PRESENTERS SHARYL ATTKISSON woman in two decades. Crowley’s assignments have taken her to all 50 states and Sharyl Attkisson is a Washington-based CBS News Inves- around the world. Since taking the anchor chair for State of the Union, Crowley tigative Correspondent. In September 2012, Attkisson won has interviewed top newsmakers including: Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for the State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, outgoing Secretary Gunwalker: Fast and Furious story. In June 2012, Attkisson of Defense Robert Gates, and former President George W. Bush, among others. received the RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Excel- Crowley has co-anchored key primary and caucus nights throughout America’s lence in Investigative Reporting for the same story. Attkisson Choice 2012 election coverage. She played a pivotal role in CNN’s America Votes also received an Investigative Emmy Award in 2009 for her exclusive investiga- 2008 Peabody Award-winning coverage. In 2009, she earned a prestigious Gracie tions into TARP and the bank bailout. Attkisson has been a Washington-based Allen Award for coverage of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. She also correspondent for CBS News since January 1995. She is one of the few journalists was part of the network’s Emmy Award-winning 2006 midterm election coverage. to have flown in a B-52 on a combat mission in Kosovo and in an F-15 fighter jet Combat Air Patrol flight. Attkisson joined CBS News as a co-anchor of its KATTY KAY overnight broadcast, Up To The Minute, in September 1993. That year, she anchored Katty Kay is the lead anchor of the BBC’s flagship U.S. news- CBS News’ special week-long coverage from Houston’s Johnson Space Center of the cast BBC World News America. Before taking over the anchor space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble telescope, including a six-and-a-half- chair Katty served as the BBC’s Washington correspondent. hour live broadcast the night of the first space walk. Prior to joining CBS News, Katty’s career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990, Attkisson was an anchor and correspondent for CNN (1990-93). She anchored where she worked for BBC World Service (radio). Among its coverage of many major stories, including the Persian Gulf War. Attkisson is the stories she covered during this deployment were Zimba- co-author of Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News (Allyn & Bacon, 2003), bwean land reform, the independence of Namibia, and the demise of apartheid in a textbook currently used by many college journalism programs. South Africa. She went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo, reporting on stories including the Kobe earthquake, the gas attack on the N.J. BURKETT Tokyo underground and the beginning of the Japanese economic recession. She N.J. Burkett is a senior correspondent for New York’s WABC- moved to Washington in 1996 and has since covered three Presidential elections, TV, the most-watched television station in America. His the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the crash of 2008 and controversies surrounding distinctive storytelling, production skills and award-winning the Clinton administration. She was at the Pentagon on September 11th 2001, international reporting have added a unique dimension to reporting for the BBC in the immediate aftermath of the attack. Katty is a frequent WABC-TV’s coverage of metropolitan New York. In Sep- guest on Meet the Press, Morning Joe and The Chris Matthews Show as well as being tember 2001, after the two airliners struck the World Trade a regular guest host for Diane Rehm on NPR. She is the co-author of the New Center, Burkett and photographer Marty Glembotzky narrowly escaped the York Times best seller Womenomics. subsequent collapse of the South Tower. Their work was later seen on television news broadcasts around the world and is on permanent exhibit at the Newseum in TED KOPPEL Washington, DC. Burkett spent nearly three months covering the war in Iraq. In Legendary journalist Ted Koppel, whose broadcasting career recent years, he has reported from several Middle Eastern and European capitals. spans half a century, has been honored with every major pro- He has covered the last four Israeli elections, as well as the Palestinian popular fessional recognition. In March 2012, the Arthur L. Carter uprising, known as the Intifada. Burkett was the only local New York television Journalism Institute at New York University named Koppel news correspondent to report from Japan after the historic 9.0 earthquake, tsunami one of the “100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States and nuclear accident in 2011, and the first among his colleagues to report from in the Last 100 Years.” Koppel has received more Overseas Haiti after the earthquake there, in 2010. In the New York metropolitan area, he Press Club awards than the previous record holder-Edward R. Murrow-two George has