The 47th News and Documentary Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, honored the best in American news and documentary programming in 2025. The award ceremonies took place on May 27 and 28, 2026, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City. As per usual, the winners of the news categories were revealed on the first night, and the winners of the documentary categories were announced on the second night. The ceremonies were live-streamed at NATAS YouTube channel. American comedian Amber Ruffin hosted the news ceremony while American comedian Michael Ian Black hosted the documentary one.
The nominees were announced on April 7, 2026. National Geographic's investigative series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller led the nominations with 25. American reporter Martha Raddatz and American film director Sam Pollard (Eyes on the Prize) received the Lifetime Achievement awards for their contributions to news programming and documentary filmmaking, respectively.
Winners and nominees The nominees were announced on April 7, 2026. The winners were revealed on May 27 and 28, 2026.
Lifetime Achievement Award Martha Raddatz (Reporter and Chief Global Affairs correspondent, ABC News – news) Sam Pollard (Film director, editor, producer and screenwriter – documentary)
Gold Circle Inductees Mary Laurence Flynn – Senior producer, NBC News (news) Fountain Jones – Senior technical director, vision mixer, audio engineer, CBS (news) Jim Murphy – Former senior vice president, CNN (news) David Sloan – Senior executive producer, ABC News (news) Kerry Smith – Senior vice president, ABC News (news) Mary Walsh – Producer, CBS (news) Susan Lacy – Documentary film director and producer; Creator and executive producer of PBS American Masters (documentary)
Silver Circle Inductees Fredricka Whitfield – News anchor and journalist, CNN (news) Patricia Aufderheide – University professor, School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C. (documentary) R. J. Cutler – Filmmaker; President and founder of This Machine Filmworks (documentary) Sally Jo Fifer – Former president and CEO at Independent Television Service (ITVS) (documentary) Vicente Franco Izquierdo – Cinematographer and director, Franco Productions (documentary) Renee Tajima-Peña – Documentary filmmaker and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (documentary)
News Programming Outstanding Live News Program Outstanding Recorded News Program ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC News) Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN Worldwide) Good Morning America (ABC News) The Lead with Jake Tapper (CNN) NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas (NBC News) Today Show (NBC News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN Worldwide) ABC News Nightline (ABC News) CBS News Sunday Morning (CBS News) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage Outstanding Extended Breaking News Coverage ABC News Special Report: "U.S. Army's Grand Military Parade" (ABC News) Today Show: "American Eagle Helicopter Crash Morning After" (NBC News) CBS News: "Charlie Kirk Assassination" (CBS News) NBC News Special Report: "Gaza Peace Deal & Israeli Hostage Release" (NBC News) NBC News Special Report: "New Orleans Terror Attack" (NBC News) 60 Minutes: "The Fires" (CBS News) PBS News Hour: "Catastrophic Fires" (PBS News) "Deadly Texas Flash Floods" (CNN Worldwide) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "Fire Emergency in Southern California" (ABC News) "LA Wildfires" (CNN Worldwide) Outstanding Live News Special Outstanding Recorded News Special 20/20 & ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "American Catastrophe: LA Burning" (ABC News) Noticias Telemundo: "100 días de Trump" (Telemundo) "100 Days of Trump: A Townhall with Forced Out Federal Workers" (MSNBC) ABC News Special Report: "The Conclave" (ABC News) Good Night, and Good Luck (CNN Worldwide) ABC News Live: "The Children of Gaza" (ABC News) ABC News Live: "The Struggle for Food Assistance" (ABC News) "Hurricane Katrina: 20 Years After the Storm" (ABC News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "LA Burning" (CNN Worldwide) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "The United States vs. Harvard" (CNN Worldwide) Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form "Earthquake in Myanmar" (BBC News) "CNN's Frederik Pleitgen Reports from Inside Iran" (CNN Worldwide) "CNN's Jeremy Diamond Covers Gaza's Starvation Crisis" (CNN Worldwide) PBS News Hour: "Cuts & Consequences" (PBS News) In the Shadows with Jason Bellini: "Haiti: Inside the Collapse" (Scripps News) "Along the Green Line" (The Guardian) "CNN's Isobel Yeung Reports from Afghanistan" (CNN Worldwide) 60 Minutes: "The First 100 Days Compilation" (CBS News) "Gaza War" (The New York Times) "Immigration Crackdown" (ABC News) Outstanding Light Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Light Feature Story: Long Form "What Japan's Atom Bomb Survivors Have Taught Us" (Retro Report) "How Activists Fought for Rights for People with Disabilities" (Retro Report) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "The Long Train Ride Home: Remembering Emmett Till" (ABC News) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "Revisiting the Voting Rights Act" (ABC News) ABC News Nightline: "Remembering Captain Pitts" (ABC News) The New York Times Op-Docs: "View from the Floor" (The New York Times) 20/20 & ABC News Live: "Operation Babylift: The 50 Year Journey" (ABC News) ABC News Live: "America's Care Crisis" (ABC News) "I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?" (More Perfect Union) 60 Minutes: "The Sherpas of Everest" (CBS News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "The Simril(l)s: A Family in Black and White" (CNN Worldwide) Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form 60 Minutes: "The War in Gaza" (CBS News) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "California Burning" (ABC News) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "The Scope of the Devastation" (ABC News) ABC News Nightline: "Pregnant and Brain Dead" (ABC News) "Tortured for Ransom in the Sahara" (CNN Worldwide) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "Two Nights with the Cartel" (ABC News) "Chasing a Ghost: The Search for Austin Tice" (CNN Worldwide) Frontline: "Battle for Tibet" (PBS) Frontline: "The Rise of Germany's New Right" (PBS) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "The Hidden Homeless" (CNN Worldwide) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Million Dollar Highway Heists" (National Geographic) Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form "DOGE Package" (The New York Times) CNN Investigates: "Death and Hunger: The Fate of Gaza's Aid Seekers" (CNN Worldwide) CNN Investigates: "ICE Operation Series" (CNN Worldwide) "Investigation: How the Tate Brothers Were Freed from Romania" (The New York Times) "Poisoned: Fentanyl's Child Victims" (Scripps News) Hallie Jackson Now: "Prison System in Crisis" (NBC News) Frontline: "Strike on Iran: The Nuclear Question" (PBS) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Brides for Sale" (National Geographic) 60 Minutes: "The President's Pardon" (CBS News) 60 Minutes: "The Prisoners" (CBS News) "We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You." (More Perfect Union) Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Outstanding Emerging Journalist "Deport Them All: Who's to Blame for Springfield's Immigrant Crisis?" (More Perfect Union) The Rachel Maddow Show: "Burn Order Community Event" (MS Now) NewsNight with Abby Phillip: "The History of Slavery: A Debate & Rebuttal" (CNN Worldwide) The New York Times Opinion: "They Were the Watchdogs" (The New York Times) The New York Times Opinion: "We Followed the Rules. ICE Jailed Us Anyway." (The New York Times) Breaking the Deadlock: "Truth Under Fire" (PBS) Washington Week: "Washington Week with The Atlantic" (PBS News) Hanako Montgomery (CNN Worldwide) Camilo Montoya Galvez (CBS News) Jay O'Brien (ABC News) Kait eTutrone (The Weather Channel) Outstanding Interview: Short Form Outstanding Interview: Long Form "CNN's Jeremy Diamond Presses Hamas Official on Suffering in Gaza" (CNN Worldwide) CBS News Sunday Morning: "Elon Musk" (CBS News) "Interview with Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi" (NBC News) Meet the Press: "Interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov" (NBC News) Good Morning America: "Pennsylvania Governor Speaks Out After Arson Attack" (ABC News) Nightline: "So I Rape You" (ABC News) "Eric Dane Speaks" (ABC News) ABC News Live: "Epstein Survivors Speak Out" (ABC News) ABC News Live & This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "War or Peace: The Zelenskyy Interview" (ABC News) Leaders with Francine Lacqua: "Finland's President on Trump, Resilience and Putin's Threat" (Bloomberg Originals) Dateline NBC: "Lori Vallow Daybell: The Jailhouse Interview" (NBC News) "Why Young Men Don't Like the Democrats" (More Perfect Union) Outstanding War or Violent Conflict Coverage Outstanding Science and Technology Coverage Fault Lines: "Kids Under Fire" (Al Jazeera International USA) Fault Lines: "The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya" (Al Jazeera International USA) Fault Lines: "The Killing Field" (Al Jazeera International USA) Frontline: "Syria After Assad" (PBS) "Filmed in Gaza" (NBC News) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Scam City" (National Geographic) "AI Chatbots Sent Him Spiraling. Then He Contacted Me." (More Perfect Union) 60 Minutes: "Character AI" (CBS News) The Circuit with Emily Chang: "Inside OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman" (Bloomberg Originals) In the Shadows with Jason Bellini: "Robot War" (Scripps News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "The Wired Rainforest" (CNN Worldwide) Outstanding Climate, Environment and Weather Coverage Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Shark Hunters" (National Geographic) Frontline: "Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages" (PBS) Frontline: "Hurricane Helene's Deadly Warning" (PBS) The New York Times Op-Docs: "Crying Glacier" (The New York Times) ABC News Live: "Last Lands" (ABC News) "We Went to the Town Elon Musk is Poisoning" (More Perfect Union) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "The Tranq Dope Underground" (National Geographic) In the Shadows with Jason Bellini: "Drone War Medics" (Scripps News) CNN Health: "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Pain: It Doesn't Have to Hurt" (CNN Worldwide) Fault Lines: "The Last Lifeline" (Al Jazeera International USA) IMPACT x Nightline: "Switched Before Birth" (ABC News / Hulu) Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Underground Street Racing" (National Geographic) "Born to Be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers" (ABC News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "K-Pop: A Star is Made" (CNN Worldwide) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "No Laughing Matter: Free Speech Under Attack" (CNN Worldwide) IMPACT x Nightline: "Selena: Beyond the Headlines" (ABC News / Hulu) So Expensive: "Why Concert Tickets Are So Expensive - and Who's to Blame" (Business Insider) "The Zombie Debts Making Wall Street Rich" (Bloomberg Investigates) View from Above: "Exposing the Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion" (Business Insider) The New York Times Opinion: "Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing." (The New York Times) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "The Great American Rehab Scam" (National Geographic) Fault Lines: "Gutted" (Al Jazeera International USA) CBS Reports: "The Price of Milk: Immigrants Behind American Dairy" (CBS News) Outstanding Social Issue Coverage Outstanding True Crime Coverage Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Black Market Love" (National Geographic)