30Th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT NEW YORK CITY GALA Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Barbara Walters President’s Award Presented to CNN Doc Unit Special Tributes to Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt New York, N. Y. – September 21, 2009 (revised 10.05.09)– The 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences this evening at a gala ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. More than 800 media industry executives, journalists, and producers attended the event which honors outstanding achievement in television journalism by individuals and programs, distributed via broadcast, cable and broadband. A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Barbara Walters, longtime ABC News correspondent and creator and co-host of The View. Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, paid tribute to Walters, and Walters’ lifetime achievement Emmy was presented by ABC News president David Westin. CNN Productions, the documentary unit of CNN, was honored with the President’s Award for their distinguished contribution to the craft of documentary filmmaking. Jon Klein, the president of CNN, accepted the award, which was presented by NATAS chairman Herb Granath. Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt, two broadcast journalism legends who passed away in 2009, received special tributes. Walter Cronkite’s son Chip Cronkite spoke about his father. And Don Hewitt’s wife, the journalist Marilyn Hewitt, spoke about her late husband. Bill Small, Chairman of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, presided over the Cronkite and Hewitt presentations.
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