night the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at CNN / Coverage of the Democratic National Americans were riveted by political coverage in 2008 Bagram air base in 2002. By revealing how U.S. Convention culminating on Election Day, . But this forces apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and Breaking the news that Barack Obama picked Joe election wasn’t necessarily a story about the numbers as ultimately murdered an innocent Afghani civilian Biden as his running mate kicked off CNN’s it had been in 2000 and 2004. This year the historic named Dilawar, the film demonstrates the way coverage of this four-day historic convention. CNN and emotional nature of the election – no matter what policies made at the very highest level of the United was the only cable network to anchor from the the outcome – was just as important as the hard data States government allowed and even encouraged this convention floor, providing ringside coverage for its coming in from across the country. tragic incident. flagship shows and Situation Executive Producers: Philip Alongi, Executive Producers: Don Glascoff, Robert Johnson, Room and primetime all evening. Senior Producers: Bob Epstein, Cliff Kappler Sidney Blumenthal, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider Senior Executive Producer: Producers: Doug Adams, Heather Allan, Laura Producer/Director: Alex Gibney Executive Producers: Sam Feist, Jane Maxwell Allenbaugh, Ana Maria Arumi, John Baiata, Denise Producers: Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman Senior Producers: Melissa Block, Anne Brown, Paul Baker, Donna Bass, John Boxley, Patrick Burkey, Co-Producer: Blair Foster, Sloane Klevin, Caron, Jeff Kepnes, Kate Lunger, Alec Miran, Leslie Martha Caskey, John Cheang, Jack Chesnutt, Amy Marty Fisher Perrot, Eric Sherling, Lucy Spiegel, Chiaro, Chris Colvin, Catherine Corrigan, Bradley Paul Steinhauser A. Davis, Subrata De, Robert Dembo, Clare Duffy, PBS / Illicit: The Dark Trade Producers: Laura Bernardini, Carey Bodenheimer, Missy Dunlop, Carol Eggers, Lauren Fairbanks, A Chinese factory is producing industrial-grade Josh Braun, Claire Brinberg, Steve Brusk, Melanie Betsy Fischer, Patrice Fletcher, Kerri Forrest, Scott glycerine and shipping it halfway around the world Buck, Jennifer Buesinger, Katy Byron, Jackie Foster, Roxanne Garcia, Maralyn Gelefsky, Hilary under a false label. In Spain, a freight-forwarding Castillo, Lori Chapman, Jill Chappell, Rick DiBella, Guy, Madeleine Haeringer, Al Henkel, Stephanie firm sends the cargo to Latin America. In Panama Patricia DiCarlo, Ted Fine, Stephanie Gallman , Himango, Mark Hudspeth, Michelle Jaconi, City, the contraband glycerine is made up into Lydia Garlikov, Evan Glass, Jack Gray, Matt Hoye, Christina Jamison, Leo Juarez, Naomi Karam, Les cough medicine and within hours people are falling Sasha Johnson, Lauren Kornreich, Stephanie Kretman, Susan Kroll, Courtney Kube, Laura sick and dying. The global trade in illicit goods is Kotuby, Bob Kovach, Jennifer Mikell-Barthlow, Kurinsky, Richard Latour, Margaret Lehrman, Sarah now worth a staggering $3 trillion. It embraces Mark Preston, Patrick Reap, Justine Redman, Mike Lusk, Megan Marcus, Domenico Montanaro, everything from fake handbags to human trafficking Roselli, Josh Rubin, Devon Sayers , Emily Schultze, Geraldine Moriba Meadows, Mark Murray, Neil and black market weapons. Alan Silverlieb, Alta Spells , Vaughn Sterling, Rachel O'Brien, Amber Payne, Michelle Perry, Terry Executive Producer: John Bredar Streitfeld, Alex Wellen, Robert Yoon Pickard, Alexandra Pournaras, Katie Primm, Samira Co Executive Producer: Moises Naim Anchors: Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Puskar, Meghan Reeder,Rob Rivas, Tom Rotunno, Producer/Director: Helen Fitzwilliam Anderson Cooper Antoine Sanfuentes, Olivia Santini, Joel Seidman, Senior Director: Renee Cullen Robin Skolnick, Kenneth Strickland, Bethany NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / Directors: Turner Bridgforth, Howard Lutt Thomas, Shawna Thomas, Kelly Venardos, Adam National Geographic Explorer / Gorilla Murders Correspondents: Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Candy Verdugo, Mike Viquierra, Huma Zaidi, John Zito Gorilla Murders investigates the July 2007 murder of Crowley, Joe Johns, John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Anchor: Brian Williams six mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, an Bill Schneider, Abbi Tatton, Jessica Yellin Anchor/Correspondents: Tom Brokaw, , ecological oasis in war-ravaged eastern Congo. To , , uncover the truth behind the murders, the CNN / Coverage of Election Night 2008 Directors: Jim Gaines, Ray Herbert, Geoff Hoffman, filmmakers worked side by side with investigators to 2008 was a historic election year in its own right, but Brett Holey, John Libretto unmask a powerful mafia network at the heart of the long before the campaign season began CNN made a Correspondents: Peter Alexander, Ron Allen, Kevin National Park itself. This mafia murdered the commitment to bring viewers unparalleled coverage Corke, Tom Costello, , , gorillas to intimidate the National Park’s rangers, of the candidates and their stance on critical issues. Richard Engel, Dawna Friesen, , who were fighting against the destruction of the The coverage was unbiased, far-reaching and , , Phil Le Beau, Ron gorilla’s habitat. innovative every step of the way. Mott, Kelly O'Donnell, Norah O'Donnell, Jeannie Executive Producers: Jonathan Halperin, Kathleen Senior Executive Producer: David Bohrman Ohm, Michael Okwu, Darren Rovell, , Cromley Executive Producers: Sam Feist, Jane Maxwell , , , Senior Producer: Robert Zakin Senior Producers: Melissa Block, Anne Brown, Paul , Don Teague, Anne Thompson, Kevin Series Producer: Max Salomon Caron, Steve Dolce, Jeff Kepnes, Kate Lunger, Mike Tibbles, , Ian Williams, John Yang Producer/Director: Michael Davie Maltas, Alec Miran, Leslie Perrot, Eric Sherling, Lucy Elections Director: Sheldon Gawiser Producer: Jaime Bernanke Spiegel, Paul Steinhauser, Alex Wellen Planning Directors: Adam Benalt, Marc Greenstein Producers: Emily Atkinson, Laura Bernardini, Josh PBS / P.O.V. / The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez Braun, Steve Brusk, Jennifer Buesinger, Katy Byron, OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez investigates the Jackie Castillo ,Lori Chapman, Anne Clifford, AND NATURE PROGRAMMING first killing of an innocent American civilian on U.S. Anastasia, Diakides, Rick DiBella, Patricia DiCarlo, soil by the military or National Guard since the 1970 Chris dos Santos, Stephanie Gallman, Lydia HISTORY CHANNEL / EVOLVE / Eyes Kent State shootings. In 1997, Esequiel Hernandez Garlikov, Evan Glass, David Gracey, Peter Hamby, Eyes tells the story of the evolution of the eye from its Jr was shot by U.S. Marines patrolling the Texas- Trisha Henry, Brad Hodges, Keating Holland, Matt simple beginnings 600 million years ago (the light- Mexico border as part of the War on Drugs. Hoye, Sasha Johnson, Lauren Kornreich , Alexander sensing cells of jellyfish) to the nuanced processors of Hernández Jr., however, was not a drug runner, but Marquardt, Jennifer Mikell-Barthlow, Richard depth and color we see throughout the vertebrate an 18-year-old American citizen tending his family's Morris, Lindsey Pope, Mark Preston, Megan world today. goats with a .22 rifle. The film explores Hernandez's Rafferty, Mike Roselli, Devon Sayers, Molly Shiels, EmmY Sec Part.qxp 9/15/09 5:14 PM Page 3

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Executive Producer: Beth Hoppe , Charles controversial and alarming cover-ups in the history of and four who choose not to kill. Nordlander the – East Germany’s organized use Editors: Gary Weimberg , Josh Peterson Series Producers: Jonathan Grupper, Neil Laird of steroids and testosterone to bolster its athletes’ Producers:Stephanie Angelides, Kurt Tondorf performance from the 1960s through the 1980s. TRAVEL CHANNEL / Wild China / Shangri-La Executive Producers: Phil Craig, Sally Jo Fifer, Wild China: Shangri-La explores China’s remote NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / Five Jared Lipworth southwest, home to the richest natural treasures in all Years on Mars Producer/Director: Alison Rooper of China. Immense rivers carve their way south Five Years on Mars gives a rare close-up look at Mars below towering peaks. The wind-swept slopes are through the eyes of Spirit and Opportunity, two OUTSTANDING EDITING home to the highest living primates in the world, and mechanical yet almost human rovers. These robotic hidden in the valleys below are jungles with a explorers embarked on a momentous planetary NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / The diversity of wildlife comparable to those around the journey as important as Lewis and Clark’s, a five-year Devil Came on Horseback . exploration fraught with danger and ultimate reward. The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the genocide Editors: Andy Netley, Steve Olive Executive Producer: Howard Swartz in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of an Producer/Director: Mark Davis American witness, former us Marine Captain Brian OUTSTANDING REGIONAL Senior Vice President, Production: Michael Cascio Steidle, who served as an unarmed military observer NEWS STORY - SPOT NEWS Executive Vice President, Content, National with the African Union from 2004 through 2005. Geographic Channel: Steve Burns Editor: Joey Grossfield KSTP-TV (/St. Paul, MN) / 5 Eyewitness News / 35W Bridge Collapse PBS / NOVA / Ape Genius HBO / HBO Documentary Films / Resolved The 35W bridge spanned the Mississippi River just A female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, sharpens As inner-city debaters Richard and Louis challenge blocks from the KSTP station. The bridge collapsed the tip by chewing it, and then does something the usefulness of the jargon-filled, 400-word-per- during the 6pm newscast and within minutes, KSTP astonishing. She directs this rudimentary spear into a minute style of modern debate by trying to refocus had a reporter describing the scene via telephone. tree hollow to stab at a tasty bush baby. This is the on personal experience and dialogue, Matt, a gifted Her words were chilling, but still could not prepare first time that non-human animals have been traditional debater, moves from strength to strength the viewer for seeing it in the first, fuzzy images from observed to routinely make and use deadly weapons. in his bid to win the national Tournament of the helicopter. It’s a tantalizing glimpse into the depths of ape Champions. Resolved reveals a constantly shifting News Director: Lindsay Radford intelligence, and the latest in a rush of new findings sport that is as much philosophy as competition. about ape minds presented in Ape Genius. Editors: Brad Barber, Tom Runquist, Greg Whiteley KGW-TV (Portland, OR) / KGW Breaking News Executive Producer: John Bredar / Tornado Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / Newschannel 8 was live on the air broadcasting the Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace National Geographic Explorer / Gorilla Murders noon news on January 19th, 2008 when a tornado Producer/Director: John Rubin Gorilla Murders investigates the July 2007 murder of touched down. It would be hours before they went Supervising Producer: James Donald six mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, an off the air again, with crews dispatched across the ecological oasis in war-ravaged eastern Congo. To zone of devastation with two goals: to keep the PBS / NOVA / Secrets of the Parthenon uncover the truth behind the murders, the filmmakers viewers safe in the aftermath, and to show the viewers For centuries the Parthenon has been a symbol not worked side by side with investigators to unmask a the scope of the damage. only of architectural perfection but also of powerful mafia network at the heart of the National Executive News Director: Rod Gramer ideals of democracy. Yet time has not treated the Park itself. This mafia murdered the gorillas to Parthenon well. Today, it is a shell of its former self, intimidate the National Park’s rangers, who were WNBC-TV (New York, NY) / WNBC Breaking with no roof and missing columns, But at last , an fighting against the destruction of the gorilla’s habitat. News / Crane Collapse effort is underway to rescue the Parthenon, and in Editors: Christine Jameson-Henry, Max Salomon, On the morning of May 30, 2008, a construction the process, come to understand the many secrets of Salvatore Vecchio crane working several stories in the air collapsed to its beauty. the street below, killing two people and damaging the Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell PBS / P.O.V. / Soldiers of Conscience building across the street. The cab of the crane fell Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace Soldiers of Conscience investigates a taboo, highly straight down onto East 91st at First Avenue. This was Producer: Gary Glassman controversial question – What is the morality of the second such collapse within a matter of months. killing in war? – and answers with an insightful, non- Producers: Ryan Fisher, Lamar Goering PBS / / Doping for Gold partisan, and unwaveringly respectful portrait of eight Executive Producer: Kim Gerbasi Doping for Gold investigates one of the most U.S. soldiers in the current Iraq War: four who kill Anchors: Michael Gargiulo, Darlene Rodriguez

