The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences revealed the nominations for the 43rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Thursday. The awards will be presented in two separate ceremonies: the news categories on September 28 at 7:30 PM ET and the documentary categories on September 29 at 7:30 PM ET.
In addition to handing out Emmys in 64 categories, the academy will honor two people from the news/documentary world with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Judy Woodruff, anchor and editor-in-chief, PBS NewsHour for news, and Sir David Attenborough, biologist, humanist and filmmaker.
The News & Documentary Emmys honor programming content from more than 2,500 shows that originally premiered in calendar year 2021. ABC leads with 39 nominations this year, followed by CNN (37), PBS (28) Vice (28 ), CBS (26) and HBO. (23).
These are some of the main categories. The full list of nominees is available on the National Television Academy website, theemmys.tv.
Outstanding live news program
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, ABC
Anderson Cooper 360, CNN
CBS Mornings / CBS This Morning, CBS
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC
The Star with Jake Tapper, CNN
TODAY, NBC
Outstanding Recorded News Program
20/20, ABC
60 Minutes, CBS
ABC News Soul of a Nation, ABC
CBS Sunday morning
Nightline, ABC
Outstanding Emerging Journalist
Anna Kook, AJ+
Omar Jimenez, CNN
Antonia Hylton, NBC
Paola Ramos, deputy
Rachel Scott, ABC
Featured live breaking news coverage
ABC News Special Events, The January 6 Uprising
Belarus: Inside a manufactured migrant crisis, CNN
CBS News, Assault on the Capitol
Haitians converge on US-Mexico border, CNN
NBC News Specials, January 6 Attack on the Capitol
PBS NewsHour, PBS NewsHour’s special coverage of the Electoral College count
Featured breaking news coverage
60 Minutes, CBS, January 6
60 Minutes, CBS, The Beast
Video by a reporter from inside the Capitol siege, The New Yorker
ABC News Originals for Hulu, 24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, ABC, The Insurrection
Vice News, Vice, Inside the battle for Jerusalem
Featured Continuing News Coverage: Short Form
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, ABC, Afghanistan Unraveling
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, ABC, The Climate Crisis
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC, Richard Engel – Continued coverage of Afghanistan
The coup in Myanmar, CNN
VICE News Tonight, Vice, India’s Deadly Delta Wave
VICE News Tonight, Vice, Battle For Care
VICE News Tonight, Vice, Haiti: Descent into Chaos
Outstanding Continuous News Coverage: Long Form
20/20, ABC, George Floyd
The Fall of Afghanistan, CNN
VICE News Tonight, Vice, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
VICE News Tonight, Vice, Yemen: The Forgotten War
VICE News Tonight, Vice, Six Weeks: Inside Texas’ Abortion Ban
Exceptional Mild Character Story: Short Form
ABC News Soul of a Nation, ABC, Miss Lucille
CNN Digital, CNN, Running as Equals
CNN Heroes, CNN, Shirley Raines
The Undefeated Presents, ESPN, Why We Kneel
Vice News, Vice, Deaf in a pandemic
Exceptional smooth feature story: Long shape
20/20 ABC, The 9/11 Babies: Twenty Years Later
48 Hours, CBS, What Happened to the Perfect Boy?
60 Minutes, CBS, The Comeback
New York Times Opinion Video The New York Times, How Life Sees Through My ‘Whale Eyes’
VICE News Tonight, Vice, this family of Black Cowboys goes back 5 generations
Hard News Featured Story: Short Form
Axum: Journey to a holy city, CNN
Chinese detective-turned-whistleblower reveals torture against Uyghurs, CNN
In Search of the Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved, The New York Times
The Star with Jake Tapper, CNN
9 year old Afghan sold for marriage
VICE News Tonight, Vice, the Central African Republic is recruiting Russians in its war against the rebels
VICE News Tonight, Vice, Death threats: Election officials say so
The News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented live from the Palladium Times Square in New York City and will stream live on Watch.TheEmmys.TV and via The Emmys® apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV and Roku (full list at apps.theemmys.tv).
