Northwest Regional Emmy® Award Nominees 2021 entries submitted from work produced in 2020 Nominees Released April 9, 2021 Overall Excellence The 5 O' Clock News • KPTV • Stefanie Neal, Assistant News Seattle Channel • Shannon Gee, General Manager Director • Bryce Madison, Producer • Catie Briggs, KING • Jim Rose, General Manager Producer • Brenna Kelly, Reporter • Amber Wilmarth, KGW • Steve Carter, President/General Manager Reporter • Antonio Corona, Editor • Emily Higgins, KTUU/KYES • Nancy Johnson, General Manager Photographer Idaho Public Television • Ron Pisaneschi, General Manager KOIN 6 News at 11: Historic Wildfires • KOIN • Carla Judah, OPB • Steve Bass, President/CEO Producer • Jennifer Dowling, Reporter • Jeff Gianola, Anchor • Jenny Young, Reporter • Elizabeth Dinh, Anchor Evening Newscast (Markets 1-20) KOMO News at 6pm: CHOP Cleared • KOMO • Kevin Beatty, Morning Newscast (Markets 21-80) Producer • Abiezer Garnica, Director Good Day Oregon • KPTV • Raegan Cardwell, Executive KOMO News at 5pm: CHOP Cleared • KOMO • Daniel Grohl, Producer • Amber Wilmarth, Reporter • Brian MacMillan, Producer • Jordyn Grinnell, Producer Reporter Seattle Under Siege • KIRO • Erin Newnam, Producer • Up With KREM • KREM • Delaney Gray, Executive Producer Katelin Wangberg, Producer • Bill Skok, Photojournalist • Tim Pham, Anchor • Jeremy LaGoo, Weather Anchor • • Deborah Horne, Reporter • Deedee Sun, Reporter • Cody Crawford, Producer Ethan Ferkiss, Writer • Ryan Simms, Reporter • Linzi Oregon on Fire: Neighbors help neighbors recover from Sheldon, Anchor • Jonathan Simmons, Photographer historic wildfires • KGW • Celeste Ruiz, Executive Producer KOMO news at 6pm: George Floyd Protests • KOMO • Kevin • Paul Kenney, Sunrise Content Manager • Jessica Smith, Beatty, Producer Producer KOIN 6 News This Morning: Historic Oregon Wildfires • Morning Newscast (Markets 1-20) KOIN • Miranda Hutchison, Producer • Elise Haas, Touring the Aftermath of May 31st Riots • KOMO • Emily Reporter Leisten, Producer • Jacci Lewis, Executive Producer • Lee KATU News This Morning • KATU • Alison Dorf, Producer • Stoll, Reporter • Ryan Yamamoto, Anchor • Kelly Danielle Frack, Executive Producer • Dan McCarthy, Koopmans, Anchor • Paris Jackson, Anchor • Gil Ojeda, Reporter • Anthony Balcorta, Photojournalist • Evan Director • Holly Menino, Live Desk Anchor • Louis Sierra, Schreiber, Reporter • Wesleigh Ogle, Anchor • Chase Photographer Amen, Director Day After Seattle Riots • KING • Mark Jovan, News Producer • Emily Wen, Director • AleXis Rodriguez, Writer • Jake Evening Newscast (Markets 81+) Whittenberg, Anchor • Mimi Jung, Anchor • Susan Danz, The 208 • KTVB • Dani Allsop, Producer Writer • Jordan Treece, Photographer • Keith Board, Editor NBC16 News at 5:30 P.M.: Oregon Wildfires • KMTR • • Connie Kim, Executive Producer Marcela Valdivia KOMO News at 6 am: COVID comes to Western Washington Fires Wipe Out Small Towns, Threaten City • KEZI • Bob • KOMO • Emily Leisten, Producer • Jacci Lewis, Executive Schaper, Executive Producer • Renee McCullough, Anchor Producer • Kelly Koopmans, Anchor • Ryan Yamamoto, • Kennedy Dendy, Reporter • Marisa Vitale, Meteorologist • Anchor • Paris Jackson, Anchor • Holly Menino, Anchor Dylan Robichaud, Meteorologist • Chris Lueneburg, KOMO News at 6 am: February Flood • KOMO • Emily Reporter • Walter King, Director • Robert Northrup, Director Leisten, Producer • Jacci Lewis, Executive Producer • Kelly • Taylor Cantrell, Photographer • Emma Jerome, Reporter Koopmans, Anchor • Holly Menino, Anchor • Ryan KEZI 9 News at 4 - Historic Wildfire Season • KEZI • Chynna Yamamoto, Anchor • Paris Jackson, Anchor • Denise Greene, Anchor • Marisa Vitale, Chief Meteorologist • Whitaker, Reporter Phylisha Drayton, Producer • Connor McCarthy, Photog • Robert Northrup, Master Control • Walter King, Director • Evening Newscast (Markets 21-80) Kennedy Dendy, Reporter • Taylor Cantrell, Photog • Dylan The Story with Dan Haggerty: Misinformation vs. Robichaud, Meteorologist • Bob Schaper, Executive Disinformation • KGW • Brian Kosciesza, Producer • Producer Stephanie Villiers, Producer • Mila Mimica, Executive The Channel 2 NewsHour • KTUU • Elinor Baty, Producer • Producer • Dan Haggerty, Anchor AleXis Fernandez, Anchor The 5 O' Clock News • KPTV • Stefanie Neal, Assistant News Director • Bryce Madison, Producer • Catie Briggs, Morning Newscast (Markets 81+) Producer • Brenna Kelly, Reporter • Amber Wilmarth, Wake Up Idaho Election Results • KTVB • Abigail Urbanek, Reporter • Antonio Corona, Editor • Emily Higgins, Producer Photographer 9/10/20 Midday Holiday Farm Fire • KEZI • Jaimie Hays, KATU News at 6 • KATU • Shawn Gilbert, Producer Anchor • Jacob Roberts, Reporter • Ashly Edmiston, Editor KGW News at 11: Oregon Wildfires • KGW • Alison Rodgers, • Andrew Smith, Director Executive Producer • Laural Porter, Anchor Western Oregon Literally and Figuratively on Fire • KEZI • The Story with Dan Haggerty: Historic Megafires Burn Christina Molinari, Producer • Ashly Edmiston, Editor • Oregon • KGW • Mila Mimica, Executive Producer • Brian Jaimie Hays, Anchor • Bryan Anderson, Anchor Kosciesza, Producer • Stephanie Villiers, Producer • Dan Wake Up Northwest 5 am show • KNDU/KNDO • Jana Gray, Haggerty, Anchor News Director Northwest Regional Emmy® Award Nominees 2021 entries submitted from work produced in 2020 Nominees Released April 9, 2021 Downtown Seattle Riots • KIRO • Deborah Horn, Reporter • Daily News Report (single shift) Deedee Sun, Reporter • Ryan Simm, Reporter • Linzi Blake's Graduation • KTVQ • Russ Riesinger, Reporter • Sheldon, Anchor • Katelin Wangberg, Producer • Erin Brandon Sullivan, Photographer Newnam, Executive Producer • Sean Glover, RCOMM • Surviving the Scandies Rose • KOMO • Gabriel Cohen, Sean Quinn, Assignment Editor Reporter Downtown Shooting Chaos & Heroes • KING • Chelsea Past Becomes Present • KING • Michael Crowe, Reporter • Bryant, Producer • Joyce Taylor, Anchor • Vanessa Megan Murnane, Photojournalist Misciagna, Reporter • Jessica Janner Castro, Anchor • There Are Many Uses For A Potato • KHQ • Cory Howard, Carl Pugliese, Writer • Greg Copeland, Anchor • Natalie Producer • Gabriel Ferguson, Photojournalist Swaby, Reporter • Mark Wright, Anchor • Laura Evans, Season kickoff • KTUU • Samie Solina, Multimedia Journalist Assistant News Director • Elise Cartmill, Assignment