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Directors: Susan McNeeley, Angie Morefield OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A Senior Producer: Michael Mosettig Assignment Managers: Peter Bunin, Felix Martinez BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWS Producers: Dennis Levkovitch, Daniel Sagalyn Helicopter Reporter: Dan Rice MAGAZINE Correspondent: Simon Marks Helicopter Pilot: Randy Empey CBS / 60 Minutes / The Bailout OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A OUTSTANDING REGIONAL NEWS Give us $700 billion or else. Those, in effect, were NEWS MAGAZINE STORY - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING the words of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman to CBS / 60 Minutes / Coach Carroll KHOU-TV (Houston, TX) / 11 News at 10 Congress and the American people in mid- This profile of USC football coach Pete Carroll /Hiding Homicide September. This report follows the work of shows not only the character of the winningest coach A 10-month KHOU-TV investigation exposed how Paulson and his team up to the eve of the dramatic in Division 1 football, but also shows a side of Carroll the Houston Police Department and city leaders vote on Capitol Hill, first to reject, then to pass the that few people get to see. He regularly goes to significantly undercounted the number of murders bailout plan. housing projects in some of LA’s toughest in Houston in order to make the city look safer than Executive Producer: Jeff Fager neighborhoods, using his coaching talent to convince it really is. Executive Editor: Bill Owens members of rival gangs to stop killing each other. Investigative Reporter: Mark Greenblatt Producers: David Gelber, Henry Schuster Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Executive Producer of Investigations: David Raziq Co-Producer: Joel Bach, Rebecca Peterson Executive Editor: Bill Owens Investigative Photojournalist/Editor: Keith Tomshe Correspondent: Scott Pelley Producers: Catherine Olian , Joyce Cordero Investigative Producer: Chris Henao Co-Producer: Richard Koppel CBS / 60 Minutes / The Inner Circle Correspondent: KYW-TV (Philadelphia, PA) / CBS 3 Shortly after President-Elect Barack Obama claimed Eyewitness News at 11pm / Soldiers of Misfortune victory on election night, his top advisors left Grant CBS / 60 Minutes / Justice Scalia In March 2007, the CBS 3 I-Team received a tip Park and assembled in a hotel suite to Justice Antonin Scalia is one of the most brilliant, from a whistleblower who volunteered at the explain the strategy that resulted in the most unlikely combative and controversial judges ever to sit on the Philadelphia VA nursing home. He said that a presidential victory in history. Viewers gained an U.S. Supreme Court. And he’s never given a full-length number of veterans had confided in him that they enlightening insight into the highs and lows of television interview, until this 60 Minutes profile, were being robbed of money and valuables. The Barack Obama’s quest for presidency. which provides an unusual and revealing look at the whistleblower told the VA about the problem but Executive Producer: Jeff Fager man beneath the robes and the world he inhabits. nothing was done. The VA, before this investigation, Executive Editor: Bill Owens Executive Producer: Jeff Fager failed to turn over documentation of thefts at the Senior Producer: Michael Radutzky Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens nursing home. It took the VA a month after this Producers: L. Franklin Devine, Andy Court Executive Editor: Patti Hassler story first aired to hand over the records which Correspondent: Steve Kroft Producer: Ruth Streeter backed up the whistleblower and the veterans. Correspondent: Lesley Stahl Executive Producer: Rich Edwards NBC / Hurricane Gustav Producer: Jim Barry Three years after America turned to NBC News for CBS / 60 Minutes / Lifeline Editor: Dani Dolan Brian Williams’ award-winning journalism on the Remote Area Medical was founded in the 1980s by Photographer: Andrea Korff devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Stan Brock. Lifeline vividly shows how Brock and Investigative Reporter/Producer: Jim Osman NBC News’ anchor was again stationed in New his crew of volunteers manage to provide health Orleans to report on Hurricane Gustav, and the care to some 18,000 Americans through a series of WWOR -TV (Secaucus, NJ) / My 9 News / good news that, by and large, the region had dodged free clinics around the country. And all on a shoe- Medicaid Fraud a bullet. string budget. Medicaid Fraud exposes abuse of the Medicaid Executive Producer: David Corvo Executive Producer: Jeff Fager system. WWOR’s investigation found that an Israeli Anchor: Brian Williams Executive Editor: Patti Hassler national in the United States had illegally set up an Executive Editor: Liz Cole Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens elaborate scheme that is costing the Medicaid system Managing Editor: Aretha Marshall Producer: Henry Schuster millions of dollars. Senior Producers: Subrata De, Bob Epstein, Jim Co-Producer: Rebecca Peterson Editor: Brian Kartagener Gerety, Ellen Mason Correspondent: Scott Pelley Photographers: Roy Isen, Paul Tsakos, Jonathan Producers: Nilam Agrawal, Maite Amorebieta, Tim Weaver Beacham, Brian Cavanagh, Matt Carluccio, CBS / 60 Minutes / Rex Reporter and Producer: Barbara Nevins Taylor Katherine Chan, Bradley Davis, Carol Gable, Meade Rex is the story of an extraordinary boy named Rex Jorgensen, Sarah Karlson, Tom Keenan, Lynn Keller, Lewis-Clack who is blind and severely mentally WTVT-TV (Tampa Bay, FL) / WTVT 10:00 Susan Kroll, Benita Alexander-Noel, Marianne impaired, but who has a stunning musical gift, and News / Small Town Justice O'Donnell, Ann Preisman, Rayner Ramirez, Rob thanks to his music, an outlet for his brilliant and Two and a half years of reporting by WTVT’s Rivas, Sue Simpson, Dan Slepian, Vince Sturla, Tim shining personality. Rex is a musical savant, able to investigation team freed an innocent man. As the Uehlinger, Don Wood, John Zito, Esther Zucker play back the most complicated pieces of classical result of new evidence uncovered in WTVT’s series, Director: Brett Holey music after a single hearing. Yet today, at age 13, a judge threw out a truck driver’s vehicular homicide Correspondents: Ann Curry, , Keith he still struggles to put on a sneaker with a single conviction and released him from a Florida prison. Morrison, Dennis Murphy, Chuck Todd Velcro strap. Investigative Producer: Lisa Blegen Special Correspondent: Tom Brokaw Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Photographer & Editor: Craig Davisson Executive Editor: Bill Owens Photographer: Nate Sylves PBS / The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer / Terror In Producer: Shari Finkelstein Investigative Reporter: Doug Smith Mumbai Co-Producer: Meghan Frank, Matthew Lev In November 2008, the terror attacks launched Correspondent: Lesley Stahl against a variety of targets in Mumbai put India’s financial capital on the world’s front-pages for ABC / Primetime / Living With Tourette President’s Award: unfamiliar, murderous reasons. A city associated with Syndrome CNN Productions: India’s rapid economic & cultural rise on the global An estimated one in every thousand children has Herb Granath stage was instantly transformed into yet another Tourette Syndrome, a lifelong neurobiological Jonathan Klein dateline connected to . disorder that often turns ordinary life into a series of Executive Producer: Linda Winslow seemingly inexplicable humiliations. Through the deeply personal accounts of children affected by 09np0021.qxp 9/4/09 1:32 PM Page 1 The New YorkThe Times

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this disorder, Primetime reveals how little is NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & redeploy quickly and was among the first Western truly known about Tourette Syndrome, a DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: journalists to reach the area. disorder frequently sensationalized in the media CURRENT NEWS COVERAGE Senior Videojournalist: Travis Fox but still a mystery to scientists. Executive Producer: David Sloan Reuters.com and Mediastorm.org / washingtonpost.com / The Healing Fields Senior Producer: Jessica Velmans Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War In Wise County, Virginia hundreds of uninsured Producer: Muriel Pearson The war in Iraq has been one of the defining conflicts and underinsured patients gather each year to seek Field Producer: Joseph Diaz of the 21st century. Bearing Witness marks the war’s treatment at a three-day field hospital operated by Correspondent: Jay Schadler fifth anniversary by drawing upon an extensive Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps. For most archive of news coverage, along with the personal patients, the attention they receive from the army OUTSTANDING EDITING: experiences of Reuters journalists, to tell the complex of volunteer health-care professionals will QUICK TURNAROUND story of the Iraq war. The piece condenses five years constitute their only chance to see a doctor or of war into a compelling multimedia narrative. dentist all year. ABC / World News with Charles Gibson / The Executive Producer: Brian Storm Video Journalists: Alexandra Garcia, Whitney Shefte Money Trail: 2008 Political Conventions Producer: Bob Sacha Senior Web Producer: Amanda McGrath Working rapidly under severe deadline pressure, Directors: Jassim Ahmad, Ayperi Karabuda Ecer Designer: Noel Smart veteran ABC News editors Roy Garlisi and Interactive Designer: Tim Klimowicz Reporter: Mary Otto Clyde Arrington worked with Brian Ross and his Managing Editor, Multimedia: Tom Kennedy team to produce this series of vivid, visually NYTimes.com / Choosing a President powerful investigative reports exposing the 2008 saw the longest presidential campaign in NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & efforts of corporations and lobbyists to buy American history, and no one could have predicted DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: access and influence during the 2008 political how much things would change over the course of DOCUMENTARIES conventions. the campaign. Initially it seemed like immigration Editors: Clyde Arrington, Roy Garlisi and the wart in Iraq would be the dominant issues. Freep.com/Detroit Free Press / The Boys of Then the biggest financial crisis since the Great Christ Child House CBS / Sunday Morning / Behind The Depression materialized, and the focus of the Three years ago Free Press journalists started Headlines: The Capture of Radovan Karadzic campaign shifted. The New York Times mined its spending time at a nondescript gray home called In the early 1990s, Radovan Karadzic was front- vast trove of multimedia reporting to construct an Christ Child House on Detroit’s west side. It’s part page news, the mass murderer of the moment. As integrated canvas that dynamically portrayed the orphanage, part therapeutic home to 31 boys who president of the Bosnian Serb party, he was election in a single presentation. have already exhausted a string of foster homes. Over responsible for the brutal murders of more than Producers: Katherine Q. Seelye, Amy O'Leary, Zach the years, Free Press journalists kept dropping by, 100,000 civilians. In 1995 Karadzic was indicted Wise, Nancy Donaldson, Ben Werschkul, spending hours, days and weeks getting to know the for war crimes but he vanished before being Executive Producers: Andrew DeVigal boys there. brought to justice. reports on Senior Producers: David Scull, Justine Simons Producer/Senior Videographer: Brian Kaufman his capture in July of 2008 after more than a Photojournalists: Damon Winter, Doug Mills, Lead Photojournalist: Kathleen Galligan decade in hiding. Stephen Crowley, Todd Heisler Photojournalist: Regina Boone Editor: Partick Lee Interactive Producer: Tom Jackson Executive Producer: Kathy Kieliszewski Reporter: Robin Erb CBS / Sunday Morning / Supreme Court Gun NYTimes.com / How the Pentagon Spread Its Video Executive Producer: Craig Porter Decision Message Managing Editor, Digital Media: Nancy Andrews Only a handful of recent United States Supreme David Barstow of The New York Times documents Web Producer: James Thomas Court decisions are as historic and controversial as the Bush administration’s covert campaign to the one issued last June overturning a transform retired military officers working as analysts .org/frontline / FRONTLINE / Bush's Washington, DC ban on handgun ownership. for television and radio networks into defense- War Timeline CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Martha industry rainmakers. These former officers influenced From the beginning, Bush’s War was conceived as Teichner interviewed – for the first time since the the awarding of contracts for military equipment both a film and a groundbreaking interactive Web ruling – the one man who seemed to make it all used in the Iraq war, while also influencing public site that would provide visitors with a comprehensive happen, attorney Robert Levy. opinion, a serious conflict of interest. and contextualized history of the war in Iraq. At the Editor:David Small Reporter: David Barstow heart of the site is an innovative video timeline that Producers: Gabriel Dance, Amy O'Leary allows users to explore more than 50 critical events NBC / Dateline / Obituary Executive Producer: Juliet Gorman spanning the war’s history. The Dateline NBC Tim Russert obituary was part Video Producer: Michele Monteleone Executive Producer: David Fanning of a prime-time network special and was Producer/Director: Michael Kirk produced, researched, written and edited in the Globeandmail.com / Talking To The Taliban Co-Producer: Mike Wiser time frame of two and a half hours by a staff still The Globe and Mail hired a researcher to conduct a Web Producer: Andrew Ott, Sarah Moughty stunned by the loss of their colleague. modest survey of Taliban insurgents. Graeme Smith, Editorial Director: Marrie Campbell Editors: Robert Allen, Robert Brandel the newspaper’s Afghanistan correspondent, used his Director of New Media & Technology: Sam Bailey years of experience in Kandahar to find a former NBC / Nightly News with Brian Williams / member of the Taliban, train him as an interviewer, Mediastorm.org / Intended Consequences Uncovering the Holocaust By Bullets and supply him with video equipment. During the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women were Father Patrick Desbois has dedicated the last few Reporter: Graeme Smith subjected to massive sexual violence, perpetrated by years to seeking out mass graves throughout Multimedia Producer: Jayson Taylor members of the infamous Hutu militia groups know Ukraine where were brutally shot in massive Interactive Designer: Chris Manza as the Interahamwe. Among the survivors, those numbers. It is an area of the Holocaust still being who are most isolated are the women who have uncovered, with detailed documentation from washingtonpost.com / Coverage of Chinese borne children as a result of being raped. An both Nazi and Soviet archives. Due to remote Earthquake estimated 20,000 children were conceived during the locations, no first hand accounts have been Videojournalist Travis Fox was in China when an genocide and many of their mothers contracted HIV documented in this detail. epic earthquake struck Sichuan Province. 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Reporters: Jules Shell, Jonathan Torgovnik more like looking at art in real life than the provides an in-depth look at the war from the point traditional linear TV documentary. of view of the Iraqi people. The series also examines NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & Director/ Producer/Website Creative Director: the impact of the war on individuals, families and DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING: Martin Percy communities across the U.S. Iraq Five Years Later ARTS, LIFESTYLE & CULTURE Interactive Developer: Al Johnson goes beyond the typical coverage of daily violence in Interactive Producer: Gary Stock Iraq to provide much needed context on the conflict. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting / Campaign Creative Director: Ali Alvarez Executive Producers: Jon Banner, Vinnie Malhotra Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica Campaign Executive Creative Director: Richard Senior Producers: Kate Felsen, Michael Kreisel, Gary LiveHopeLove.com is an innovative and Flintham Langer, Chuck Lustig, Tom Nagorski, David Reiter unconventional Web-reporting project that explores Design: Mark Ellwood, Maxwell Harrison, Matt Producers: Susan Aasen, Glen Dacy, Mike Gudgell, the HIV epidemic’s human face through the work of Gates James Hill, Almin Karamehmedovic, Matt McGarry, poet Kwame Davis. It is a moving study of the Executive Co-Producers: John Stack, Will Faisal Sidiq universal problems faced by people with HIV/AIDS, Gompertz, Erica Boyer Correspondents: , Terry McCarthy, seen through the specific lens of Jamaica, where , Bob Woodruff stigma and discrimination fuel the epidemic, and CURRENT TV /Vanguard / Lost In Democracy Reporters: Omar Abdul Kadir Omar, Mazin Al- where those living with HIV often face social isolation Nestled in the Himalayas between India and Tibet, Mubarak, Aadel Rashid, Ali Al-Mashaheel, Mustafa and harassment. HOPE allows audiences to better the kingdom of Bhutan was a mystical Buddhist Tukamach understand the epidemic’s human side by introducing paradise largely cut off from the outside world. For them to the individuals behind the statistics. more than a thousand years, this tiny kingdom had CBS / Evening News with Katie Couric / Executive Producer: Jon Sawyer survived in splendid isolation. But Bhutan’s beloved Campaign Questions Co-Producer: Nathalie Applewhite, Stephen king recently became the first monarch in history to Over a 14 month period, CBS news anchor Katie Sapienza initiate his own abdication and hand over power to Couric traveled around the country and conducted a Correspondent: Kwame Dawes the people. The tiny nation had never known self- remarkable series of interviews with the candidates Videojournalist: Doug Gritzmacher government and feared that democracy could be the for President and Vice President. Some questions Photojournalist: Joshua Cogan beginning of the end for the last Shangri-La. focused on policy, while others were more personal. Interactive Producer: Josh Goldblum, bluecadet Producer: Mike Shen The answers gave viewers a candid look into the interactive Producer/Correspondent: minds of the men and women vying for the most important job in America. PBS / P.O.V. / Ars Magna Executive Producer: Ars Magna explores the fascinating art of Producers: Brian Goldsmith, Jennifer Yuille anagramming – the act of rearranging letters to Tribute: Walter Cronkite Anchor and Managing Editor: Katie Couric new, insightful phrases. The film delves into the Bill Small quirky world of anagrams and anagramist Cory Chip Cronkite CBS / Evening News with Katie Couric / The Calhoun, who is known for creating the world’s best Carmelo Rodriguez Story anagram. The production of the film—part of the Carmelo Rodriquez was a Marine sergeant serving his International Documentary Challenge—was a feat in country in Iraq when he was misdiagnosed by a itself: the film was conceived, shot and edited in less military doctor. By the time his skin cancer was than five days. Tribute: Don Hewitt discovered, it was too late to save his life. It was never Director: Cory Kelley possible, however, for Rodriquez or his family to be Producer: Sean Roach Bill Small, compensated for the loss, because the startling truth Co-Producer: Tim Boyd and HD Cinema Group Marilyn B Hewitt is that active duty personnel have no standing to sue Executive Producer for International Documentary the government for injury or death. Months of Challenge: Doug Whyte intensive research and interviews went into this Executive Producer for American OUTSTANDING CONTINUING report on medical malpractice in the military. Documentary/POV: Simon Kilmurry COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A Executive Producer: Rick Kaplan REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST Producers: Betty Chin, Rodney Comrie TheOneThatSpokeToMe.com /Tate Reporter: Byron Pitts Liverpool / The One That Spoke To Me ABC / World News with Charles Gibson / China's The One that Spoke To Me features videotapes of Earthquake: Covering the Disaster CNN / Coverage of Myanmar Cyclone visitors to Tate Liverpool discussing their feelings On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake devastated When Cyclone Nargis swept through Myanmar’s about works on display at the museum. The Website China’s Sichuan Province. The quake killed an densely populated Irrawaddy Delta Region on May uses interactive video to make visitors to the Website estimated 80,000 people and left millions homeless. 3, 2008, the storm not only devastated the nation feel like they are actually in conversation with the ABC News Correspondents Neal Karlinsky and but created a reporting challenge on par with the commenters. were among the first foreign news Southeast Asia tsunami in 2003. Contributing to the Director/ Producer/Website Creative Director: organizations on the scene. The Sichuan earthquake journalistic difficulties was a ruling junta that refused Martin Percy was a story about the fragility and strength of to accept international aid and outsiders. Despite Interactive Producer: Gary Stock humanity in the face of nature’s unpredictable force. these obstacles, CNN employed ingenuity and its Interactive Developer: Al Johnson Executive Producer: Jon Banner global resources to provide an international audience Executive Co-Producers: John Stack, Will Senior Producer: Kate Felsen with the most complete updates both inside and Gompertz, Erica Boyer Producers: Christina Babarovic, Cao Jun, Beth outside of Myanmar. Loyd, Chuck Lustig, Alice Maggin, Diane Mendez, Correspondent: TateStreetArt.com / Tate Modern / Tate Chito Romana, Justine Schiro, Wonbo Woo Producers: Mark Phillips, Kocha Olarn, Tim Street Art Anchor: Charles Gibson Schwarz Tate Street Art HD documents the fist street art Correspondents: Neal Karlinsky, Stephanie Sy show at a major London gallery , and the first time a NBC / Nightly News with Brian Williams / Tip of show has ever been painted onto the front of the Tate ABC / World News with Charles Gibson /Iraq Five the Spear Modern. The Website sought to convey the Years Later: Where Things Stand NBC News’ correspondent Richard Engel, producer experience of looking at street art in real life. The art The seventh installment of an ongoing series, this Madeleine Haeringer and cameraman Bredun is depicted using 182 separate videos—some looping, ABC News report takes a comprehensive look at the Edwards spent 10 days with us forces in the remote some linear, all interlinked with buttons, timers and Iraq war and its impact in Iraq, the U.S. and around Korengal Valley, a Taliban stronghold that is now hotspots—to convey an experience that is much the world. A national public opinion poll of Iraqis the deadliest war zone for U.S. forces fighting in Pages 20-34Nominations 7.0.Sept 6thqxp:Template 9/15/09 5:51 PM Page 11

