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| Nominees for the 34th Annual News & Documentary EMMY� Awards Announced by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences By StudentFilmmakers.com posted Jul 11, 2013, 12:13 |
Nominations for the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards were announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The News & Documentary Emmy® Awards will be presented on Tuesday, October 1 at a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Center in New York City. The event will be attended by more than 1,000 television and news media industry executives, news and documentary producers and journalists. Emmy® Awards will be presented in 42 categories, including Breaking News, Investigative Reporting, Outstanding Interview, and Best Documentary, among others.
"Congratulations to our esteemed nominees," said Malachy Wienges, Chairman, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. "We are honoring this year's outstanding news stories, and we are also pleased to have David Fanning as this year's Lifetime Achievement recipient. David has guided FRONTLINE to the pinnacle of public affairs television. This year's event promises to be a wonderful evening honoring the best that news and documentary television can be."
David Fanning is the founder of FRONTLINE and has been executive producer of the series since its first season in 1983. FRONTLINE is US television’s longest-running investigative documentary series. The series has won all of the major awards for broadcast journalism: 57 Emmys, including a special Emmy Award for excellence in documentary filmmaking; 27 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards; 15 Peabody Awards; 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards; eight Television Critics Awards; and eight Banff Television Awards.
Yangaroo, Inc. is the official provider of the Digital Media Distribution System Awards Management Solution (“DMDS”) for the submission, judging and voting of all programs in the 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards. Accounting services for the competition are provided by the firm of Lutz & Carr, LLP.
The 34th Annual News & Documentary Emmy® Awards honors programming distributed during the calendar year 2012.
The list of nominees for the 34th Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards is also available on the National Television Academy's website: www.emmyonline.tv
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