reported on everything from aviation disasters to natural disasters; from crime Polk awards, eight George Foster Peabody awards, eleven DuPont-Columbia and politics to race relations and police misconduct. Burkett is a two-time winner awards (television’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize) and 42 Emmys, among them of the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award and a four-time Emmy Award-winner. a lifetime achievement Emmy. Koppel was the youngest full-time correspondent He shared the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia ever hired by ABC News, and was the anchor and managing editor of Nightline University Award with his colleagues at ABC News for his reporting on the Sep- over a period of 26 years, making him the longest-serving news anchor in broadcast tember 11th attacks. Burkett is the President of the National Academy of Televi- network history. Koppel covered Dr. Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to sion Arts & Sciences, New York and a member of the NATAS Board of Trustees. Montgomery, Alabama, was a war correspondent in Vietnam, Laos and Cambo- dia, traveled with President Nixon to China during his historic visit in 1972, and CANDY CROWLEY covered Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East. He has covered Candy Crowley is CNN’s award-winning chief political corre- wars in Bosnia, Congo and Somalia, covered the first Gulf War and was embedded spondent and anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, with the 3rd Armored Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. After a political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis of the leaving ABC in 2005, Koppel served as managing editor of the Discovery Channel week’s most important issues. Crowley took the reins of State where he produced 20 hours of documentaries which entailed extended visits to of the Union in February 2010. In her role as chief political cor- China and Iran, and an examination of the global war on terror. He is currently a respondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including special correspondent for NBC News, a news analyst for NPR and a contributing presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative develop- columnist to the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. ments on Capitol Hill. Crowley was selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate a 2012 general election debate between President Obama and Gov. Romney. The town hall debate was the first debate moderated by a 38 | THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES NNewsews & DDococ EmmysEmmys 22013013 programprogram singlesingle pages.inddpages.indd 3838 99/19/13/19/13 110:030:03 AAMM PETER MCGHEE the largest organization of broadcasters in the world, which recognizes excellence in Peter McGhee was Vice President, National Programming international television programming with The International Emmy® Award. He is for WGBH, Boston until his retirement in 2003. During his also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and The Century Association. tenure, McGhee guided the development of such ongoing documentary series as Frontline, American Experience, and MARVIN SCOTT Nova. He built on Nova’s success to create the WGBH Science Marvin Scott is WPIX-TV’s Senior Correspondent and Unit, whose productions include The Machine That Changed anchor/host of the weekly issues-oriented program, PIX PHOTO COURTESY OF CURRENT NEWSPAPER the World, Building Big, and Evolution. History projects pro- News Close Up. Since joining WPIX in 1980, he has served duced with McGhee’s leadership include Vietnam: A Television in multiple capacities as anchor, reporter, host and producer. History, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, Inside Gorbachev’s USSR, Columbus and A veteran journalist with over 40 years of experience in both the Age of Discovery, and the 26-part Century of Discovery. The programs developed print and broadcast mediums, Scott’s background includes under McGhee’s watch reflect his own wide-ranging curiosity: a history of Rock local, national and international assignments. Scott’s assignments have taken him & Roll; Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting and Sister Wendy’s American Collection; from the front lines of Iraq, Cambodia and the Middle East, to the highways of numerous dramas for American Playhouse; The AIDS Quarterly; Culture Shock, on America’s South, where he covered civil rights protests with Dr. Martin Luther once-banned, now classic works of art; and Antiques Roadshow, the most popular King. He spent Christmas 2004 and 2006 with New York soldiers in Iraq. He series on PBS. McGhee began his broadcast career in 1964 at National Educational has interviewed six American presidents. During visits to the Middle East, he Television (NET) in New York. In 1969, McGhee moved to WGBH Boston as a interviewed Golda Meier, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, among others.