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Afghanistan. Tip of the Spear gave viewers a vivid CNN /The Situation Room / Hurricane Giveaway Producer/Reporter: David Montero picture of life on the frontlines. Tragically, the NBC Over a four month period, CNN investigated how News team witnessed the death of Sgt. John Penich, tens of millions of dollars worth of new household PBS / NOW on PBS / Afghanistan: The Forgotten who was killed by friendly fire when he was items sat unused in FEMA warehouses. Hurricane War accidentally mortared by his own unit. victims still needed basic supplies, but FEMA was NOW Correspondent Bill Gentile reports from Executive Producer: Alexandra Wallace not delivering them. U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, where he was Senior Broadcast Producer: Bob Epstein intervened, and eight days after the story aired embedded for nearly three weeks in May and June Senior Foreign Producer: Mary Laurence Flynn trucks rolled into New Orleans stocked with the with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. American Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Joo Lee, Michelle needed supplies. and international forces there faced an ominous Neubert, Bredun Edwards, Beverly Chase Investigative Correspondent: challenge as the Taliban attempted a return to power, Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams Senior Investigative Producer: Scott Zamost potentially providing safe haven for Al-Qaeda and Director: Brett Holey Executive Producer: Eric Sherling other anti-American terrorists. Correspondent: Richard Engel Senior Producer: Patricia DiCarlo Executive In Charge: Lesley Norman Director of Programming: Scott Matthews Executive Producer: John Siceloff OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE Senior Producer: Ty West JOURNALISM IN A REGULARLY OUTSTANDING CONTINUING Producer: Bill Gentile SCHEDULED NEWSCAST COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW CNN / Anderson Cooper 360 / Online Drugs In this AC 360 Keeping Them Honest investigation, CBS / 60 Minutes / Financial Crisis CBS / 60 Minutes / Saddam's Confessions shows just how easy it is to purchase Steve Kroft and his team of producers explored George Piro, a relatively junior FBI agent on a fast prescription drugs online, without a prescription. 2008’s national financial crisis with a series of three track because of his fluent , interrogated Saddam Griffin logged onto linepharmacy.com and placed extraordinary reports. These interrelated stories Hussein after he was taken into custody. He built a orders for Prozac and Elavil. Within two days the explored the mortgage meltdown, its ripple effect rapport with Hussein that yielded tremendous medicines arrived, but Griffin had never even seen a through the securitization process and the arcane amounts of information, changing the historical record doctor. What the website did was clearly illegal. As financial world of derivatives, which took a mortgage and shedding insight into what motivated Hussein in one expert put it, “prescription drugs are the new crisis and exploded the problem into an his confrontation with the U.S. crack and , and internet sites that sell them are international credit crisis. Executive Producer: Jeff Fager the new drug dealers.” Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Executive Editor: Patti Hassler Senior Executive Producer: David Doss Executive Editors: Patti Hassler, Bill Owens Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens Senior Producers: Kathleen Friery, Barclay Palmer Producers: L. Franklin Devine, Jennifer MacDonald Producer: Henry Schuster Producer: David Fitzpatrick Correspondent:Steve Kroft Correspondent: Scott Pelley Correspondent: Drew Griffin CBS / 60 Minutes / War Against Women ABC / World News with Charles Gibson / An CBS /Evening News with Katie Couric / V.A. The fight over who controls the vast mineral deposits Historic Interview During an Historic Year: Suicides: Cover-Up Exposed in the Democratic Republic of Congo has fueled a Interview with This series of investigative reports exposed how top decade long war in the country. 60 Minutes’ story Shortly after Senator John McCain catapulted Sarah federal officials purposely concealed the true risk of focuses on the women in the Congo who survived Palin into the spotlight, ABC World News’ suicide among veterans. CBS News persistently rape and other unspeakable horrors during this war. interviews helped define the little-known Governor asked federal officials how many soldiers were Executive Producer: Jeff Fager of Alaska to the rest of the country and the world. attempting to kill themselves, and were repeatedly Executive Editor: Patti Hassler Gibson elicited Palin’s opinions on topics ranging told that no such numbers existed. After filing a Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens from energy policy and global warming to religion. public records request CBS received data from the Producers: Michael Gavshon, Paul Bellinger, Drew On foreign policy, Gibson pressed Palin on how she VA on attempted suicides, but eventually the VA Magratten would deal with a nuclear crisis in Iran, and on her conceded that this data was incomplete. The report Correspondent: Anderson Cooper understanding of the Bush Administration policies resulted in the VA beefing up its suicide prevention that led the country into war. awareness program. NBC / Dateline / A Twist of Fate Executive Producer: Jon Banner Executive Producer: Rick Kaplan A tragic accident takes the lives of 5 young people. Senior Producers: Nancy Gabriner, Stu Schutzman, Senior Producer: Among the survivors is a young woman whose family Producer: Pia Malbran begins to suspect, as she recovers, that something is Producers: James Hill, Judy Isikow, Alice Maggin, Chief Investigative Correspondent: Armen not right. A Twist of Fate is the story of two families’ Wonbo Woo Keteyian emotional journey and the dignity and compassion Anchor: Charles Gibson they showed each other each step of the way. ABC / , World News & Executive Producer: David Corvo PBS / Journal / Interview with Nightline / Brian Ross Investigates: America's Executive Editor: Liz Cole Representative Henry Waxman Corporate Royalty Producers: Joe Delmonico, Matthew Glick, Lauren Bill Moyers Journal sat down with Rep. Henry This series of reports on America’s corporate Sugrue Waxman, the chairman of the Oversight and royalty exposed CEOs who used their company Correspondent: Government Reform Committee, the main treasuries not only to enrich and pamper investigative body in the House of Representatives. A themselves, but to gain advantage in the courts and PBS / FRONTLINE/World /State of Emergency hallmark of the Bush Administration was its secrecy. Congress, with scant regard for America’s Pakistan’s Swat Valley is close to the border with The goal of was to introduce the work democratic principles. Afghanistan, and in the past two years, Taliban of the committee to the viewers and to learn what Chief Investigative Correspondent: Brian Ross fighters have moved into the region. Joined by local motivated Waxman, the man trying to break Chief of Investigative Projects: Rhonda Schwartz insurgents, they have formed a new ‘Pakistani through months of stonewalling. Producers: Avni Patel, Joseph Rhee, Madeleine Sauer Taliban’ that is trying to take over the region. State Executive Producer: Judy Doctoroff O'Neill Field Producers: Asa Eslocker, Roy Garlisi, Joanna of Emergency relates the changing history of this Co Executive Producer: Sally Roy Jennings, Anna Schecter region and provides a close-up look at a remote Executive Editors: Bill Moyers, Judith Davidson Senior Executive Producer: Jim Murphy region of the world that has an ongoing impact on Moyers Executive Producers: Jon Banner, Tom Cibrowski, our political, economic and ethical lives. 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CNN / Fareed Zakaria GPS / Wen Jia Bao trillion. It embraces everything from fake handbags to Scenic Design: Clive Maltby, David Johnson, Phil Interview human trafficking and black market weapons. Noall, John Davis, Malcolm Brinkworth Fareed Zakaria sat down with Wen Jia Bao of China, Art Director: Ricardo Andrade Lighting: David Brown, Chris Sutcliffe for the Premier’s first interview with any Western Visual Effects Supervisor: Elizabeth Andrade journalist in five years. The conversation touched on Animators: Wen Zhong Yuan, James Nidel CNN /CNN’s Election Center many subjects, from the economy to Darfur to Tibet, 3D Animator: Chris Jennings CNN’s Election Center in New York became a fully but the discussion of democracy was the most immersive environment of compound breaking news revealing, providing a glimpse into the future of PBS / / Chicago 10 imagery. The newest media technology was China, and therefore the world. During the infamous 1968 Democratic national employed to place anchors and viewers into the Executive Producer: Liza McGuirk convention, antiwar protesters – denied permits to geography of the story. Viewers of CNN’s election Anchor: Fareed Zakaria march and blocked from the political process – coverage felt that CNN was a participant in an fought for their right to be heard. Arrayed against innovative and unprecedented chapter in the PBS / P.O.V. / Inheritance them were the formidable forces of Mayor Richard American presidential electoral process. Inheritance is built around two interviews: one with Daley’s political machine. Eight of the most vocal Executive Director, Design: Guy Pepper, David Monika, a woman whose father was a brutal mass activists were charged and brought to trial in a Bohrman murderer who commanded a concentration camp in courtroom circus that pitted activism against the Set Design: Erik Ulfers Poland during WWII, and Helen, a Holocaust establishment. Chicago 10 tells the story using bold Lighting Designers: Steven Brill, Michelle Poley survivor who had been enslaved and brutalized by original animation and extraordinary archival Monika’s father. Monika, seeking to learn as much as footage. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / possible about her father and mother, sends a letter to Head of Animation: Joao Amorim Stonehenge Decoded Helen, asking to meet her. Reluctantly, Helen agreed Art Director: Todd Winter Stonehenge Decoded presents Archaeologist Parker to meet Monika. The day of their remarkable Pearson’s revolutionary theory through a meeting on the grounds of the concentration camp is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / Five combination of footage of his latest revelatory dig at the primary focus of the film. Years on Mars Stonehenge and meticulously realized reconstruction Director/Producer: James Moll Five Years on Mars gives a rare close-up look at Mars of life at the site in 2500 BCE. Producer: Christopher Pavlick through the eyes of two mechanical yet almost Production Designer: Richard Bullock Executive Producers: Chris Malachowsky, Ryan human rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. These robotic Director of Photography: Rob Goldie Malachowsky explorers embarked on a momentous planetary Executive Producer for American journey as important as Lewis and Clark’s, a five-year 2009 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD Documentary/POV: Simon Kilmurry exploration fraught with danger and ultimate reward. FOR NEWS With animation and graphics accounting for more OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC DESIGN & than half of the screen time, the film delivers a / Al Jazeera News Hour: ART DIRECTION comprehensive and visually compelling account of - War / Qatar this historic journey. Al Jazeera English is on the ground covering the DISCOVERY CHANNEL / Apocalypse How Director of Animation & Motion Graphics: Mark Russia-Georgia war. The channel’s Moscow bureau From the dawn of civilization, mankind has been Davis mobilizes on the story three days before fighting preoccupied with its own demise. All of the world’s Lead CGI Animators: Dan Maas, Jed Schwartz begins and travels to the South Ossetian border major religions have their own theories about how Motion Graphics: Anna Saraceno where, on Friday, August 8, 2008, they witness the and when the world will end. Apocalypse How asks: Illustration: Kees Veenenbos outbreak of hostilities. The channel deploys If the apocalypse is coming, what form will it take? journalists across the region, feeding live updates and Art Director: Ricardo Andrade NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / cut packages from the front lines. Visual Effects Supervisor: Nick Jernigan Six Degrees Could Change the World Executive Producer: Ben Rayner Senior Animator: Billy Woodward National Geographic author Mark Lynas sifted Producers: Olga Stukolova, Rob Hodge 3D Animators: Justin Knowles, Enrique Lim, Samar through mountains of academic journals, cross- Editor: Ben Rayner Shool, James Nidel, Wen Zhong Yuan, Ben referencing and collating, for the first time, hundreds Correspondents: Jonah Hall, Alan Fisher, Hoda Brenninkmeyer, Chris Jennings, of multivariate computer models, projections and Abdel Hamid Visual Effects Producer: Elizabeth Andrade research studies, all pointing to one incontrovertible Presenter: Hamish Macdonald conclusion: sweeping global climate change on a scale CNN / America Votes 2008: Election Night and at a speed unprecedented in the geological or NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS The presidential election in 2008 was historic. The biological record of our planet. LIMITED-INTER TV CHANNEL / Details: South goal of the design of the graphics was to present the Director, Art & Animation: Keith Kolder Ossetian War / Ukraine data from the election in the clearest way possible Manager Art & Animation: Jesse Gordon From the first day of the bloodshed of the South with the best tools for CNN’s anchors, analysts and Visual Effects Artists: Ben Brenninkmeyer, Eric Ossetian War, INTER TV crews cover the conflict reporters. Several specialized graphics systems were Diga, Chris Jennings, Nick Jernigan, Jason Leta, from Tskhinvali in Southern Ossetia, the Gori war used to tell the story, including CNN’s Magic Wall, Enrique Lim, Samar Shool, Dan Speelman, Billy zone in Georgia, Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and an invaluable tool for analyzing election results Woodward, Wen Zhong Yuan later from Abkhazia. Witnesses, news-specialists, around the country. Visual Effects Producer: Elizabeth Andrade victims, and refugees all tell their stories. Executive Director, Design: Guy Pepper, David Art Director: Ricardo Andrade Executive Producer: Anton Nikitin Bohrman Editor: Anzhelika Rudenko Senior Design Director: Robert Hunter OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DIRECTION & Correspondent: Ruslan Iarmoliuk Design Director: Jonathan Kemp, Josh Braun SCENIC DESIGN Cameraman: Yuriy Romanyuk Director of Graphics: Mike Kraft Discovery Health Channel / ITV News / ITV News: China Earthquake / PBS / Illicit: The Dark Trade Body in Numbers A Chinese factory is producing industrial-grade Using numbers as its DNA, Body in Numbers set On May 12, 2008, the biggest earthquake in China glycerine and shipping it halfway around the world out to decode the hidden capabilities of our human in 30 years strikes the country's Sichuan Province. under a false label. In Spain, a freight-forwarding firm body. Whether it’s the 7 million colors we can The story dominates ITV News programs for the sends the cargo to Latin America. In Panama City, the identify, the 9000 yards we walk each day or the following ten days. International Editor contraband glycerine is made up into cough medicine thousand calculations we make every millisecond, obtains footage of the earthquake, capturing its full and within hours people are falling sick and dying. The Body in Numbers is a celebration of the finest force and the terrifying ordeal of the survivors. He global trade in illicit goods is now worth a staggering $3 machine ever made. also marches with the Red Army to the epicenter. Pages 20-34Nominations 7.0.Sept 6thqxp:Template 9/15/09 5:52 PM Page 13

