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SHARYL ATTKISSON woman in two decades. Crowley’s assignments have taken her to all 50 states and 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 for the State , 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 . 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 , 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 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 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 during his historic visit in 1972, and 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 , 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

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NNewsews & DocDoc EmmysEmmys 20132013 programprogram singlesingle pages.inddpages.indd 3838 99/19/13/19/13 10:0310:03 AMAM 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, 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. In producer of The Advocates. He served as that series’ executive editor from 1971 to New York, he has covered every Mayor since John Lindsay. Scott’s coverage of the 1974. Under his editorship, The Advocates was honored with Emmy and Peabody Congressional Whitewater hearings won him an Emmy for “Outstanding Political Awards, as well as the American Bar Association Award. In 2002, McGhee was the Reporting.” Prior to joining WPIX, Scott was an anchor/reporter at WNEW-TV recipient of the prestigious Ralph Lowell award in recognition of his outstanding (now WNYW-TV). He held previous positions as anchor, correspondent and contributions to public television. McGhee was honored with a special Lifetime producer at CNN, Mutual Broadcasting System, and WABC-TV. Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to the television industry at the 24th Banff Television Festival, June 8 to 13, 2003. Alex Wagner is the host of MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner DAVID MUIR (weekdays at noon ET). Wagner had been an MSNBC analyst David Muir is an Emmy award-winning anchor and cor- and a frequent MSNBC guest since 2010. Most recently, respondent for ABC News based in New York. He is the Wagner was a reporter with Huffington Post, where she cov- weekend anchor for the flagship ABC News broadcast World ered innovation in the American economy, investigating the News and co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. Muir intersection of business, politics and new technology. Prior to reports from the scene of major news events around the world. this, Wagner served as the White House correspondent for Politics Daily, where Most recently, Muir anchored five hours of live coverage of she chronicled a number of international and domestic affairs ranging from the the unfolding tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut before leaving to report from the BP oil spill to the Egyptian revolution. Wagner was the Executive Director of scene. Overseas, Muir was the first American journalist to report from Mogadishu, Not On Our Watch, an advocacy and grant making non-profit founded by actors Somalia on the worst famine of a generation coming under fire while reporting George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle, from 2007 to 2009. from the war-torn city. He earned a prestigious Edward R. Murrow for those With the goal of stopping and preventing mass atrocities, Wagner traveled to reports. Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the revolution in Egypt, and troubled hotspots including Burma, Sudan and Zimbabwe.From 2004 to 2007, from Fukushima, Japan following the tsunami and nuclear accident. Here at home, she was the Editor in Chief of the Fader Magazine, covering cultural movements Muir reported from Aurora after the movie theatre shootings, from Joplin, Mis- around the globe from Brazil to China to South Africa. Prior to this, she served souri in the hours after the deadly tornado and from Tucson after the shooting of as the Cultural Correspondent for the Washington, DC-based think tank Center Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In 2012, Muir served as a lead correspondent for American Progress. on the 2012 Presidential election. His interviews with presidential candidate often generated headlines well beyond ABC News. In addition, Muir is a MALACHY WIENGES principal substitute anchor for World News with Diane Sawyer, where his Emmy- Malachy Wienges is chairman of the National Academy of nominated series Made In America has become a hallmark of Sawyer’s broadcast. Television Arts & Sciences. Wienges’ career spans 31 years at the CBS Television Network, with positions ranging from BRUCE PAISNER management trainee to vice president of sales/marketing and Bruce L. Paisner is Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive technical systems. He has produced The CBS Thanksgiving Officer of Hearst Entertainment and Syndication and serves Day Parades, and is credited with originating the concept of on the boards of Hearst’s Cosmopolitan TV Channels in remote production for daytime dramas (soap operas) when he took The Guiding Spain, Latin America and Canada. From 2004 to 2009, he Light to the Bahamas in 1976. Since then, he has produced more than 155 televi- headed the operations of Hearst Entertainment & Syndica- sion and film productions worldwide. Wienges received a National Emmy in 1992 tion, the corporate group responsible for Hearst’s interests for the NFL on CBS, and he was awarded a second National Emmy for technical in cable television networks, television production and distribution, newspaper achievement for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Wienges is syndication and merchandise licensing. For over 20 years, he served on the Boards president of Sedona Broadcasting, serving as a television consultant to worldwide of Directors of Lifetime Television, A&E Network and History Channel. A leading television and media companies. He is also an Arizona State Film Commissioner, spokesperson and advocate for television industry issues around the world, Paisner having been appointed to this position by then-Governor Janet Napolitano in 2006. is President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,

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