July 14, 2009
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WGBH honored with 12 News and Documentary Emmy nominations
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the 30th annual News
and Documentary Emmy Awards, with PBS leading all networks with 41 nominations.
WGBH was honored with 12 nominations, including six for Frontline, four for
Nova, one for Frontline/World and one for “The Truth About Cancer.”
A list of all News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations for WGBH series
follows.
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY - LONG FORM
Frontline
“Bush’s War”
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer/Reporter: Jim Gilmore
Producer/Director: Michael Kirk
Co-Producer: Mike Wiser
Frontline
“The War Briefing”
Producer: Marcela Gaviria
Co-Producer: Will Cohen
Correspondent: Martin Smith
OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM - LONG FORM
Frontline
“Rules of Engagement”
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Senior Producer: Raney Aronson-Rath
Producer/Director: Arun Rath
Co-Producer: Amy Rubin
OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING - LONG FORM
Frontline
“Growing Up Online”
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Producer/Directors: Rachael Dretzin, John Maggio
Nova
“A Walk to Beautiful”
Executive Producer: Steve Engel
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace
Producer/Director: Mary Olive Smith
Co-Producer: Allison Shigo
Director: Amy Bucher
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OUTSTANDING SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND NATURE PROGRAMMING
Nova
“Ape Genius”
Executive Producer: John Bredar
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace
Supervising Producer: James Donald
Producer/Director: John Rubin
Nova
“Secrets of the Parthenon”
Senior Executive Producer: Paula Apsell
Senior Series Producer: Melanie Wallace
Producer: Gary Glassman
NEW APPROACHES TO NEWS & DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMING:
DOCUMENTARIES
Frontline
pbs.org/frontline
“Bush’s War Timeline”
Producer/Director: Michael Kirk
Co-Producer: Mike Wiser
Web Producer: Andrew Ott
Editorial Director: Marrie Campbell
Director of New Media & Technology: Sam Bailey
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frontline
“The War Briefing”
Cameraperson: Timothy Grucza
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: RESEARCH
Nova
“Ape Genius”
Researcher: John Rubin
OUTSTANDING CONTINUING COVERAGE OF A NEWS STORY IN A NEWS
MAGAZINE
Frontline/World
“State of Emergency”
Executive Producer: David Fanning
Senior Producers: Ken Dornstein, Stephen Talbot
Producer/Reporter: David Montero
OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: WRITING
Take One Step
“The Truth About Cancer”
Writer: Linda Garmon
-more-
News & Documentary Emmy nominations/ page 3 of 3
Among other nominations for PBS were ten for P.O.V, two each for Bill Moyers
Journal, Nature, and Independent Lens, and one for NOW on PBS.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will announce the winners
on September 21 at a ceremony in New York City, when Barbara Walters will receive
Lifetime Achievement Honors and the CNN Documentary Unit will be receive the
President’s Award.
About WGBH
WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster, producing such celebrated
national PBS series as Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American
Experience, Arthur, Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning
primetime, lifestyle and children’s series. Boston’s last remaining independent TV
station, WGBH produces local TV productions (among them, Greater Boston, Basic
Black and María Hinojosa: One-on-One) that focus on the region’s diverse community,
while WGBH 89.7 FM is Boston’s NPR Arts & Culture station, offering a rich menu of
classical, jazz, blues, news programming and more. WGBH is the leading producer of
online content for pbs.org—one of the most-visited dot-org sites on the Internet—a
major producer for public radio and a pioneer in developing educational multimedia and
new technologies that make media accessible for people with disabilities. For its efforts,
WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors, including Oscars, Emmys,
Peabodys and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. Visit WGBH on the Web at
www.wgbh.org
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