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China Correspondent John Ray reaches the city of children are abandoned, tortured, starved and Anchor: Charles Gibson Beichuan, where a school has collapsed on 3,000 murdered – all in the name of Jesus Christ. Correspondents: , Elizabeth Vargas students. He shows survivors pulled from the wreckage Dispatches follows the work of 29-year-old Gary before reporting from Hongbai, close to the epicenter. Foxcroft, who has devoted his life to helping these BBC AMERICA / BBC World News America / Producers: Lu Bo, John Angier children. Chaos in DR Congo Editors: Tony Hemmings, Rob Bowles, Ben England Executive Producers: Alice Keens-Soper, Paul Chaos in Congo is a gripping report on a day of Correspondents: Bill Neely, John Ray Woolwich desperation for thousands of Congolese refugees in Directors: Mags Gavan, Joost Van der Valk Kibati on the outskirts of Goma. The BBC was there TV GLOBO /Jornal Nacional: Eloa’s Story / Brazil as starving men, women and children crushed against One hundred hours after a young man takes his ex- EYEWORKS CUATRO CABEZAS /The Team: the gates of a food distribution center, whilst girlfriend Eloá and her best friend Nayara hostage, Babies Traffic / Argentina panicked aid staff beat back the heaving crowd. elite troops storm the apartment – in full view of the In Argentina, for every child who is legally adopted, Executive Producer: Rome Hartman cameras. The abductor comes out unscathed; there are three who are victims of trafficking. Many Producer: Tara Neill however, both Eloá and Nayara have been shot. Only of these trafficked children end up in prostitution Correspondent: Orla Guerin the latter survives. Police state that action took place networks, as part of child pornography and organ Head of News: Richard Porter only after a shot was heard from inside. But an trafficking. The Team travels to the towns of independent criminal and forensic expert contacted Misiones and Santiago del Esteroto to find mothers NBC / Nightly News with Brian Williams / by TV Globo concludes the shots were fired only whose babies have been taken, couples who wait Bailout Talks Collapse after police went in. The truth comes out when years for an adoption, and adults who discover that For weeks, Congress had debated the best way to Nayara, the survivor, confirms the expert’s findings. they had been adopted illegally. avoid a second . A massive financial Producers: Fernando Gueiros, Milton Encarnação, Producer: Diego Guebel bailout package was up for a vote. As the final seconds Valter Lopes, Nélio Horta, Sheila Natal, Evandro Editor: Ricardo Pichetto of the vote ticked away, Wall Street went into a tail Siqueira, Alexandre Hisayasu, Robinson Cerântula, Correspondents: Matias Martin, Tamara Hendel, spin. By the end of the trading day, the Dow Jones William Santos, Walter Mesquita, Angélica Clemente Cancela, Gisela Busaniche Industrials had lost 7% of its value. It was a dramatic Camargo, Carlos Alberto Bottini, Júlio Galhardo, day in which Wall Street and Capitol Hill collided in Leandro Romero, Cristiana Sousa Cruz, Ana Paula AL JAZEERA ENGLISH / FLASHBACK dramatic fashion, and it set the stage for the rest of the Brasil, Adriana Caban, Dagoberto Souto Maior, TELEVISION / TEACHERS TELEVISION / election year and a worsening economy. Rogério Nery Witness Special: Return to Nablus / Qatar Executive Producer: Alexandra Wallace Editors: Carlos Henrique Schroder, Ali Kamel, Witness returns to the Palestinian town of Nablus, Senior Broadcast Producer: Bob Epstein Cristina Piasentini, Mariano Boni, Denise Cunha where the cameras go inside Hajja Rushda girls' Senior Producers: Doug Adams, Tracey Lyons, Sobrinho, William Bonner, Luiz Fernando Avila, school and King Talal boys' school, for the final Albert Oetgen, Patti Domm Ricardo Villela, Antônio Stotz, Tonico Duarte, Cátia months of the academic year. In addition to the usual Producers: Jay Blackman, Gene Choo, Christine Luz, Wanda Alviano, Bia Almeida, Ivone Happ, stresses of running a school and facing exams, teachers Colvin, Patrice Fletcher, Kerri Forrest, A.J. Goodwin, Márcia Dalprete, Fátima Ugatti, Ivandra Previdi, and students live under siege and the constant threat Aarne Heikkila, John Holland, Kenneth Strickland, Armando Figueiredo, Fátima Bernardes, Francisco of violence, arrests and restrictions on their Mike Viquierra Tostes, Angela Garambone, Ricardo Pereira, Laura movement. Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams Nonohay, Regina Montella, Fernando Castro, Producers: Tom Evans, Ingrid Flack, Taylor Correspondents: , Tom Costello, Vinícius Menezes Downing Steve Liesman, Andrea Mitchell, Kevin Tibbles, Correspondents: Rodrigo Bocardi, César Tralli, José Editors: Flora Gregory, Andrew Bethell Chuck Todd Roberto Burnier, Maurício Ferraz, César Galvão, Monalisa Perrone, Zelda Mello, Renato Biazzi, Patrícia NBC / Nightly News with Brian Williams / The Taufer, Bartolomeu Clemente, Johan Carlos, Marcel Lifetime Achievement Award: Death of Tim Russert Mendonça, Wilson Araújo, Douglas Pina, Marcelo Barbara Walters Shortly after 1:30 on June 13, 2008, Tim Russert Benincassa, Renato Machado, Márcio Gomes entered a soundproof booth at NBC’s Washington Bill Small news bureau to record his opening narration for 2009 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD Katie Couric . He had just begun to speak when, FOR CURRENT AFFAIRS David Westin without warning, he collapsed. Less than an hour later, he was pronounced dead of a heart attack. The WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK /ARD Barbara Walters next several days brought an outpouring of exclusive: Kindersklaven / Germany sympathy, and scores of tributes soon followed. ARD exclusiv: Kindersklaven is a journalistic Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A documentary series about child slaves, who are Executive Producer: Alexandra Wallace BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A abducted from or sold by poor families in India. The Senior Broadcast Producers: Bob Epstein, Patrick REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST children are placed under exploitive conditions to Burkey produce goods to be sold around the world. Rebecca Producers: Doug Adams, Buba Adschiew, Anne ABC Gudisch and her team go undercover to investigate / World News with Charles Gibson / Binford, Lauren Fairbanks, Mario Garcia, Maralyn where the goods produced by children ultimately land. Myanmar Cyclone Gelefsky, Sylvie Haller, Michael Kosnar, Megan Producers: Rebecca Gudisch, Tilo Gummel On May 2, 2008 cyclone Nargis, the second Marcus, Amber Payne, John Zito Writer: Rebecca Gudisch deadliest cyclone of all time, struck the Irrawaddy Director: Brett Holey Editor: Diana Kischkel Delta region of Myanmar. The final death toll was Senior Producers: Jay Blackman, Subrata De, Robert Cameraman: Tilo Gummel estimated at over 146,000, and damages to the Dembo, Mary Laurence Flynn, Richard Latour, country totaled over $10 billion dollars. Myanmar’s Tracey Lyons, RED REBEL FILMS-OXFORD SCIENTIFIC rulers resisted news coverage inside their country, but Correspondents: Tom Brokaw, Pete Williams FILMS FOR / Dispatches: Saving ABC News deployed a number of teams to the Africa’s Witch Children / United Kingdom region, covering both the unfolding story and the OUTSTANDING FEATURE STORY IN A In some of the poorest parts of Nigeria, where political implications for the ruling junta. REGULARLY SCHEDULED NEWSCAST evangelical religious fervor is combined with a belief Executive Producer: Jon Banner in sorcery and black magic, thousands of children are Senior Producer: Kate Felsen BBC AMERICA / BBC World News America / being blamed for catastrophes, death and famine - Producers: Susie Banikarim, Joohee Cho, Richard Chinese Openness and branded witches. Denounced as Satan made Coolidge, Thomas Fasano, Chuck Lustig, Matt When the International Olympic Committee flesh by powerful pastors and prophetesses, these McGarry, Diane Mendez awarded China the 2008 Games seven years ago, the Pages 20-34Nominations 7.0.Sept 6thqxp:Template 9/15/09 5:53 PM Page 14

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country promised to open its doors, expand its examines the expanding influence of China in East Executive Producer / Producer: Steve Engel freedoms and move more quickly in the direction of Africa, and looks at the revolutionary potential of the Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell reform and change. BBC correspondent Rupert one laptop per child program in Rwanda. Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace Wingfield-Hayes traveled to China as the Games Executive Producer: Marc Rosenwasser Producer/Director: Mary Olive Smith began to analyze whether these promises were Producer: Yuval Lion Co-Producer: Allison Shigo genuine or merely cosmetic. Correspondent: Martin Seemungal Director: Amy Bucher Executive Producer: Rome Hartman Producer: Melanie Marshall OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PBS / P.O.V. / In The Family Correspondent: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes PROGRAMMING LONG FORM At age 27, Joanne Rudnick tested positive for the Head of News: Richard Porter ‘breast cancer gene.’ Those with BRCA mutations PBS / FRONTLINE / Growing Up Online have up to an 85-90 percent lifetime chance of CBS / Sunday Morning / Frost - Nixon In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE takes viewers developing breast cancer, and up to a 50-60 percent Thirty years after his landmark series of interviews inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, lifetime chance of developing ovarian cancer. In the with former president Richard Nixon, Sir David raising important questions about just how radically Family is a film that looks at the human Frost sat down with CBS News Correspondent the Internet is transforming the experience of consequences of scientific discovery, asking ‘what do Anthony Mason to recount the highs and lows of childhood. As more and more kids begin to grow up you do with this information once you have it?’ producing the interview and the memorable career online, parents are finding themselves on the outside Director/Producer: Joanna Rudnick that followed. The Frost-Nixon interviews were looking in, struggling to remain relevant and engaged Producer: Gordon Quinn something of a coup: Frost outfoxed the big networks in their kids’ lives. Co-Producer: Beth Iams Wellman and elicited Nixon’s famous “mea culpa.” But he also Executive Producer: David Fanning Executive Producer for Kartemquin Films: Gordon helped usher in the era of the celebrity interview and Producer/Directors: Rachael Dretzin, John Maggio Quinn all its trappings. Nevertheless, what was presented on Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer screen remains a high water mark in broadcast HBO / HBO Documentary Films / Resolved Executive Producer for American journalism. As inner-city debaters Richard and Louis challenge Documentary/POV: Simon Kilmurry Executive Producer: Rand Morrison the usefulness of the jargon-filled, 400-word-per- Senior Broadcast Producer: Estelle Popkin minute style of modern debate by trying to refocus OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL Senior Producer: Gavin Boyle on personal experience and dialogue, Matt, a gifted PROGRAMMING—LONG FORM Producers: Ed Forgotson, Jr., David Small traditional debater, moves from strength to strength Correspondent: Anthony Mason in his bid to win the national Tournament of CINEMAX / Cinemax Reel Life / Nanking Champions. Resolved reveals a constantly shifting Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of CBS / Sunday Morning / sport that is as much philosophy as competition. Nanking, China in the early days of World War II. 30 years after his assassination, the legacy of Harvey Executive Producers: Sarah Clark, Mark H. Iola, As part of a campaign to conquer all of China, the Milk continues to influence and guide people. Lisa Kraus, Peter Kraus, Sheila Nevins, Marc R. Japanese subjected Nanking – which was then Sunday Morning examines that legacy by weaving Stanley, Wendy H. Stanley, Andy Waters, Liz China’s capital – to months of aerial bombardment, together three stories: the story of Milk’s assassination Waters and when the city fell, the Japanese army unleashed by fellow San Francisco supervisor Dan White, the Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham murder and rape on a horrifying scale. In the midst battle in over Proposition 8, which sought Producer/Director: Greg Whiteley of the rampage, a small group of courageous to ban same-sex marriage, and the story of the new Westerners, and equally brave Chinese, banded movie about Milk starring Sean Penn. While some HBO / HBO Documentary Films / The Greatest together to establish a Safety Zone where over progress has been made in gaining acceptance for Silence: Rape in the Congo 200,000 Chinese found refuge. homosexuals, for some Americans anti-gay attitudes Shot in the war zones of the eastern Democratic Producer/Director: Bill Guttentag have only hardened. Republic of Congo in 2006 and 2007, The Greatest Producers: Michael Jacobs, Ted Leonsis Executive Producer: Rand Morrison Silence: Rape in the Congo breaks the silence Co-Producer: Violet Du Feng Senior Broadcast Producer: Estelle Popkin surrounding the hundreds of thousands of women Director: Dan Sturman Senior Producer: Gavin Boyle and girls who have been kidnapped, raped and Producers Benjamin McCormick, George sexually tortured in that country’s intractable civil war. PBS / Documenting the Face of America: Osterkamp Executive Producers: Diana Barrett, Sheila Nevins Roy Stryker and the FSA-OWI Photographers Correspondent: John Blackstone Supervising Producer: Nancy Abraham Documenting the Face of America brings to life the Producer/Director: Lisa F. Jackson remarkable stories behind the New Deal-sponsored CBS / Sunday Morning / RFK photographers who traversed the country in the Just days before the 40th anniversary of Senator PBS /Independent Lens / Hard Road Home 1930s and early 1940s, chronicling the lives of Robert F. Kennedy’s death, CBS Sunday Morning The United Sates has the largest per capita prison Americans – rich and poor – to create one of the called on former RFK speechwriter and CBS News population of any country in the world. 625,000 most astonishing documentary portraits of America Chief Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield to help people are released from prison each year, with little ever compiled. understand why, at this point in history, when to no resources with which to rebuild their lives. Producer: Jeanine Butler Kennedy has been gone almost as long as he was Hard Road Home charts the day-to-day life of three Co-Producer: Catherine Butler, Alastair Reilly alive, his loss still seems to loom so large. men who have returned to society from prison, trying Executive Producer: Rand Morrison with all their might to reverse the cycle of crime and DISCOVERY CHANNEL / Koppel on Discovery Senior Broadcast Producer: Estelle Popkin poverty in America and become their best selves, / The Last Lynching Senior Producer: Gavin Boyle rather than the statistic America expects them to be. In the summer of 2008 it became clear that an Producers: David Bhagat, Mary Raffalli Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer African-American might well be the president of the Correspondent: Jeff Greenfield Producer: Selina Lewis Davidson United States. Many people began to use the phrase Director: Macky Alston ‘post racial era’, assuming that America’s racial PBS /Worldfocus / 21st Century Africa brutality had receded into the distant past. The Last Worldfocus special correspondent Martin Seemungal PBS / NOVA / A Walk to Beautiful Lynching is an attempt to set the record straight. It is and producer Yuval Lion traveled to , A Walk to Beautiful follows three Ethiopian women the story of three Americans whose lives were affected Tanzania and Rwanda to explore the complexities of as they embark on a lonely and arduous journey to profoundly by incidents of hatred and racism 21st century Africa. Their reporting explores the reclaim their lives from despair. Victims of a including a 1981 lynching in Alabama. impact of Kenya’s growing middle class, devastating childbirth injury called obstetric fistula, Executive Producer: Tom Bettag demonstrates how low-cost technology such as the they leave all that is familiar to them and trek bravely Senior Producer: Hallye Galbraith cell phone is transforming commerce and daily life, from their rural villages to seek a cure. Producers: James Blue, Steve Cain, Lete Childs, Peter Pages 20-34Nominations 7.0.Sept 6thqxp:Template 9/15/09 5:54 PM Page 15

