Inside Thirteen Blogger: Neal Shapiro, President
What a night!
For 25 years, when I worked for ABC News and NBC News and attended the annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, I watched with envy as PBS took home the lion’s share.
Last night at the 2008 News & Documentary Emmys, I watched with pride as PBS went home with 10 awards, more than any other network, and more than twice as many as the closest competition… including an Emmy for our own program, The Mysterious Human Heart, in the Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming category.
There were Lifetime Achievement Emmy Awards for Bob Schieffer, the late Tim Russert and Ken Burns. Ken’s history with PBS began in 1982 with a film about The Brooklyn Bridge (which was nominated for an Academy Award) and his body of work includes some of the best documentary films ever made: The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz and most recently The War.
Here is a list of the PBS 2008 News & Documentary Emmy Awards:
OUTSTANDING COVERAGE OF A BREAKING NEWS STORY IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Political Turmoil : Margaret Warner in Pakistan (Watch Online)
Executive Producer
Linda Winslow
Senior Producer
Michael Mosettig
Producer
Simon Marks
Senior Correspondent
Margaret Warner
Reporter
Dan Sagalyn
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY – LONG FORM
P.O.V.
Made in L.A.
Executive Producers
Sally Jo Fifer, Simon Kilmurry, Cara Mertes
Producer/Director
Almudena Carracedo
Producer
Robert Bahar
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING – LONG FORM
America at a Crossroads
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Series Executive Producers
Jeff Bieber, Dalton Delan
Series Producer
Leo Eaton
Program Executive Producers
Tom Yellin, Sally Jo Fifer (for ITVS)
Program Director/Producer
Richard Robbins
OUTSTANDING ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMING
FRONTLINE
The Undertaking (Watch Online)
Producers
Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky
Executive Producers
Michael Sullivan, David Fanning
OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE PROGRAMMING
The Mysterious Human Heart (Watch Online)
Executive Producer/Producer/Director
David Grubin
Executive Producer, Thirteen/WNET New York
Jared Lipworth
Executive Producers, WETA
Dalton Delan, Jeff Bieber
Producers
Tania Castellanos, Thomas Jennings, David Murdock
Co-Producer
Mica McCarthy
BEST REPORT IN A NEWS MAGAZINE
Bill Moyers Journal
Buying the War (Watch Online)
Executive Producers
Judy Doctoroff O’Neill, Felice Firestone
Senior Producers
Bill Petrick, Sally Roy
Executive Editors
Bill Moyers, Judith Davidson Moyers
Producer
Kathleen Hughes
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Independent Lens
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
Producer/Director
Robert Levi
Producers
Joshua Blum, George Seminara
Executive Producer
Sally Jo Fifer
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH
American Experience
The Living Weapon (Watch Online)
Researchers
Rich Remsberg, John Rubin
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: MUSIC AND SOUND
America at a Crossroads
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sound Editor
Glen Frazier
Re-recording Mixer
Terrance Dwyer
Foley Artist
Monique Reymond
Sound Effects Editors
Sam Londé, Matthew Slivinski
Dialog Editors
David Ball, Vince Tennant
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: LIGHTING DIRECTION AND SCENIC DESIGN
NOVA
Forgotten Genius (Watch Online)
Lighting Director and Scenic Designers
Gary Henoch, Katha Seidman
