The 41st News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), honoring the best in American news and documentary programming in 2019. The winners were announced on two ceremonies via live-stream at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other apps associated, the winners for the News categories were announced on September 21, 2020, while the ones for the Documentary categories were revealed on September 22, 2020.
The nominees were announced on August 6, 2020 for both the News and the Documentary categories.
Winners and nominees The nominees were announced on August 6, 2020. Winners in each category are listed first, in boldface.
News programming Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newscast Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine New Day ("Roger Stone raid") (CNN) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ("California Burning") (ABC) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir ("Shooting in El Paso") (ABC) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and Nightline ("The Sri Lanka Massacre") (ABC) PBS NewsHour ("Why the Caliphate’s fall is a ‘milestone’ but not the end for ISIS") (PBS) Today ("Mass shootings in America") (NBC) The Weekly ("El Chapo's Son: The Siege of Culiacán") (FX Networks) 60 Minutes ("Hong Kong") (CBS) 60 Minutes ("The Impeachment Debate and The Impeachment Inquiry") (CBS) Dateline NBC ("The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos") (NBC) Vice News ("Bringing Down Baghdadi") (Vice TV) Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine VICE News Tonight ("Collapse of the Caliphate") (HBO) PBS NewsHour ("Inside the Honduran Migrant Crisis") (PBS) VICE News Tonight ("Cross-Border Crackdown") (HBO) VICE News Tonight ("Enduring Maduro: Life in Venezuela") (HBO) VICE News Tonight ("Hong Kong Revolts") (HBO) FRONTLINE in association with The Associated Press ("Kids Caught in the Crackdown") (PBS) Dateline NBC ("Life Inside") (NBC) FRONTLINE ("Targeting Yemen") (PBS) The Weekly ("Baby Constantin") (FX Networks) The Weekly ("Connecting the World") (FX Networks) Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine CBS Sunday Morning ("What Price?") (CBS) CBS Sunday Morning ("Alec's Mission") (CBS) CBS Sunday Morning ("The Real Green Book") (CBS) Nightline ("Mexico: The Disappeared") (ABC) VICE News Tonight ("What It’s Like to Have a Second-Trimester Abortion") (HBO) The Weekly ("The Gallagher Attack") (FX Networks) 60 Minutes ("Nadia") (CBS) ABC News ("The Dropout") (ABC) Freedom Fighters (Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting) Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel ("Love & Basketball: The Elena Delle Donne Story") (HBO) Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newscast Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer ("Putin's Private Army") (CNN) VICE News Tonight ("They Come For Us At Night: China's Vanishing Muslims") (HBO) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and Nightline ("Vanished: China's Missing Muslims") (ABC) CNN International Desk and Amanpour ("Fear and Oppression in Xinjiang") (CNN) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer ("Made in America, Lost in Yemen") (CNN) FRONTLINE in collaboration with BBC Arabic ("Iraq's Secret Sex Trade") (PBS) 60 Minutes ("The Label") (CBS) Fault Lines ("In Bad Faith") (Al Jazeera International USA) FRONTLINE in collaboration with NPR ("Coal's Deadly Dust") (PBS) Unsafe Factories in Bangladesh Are Supplying Amazon Sellers (The Wall Street Journal) Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast Outstanding Breaking News Coverage Today ("‘Zone Rouge’: An Army of Children Toils in African Mines") (NBC) CBS This Morning ("R. Kelly Breaks His Silence") (CBS) 'It's Mutilation': The Police in Chile AreBlinding Protesters (The New York Times) Made in China, Exported to the World: TheSurveillance State (The New York Times) PBS NewsHour ("The Opaque Operations Involved in Fighting the Taliban") (PBS) Turkey's Incursion into Syria (CNN) A Deadly Weekend in America (CNN) Hong Kong Protesters Storm LegCo (CNN) Hurricane Dorian Hitsthe Bahamas (CNN) Sri Lanka Easter Bombings (CNN) Outstanding Live Interview Outstanding Edited Interview Amanpour ("U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Interviewed by Christiane Amanpour") (CNN) AC360 ("Anderson Cooper Interviews Facebook's Monika Bickert") (CNN) Amanpour ("Christiane Amanpour Interviews Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs") (CNN) The Beat with Ari Melber ("Mueller Witnesses Interview") (MSNBC) Today ("Nikki Haley Live in Studio 1A") (NBC) Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now (Netflix) 60 Minutes ("Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman") (CBS) 60 Minutes ("Investigating the President") (CBS) 60 Minutes ("Know My Name") (CBS) Dateline NBC ("Reckoning") (NBC) Real America with Jorge Ramos ("Interview with a Dictator") (Univision) Outstanding News Special Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis CBS Sunday Morning ("A Sunday Morning in Florence") (CBS) 20/20 ("Screen Time") (ABC) CNN Special Report ("Abuse and Scandal in the Catholic Church: The Case of the Predator Priest") (CNN) CNN Special Report ("The Fall: The Final Days of the Caliphate") (CNN) Justice For All Town Hall (MSNBC) Black Women OWN the Conversation ("Motherhood") (OWN) All In with Chris Hayes ("All In America: Live at the Border") (MSNBC) All In with Chris Hayes ("Climate in Crisis") (MSNBC) Meet the Press ("Special Edition: Alternative Facts") PBS NewsHour ("The Mueller Report, Explained") (PBS) Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report New Day Weekend ("'Infested, 'He Says") (CNN) A Message from the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept) Equal Play (The New York Times) Real America with Jorge Ramos ("Detained by a Dictator") (Univision) The Rachel Maddow Show ("Tiller and Beyond: Abortion Wars in Kansas") (MSNBC) PBS