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Demchuck, Bob Fahringer, Guy Federico, Jay SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL / D Day: The True Newnham, Sabine Ranft, Bonnie Rowan, LaMonica, Elissa Rubin, Alissa Shapiro, Emily Stanitz Story of Omaha Beach Camille Servan-Schreiber Anchor/Correspondent:Ted Koppel This film began as a straightforward investigation into a newly discovered German bunker. But it OUTSTANDING WRITING MSNBC / Witness to Jonestown wound up as a far bigger quest: to draw together Witness to Jonestown chronicles the idealistic rise for the first time in sixty years the very latest PBS / Bill Moyers Journal / Essays Gilded Age, It and ghastly demise, in 1978, of Peoples Temple and academic thinking from both sides of the Atlantic, Was Oil, Memorial Day its leader the Reverend Jim Jones. At the time the mass and to hear from those veterans who had never told Almost every edition of Bill Moyers Journal includes deaths at Jonestown stunned the world and caused a their story before, in an attempt to tell the full story a written essay on a topic of interest, usually relevant psychic earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area. of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach. The result to the subjects covered on the program. The essays Executive Producers: Benjamin Ringe, Knute is a film that challenges a great deal of conventional are written by Moyers and Michael Winship, with Walker thinking about Omaha. the aim of producing commentary with a point of Senior Executive Producer: Scott Hooker Researchers: Georgina Leslie, Simon Trew view that is informative, entertaining and different. Senior Producers: Daniel Bregman, Vicki Sufian For example one essay used the movie There Will Be Producer: Stephen Stept HBO /HBO Documentary Films / Taxi to the Blood as a jumping off point for an examination of Vice President Long Form Programming: Michael Dark Side the motivation for invading Iraq, concluding that “it Rubin The heart of Taxi to the Dark Side is an inquiry was oil, all along.” into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver Writers: Bill Moyers, Michael Winship PBS / P.O.V. / The Judge and the General at Bagram air base in 2002. By revealing how us The Judge and the General is a gripping detective forces apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and HBO / HBO Documentary Films / The Greatest story that covers Judge Juan Guzman’s ultimately murdered an innocent Afghani civilian Silence: Rape in the Congo investigation of former Chilean dictator Augusto named Dilawar, the film demonstrates the way Shot in the war zones of the eastern Democratic Pinochet while also addressing issues of policies made at the very highest level of the United Republic of Congo in 2006 and 2007, The Greatest accountability and justice. Guzman had supported States government allowed and even encouraged Silence: Rape in the Congo breaks the silence Pinochet’s 1970 coup against the democratically this tragic incident. surrounding the hundreds of thousands of women elected government of Salvador Allende. In the Researchers: Salimah El-Amin, Blair Foster and girls who have been kidnapped, raped and film, viewers see Guzman’s transformation as he sexually tortured in that country’s intractable civil becomes the unlikely hero who indicts Pinochet for PBS / NOVA / Ape Genius war. Writer Lisa Jackson distills a very complex topic the first time in Chile. A female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, sharpens to its essence, providing essential context to the Director/Producers: Elizabeth Farnsworth, Patricio the tip by chewing it, and then does something subjects’ voices. Lanfranco astonishing. She directs this rudimentary spear into Writer: Lisa F. Jackson Co-Producer: Andrés Cediel a tree hollow to stab at a tasty bush baby. This is Executive Producer: Richard Pearce the first time that non-human animals have been MSNBC / MSNBC Films / Witness to Jonestown Executive Producer for Latino Public Broadcasting: observed to routinely make and use deadly Witness to Jonestown chronicles the idealistic rise Luis Ortiz weapons. It’s a tantalizing glimpse into the depths and ghastly demise, in 1978, of Peoples Temple and Executive Producer for ITVS: Sally Jo Fifer of ape intelligence, and the latest in a rush of new its leader the Reverend Jim Jones. In its time the mass Executive Producer for POV/American findings about ape minds presented in Ape Genius. deaths at Jonestown stunned the world and caused a Documentary Inc.: Simon Kilmurry Researchers: John Rubin, Jonathan Sacks psychic earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area. Writer: Stephen Stept PBS / The Rape of Europa PBS / P.O.V.-American Documentary / Traces The Rape of Europa plunges viewers into a violent of the Trade: Stories from the Deep North PBS / Take One Step / The Truth About Cancer whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that Americans might think the tragedy of African Filmmaker Linda Garmon weaved footage of her threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. slavery has been exhaustively told. Filmmaker husband’s cancer experience with the unfolding For twelve years the Nazis looted and destroyed art Katrina Browne thought the same, until she stories of other patients with cancer. Along the way, on an unprecedented scale. But heroic young art discovered that her slave-trading ancestors from Garmon investigated why people still die of cancer historians and curators from America and across Rhode Island were not an aberration. Browne, nearly 40 years after the nation declared ‘war’ on it, Europe fought back with an extraordinary campaign with nine of her relatives, took a journey from uncovering some startling and little know facts: to rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back, ninety percent of people with metastasized cancers stolen treasures. recapitulating the Triangle Trade that made her die from their illness. Nine out of ten drugs in Producer/Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, ancestors the largest slave-trading family in us experimental cancer trials fail to make it to market. Nicole Newnham history. Writer: Linda Garmon Researchers: Jennifer Anderson, Africanus Aveh, OUTSTANDING RESEARCH Andrew Barr, Catherine Benedict, Katrina Browne, BEST STORY IN A REGULARLY Boris Iván Crespo,Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Heather SCHEDULED NEWSCAST CINEMAX / Cinemax Reel Life / Nanking Kapplow, Alla Kovgan, James Perry, Beth Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Sternheimer ABC / World News with Charles Gibson / Iraq Nanking, China in the early days of World War II. Five Years Later: Where Things Stand As part of a campaign to conquer all of China, the PBS / The Rape of Europa The seventh installment of an ongoing series, this Japanese subjected Nanking – which was then The Rape of Europa plunges viewers into a violent ABC News report takes a comprehensive look at the China’s capital – to months of aerial bombardment, whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that Iraq war and its impact in Iraq, the U.S. and around and when the city fell, the Japanese army unleashed threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of the world. A national public opinion poll of Iraqis murder and rape on a horrifying scale. In the midst Europe. For twelve years the Nazis looted and provides an in-depth look at the war from the point of the rampage, a small group of courageous destroyed art on an unprecedented scale. But of view of the Iraqi people. The series also examines Westerners, and equally brave Chinese, banded heroic young art historians and curators from the impact of the war on individuals, families and together to establish a Safety Zone where over America and across Europe fought back with an communities across the U.S. Iraq Five Years Later 200,000 Chinese found refuge. extraordinary campaign to rescue and return the goes beyond the typical coverage of daily violence in Researchers: Marina Brodskaya, Violet Du Feng, millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures. Iraq to provide much needed context on the conflict. Joann Jacobs, Zachary Leonsis, Dylan Nelson, Researchers: Sergei Beck, Richard Berge, Bonni Executive Producers: Jon Banner, Vinnie Malhotra Wan Shun Shih, Katie Strand, Izumi Tanaka, Cohen, Linda Davis-Garkow, Elena Franchi, Senior Producers: Kate Felsen, Michael Kreisel, Gary Makiko Wakai Alexander Kandaurov, Andrzej Lewandowski, Langer, Chuck Lustig, Tom Nagorski, David Reiter Lynn Nicholas, Monica Nagele-Dreher, Nicole Producers: Susan Aasen, Glen Dacy, Mike Gudgell, Pages 20-34Nominations 7.0.Sept 6thqxp:Template 9/15/09 5:55 PM Page 16

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James Hill, Almin Karamehmedovic, Matt McGarry, Stan Brock. Lifeline vividly shows how Brock and his Supervising Producers: Nancy Abraham, Mark Faisal Sidiq crew of volunteers manage to provide health care to Roberts Correspondents: Chris Bury, Terry McCarthy, some 18,000 Americans through a series of free clinics Producers: Kate Blewett, Brian Woods Martha Raddatz, Bob Woodruff around the country. And all on a shoe-string budget. Director: Jezza Neumann Reporters: Omar Abdul Kadir Omar, Mazin Al- Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Mubarak, Aadel Rashid, Ali Al-Mashaheel, Mustafa HBO / HBO Documentary Films / Taxi to the Tukamachi Executive Editor: Patti Hassler Dark Side Senior Broadcast Producer: Bill Owens The heart of Taxi to the Dark Side is an inquiry into ABC / World News with Charles Gibson / Son of Producer: Henry Schuster the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at a Soldier Co-Producer: Rebecca Peterson Bagram air base in 2002. By revealing how us forces Son of a Soldier focuses on the Iraq war’s littlest victims: Correspondent: Scott Pelley apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately the children of those wounded in war. This report tells murdered an innocent Afghani civilian named the story of Camp C.O.P.E., a day camp specially CBS / 60 Minutes / Road to the White House Dilawar, the film demonstrates the way policies made designed to address the needs of children whose service- Steve Kroft and his team of 60 Minutes producers at the very highest level of the United States member parents are injured or were lost in battle. spent nearly two years covering the unlikely government allowed and even encouraged this tragic Executive Producer: Jon Banner presidential campaign of then-Senator Barack incident. Senior Producer: Kate Felsen Obama. The result was both a series of reports during Executive Producers: Don Glascoff, Robert Johnson, Producer: Christine Romo the course of the 2008 presidential election and this Sidney Blumenthal, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider Anchor: Bob Woodruff hour-long special edition of 60 Minutes chronicling Producer/Director: Alex Gibney the entire arc of the Obama campaign. Producers: Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman BBC AMERICA / BBC World News America / Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Co-Producer: Blair Foster, Sloane Klevin, Marty Chaos in DR Congo Executive Editor: Bill Owens Fisher A gripping report on a day of desperation for Senior Producer: Michael Radutzky thousands of Congolese refugees in Kibati on the Producers: L. Franklin Devine, Tom Anderson, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / outskirts of Goma. The BBC was on the ground as Jennifer MacDonald National Geographic Explorer / Gorilla Murders starving men, women and children crushed against Correspondent: Steve Kroft Gorilla Murders investigates the July 2007 murder the gates of a food distribution center, whilst a of six mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, panicked aid staff beat back the heaving crowd. CBS / 60 Minutes / The Wasteland an ecological oasis in war-ravaged eastern Congo. Executive Producer: Rome Hartman When well-meaning American consumers give their To uncover the truth behind the murders, the Producer: Tara Neill electronics to so-called recyclers, the waste is often filmmakers worked side by side with investigators to Correspondent: Orla Guerin sold to middlemen who take it to China and other unmask a powerful mafia network at the heart of the Head of News: Richard Porter parts of the Third World, where it is broken or National Park itself. This mafia murdered the melted down for the precious metals inside. The gorillas to intimidate the National Park’s rangers, NBC / Nightly News with Brian Williams / Tip of material inside is so toxic, and the methods used to who were fighting against the destruction of the the Spear extract it so rudimentary, that it threatens both the Gorillas habitat. NBC News’ correspondent Richard Engel, producer environment and the people of some of the poorest Executive Producers: Jonathan Halperin, Kathleen Madeleine Haeringer and cameraman Bredun and most polluted places on earth. Cromley Edwards spent 10 days with us forces in the remote Executive Producer: Jeff Fager Senior Producer: Robert Zakin Korengal Valley, a Taliban stronghold that is now the Executive Editor: Bill Owens Series Producer: Max Salomon deadliest war zone for us forces fighting in Producer: Solly Granatstein Producer/Director: Michael Davie Afghanistan. Tip of the Spear gave viewers a vivid Co-Producer: Tom Honeysett, Nicole Young Producer: Jaime Bernanke picture of life on the frontlines. Tragically, the NBC Correspondent: Scott Pelley News team witnessed the death of Sgt. John Penich, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL / who was killed by friendly fire when he was BEST DOCUMENTARY The Devil Came on Horseback accidentally mortared by his own unit. The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the Executive Producer: Alexandra Wallace CINEMAX / Cinemax Reel Life / Nanking genocide in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes Senior Broadcast Producer: Bob Epstein Nanking tells the story of the Japanese invasion of of an American witness, former us Marine Captain Senior Foreign Producer: Mary Laurence Flynn Nanking, China in the early days of World War II. Brian Steidle, who served as an unarmed military Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Joo Lee, Michelle As part of a campaign to conquer all of China, the observer with the African Union from 2004 Neubert, Bredun Edwards, Beverly Chase Japanese subjected Nanking – which was then through 2005. Anchor and Managing Editor: Brian Williams China’s capital – to months of aerial bombardment, Producers: Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells Director: Brett Holey and when the city fell, the Japanese army unleashed Directors: Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg Correspondent: Richard Engel murder and rape on a horrifying scale. In the midst of the rampage, a small group of courageous PBS / P.O.V. / Inheritance PBS / Worldfocu.s / War in Congo Westerners, and equally brave Chinese, banded Inheritance is built around two interviews: one with The decade-long war in the Democratic Republic of together to establish a Safety Zone where over Monika, a woman whose father was a brutal mass Congo has been called the deadliest conflict since 200,000 Chinese found refuge. murderer who commanded a concentration camp in World War II. More than five million people have Producer/Director: Bill Guttentag Poland during WWII, and Helen, a Holocaust died, mostly from preventable disease and starvation. Producers: Michael Jacobs, Ted Leonsis survivor who had been enslaved and brutalized by In the last year, more than a million people have fled Co-Producer: Violet Du Feng Monika’s father. Monika, seeking to learn as much as the fighting. Worldfocus correspondent Michal J. Director: Dan Sturman possible about her father and mother, sends a letter to Kavanagh reported from eastern Congo when the Helen, asking to meet her. Reluctantly, Helen agreed fighting intensified in October 2008. HBO /HBO Documentary Films / China's Stolen to meet Monika. The day of their remarkable Executive Producer: Marc Rosenwasser Children meeting on the grounds of the concentration camp is Producers: Lisa Biagiotti, Taylor Krauss Filmed entirely undercover, this film takes us into the the primary focus of the film. Reporter: Michael Kavanagh heart of modern China – a place where babies are being Director/Producer: James Moll sold for $300-$400. Tens of thousands of children are Producer: Christopher Pavlick BEST REPORT IN A NEWS MAGAZINE now kidnapped and traded on the black market Executive Producers: Chris Malachowsky, Ryan whilst the State is more concerned with keeping the Malachowsky CBS / 60 Minutes / Lifeline story quiet than tracing China’s stolen children. 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Rome from where he covered events in Bosnia, North Africa and closer to base, PRESENTERS the Mafia. His book, Italy: the Unfinished Revolution, was published in 1995. Herb Granath Campbell Brown Herbert A. Granath is chairman of the National Campbell Brown anchors “Campbell Brown,” a daily Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He is prime-time news program that airs on CNN. Brown chairman emeritus, ESPN; board member of Ron takes a common sense approach to reporting the day’s Lauder’s Central European Media (CME); and co- news, talks to newsmakers, and moderates lively chairman of Crown Media Holdings, which owns discussions and debates with guests representing all and operates The Hallmark Channel. Active in points of view. Prior to joining CNN, Brown worked international media ventures, Mr. Granath also serves with NBC News for 11 years, serving as co-anchor of as chairman and CEO of Media and Entertainment Holdings Inc., a SPAC “,” and as the main substitute anchor for Brian Williams. A investment company specializing in worldwide media properties, and acts as primary correspondent for “NBC Nightly News” and the weekday “Today” senior programming consultant for Telenet, Belgium’s leading cable show, she provided award-winning reporting on Hurricane Katrina and company. Previously, Mr. Granath was chairman, Disney/ABC International, covered the last two presidential elections and the death of Pope John Paul II. where he was responsible for the international television production and Brown also made several trips to Iraq to report on the Iraqi elections, abuses program distribution activities of The Company and its wholly-

