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VICE Media Group Receives Record 23 News & Documentary Emmy Award Nominations
BROOKLYN, NY (July 27, 2021) – Today, it was announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) that VICE Media Group has been nominated for 23 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, the most nominations ever in the company’s history. VICE News Tonight is the most-nominated nightly newscast for the fourth consecutive year, while VICE TV is America’s Most Emmy-nominated cable entertainment television network.
Jesse Angelo, VICE Media Group President, Global News and Entertainment, said, "I am honored and humbled by VICE Media Group's record 23 Emmy nominations and the world-class team that is responsible for this accomplishment. The range of nominations across platforms is stunning: domestic and international, investigations and breaking news, English and Spanish-language, editing and shooting. The resonance and impact of this body of work - that documented a year in which everything changed - is clear."
“VICE News met the moments in extraordinary ways this past year,” said Subrata De, Executive Vice President, VICE News. “Through political upheaval, an ongoing pandemic and a racial reckoning that has been personally and professionally challenging - one thing that has stayed consistent is that our journalists were relentless in embracing bold and courageous storytelling. To have their work recognized in this way, on every platform, tells us how much these stories matter. We are so proud of this exceptional team.”
VICE News Tonight was nominated across 12 categories including: Outstanding Newscast, Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Long Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast, Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion, Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage, Best Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish, Outstanding Video Journalism: News, and Outstanding Editing: News.
VICE TV also got nods for VICE Versa: Between Musk and Mars and Fringe Nation: Legacy of the KKK both produced by the VICE World News, and Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press, made with Retro Report. Additional nominations include Investigations by VICE: Disgrace (Hulu) and VICE’s 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Presidential Forum.
Today's Emmy® Awards nominations honor programming content from more than 2200 submissions that originally premiered in calendar year 2020, judged by a pool of over 800 peer professionals from across the television and streaming/digital media News & Documentary industry.
VICE MEDIA GROUP NOMINATIONS (23)
Outstanding Newscast VICE News Tonight
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight: American Uprising
Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight: Death and Denial: COVID in Bolsonaro's Brazil
Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast VICE News: The Kids Being Trained and Armed to Fight Mexican Cartels VICE News Tonight: Table Stakes VICE News Tonight: Surviving COVID-19
Outstanding Long Feature Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight: COVID-19: Italy’s Tragedy
Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast VICE News Tonight: Unreleased Footage Gives an Inside Look at the Night Breonna Taylor Died
Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine Fringe Nation: Legacy of the KKK (Vice TV) Investigations by VICE: Disgrace (Hulu)
Outstanding News Special Retro Report: Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press (Retro Report and VICE TV)
Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion VICE News Tonight: Black, Pissed, and Patriotic
Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage VICE News Tonight: A Climate for Locusts VICE News Tonight: Longest Oil Spill
Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage VICE Versa: Between Musk and Mars (VICE TV)
Best Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight: Armenia and Azerbaijan Return to War VICE News Tonight: COVID-19: Italy's Tragedy
Best Story in a Newsmagazine Retro Report: Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press (Retro Report and VICE TV)
Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish VICE News Tonight: Heridos, Presos, o Muertos: Las Consecuencias de Protestar en Venezuela VICE News Tonight: El precio de protestar en Chile Outstanding Video Journalism: News VICE News Tonight: American Uprising
Outstanding Editing: News VICE News Tonight: COVID-19: Italy's Tragedy
Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction: News The Brown & Black Presidential Forum, Vice: The 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Presidential Forum
The 42nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards will be presented in two individual ceremonies: News Categories – Monday, September 28th, 2021 at 8 p.m. EDT and Documentary Categories – Tuesday, September 29th, 2021 at 8 p.m. EDT. Each ceremony will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform powered by Vimeo, available on the web at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and via The Emmys® apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku (full list at apps.theemmys.tv). ###
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