The 44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards were presented National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), to honor the best in American news and documentary programming in 2022. The winners were announced on two ceremonies held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and live-streamed at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and other associated apps. The winners of the news categories were announced on September 27, 2023, while the ones for the documentary categories were revealed on September 28, 2023.
The nominees were announced on July 27, 2023. Vice's news program VICE News Tonight led the nominations with 28 nominations followed by CBS's 60 Minutes with eleven, and National Geographic's Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller and PBS' FRONTLINE, both with nine. CNN was the most nominated network with 45 nominations. The nominees for the international categories were announced on August 15, 2023. The Gold and Silver Circle inductees were announced on August 29, 2023, dedicated to honour several professionals for their distinguished service within the television industry for 50 or 25 years respectively.
VICE News Tonight received the most awards with eight, while HBO Max's The Janes and National Geographic's Retrograde were the most awarded documentaries with three wins each. American journalist and new anchor Wolf Blitzer and American film director Barbara Kopple were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the news and documentary ceremonies, respectively.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on July 28, 2023. The winners were announced on September 27 and 28, 2023.
Lifetime Achievement Award Wolf Blitzer (news) Barbara Kopple (documentary)
Gold Circle Inductees David Martin – National Security correspondent of CBS News (news) John Quiñones – ABC News correspondent, 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, What Would You Do? host (news) Dan Rather – anchor, journalist, founder, News and Guts (news) Jon Alpert – documentarian, journalist, cofounder of DCTV (documentary) Keiko Tsuno – documentarian, journalist, cofounder of DCTV (documentary)
Silver Circle Inductees Steve Fastook – Senior Vice President of Operations, CNBC (news) Kim Godwin – President of ABC News (news) Rand Morrison – executive producer of CBS News Sunday Morning (news) Steve Osunsami – Senior National correspondent of ABC News (news) Otto Padron – President & CEO of Meruelo Media (news) Thomas Snowden – editor of NBC News (news) Daniel H. Birman – documentarian, Birman Productions (documentary) Lois Vossen – executive Producer, Independent Lens (documentary) Chris White, executive Producer, American Documentary (documentary)
News Programming Outstanding Live News Program Outstanding Recorded News Program ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC) Anderson Cooper 360° (CNN) CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (CBS) CBS Mornings (CBS) NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC) CBS Sunday Morning (CBS) 60 Minutes (CBS) The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (Showtime) Nightline (ABC) VICE News Tonight (Vice) Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage CNN Worldwide: "Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (CNN) CBS Mornings: "Uvalde" (CBS) CNN Worldwide: "The War in Ukraine" (CNN) NBC News Specials + NBC News Now: "Hurricane Ian" (NBC) NBC News Specials: "Uvalde School Shooting" (NBC) 60 Minutes: "Platform 4" (CBS) 20/20: "Putin's War: The Battle to Save Ukraine" (ABC) Erin Burnett OutFront: "Fleeing Ukraine" (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "Inside an Armed Bank Raid in Lebanon" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Inside Kyiv During the Start of Russia's Invasion" (Vice) Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form Clarissa Ward: War in Ukraine (CNN) Anderson Cooper 360°: "Shimon Prokupecz: Unraveling Uvalde" (CNN) BBC World News America: "Afghanistan Under the Taliban" (BBC World News) BBC World News America: "War in Ukraine" (BBC World News) Matthew Chance: Ukraine (CNN) Nick Paton Walsh: Ukraine's Bitter War (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "Putin's War on Ukraine" (Vice) 60 Minutes: "Belief in the Ballot, Dominion, and Voting Rights & Wrongs" (CBS) 60 Minutes: "War in Ukraine" (CBS) ABC News: "Uvalde 365: A Year in the Community" (ABC) Nightline: "A Reckoning: The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools" (ABC) Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form I Stutter (The New York Times) CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute: "Nelly Cheboi - Upcycling Tech to Uplift Lives" (CNN) Meet the Woman Fighting for the Rights of Voters Who Can't Read (ProPublica) Nightline: "Swimming While Black" (ABC) Sunday NFL Countdown: "Phil & Franco" (ESPN) VICE News Tonight: "Airlines are Turning to Black Women to Save Them" (Vice) Op-Docs: "My Disability Roadmap" (The New York Times) 60 Minutes: "Sharswood" (CBS) In Real Life: "The New Death" (Newsy) NBC News Digital: "Dear Noah: Pages from a Family Diary" (NBC) Nightline: "Mi Niño: Chile's Stolen Children" (ABC) VICE World News: "The Teenage Mafia Academy" (Vice) Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form Anderson Cooper 360°: "10-Year-Old Trapped with the Uvalde School Shooter Repeatedly Called 911 for Help" (CNN) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis and Nightline: "Inside Kharkiv's Battle of Resilience" (ABC) How Mormon Church 'Help Line' Hid Child Sex Abuse (The Associated Press) Nightline: "The Horrors in Bucha" (ABC) VICE News Tonight: "Inside Somalia's Nightmare Drought" (Vice) FRONTLINE: "Putin's War at Home" (PBS) 60 Minutes: "Pathogen X" (CBS) NBC Nightly Films: "The Reckoning: An American Genocide" (NBC) Nightline: "Saving Malaika" (ABC) On Assignment with Richard Engel: "Ukraine: The Search for Justice" (MSNBC) Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form Anderson Cooper 360°: "Investigating Uvalde" (CNN) CBS Mornings: "Decades of