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Katie Couric David Gregory Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of David Gregory was named moderator of NBC News’ the “CBS Evening News With Katie Couric,” a “60 “Meet the Press” on Dec. 7, 2008. In addition to his Minutes” correspondent, and anchor of CBS News “Meet the Press” responsibilities, Gregory is a regular primetime specials. When the “CBS Evening News contributor for “Today” and serves as a back-up With Katie Couric” debuted on Sept. 5, 2006, anchor for the broadcast. He is also a regular Couric became the first female solo anchor of a contributor and analyst on MSNBC, and lends his weekday network evening news broadcast. The voice and reporting to all NBC News broadcasts RTNDA honored the “CBS Evening News With Katie Couric” with the including coverage of special events. Gregory served as White House prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in both 2008 and correspondent during the presidency of George W. Bush, earning a reputation 2009. Also in 2009, USC’s Annenberg School for Communication awarded for being one of the toughest questioners of President Bush and his press Couric the Walter Cronkite award for Special Achievement for "National secretaries. Gregory also reported extensively on the 9-11 attacks as well as the Impact on the 2008 Campaign.” During the last 3 years, Couric has reported wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and covered the last three presidential campaigns. on and anchored newscasts and broadcasts for some of the biggest domestic and international stories and has conducted numerous exclusive newsmaker Hewitt interviews including the historic 2008 Presidential election. Marilyn Hewitt served as a diplomatic correspondent for Newsday and the Washington Post, and covered Chip Cronkite the White House for NBC and the United Nations Chip Cronkite has been making documentaries for for ABC. She writes some of the major advance 30 years, for clients such as PBS, the Discovery and obituaries for the New York Times (, History channels, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Boris Yeltsin, Brooke Astor, among others), and is Foreign Policy Association, Americares, The currently at work on a book called "This is a Soul" to Interfaith Alliance, Blue Note Records, and The be published by William Morrow in May 2010. The book concerns an National Archives. Awards include a CableACE, extraordinary American doctor in Ethiopia who has devoted his life to treating Cine Golden Eagles, and film festivals. As a narrative the poorest of the poor. She and her late husband, Don Hewitt, took in a film editor, he has worked with John Avildsen and Francis Ford Coppola, young Ethiopian boy who is now attending school in the United States. and, as an assistant, for John Cassavetes and Robert Altman. Jonathan Klein Jonathan Klein is president of CNN/U.S., responsible Matt Frei is anchor of “BBC World News America.” for management oversight of all programming, Prior to this he was the BBC’s Washington editorial tone and strategic direction of the network. Correspondent, reporting on major events including Named to this position in November 2004, Klein Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Presidential election. previously served as president and chief executive Before arriving in Washington, Matt was the BBC’s officer of The FeedRoom, a broadband video Asia correspondent based in and Hong company he founded in 1999. Before founding The Kong, taking up his post just before the handover to FeedRoom, Klein was an executive vice president at CBS News, where he China. Between 1992 and 1996 he was South European correspondent in oversaw prime-time programming including “60 Minutes” and “48 Hours.” Pages 36 37 Presenters.qxp:Template 9/15/09 4:48 PM Page 2

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Steve Kroft Steve Kroft is a correspondent for CBS News’ “60 One of the most respected figures in American Minutes.” The 2009-10 season is his 21st on the broadcast journalism, Jane Pauley served as co-host of broadcast. In 2008 Kroft landed what was arguably NBC’s “Today” for 13 years, anchored the the biggest interview of the year: the first post-election “Weekend Edition” of NBC News, appeared as a interview with Barack and . His joint regular substitute for Tom Brokaw on “Nightly investigation with the Washington Post exposing the News,” and hosted both “Time and Again,” on deeply flawed forensic science of bullet lead analysis MSNBC, and “Real Life With Jane Pauley,” a weekly won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award in 2008 and was one of four newsmagazine. For over a decade, Pauley anchored “Dateline NBC” with co- major awards he won that year, including a Sigma Delta Chi award for the host, Stone Phillips. In 2004, she returned to television with “The Jane Pauley same story, and the coveted Alfred I. duPont- silver baton Show.” A member of the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, Pauley has been for an investigation into the disappearance of over $500 million from Iraq’s honored with multiple Emmy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the treasury. In 2007 he received the Fred Friendly First Amendment award. His RTNDA’s Award, and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence considerable body of work was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in Journalism, among others. In her bestselling memoir, “Skywriting: a Life in September 2003. out of the Blue,” Pauley wrote candidly about being diagnosed with mental illness at the age of 50, and has since become a powerful advocate in the field Sheila Nevins of mental health. Sheila Nevins is president, HBO Documentary Films for Home Box Office, responsible for overseeing the development and production of all documentaries Bill Small and family programming for HBO and Cinemax. William J. Small is chairman of the News & Nevins has been honored with several career Documentary Emmy Awards at the National Academy achievement awards including the 2009 Academy of of TV Arts & Sciences. He has spent most of his Television Arts & Sciences Governor’s Award, a 2008 professional life in broadcasting. After serving as news Gotham Awards Tribute; a 2005 National Television Academy Emmy® director of stations in Chicago and Louisville, he was Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the art of the named Washington bureau chief for CBS News in documentary; and in 1999 a Personal Peabody in recognition of her ongoing 1962. In 1974 he became senior vice president of commitment to excellence. Since joining HBO, she has supervised the CBS News, based in New York. In 1979 Mr. Small was named president of production of more than 800 documentary programs. During her tenure, NBC News, and in 1982 became President of UPI, the nation’s second HBO’s critically acclaimed films have gone on to win numerous Emmy and largest news agency. He is the author of two award winning books and has Peabody awards and 20 . She has been inducted into served as National President of the Radio-TV News Directors Association Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame. Nevins holds a BA from Barnard and the Society of Professional Journalists. Mr. Small is a graduate of the College and an MFA from School of Drama in Directing. University of Chicago and has received honorary doctorates from Muhlenberg College and Fordham University. Bruce Paisner A leading spokesperson and advocate for television David Westin industry issues around the world, Bruce Paisner is As president of ABC News, David Westin oversees all president & CEO of The International Academy of editorial and business aspects of the News Division. Television Arts & Sciences, the largest organization Mr. Westin has led ABC News since 1997. Under his of broadcasters in the world, which recognizes leadership, ABC News aired over 40 documentaries, excellence in international television programming and saw the resurgence of “Good Morning America” with The International Emmy® Award. Paisner is and the creation of “Good Morning America also advisor to the chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation and serves on Weekend,” “Nightline” changed its format and “This the boards of Hearst’s Cosmopolitan TV Channels in Spain, Latin America Week” became “This Week With .” During the 2004 and Canada. He is also a senior advisor to Pleiades Multimedia, a Russian Democratic convention in , Mr. Westin launched ABC News NOW, cable television programming company. From 2004 to 2009, he headed the the 24-hour news service available on cable, wireless and broadband. He also operations of Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, the corporate group created an array of special units to report for all ABC News outlets, such as responsible for Hearst’s interests in cable television networks, television the Brian Ross Investigative Unit. In 2007 he announced the largest single production and distribution, newspaper syndication and merchandise expansion of foreign news coverage in the history of ABC News by sending licensing. For over 20 years, he served on the boards of directors of Lifetime seven new “digital reporters” to Mumbai, New Delhi, Jakarta, Nairobi, Seoul, Television, A&E Network and History Channel. Dubai and Rio de Janeiro to report for all ABC News outlets and broadcasts. 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THE JUDGMENT ON THIS YEAR’S NOMINEES: CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WTVT-TV in Tampa, Fla., undid the conviction and imprisonment of a truck TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES driver improperly accused of vehicular homicide. A Non-profit Association Dedicated to the These regional entries were all judged by national judges as were the nominees Advancement of Television in Regional Spot News. They were KSTP-TV in St. Paul, Minn., for the 35W Bridge Collapse, KGW-TV in Portland, Ore., for tornado coverage and WNBC- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TV, New York, for a report on the collapse of a crane on the Upper East Side. Always interesting is the pattern of nominations for the New Approaches Herb Granath Darryl Cohen Malachy Wienges categories. These categories are open to any online or traditional broadcast that takes Chairman of the 1st Vice Chairman 2nd Vice Chairman Board a new or innovative approach to news reporting and documentary filmmaking. Janice Jensen Harold Crump With a few notable exceptions, they are typically dominated by online broadcasts Alison Gibson Secretary Chairman’s and multimedia-style reports. Treasurer Representative Roger Ogden The New York Times has two nominations, for “Choosing a President” and Ibra Morales Chairman’s “How the Pentagon Spreads Its Message,” while Travis Fox of washingtonpost.com Chairman’s Representative (a previous Emmy winner) is nominated for his coverage of the May 2008 Chinese Representative Earthquake. Washingtonpost.com received a second nomination for its report on health care for the uninsured. “Ars Magna,” a “P.O.V.” documentary about BOARD OF TRUSTEES anagrams that was conceptualized, shot and edited in one week, was nominated. Bob Adlhoch Alberto Garcia Shelly Palmer MediaStorm received two nominations, one for its report on sexual violence in Jason Anderson John Hammond Terry D. Peterson Rwanda, and another for its collaboration with Reuter’s news service on a Bob Behrens Bruce Harlan Chris Pizzurro multimedia history of five years of the Iraq War. The Globe and Mail was Phillip L. Bell Donn Johnson Gene Policinski cited for “Talking to the Taliban,” and Martin Percy and his talented team at the Diana Borri Martha C. Kattan Karen Scott Tate Modern received two nominations for two online interactive features designed Mary Brenneman Scott LaPlante Janice Selinger to convey the experience of viewing, confronting and discussing art in real life. Mike Cephas Lydia Loizides Jim Turner Cinematography is honored in two categories this year, one for nature Harold Crump Julie Lucas Javier Valencia documentaries and a second for news and other styles of documentary filmmaking. Jeremy Desel Roger Lyons Barbara Williams- In the latter category the result was Emmy nominations for “Frontline” on PBS for Jim Disch Brian McGruder Perry “The War Briefing,” Ted Koppel on Discovery’s documentary on China, “The Norman Felsenthal Evelyn Mims Joy Allison People’s Republic of Capitalism,” National Geographic Channel’s “Gorilla Roy Flynn John Odell Zucker-Tiemann Murders” and “Up the Yangtze,” “P.O.V.’s” report on the impact of the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River Valley. NATIONAL AWARDS COMMITTEE A new editing category for pieces edited under deadline — Editing - Quick Turnaround — was created this year. Nominations went to ABC for its reports on David Ashbrock Diana Borri Kevin Cokely corporate efforts to buy money and influence at the national political conventions. Chairman Chuck Dages Alternate Two nominations went to “CBS Sunday Morning,” one for a report on the capture Mary Alice Dwyer- Linda Giannecchini Dobbins Jerry Romano of Radovan Karadzic and another on a historic Supreme Court decision on gun Vice Chairman Charles H. Jablonski Alternate rights. And NBC News received two, including a Tim Russert obituary that was Raul Mateu assembled in two-and-a-half hours by colleagues still in shock from his passing. Harriet Abraham Steve Solomon Randi Davis Lastly, some remarkable work was nominated in the Historical Programming Larry Aidem Av Westin Ex-Officio category. The HBO/Cinemax documentary “Nanking” tells the story of the brutal Phillip Bell occupation of the city by the Japanese during World War II. PBS’ “Documenting the Face of America” tells the story of the New Deal-sponsored photographers who NATIONAL AWARDS CHAIRPERSONS traveled the country in the 1930s and 1940s and created a remarkable documentary Audrey Elling Jan Constantine Roger Lyons portrait of Americans from all walks of life. Koppel’s “The Last Lynching” looks at Administration Legal Public Relations the recent history of race relations in America, and asks whether or not we’ve truly entered a post-racial era. “P.O.V.’s” “The Judge and the General” documents the Terri Santisi Frank Radice Hal Protter and Audit Marketing Shelly Palmer historic indictment of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. PBS’ “The Rape of Europa” Technology examines the looting of Europe’s art treasures by the Nazis. “Witness to Jonestown,” Robert Behrens Martha Kattan which aired on MSNBC, revisits the mass suicide of the members of Jim Jones’ Development Membership John V. Pavlik Television Quarterly People’s Temple 30 years ago in Guyana. And “P.O.V.’s” “Inheritance” documents Julie Lucas David Ashbrock the extraordinary meeting between Monika, whose father was a brutal concentration Education National Awards camp commander in WWII, and Helen, a Holocaust survivor who he had Mary Brenneman brutalized. and Steve Quant What a range of coverage in this years nominations! Program

