Emmy Award-Winning
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT NEW YORK CITY GALA Lifetime Achievement Awards Presented to Ken Burns, Bob Schieffer and Tim Russert Special Tributes to Jim McKay, William F. Buckley and Tony Snow New York, N. Y. – September 22, 2008 (revised 10.07.08)– The 29th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tonight at a gala ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. 900 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. Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to PBS documentarian Ken Burns, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer, and former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Host of “Meet the Press” Tim Russert. NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw participated in all of the Lifetime Achievement presentations, and presented the award for Tim Russert to Mr. Russert’s widow, Maureen Orth, and son Luke Russert. Brian Williams, Anchor & Managing Editor, “NBC Nightly News” also paid tribute to his friend and colleague, Mr. Russert. The award to Ken Burns was presented by award-winning writer and filmmaker, and longtime collaborator of Mr. Burns, Dayton Duncan. The award to Bob Schieffer was presented by Bill Small, Chairman of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, former President of NBC News and former Washington Bureau Chief for CBS News. The evening also featured tributes to three other journalists who passed away this year: Jim McKay who proved himself to be an outstanding newsman as well as a sportscaster when he spent 16 hours on the air covering the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
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