THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of TELEVISION ARTS and SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS at the 31St ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY ® AWARDS
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS AT THE 31st ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY ® AWARDS Documentarian Frederick Wiseman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award PBS NewsHour Honored with Chairman’s Award New York, N.Y. – September 27, 2010 (Revised October 14, 2010) – Winners of the 31st Annual News and Documentary Emmy ® Awards were announced tonight by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The News & Documentary Emmy ® Awards were presented at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City. The ceremony will be broadcast on Saturday, October 9 at 8pm ET on C-SPAN. The event was attended by more than 900 television and news media industry executives, news and documentary producers and journalists. Emmy ® Awards were presented in 41 categories, including Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, Outstanding Interview, and Best Documentary, among others. This year’s presenters included Diane Sawyer, anchor, ABC’s World News , Lester Holt , weekend anchor, NBC’s Nightly News , and weekend co-anchor, Today , Sheila Nevins , President, HBO Documentary Films , Dan Rather , anchor and managing editor, HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports , Bob Simon , correspondent, CBS’ 60 Minutes , Paula Zahn , Executive Producer/Host, On the Case with Paula Zahn , Investigation Discovery Network. The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Frederick Wiseman , one of the most accomplished documentarians in the history of the medium, presented by Paula A. Kerger , President and CEO, PBS. In addition, the prestigious Chairman’s Award was given to the PBS NewsHour . Roger Mudd , former Washington correspondent for CBS News, NBC News and the McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS, presented the award to Robert MacNeil , Jim Lehrer , longtime executive producer Les Crystal , and current executive producer Linda Winslow .
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