Exposure" (CBS) How Iran's Security Forces Use Rape to Quell Protests (CNN) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: "Horror at Kabul's Abbey Gate" (CNN) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: "Russia Plunders Sudan's Gold to Boost Putin's War in Ukraine" (CNN) FRONTLINE: "Afghanistan Undercover" (PBS) FRONTLINE: "Crime Scene: Bucha" (PBS) Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha (The New York Times) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Fish Pirates" (National Geographic) VICE News Tonight: "Above the Law: Investigating the Louisville Metro Police Department" (Vice) Outstanding Live News Special Outstanding Recorded News Special Live from the Capitol: January 6, One Year Later (CNN) ABC News: "NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Mission | Liftoff to Space" (ABC) ABC News Special Report: "Queen Elizabeth" (ABC) CBS News: "CBS News: America Decides Campaign '22 – Midterm Elections" (CBS) NBC News Specials: "Decision 2022: The Balance of Power" (NBC) Noticiero Telemundo: "Decision 2022: Battle for the Power" (Telemundo) Ukraine: A Mother's War (NBC News Now) ABC News Live: "The Struggle to Understand" (ABC) ABC News Soul of a Nation Presents: "Together as One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage" (ABC) Burning Questions: Covering Climate Now (WORLD) Field Report with Paola Ramos: "Florida 2022" (MSNBC) CBS Sunday Morning: "CBS Sunday Morning: A Nation Divided?" (CBS) VICE News Tonight: "On the Ground in Ukraine: A VICE News Tonight Special Report" (Vice) Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion VICE News Tonight: "Inside Rights: Teenagers Discuss Abortion" (Vice) CNN Tonight: "77 Minutes in Uvalde" (CNN) Fareed Zakaria GPS: "The Fall of Kabul, One Year Later" (CNN) State of the Union with Jake Tapper: "Russia's War" (CNN) This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "On the Brink of War" (ABC) The New York Times Opinion Video: "The Taliban Promised Them Amnesty. Then They Executed Them" (The New York Times) All In with Chris Hayes: "From Kanye to Trump" (MSNBC) State of the Union: "Jake Tapper on Trump's dinner with antisemite" (CNN) The New York Times Opinion Video: "I'm a Pro-Life Pastor, but I Support a Woman's Right to Choose" (The New York Times) The New York Times Opinion Video: "We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It's Greed" (The New York Times) Outstanding Live Interview: Short Form Outstanding Live Interview: Long Form Anderson Cooper 360°: "Uvalde Shootng, Anderson Cooper Interviews Angel Garza" (CNN) Anderson Cooper 360°: "Anderson Cooper and Olena Gnes - Mother of Three Living in a Bomb Shelter in Kviv" (CNN) Erin Burnett OutFront: "Erin Burnen & Serhiy Perebyinis" (CNN) The Lead with Jake Tapper: "Worldwide Exclusive: President Zelensky's First Interview as War Leader" (CNN) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: "Blitzer & Adel Al-Jubeir" (CNN) This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "Defying Putin on The Air" (ABC) TODAY: "College Football Star's Brave Decision" (NBC) Amanpour: "Russian Presidential Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov interviewed by Christiane Amanpour" (CNN) Anderson Cooper 360°: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi Describes Her Experience Following Husband's Anack That Was Intended for Her" (CNN) The New York Times DealBook Summit: "Sam Bankman-Fried with Andrew Ross Sorkin" (The New York Times) State of the Union with Jake Tapper: "Jake Tapper interview Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves" (CNN) TODAY: "Savannah Guthrie Interviews Bill Barr" (NBC) Outstanding Edited Interview Outstanding Emerging Journalist 60 Minutes: "President Zelenskyy" (CBS) CNN Special Report: "Finally Home: The Trevor Reed Interview" (CNN) Dateline NBC: "Bill Barr: In the Eye of the Storm" (NBC) Nightline: "Lia Thomas" (ABC) World News Tonight with David Muir and 20/20: "Breaking with the President: The Mike Pence Interview" (ABC) Selina Wang (CNN) Al-Hlou (The New York Times) Ellison Barber (NBC) Zinhle Essamuah (NBC) Ashan Singh (ABC) Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage In Real Life: "Plastic Time Bomb" (Newsy) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Amazon Mafia" (National Geographic) World's Untold Stories: "The Brain Collectors" (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "Where Protecting the Environment Gets You Killed" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "'They're Watching Us': Inside the Company Surveilling Millions of Students" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Beyond Fentanyl" (Vice) Fault Lines: "A Toxic Feed: Social Media and Teen Mental Health" (Al Jazeera International USA) The New York Times Opinion Video: "This Is What a Post-Roe Abortion Looks Like" (The New York Times) VICE News Tonight: "Cuba's Healthcare Crisis" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Post-Roe America" (Vice) Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage VICE News Tonight: "The Dark Side of Manga" (Vice) 20/20: "Cinderella: The Reunion" (ABC) ABC News Soul of a Nation Presents: "PRIDE: To Be Seen" (ABC) CNN FlashDocs: "Taking on Taylor Swift" (CNN) Nightline: "What America Owes: The Stolen Generation" (ABC) VICE News Tonight: "The Price of Purity: Inside the Wellness Industry's Controversial Supply Chains" (Vice) Africa+: "Black Snow: Nigeria’s Oil Catastrophe" (Bloomberg) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Stolen Cars" (National Geographic) VICE News Tonight: "VICE News Investigates: Mafia Land" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Undercover in Guyana" (Vice) Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage VICE News Tonight: "No Justice for Women in the Taliban's Afghanistan" (Vice) Dateline NBC: "Dark Waters" (NBC) Dateline NBC: "What Happened to Anton Black?" (NBC) Soul of a Nation Presents: "X / o n e r a t e d – The Murder of Malcolm X and 55 Years to Justice" (ABC) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "White Supremacy" (National Geographic)