Editor Coffee is Dope • KGW • Keely Chalmers, Reporter • Kurt Austin, Photographer Continuing Coverage Unrest in Portland • KOIN • Jacquelyn Abad, Reporter • HarD News Report (no proDuction time limit) Jennifer Dowling, Reporter • Jenny Young, Reporter • A Window Into Hell • KIRO • Julie Berg, Investigative Hannah Ray Lambert, Digital Reporter • Andrew Bisset, Producer • Amy Clancy, Reporter/Writer • Jeffrey Ritter, Photographer • Richard Roberson, Photographer • Matt Photographer/Editor Rashleigh, Photographer The Road • KGW • Dan Haggerty, Reporter • Kurt Austin, Covid-19 Is For Real: A Healthcare Workers Struggle • Producer KCPQ • Michael Driver, Photojournalist • Simone Del The Plight of Point Roberts • KING • Mike Perry, Rosario, Reporter • Andy Anderson, Photojournalist • Photojournalist/Editor • Chris Daniels, Producer Alyana Gomez, Reporter Terror from Above • KIRO • Dave Wagner, Producer • Jeff LIFE Inside • KGW • Maggie Vespa, Producer • Mila Mimica, Ritter, Photographer • Mike Griffith, Photographer • Julie Executive Producer • Kurt Austin, Photographer Berg, Producer • Ryan Barber, Graphic Artist The Rise and Fall of CHOP • KOMO • Bill Dallman, News Director Breaking or Spot News Seattle's Summer of Unrest • KCPQ • Simone Del Rosario, Riot Erupts in Downtown Portland • KATU • Breanna Hill, Correspondent • Brandon Davis, Photojournalist Producer • Megan Allison, Reporter • Dan McCarthy, The Daybell story unfolds • EastIdahoNews.com • Nate Reporter • Megan Trihey, Executive Producer • Ellen Eaton, Reporter • Eric Grossarth, Reporter Gordon, Writer/Producer Breaking News Downtown Shooting • KIRO • Jim Waltz, Team Coverage News Photographer • Michael Spears, News Reporter KOMO News at 6pm: Aftermath of 3rd Avenue Shootout • Breaking news – Seattle Riot Coverage • KCPQ • AJ KOMO • Kevin Beatty, Producer • Suzanne Phan, Reporter Janavel, Reporter • Jennifer Lee, Reporter • Jamie • Steven McCarron, Reporter • Patrick Quinn, Reporter • Tompkins, Reporter • Brandi Kruse, Reporter • Frank Bill Fesh, Operations Manager Koumaros, Photographer • Marc LeCuyer, Photographer • Wildfire Emergency in Oregon • KATU • Breanna Hill, Mike Harvey, Photographer • Scott Hopson, Photographer • Producer • Megan Allison, Reporter • Kellee Azar, Reporter Hana Kim, Anchor • David Rose, Anchor • Bhavisha Patel • • Allison Mechanic, Reporter Producer Downtown Seattle Shooting • KIRO • Lauren Fischer, Portland Riot: The first of many • KATU • Kellee Azar, Producer • Jim Waltz, Photojournalist • Anny Lee Patrick, Reporter • Rodney Rocker, Photojournalist Director • Ryan Simms, Reporter • Monique Ming Laven, Riots in Seattle • KOMO • Jordyn Grinnell, News Producer • Anchor • Josh Witsman, Executive Producer • Michael Chelsea Owen Santiago, News Producer • Kevin Hillberg, Spears, Reporter • Dave Wagner, Anchor • Jason Nobles, Director • Steven Miller, Photographer • Adrian Ramirez, Photojournalist • Mike Griffith, Photojournalist Photographer • Cory Meacham, Director • Steve McCarron, Clean-up, Curfew, and a 9-Mile March • KING • Michael Anchor • Suzanne Phan, Reporter • Nick Popham, Reporter Botsford, Photojournalist • Vanessa Misciagna, Reporter • • Jonathan Choe,