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on Hewitt wasn’t all that known. CBS News presidents who served screamed that I must be an “idiot,” and a few comfortable behind the scenes, during the great “60 Minutes” era (which, other variations on the idiot theme, if I could and he was such an entertaining under first-rate if less-colorful executive believe that in television, anyone other than character that it would have producer Jeff Fager, has obviously not ended the reporter should take final responsibility Dbeen a pity if he’d stayed there all the time. ) knew that whenever Hewitt started feeling for a piece. He came charging out many years ago when noticeably cranky and dissatisfied, the promoting his autobiography “Tell Me a prescription was simple: give him a party, the The Rather Situation Story – 50 Years and 60 Minutes,” and I bigger the better. This piece, the one he was railing about, dutifully interviewed him in Washington. That was as simple and basic as Hewitt’s was the controversial report on George W. The experience was akin to chasing a frequently stated credo for “60 Minutes”; it Bush’s record of service with the Texas Air hummingbird around an igloo, or so I’d thrived, he liked to say, because it responded National Guard. The integrity of the story guess. to the four-word request, “Tell me a story.” Of rested mainly on documents from the era He was full of nervous energy and high on course this was quotably glib and easy to that the Bush forces insisted were forgeries. creative juices that never stopped flowing. remember, but there was so There was indeed confusion. After the piece ran, he sent me a note in much more to the show’s Rather had given the OK for the which he quoted every adjective I’d used to success – from the extreme and story to air (actually on “60 describe him – including “spleeny” and riveting close-ups to the mythic Minutes II,” the abbreviated “cantankerous” and many others. To glamorizing of the show’s spinoff), and Hewitt said that paraphrase, he wrote: “This ‘spleeny,’ reporters to the fact that football meant Rather should resign. ‘cantankerous,’ ‘hyperactive,’ ‘agitated,’ overruns turned out to be one of I didn’t agree and that’s how I ‘obsessive,’ ‘impetuous’ … producer … thanks the greatest leads-in ever. fell from grace on Don Hewitt’s you.” Sweet. So anyway, on with the Rolodex. I listened to the loud, parties. One of the most lavish abusive phone call with a bit of a Life With a Legend was at the Museum of Modern smile, then went on to the next But there was another note, this one from Art on upper Fifth Avenue. What I remember stored message. I recognized from Caller ID Frankie Hewitt, the dynamo who had guided most vividly from this, inappropriately that this, too, was a call from Hewitt – made, the restoration and reopening of Ford’s enough, was the fact that Tom Brokaw I felt confidently, after a cooling-off period. Theater and whose divorce from Hewitt was showedupinblacktie,yes,butalsoblack But Hewitt’s voice sounded just as loud and one of the costliest of its time – costly to him, shirt (and of course black tux), which earned angry as on the first call, and again I had to of course. Frankie wrote, again paraphrasing, him a huge amount of sotto voce ridicule listen to this brilliant genius telling me what “I agree Don is a brilliant, creative, restless, from then-competitor Dan Rather (Rather an “idiot” I must be. innovative genius … but tell me the truth: always liked Charlie Gibson, as it happens, Did it hurt my feelings? Somewhat. I still Could you honestly stand to live under the but not Brokaw). felt it was ridiculous to believe that Dan same roof with him?” Rather had gone prowling around among the Obviously two dynamos under the same Well-Earned Party bushes or had played peek-a-boo at hotel roof is probably one too many (there have, no The party was ostensibly thrown to keyholes as he did the basic reporting for the doubt, been exceptions), but it seems likely celebrate the 25th anniversary of “60 story. No. Others lay the groundwork with that, at least in those turbulent years, Don Minutes,” but everyone knew it was a their reporting; the anchor (Rather was then Hewitt was married to his work, anyway. And “Placate Don at Any Cost” affair. Even if a featured correspondent on “II”) or big-foot what holy matrimony that was; two beings Hewitt technically didn’t “deserve” it, he correspondent signed off on the story but made for each other, the man and the certainly earned it. had probably not done much of the leg work. medium. Hewitt would most likely have been The last words I heard from Don Hewitt, It seems like a pretty tiny item now. What a success in print journalism, if that’s all the last words addressed from him to me, makes me sad is that I had so angered and there was, but he was also born for were not happy but were very much in offended a man who had been such a hero television, and it for him, and together they character. I’d just returned from a couple of of mine – a bit of a ham and definitely an made history, they made magic, they made a weeks away and, plopping myself in a living egomaniac, but a hero just the same. The ton of dough for CBS and Bill Paley. room chair, listened to the messages fact is, though, while I fell from his grace, he Hewitt always felt he was underpaid and recorded on the telephone. There among the never fell from mine. He remained as big a underappreciated; don’t most of us? But 20 or so, shouting loudly and barely hero as ever, and I still felt a terrible sense of most of us aren’t in such high-profile jobs breathing between words, was the voice of loss and sorrow when I heard that the that our personal gripes become widely Don Hewitt. He wasn’t jolly. Instead he dynamo had died. ❑

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coverage of the Iraq War, the 2004 NBC Local Media elections and Hurricane Katrina, Names Sullivan VP among other stories. Before joining MSNBC, Sullivan was Susan Sullivan has the news director at WNYW-TV in been named VP of New York, at WTTG-TV in News for NBC Local Washington, D.C., and KNXV-TV in Media New York. Phoenix, where she launched four She will lead the news broadcasts and established an day-to-day news award-winning investigative unit. Stossel operations of WNBC- Sullivan also held positions at TV, NY Nonstop and WCBS-TV as assistant news director, , longtime ABC News NBCnewyork.com, executive producer and managing correspondent and “20/20” co-anchor, is implementing content initiatives and editor. She began her broadcasting joining Fox News CVhannel and Fox managing the distribution of that career at WABC-TV in New York. Business News. He will anchor a weekly content across multiple platforms. She is the recipient of numerous prime-time program, “Stossel,” on FBN and Sullivan joins WNBC from NBC Emmy Awards and the Associated make regular appearances on FNC. sister station KNTV in San Jose/San Press and Edward R. Murrow Awards. Francisco, where she was VP of Nnews Sullivan graduated from New York Sean Smith has joined Fox News Channel since November 2007. Prior to KNTV, University with a bachelor’s degree in as VP of news from ABC News. Most she served as VP of daytime live political science and later earned her recently Smith produced ABC’s “World programming for MSNBC, a role in J.D. from Fordham University School of News With Charlie Gibson” Web cast, and which she led the network’s daytime Law in New York. for many years was a coordinating producer of the program. where she was a reporter. Kristen Drew has joined WLKY-TV in Stephanie Abrams has been made co-host Louisville, Ky., as a reporter from WSTM-TV of “Weatherproof” on . Araksya Karapetyan jumps over 140 in Syracuse, N.Y. She was also named a co-host with Al markets to KOIN-TV in Portland, Ore., from Roker on The Weather Channel’s “Wake Up weekend anchor at KIDK-TV in Idaho Falls, Genie Garner will join KITV in Honolulu as With Al.” Idaho. news director in October. She previously was news director at WHAS-TV in Julie Akins has joined KOBI-TV in Louisville, Ky. Medford, Ore., as news director. Nadine Woodward has departed KREM-TV Rob Stafford has been named primary 5 in Spokane, Wash., following a salary p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. co-anchor from dispute. The veteran news anchor worked weekend anchor at WMAQ-TV in Chicago. at the station for 19 years.

Karen Devine is departing as anchor at Lane Michaelsen has joined -TV in KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, Calif., when her Miami as VP of news and content. He contract ends this month. previously was VP of the information center at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. Roberta Petterson has joined WEWS-TV in , from assistant news director at Jackie McPherson has joined WPTY-TV in WTAE-TV in , where she also Porterfield Memphis, Tenn., as a general assignment held that position. reporter. She previously was weekend Harry Porterfield has returned to WBBM- anchor/reporter at KPOB-TV in Paducah, David Novarro has been named morning TV in Chicago after 24 years at competitor Ky. co-anchor on WFLD-TV in Chicago. He was WLS-TV. The veteran newsman’s contract previously anchor of the station’s at the latter station was not renewed. Susan Arbetter has joined WCNY-TV in discontinued 10 p.m. newscast. Syracuse, N.Y., as news and public affairs Kala Rama has joined WSOC-TV in director. She was previously host of “New Lauren Przybyl has joined KDFW-TV in Charlotte, N.C., as a weekend York Now” on WMHT-TV in Albany, N.Y. Dallas as co-anchor of the morning show anchor/reporter from WWLP-TV in “Good Day” from WHDH-TV in Boston, Springfield, Mass.

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Sharpening Tools of the Trade The Decade-Old Online News Association Gears up to Equip Today’s Journalists at Its October Conference

By Daisy Whitney Over the years, McDonnell added, the learning environment for the 600-plus organization, which was founded 10 years attendees expected, said McDonnell. That’ll There are few professions more challenged ago to help traditional news outlets like the be down from about 750 to 800 who attended than journalism is right now. New York Times and last year’s event. And as journalists struggle to survive, navigate the online news waters, has dealt But given the economy, McDonnell evolve and, hopefully, someday, even prosper, with the how-to’s of producing news for online considers the expected attendance number a they are becoming more dependent on as opposed to print and broadcast, as well as victory since she’d been planning for about technology than ever before. the issue of privacy. Now, she said, the 500. Many media companies aren’t paying for For those who work exclusively online — recurring issues the group tackles surround their staffers to attend, so some reporters are particularly the one-person operations technology and what it’s done to — and for — choosing to pay their own way. working without benefit of corporate technical journalism. “Every single session is geared to high- experts — it’s mandatory to keep abreast of “Over the last two years, as there has been impact learning,” she said. “It won’t be people the latest technological developments in order this surge in digital news distribution and sitting around a room talking theory. It’s to cultivate, engage and retain readers. platforms have opened up, there has been an practical, and the sessions are geared toward incredible number of people producing news,” takeaways and what you can learn and Twitter by the Bay she said. implement.” The Online News Association will help Reporters can run their own Web sites or today’s growing brigade of Web reporters build powerful and influential blogs from their Keynoters From the Tech World navigate the intersection of journalism and homes. As such, membership in ONA is for The choice of keynoters also underscores technology at its annual conference, to be anyone who makes a living producing news, the vital role technology plays in the daily held in San Francisco Oct. 1 to 3. be it for a , traditional outlet or anything life of Web journalists. The headliners are The goal of the conference is to assist in between. ONA also counts academics as Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Blogher CEO attendees in wrapping their minds around members. Lisa Stone and technology guru Leo social media, Twitter, technology and “As long as you make your living Laporte, who runs the “This Week in databases. producing news, it doesn’t matter what the Technology” network online. “There are so many different ways to tell a outlet is, for us,” McDonnell said. Their keynotes will largely focus on the story, and the journalist of today and With sessions exploring technology trends, theme of the event — how technology has tomorrow has to do that,” ONA Executive Web tools and syndicating stories online, the impacted journalism. Director Jane McDonnell said. ONA is out to provide an intensive boot-camp Other sessions of note include one devoted

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‘08 PERSONALITIES At last year's ONA gathering, Borja Eschevarria, opposite, won an award for General Excellence in Online Journalism; Above, last year's ONA keynoter, technology blogger Robert Scoble.

to “Finding Meaning in the Metrics,” designed to help journalists use metrics to understand the type of stories that are engaging and those that are not. Attendees will learn the measurement tools for stories, blogs, slideshows, videos and the social media services Twitter and .

Targeting the Mobile Generation Another session will delve into how to get content onto other sites and in front of new users, while another will address trends in journalism for (and from) “the mobile generation.” “What we want to do is come at mobile from the beginner standpoint, which is, here is why mobile is important and here is what you can do with it, and then move to some cool mobile innovations and show what people are doing,” she said. McDonnell also highlighted a session on designing a Web site. It won’t be a technical workshop, she said, but it will help attendees think about how the design of a site will directly impact how they produce news. Plus, she added, sites need to be superflexible today so they can accommodate any new tool that comes along. Another panel will address how journalists are becoming entrepreneurs as some set up shop themselves and assume responsibility for both the content and business aspects of Web publishing. It’s worth noting that conference attendees — all members of the press — must pay for a pass; ONA decided not to give out press passes. Of course, anyone who pays to attend is free to cover the event. ❑

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site is relying on the people who live there — particularly if they’re willing to work for cheap. Big Players Jump on “If you want to follow a traditional model of reporters that’s an expensive model, so you get amateur reporters to write stories and Neighborhood Beat contribute content,” explained Charlie Tillinghast, president of MSNBC.com, which Hyperlocal Becomes the Wave of the Future is also building out what it calls a microlocal model via EveryBlock.com, which collects data on local crime, 911 calls and even zoning ordinances. “This is an area not served by any media,” Tillinghast said. “We are not trying to edge out the local newspaper or somehow aggregate everybody else. What we are doing is looking to get more involvement from the people who live there to annotate the information, so if there was a fire, people who live there could link to their own photos of it.”

Custom-Tailoring Tillinghast said the Everyblock technology platform can be tailored for each community, so it operates as something of a template. That will let MSNBC.com scale the service across the country. It is already up and running in 13 markets, including Boston, and San Francisco. MSNBC.com is currently working on refining the revenue model for EveryBlock, Tillinghast said, but will rely on local advertising. However, already existing local sites are BY DAISY WHITNEY this year to $13.3 billion, online outlets like competing for the same ad dollars, among AOL and MSNBC.com, local broadcast them AreaGuides.com, with its network of Call it hyperlocal, microlocal or locals- groups like NBC Local Media and Fisher, and more than 25 local sites in the Washington, only, it’s becoming the new brass ring in national papers like the New York Times are D.C., area. journalism. jumping at the chance to land these dollars Founder Craig Shipp runs the Hyperlocal, an idea that consumers for their pages. AreaGuides.com sites in a lean-and-mean crave nuanced details about their local fashion, relying on a salesperson to canvas communities, fueled by the belief that small Fisher Mines Local Businesses each local area and hit up restaurants, businesses are eager to spend ad money on In its hyperlocal test, Fisher is realtors and other small businesses. “The such sites, is promising the beleaguered offering more local material online for local business owners are who you have to field a potential new revenue stream, neighborhoods like Queen Anne, Ballard and convince,” he said. offering journalists, local bloggers and Capitol Hill in hopes of luring ads from local Ultimately the hyperlocal notion is community experts new opportunities to businesses serving those areas. If the Seattle appealing because people live their lives in make some money. experiment proves successful, Fisher said it local communities, according to David Cohn, Among those organizations seizing the will launch similar sites in its other markets founder of Spot.US, a nonprofit project that opportunity hyperlocal coverage presents are including Portland, Ore., this fall. funds community journalism. cable news Web site MSNBC.com and local Fisher’s content is highly local. A recent “We are now more aware of what is going station group Fisher Communications. story on Fisher’s MyBallard.com in Seattle on in the world but we aren’t necessarily MSNBC.com acquired hyperlocal platform included photos of signs asking neighbors more aware of what is happening around EveryBlock.com in August with plans to to report on any suspected drug activity, the block,” Cohn said. “I bet there are plenty build out neighborhood information across while another piece covered the sighting of of college students who are more aware the country. a local man setting a white bag aflame in a about events in Iran than they are in their Fisher, meanwhile, rolled out 43 nearby dumpster. city council. community Web sites for the Seattle area Besides KOMO reporters and community “Of course we should be aware of what during the summer, with information culled bloggers, Fisher draws its material from free- goes on in Iran, but we also need to know from both local bloggers and the professionals lancers in the market. That’s similar to the and watch our own city council,” he added. at Fisher-owned KOMO-TV. approach by NBC Local Media’s model, which “The move towards hyperlocal is trying to Buoyed by statistics from local media pulls not only from NBC staffers, but uses a figure that out — especially as newspapers, research firm Borrell Associates that pegs network of free-lancers in each market. In which were formerly tasked with that role, online local advertising for 5.9 percent growth fact, the key to economic success with a local are shrinking.” ❑