NewsHour ("Stopping A Killer Pandemic") (PBS) CNN Special Report ("A Toxic Tale - Trump’s Environmental Impact") (CNN) Fault Lines ("Sick Inside: Death and Neglect in U.S. Jails") (Al Jazeera International USA) Nightline ("Journey to the Edge") (ABC) PBS NewsHour ("Warnings from Antarctica") (PBS) Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Report Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Report 60 Minutes ("Mark Bradford") (CBS) 60 Minutes ("The Lost Music") (CBS) PBS NewsHour ("Making Her Own Sound: Redefining Who Can Be a Musician") (PBS) Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel ("On the Basis of Sex: Girls' Baseball in America") (HBO) VICE News Tonight ("A Dose of Humanity in Virtual Reality") (HBO) VICE News Tonight ("Nobody Wants to Die: Surviving D-Day") (HBO) The Lead with Jake Tapper ("Maduro's Blood Gold") (CNN) Fault Lines ("Recovering from Rehab") (Al Jazeera International USA) Fault Lines ("System Failure: The Boeing Crashes") (Al Jazeera International USA) Fault Lines ("Targeted by a Text") (Al Jazeera International USA) The Hidden Safety Risks of YourAmazon Order (The Wall Street Journal)
Programming in Spanish Outstanding Newscast or Newsmagazine in Spanish Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in Spanish Aquí y Ahora (Univision) Al Punto (Univision) Noticias Telemundo (Telemundo) Noticiero Univision (Univision) Primer Impacto (Univision) Barcelona Riots (CNN en Español) Al Punto ("Coverage of shooting in El Paso, Texas") (Univision) Aquí y Ahora ("Enigmas de las Caravanas (Enigmas of the Caravans)") (Univision) El Chapo culpable ("El Chapo" Guilty) (Telemundo) Noticiero Univision ("El Paso shooting") (Univision) Univision News Digital ("Un día con una milicia pro-Trump en la frontera") (A Day at the Border with a Pro-Trump Militia) (Univision) Outstanding Investigative Journalism in Spanish Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish Los niños perdidos de Guatemala (Lost Children of Guatemala) (Telemundo) Aquí y Ahora ("Buscando en el Desierto (Searching in the Desert)") (Univision) Aquí y Ahora ("Supremacistas: Las Redes del Odio (Supremacists: The Networks of Hate)") (Univision) Aquí y Ahora ("The Secrets of Trump's Housekeepers") (Univision) Caravanas (Caravans) (Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic) CNN Digital ("No Olvidado: Death and dignity on the US border") (CNN) "Míster Trump, disculpe las molestias" ("Mr. Trump, Pardon the interruption") (Telemundo) Univision News Digital ("Las niñas suicidas de El Salvador") (Univision) Univision News Digital ("Las redadas nublan el futuro de los hispanos en EEUU") (Univision) Vice News Tonight – Tracking Colombia's Disappeared (HBO) Outstanding Interview in Spanish Aquí y Ahora ("La Entrevista Censurada (The Censored Interview)") (Univision) "Trump rompe el silencio" (Trump Breaksthe Silence) (Telemundo) Al Punto ("Interview with author Mario Vargas Llosa") (Univision) Camilo ("Ophelia Pastrana") (CNN en Español) En diálogo con Longobardi ("Jesse y Joy") (CNN en Español)
Documentary Programming Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary POV ("Midnight Traveler") (PBS) FRONTLINE ("Fire in Paradise") (PBS) FRONTLINE ("On the President's Orders") (PBS) POV ("The Distant Barking of Dogs") (PBS) Under the Wire (Starz) Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist (HBO) POV ("The Silence of Others") (PBS) Independent Lens ("Charm City") (PBS) Independent Lens ("The Interpreters") (PBS) Knock Down the House (Netflix) XY Chelsea (Showtime Outstanding Social Issue Documentary Outstanding Investigative Documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fightfor Equality (HBO) College Behind Bars (PBS) Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (HBO) Independent Lens ("Wrestle") (PBS) Untouchable (Hulu) 16 Shots (Showtime) At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (HBO) FRONTLINE ("Flint's Deadly Water") (PBS) FRONTLINE in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal ("Predator on the Reservation") (PBS) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Fusion) Outstanding Historical Documentary Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (HBO) 8 Days: To the Moon and Back (PBS) FRONTLINE ("Supreme Revenge") (PBS) Independent Lens ("The King") (PBS) ReMastered: Massacre at the Stadium (Netflix) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (Starz) ReMastered: The Lion's Share (Netflix) An American Masters Special Presentation Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (VOD) Independent Lens ("Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World") (PBS) It's a Hard Truth Ain't It? (HBO) United Skates (HBO) Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary Outstanding Nature Documentary Going Viral: Beyond the Hot Zone (National Geographic) CNN Original Series ("Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta") (CNN) Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe (Science Channel) NOVA ("The Planets") (PBS) NOVA ("The Violence Paradox") (PBS) Nature ("The Serengeti Rules") (PBS) Dancing with the Birds (Netflix) Dynasties (BBC America) Into the Canyon (National Geographic) The River and the Wall (Starz) Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary Outstanding Short Documentary The Weekly –The Myth of the Medallion (FX Networks) FRONTLINE ("In the Age of AI") (PBS) Independent Lens ("Made in Boise") (PBS) POV ("Farmsteaders") (PBS) Rotten (Netflix) The Nightcrawlers (National Geographic) ABC News ("1969: The FBI and the Panther") (ABC) Fire in Paradise (Netflix) Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl) (A&E) Lost & Found (National Geographic) Scenes from a Dry City (Field of Vision) Best Documentary POV ("The Silence of Others") (PBS) 16 Shots (Showtime) At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (HBO) Independent Lens ("The King") (PBS) Under the Wire (Starz)
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