FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 VICE NEWS TONIGHT REMAINS THE MOST-AWARDED NIGHTLY NEWSCAST WITH 4 EMMY® AWARDS VICE News Tonight is the most-awarded nightly newscast for a third consecutive year at the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards Newsroom honored for its groundbreaking international journalism from China and Syria BROOKLYN, NY (September 21, 2020) – VICE News has won four News & Documentary Emmy® Awards for its groundbreaking investigation of China’s treatment of the Uighur population in Xinjiang, the fall of the Islamic State, and a father’s plight to find his missing children lost to ISIS, it was announced this evening by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Coming into the night as the most nominated news show of 2020, VICE News Tonight landed four News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, making it the most awarded nightly newscast for the third year in a row. Jesse Angelo, President, Global News & Entertainment, VICE Media Group: “We don’t work in news to win awards, but this year, when the importance of journalism in society is clearer than ever, we are incredibly humbled our reporting has been honored tonight. I want to take this moment to give special recognition to the VICE News Tonight team, past and present, that have made this show into the powerhouse that it is. I am thrilled that our peers have recognized this and bestowed upon us one of the highest honors in the industry. VICE News was awarded across four major categories, including: Best Story in a Newscast; Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast; Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast and Outstanding Research. Coverage honored this evening included reports from correspondents Isobel Yeung, Seb Walker and Aris Roussinos. This year, the newscast earned 18 News & Documentary Emmy® Awards nominations, becoming the most nominated news show in 2020 and the most nominated nightly newscast for three consecutive years. To date the show has received 14 Emmy® wins and 51 nominations. Since launching in 2016, VICE News Tonight has dismantled the status quo for nightly news. With the youngest audience in hard news, the show has become a paradigm for how networks can defy convention to captivate young viewers successfully through unconventional and brave approaches to storytelling coupled with world-class reporting. ### FULL LIST OF WINS: Best Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight (HBO): Taken by ISIS FULL CREDITS: Executive Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith Senior Producers: Craig Thomson, Cheryll Simpson Correspondent: Seb Walker Producers: Adam Desiderio, Amel Guettatfi, Seb Walker, Mikhail Galustov, Roberto Daza Supervising Writer: Reid Cherlin Editors: Joe Matoske, Robert Cosentino, Ryo Ikegami Directors of Photography: Ben Foley, Javier Manzano, Mikhail Galustov, Adam Desiderio, Zach Caldwell Field Producers: Abdul Rahman Dawud, Muhammad Jambaz, Berzan Iso Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast VICE News Tonight (HBO): Collapse of the Caliphate (Part 2) (Part 3) FULL CREDITS: Executive Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith Senior Producers: Craig Thomson, Cheryll Simpson Correspondents: Seb Walker, Aris Roussinos Producers: Adam Desiderio, Amel Guettatfi, Mikhail Galustov, Patricia Guerra, Seb Walker Editors: Joe Matoske, Robert Cosentino, Ryo Ikegami Directors of Photography: Javier Manzano, Mikhail Galustov, Adam Desiderio Field Producers: Abdul Rahman Dawud, Muhammad Jambaz, Berzan Iso Outstanding Research VICE News Tonight (HBO): They Come for Us at Night: China's Vanishing Muslims FULL CREDITS: Executive Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith, Subrata De, Beverly Chase Producers: Nicole Bozorgmir, Isobel Yeung, T. Wang Correspondent: Isobel Yeung Associate Producer: Carina Wong Editor: Paula Salhany Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast VICE News Tonight (HBO): They Come for Us at Night: China's Vanishing Muslims FULL CREDITS: Executive Producers: Madeleine Haeringer, Josh Tyrangiel, Shane Smith, Subrata De, Beverly Chase Producers: Nicole Bozorgmir, Isobel Yeung, T. Wang Correspondent: Isobel Yeung Associate Producer: Carina Wong Editor: Paula Salhany ### ABOUT VICE MEDIA GROUP VICE Media Group is the world’s largest independent youth media company. Launched in 1994, VICE has offices in 35 cities across the globe with a focus on five key businesses: VICE.com, an award-winning international network of digital content; VICE STUDIOS, a feature film and television production studio; VICE TV, an Emmy-winning international television network; a Peabody award-winning NEWS division with the most Emmy-awarded nightly news broadcast; and VIRTUE, a global, full-service creative agency with 25 offices around the world. VICE Media Group’s portfolio includes Refinery29, the leading global media and entertainment company focused on women; PULSE Films, a London-based next-generation production studio with outposts in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Berlin; i-D, a global digital and bimonthly magazine defining fashion and contemporary culture; and Garage, a digital platform and biannual publication converging the worlds of art and design. .
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