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Pursuing a Career on the Web Poynter Offers Professionals a Way to Get Up to Speed

BY DAISY WHITNEY how to work with “new storytelling forms, your hands and get you editing. It won’t be including data visualizations and fancy or complicated but you will have There’s a digital divide among interactive mobile multimedia experiences enough skills to get started and to teach journalists today — on one side, those with that engage users in ways that traditional, yourself more,” she said. digital skills, and on the other, those linear story formats couldn’t ever do.” But just because video is the medium without. The seminar leaders expect to attract du jour, not all stories need it, McCombs Guess which ones will get the precious 16 to 20 journalists, even at the $895-per added. That’s why she’ll also teach how to few jobs that come along in the near price tag. make decisions about what type of stories future? While budgets have been slashed in should and should not be told using video. In order to help level the playing field, virtually all newsrooms, Poynter offers Blogging will also be an important topic the is offering a four-day some financial help, and many past for the seminar. “It’s not just about posting seminar this fall to instruct journalists in attendees have used their own money for your column, but what makes a good blog, the necessary skills for the digital age. the training, said Regina McCombs, who how to build a community, how to handle The training session will be held at the teachers multimedia skills for Poynter. and comments, and how to University of Minnesota School of “It’s meant to be a survey course for understand social networking and build it Journalism and Mass Communication in people who want to get their skills up to into your routine, and how to build a brand Minneapolis Oct. 12 to 15, and will focus date,” she said. Previous Poynter seminars for yourself,” she said. on video, audio, social networking and have attracted both younger journalists Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the blogging skills, as well as how to manage both content and ethics in new mediums. The seminar will focus on video, audio, Instructors for the seminar will include Poynter Institute teachers as well as guest social networking and blogging skills, as faculty: Will Sullivan, interactive director at well as how to manage content. the St. Louis-Dispatch, and Matt Thompson, interim online community who want to better understand the Poynter Institute, will address ethics and at manager at the John S. and James L. demands of the career, and older the seminar and also teach the skills Knight Foundation. journalists looking to rebuild their careers needed for database reporting, something “We’re basically shoehorning the last for the digital age. She expects attendees that was once solely the purview of an four years of online storytelling skills into a mostly from print outlets, with some from investigative journalist. four-day workshop,” said Sullivan. “We’ll radio and TV. “Everybody has to be able to do cover new areas such as how social media McCombs said she’ll devote at least a everything. There is way more data out tools can help journalists report better, day to video storytelling. The coursework there, and journalists need to know how to interact with users, promote their work, as will concentrate on how to translate a story mine it, and just knowing that gives you well as brand themselves in the digital age.” into video, which types of stories work best an edge over someone who doesn’t,” she Sullivan added that the seminar will not as video, and what are the needed elements said. “If each person walked out of here only introduce journalists to traditional for a video report. and said ‘I have a clear idea of what my multimedia forms like video and audio Journalists will also receive hands-on career path should be in the digital world,’ recording and editing, but also show them training in video. “We will get a camera in I’d be happy.’” ❑

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Business programming expansion can bolster the bottom line. Stations Taking NBC is migrating some of its Web coverage on-air in New York. On Sept. 14, the local group launched “LX New York,” a lifestyle and Varied Routes to entertainment show spun off from its LX.TV broadband channel, on flagship affiliate WNBC-TV.

New Revenue Working Ads Into Content More lifestyle-focused content also makes BY DAISY WHITNEY Brian Buchwald, NBC’s senior VP of Local product placement and other integrated ad Integrated Media, who’s refashioned the NBC- deals easier to strike, Buchwald said. ith political advertising an every- owned station sites into city-centric ones. Along these lines, NBC launched a fashion other-year proposition, auto “One of the decisions we made as a division blog in New York called “The Thread.” And W mar keting evaporating and trad- was moving away from the focus on local during this month’s Fashion Week in New itional television audiences shrinking, York, WNBC carried “The Thread” segments local broadcasters can’t help but be on the on air. “New content attracts new ad- hunt for new revenue streams. vertisers,” Buchwald said. While some are shifting their pro- Another new revenue opportunity lies in gramming mix to win new advertisers on the mobile DTV, the use of digital spectrum to Web, others are turning to next-generation transmit a TV station’s signal to wireless uses of the digital spectrum or premium devices such as phones, DVD players and mobile applications, and still others are notebook computers. crafting ad packages to lure smaller Broadcasters in the Washington, D.C., businesses to TV for the first time. market are currently testing a range of mobile For McGraw-Hill stations, it’s the latter. DTV devices in a consumer showcase market, “Everyone is looking to develop new explained Anne Schelle, executive director of products focused on medium- to small-sized the Open Mobile Video Coalition. Actual businesses, and that seems to be where the devices will make their way to consumers in concentration of efforts is — to find ways for January and will likely enable banner ads, smaller and medium businesses to overcome interactivity and voting on the mobile devices. those historical perceptions that TV is too expensive to use,” said Darrell Brown, Selling Apps an Option president of McGraw-Hill Broadcasting. Some stations may use the technology as If successful, efforts by McGraw-Hill’s and a premium service to sell applications and like-minded stations could help pull in a slew on-demand programming, while others may of new advertisers to the local TV business. use the medium for new advertisers. , through its Google TV Ads initiative, “Broadcasters are looking at the various is similarly working to lure new and smaller business models right now,” Schelle said. “It marketers to TV who haven’t used the enables broadcasters to have a two-way medium before. connection with consumers on these NEW FOCUS NBC is out to attract connected de vices, which brings additional new business by Ads the Natural Choice emphasizing lifestyle revenue opportunities with e-commerce and Because TV has largely been an ad- content online. targeted ads,” she said. supported business, broadcasters are looking Mobile DTV in Europe and Asia has there first as they aim to develop new revenue news and offering much more on local cities proven to bring at least a 10 percent increase streams. NBC Local has been casting a wider and the communities and to do so from a in incremental audience, Schelle pointed out, net by broadening its content makeup. lifestyle-oriented perspective.” adding that for widespread adoption however, Other stations may use their digital The hyperlocal approach on the Web has more mobile phones will need to be built with spectrum for “mobile DTV” services that helped win new advertisers who are eager to DTV chips in them. deliver TV programming to handheld devices. associate with that type of content. That Also on the cell phone front, the Fox The Open Mobile Video Coalition is taking the includes Absolut, Southern Comfort, real Television Stations are exploring the use of lead on developing the necessary technical estate advertisers and financial services firms iPhone applications. specs and support. like HSBC, which has made a big advertising Fox’s first foray in this area is the On the programming front, NBC has been investment in NBC Local across its sites and MyFoxHurricane iPhone application for expanding its coverage with more localized in taxicabs, Buchwald said. $3.99 that’s been one of the top 10 paid and lifestyle-oriented Web destinations. Often, those types of advertisers have held weather application downloads in the iTunes “When you traditionally think about local off on local news, seeing it as a buy against store. It helps users stay up to date with TV, the concept was around local news,” said crime and traffic programming. That’s why a hurricane warnings. ❑

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Technology

WIN-WIN WVIT's WVIT Goes new environmentally friendly newsroom also offers higher-quality Green, HD visuals.

BY DAISY WHITNEY n late July, NBC Universal-owned WVIT- TV in Hartford, Conn., flipped the switch Ion its new state-of-the-art, high-defin - ition broadcast facility, which is not only “green” and tapeless, but also largely employee-designed. WVIT, one of eight NBCU-owned stations to have been upgraded to HD so far, represents a case study for other broadcasters looking to transition to a hi- def, environmentally friendly broadcast news operation. Ditching tape brings both efficiency and improved quality, said Keith Barbaria, WVIT’s director of technology and engineering. The station, which serves the 30th- news in different ways, with the flexibility to feeds, they aren’t calling another room. ranked Hartford-New Haven DMA, now relies change and grow with the business,” They just turn and look in there. The on Panasonic’s P2 HD solid state cameras Barbaria said. studio is also open to the newsroom, and that capture video digitally on memory cards, WVIT pumps out 30 hours of news each all the workplaces have glass doors so you and they have earned rave reviews from the week for its traditional newscasts on its can see everyone.” station’s photographers, Barbaria said. primary HD channel 30.1 and a 24-hour That helped the news staff move faster The material is edited in the field in weather channel on subchannel 30.2. this summer when was hit most cases, using Grass Valley Edius That's in addition to creating plus content with some unusual tornadoes, said Mike St. equipment, then completed stories are sent for its Web site, Nbcconnecticut.com, and Peter, VP of news. “In our old situation, back to the newsroom from laptops using a mobile content. everyone was behind walls and everything BitCentral wireless transmission system. From a business standpoint, the HD was closed. In this open environment we got They land on BitCentral’s Oasis server and facility gives the station a marketplace on air instantly and people could look can then be pulled into the station’s new advantage, said David Doebler, president across the room and see what’s going on. Grass Valley K2 Media Server storage area and general manager of the station. Many We were able to produce and get material network for airing. advertisers, especially retailers, are eager to on the Web site instantaneously. Basically, showcase their wares in hi-def. the new facility allowed a greater response Hub for Other Stations “We wanted to transition from analog to breaking news,” he said. The BitCentral Oasis server also operates broadcast to full-service digital media and it The design strategy also made virtually as a hub, letting the station feed stories to made sense to invest in a new facility and every space a possible shooting location. other BitCentral-outfitted NBC affiliates and new technology,” Doebler said, adding that Cooking segments, for instance, are shot in owned stations, Barbaria said. employee input was vital for the change. the employee cafeteria. In total, there are 13 “The digital workflow from field to on-air “We had our directors and producers locations in the facility that are wired for full ensures top-quality video. It is also a much design our new control room,” he said. “We shows, if need be. more efficient workflow once you remove had the employees tell us what would be The new newsroom, which was built videotape from the plan,” he said. “When the ultimate assignment desk. We really got adjacent to the old facility, was constructed you work with videotape you have to the people in each area to weigh in on what with a green focus. It includes a white roof reload into multiple platforms. In a server would be best.” to reflect sunlight, waterless urinals and environment you just and drag, so it’s As an example, he said, the assignment compact fluorescent bulbs, which require much faster,” he said. editors wanted to be able to get a quick less energy. In the studios, about half of the The quality is better too, said Barbaria, birds’ eye view of the entire newsroom. As bulbs are fluorescent, lessening the demand since digital quality remains the same no a result, an assignment desk raised on a 2- on air conditioning. matter how many times material is foot-high platform was designed. “When you make green choices, it’s an transferred or dubbed. As with the new tech tools, the new investment in the environment and in the “It’s great quality from start to finish. design also streamlines workflow, explained community, and it also can make smart The facility’s state-of-the-art tools and Barbaria. “The assignment desk is in front business sense by saving on water and resources allow the station to present the of master control, so when it’s time to ingest energy,” said Doebler.❑

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Sign Off By Tom Petner Digital Dimes in Troubled Times o you watch any of the new local digital channels? No, neither do I. Like the current real estate crisis of our “great recession,” there’s a lot of digital real estate Davailable, and few buyers. No one group – or local broadcaster – has figured out how to other area stations. As you might guess in this tight program these channels and generate revenue, draw viewers and, economy, no, WSAV hasn’t added staff. They shuffle around yes, make money. One broadcast consultant put it to me, “there’s existing personnel to produce it. a lot of talkin’ and not much doin’ with these channels.” “The feedback has been good. Our anchor is always on He’s right. A few groups like Hearst Television, , Facebook and Twitter during the show incorporating all sorts of and the ABC O&O stations (I hear they’re working on health and feedback elements we’re getting from the area,” says Gabe Travers, wellness content) and some individual stations are working on executive producer at WSAV. “Advertisers seem to be interested. programming options for these new channels. But, to date, the They’re placing orders specifically for that newscast, trying to reach majority of digital offerings across the country are people and target the area.” pretty thin. If you think advertising is pretty soft generally, it’s an even tougher sell for local stations trying to pick Making the Most of News up additional digital dollars with these channels. While you’ll find some new options on the local tiers, including Estrella TV, the 24-hour Spanish- No Sales Motivation language network, and for the rerun-inclined, One group executive — asking to remain anonymous RetroTV and THIStv, many local stations are sticking — explained the problem to me this way. “You can’t to where they have the biggest investment, local really measure the audience. It’s just not big enough. news — using their digital tier for extended coverage. So the salespeople don’t want to sell it, because there KOLD-TV in Tucson, Ariz., got high marks recently when the are no big commissions involved. Salespeople don’t make money, station decided to use its digital channel in a breaking news and the station doesn’t make money off the channels. So there’s situation. Jim Arnold, vice president and general no motivation.” manager at KOLD, told me about his news For Flashback several weeks. I drove down the New department’s coverage of a multialarm fire at a their digital Jersey Turnpike to meet “the guys” for a dinner local recycling plant, and management’s and our little Algonquin Round Table of decision to go “wall-to-wall” on the station’s tiers, many television know-it-alls. 13.2 channel. stations are sticking I asked the know-it-alls their take on the “I don’t assume thousands were watching, to where they have local digital tier. No surprise. No one there had but it was the first time that we could show the biggest the answer to the digital conundrum, but one people what we could do in a breaking news longtime television pal and know-it-all, Jon situation,” said Arnold. So what’s the next step? investment: Petrovich, shared an anecdote from his time as “Now, we’re constantly thinking about other things local news. EVP with Sony Pictures International. He heard todo.WhenObamacomesontheairat8p.m.onthe that one of the most successful channels was one just East Coast and wipes-out our 5 p.m. newscast, why can’t we outside Guadalajara, Mexico. They simply mounted a do our 5 p.m. newscast on 13.2 that night?” camera in the town square and people could watch the comings and goings of town folks. It was a smash hit. Go figure. I suppose Awareness Low that’s about as hyperlocal as it gets. But Arnold says there are two big problems for stations in Maybe the answer to cracking the digital programming code is getting traction for their digital channel programming: audience Keep it simple — Keep it hyperlocal. As Petrovich reminded me, awareness and penetration. In short, no one is motivated to WGN-TV used to have Jack Brickhouse go outside every night check them out. and ask people questions, thus the MOS was born. CNN does it One station getting some traction with its digital tier audience every day with ’s e-mail interaction with viewers. is Media General’s WSAV-TV in Savannah, Ga. Part of WSAV’s I doubt mounting cameras in the town square or pure viewer market takes in three counties in South Carolina, so the station interaction is the answer. But whatever it is, it’s time for television launched something called “My Lowcountry 3” on its 3.2 channel. stations and groups to step up and do something soon, or those You might consider it a hyperlocal newscast targeted to those channels will simply rot on the spectrum.❑ South Carolina counties. The station produces a full hour using existing technology, a Tom Petner is an award-winning journalist and media executive. He newspaper partnership in the Hilton Head area, and content from can be reached at [email protected].

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