46th News and Documentary Emmy Awards

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46th News and Documentary Emmy Awards
Date
  • June 25, 2025 (News Categories)
  • June 26, 2025 (Documentary Categories)
Location Palladium Times Square, New York City
Most awards Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller (4)
Most nominations Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller (29)
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The 46th 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 2024. The award ceremonies took place on June 25 and 26, 2025, at Palladium Times Square in New York City. 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 Watch.TheEmmys.TV and the Emmys app. [1]

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In January 2025, NATAS president Adam Sharp revealed that the News and Documentary Emmys would change its scheduling from late September to June, saying that moving the ceremony earlier "shines a brighter light on the timely nature of the incredible content being recognized". [2]

The nominees were announced on May 1, 2025. [1] National Geographic's investigative series Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller led the nominations with 29. American weather presenter Al Roker and American documentary filmmaker Jon H. Else received the Lifetime Achievement Awards, for their work in news and documentaries respectively. [3]

Winners and nominees

The nominees were announced on May 1, 2025. The winners were revealed on June 25 and 26, 2025.

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Al Roker, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
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Jon H. Else, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
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Michael Kirk, Golden Circle Inductee
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Deborah Roberts, Silver Circle Inductee

Lifetime Achievement Award

Gold Circle Inductees

Silver Circle Inductees

News Programming

Outstanding Live News ProgramOutstanding Recorded News Program
Outstanding Breaking News CoverageOutstanding Emerging Journalist
Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short FormOutstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form
Outstanding Light Feature Story: Short FormOutstanding Light Feature Story: Long Form
Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short FormOutstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form
  • "She Survived an Airstrike that Killed Her Entire Family in Gaza" (The New York Times) (Mona El-Naggar, reporter)
    • BBC World News America : "Haiti: Inside the City Ruled by Over 100 Gangs" (BBC News) (Nawal Al-Maghafi, correspondent)
    • "How Indiscriminate Israeli Fire Killed Half a Family in Gaza" (CNN Worldwide) (Jomana Karadsheh, correspondent)
    • "A Mother's Tragic Tale from War-Torn Gaza" (CNN Worldwide) (Jeremy Diamond, correspondent)
    • Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien : "Nowhere to Call Home: The Working Homeless" (Hearst Television) (Jessica Gomez, correspondent)
    • "Sde Teiman: Israeli Whistleblowers Detail Abuse" (CNN Worldwide) (Matthew Chance, correspondent)
    • "The Walking Route" (CNN Worldwide) (David Culver, correspondent)
Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short FormOutstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form
  • "Europe's Migration Crisis" (BBC News) (Andrew Harding, Yogita Limaye, and Jess Parker, correspondents)
    • NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt : "Dealing the Dead" (NBC News) (Liz Kreutz, correspondent)
    • "Grandmother Shot and Killed Fleeing Gaza" (CNN Worldwide) (Clarissa Ward, correspondent)
    • "Hospitals in Peril, The Looting of Steward Health Care" (CBS News) (Jonathan LaPook, correspondent)
    • Scripps News Investigates: "Maine Shooting: Missed Warnings" (Scripps News) (Lori Jane Gliha, correspondent)
  • 60 Minutes : "Targeting Americans" (CBS) (Scott Pelley, correspondent)
    • "Baby Heaven: The Buried Stories of Camp Lejeune" (NBC News NOW) (Cynthia McFadden, correspondent)
    • Frontline : "Documenting Police Use of Force" (PBS) (Martha Bellisle, Ryan J. Foley, Kristin M. Hall, Aaron Morrison, and Mitch Weiss, correspondents)
    • Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller : "The Drug Mule Scam" (National Geographic)
    • "How 'Trophy' Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan" (The New York Times) (Aaron Byrd, Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, and Declan Walsh, producers)
    • Scripps News Investigates: "Missed Warnings" (Scripps News) (Lori Jane Gliha, correspondent)
Outstanding Live News SpecialOutstanding Recorded News Special
Outstanding News Discussion & AnalysisOutstanding News Discussion & Analysis: Editorial and Opinion
  • "America First: A Fareed Zakaria Special" (CNN Worldwide)
  • "Elliott County Voted for Democrats For 144 Years. Then Came Trump..." (More Perfect Union) (Josh Hirschfield-Kroen and John Russell, producers
    • "American Autocracy: It Could Happen Here" (MSNBC) (Vaughn Hillyard, correspondent)
    • In Real Life: "Independent America" (Evident, Scripps News) (Gianna Toboni, correspondent)
    • Face the Nation : "Israel-Hamas War" (CBS) (Mark Strassmann and Imtiaz Tyab, correspondents)
  • The New York Times Opinion : "Two Weeks Inside Gaza's Ruined Hospitals" (The New York Times) (Alexander Stockton and Amanda Su, producers)
    • "Deadlock: An Election Story" (PBS) (Mark Mannucci, director)
    • The New York Times Opinion : "Grab Your Calculators. We’re Going to Jail." (The New York Times) (Jonah Kessel and Kirk Semple, producers)
    • The New York Times Opinion : "How Tennessee Keeps Nearly Half a Million People From Voting" (The New York Times) (Emily Holzknecht, producer)
    • The New York Times Opinion : "I Put Him on Death Row. He Shouldn't Die." (The New York Times) (Kirk Semple and Adam Westbrook, producers)
Outstanding Live Interview: Short FormOutstanding Live Interview: Long Form
Outstanding Edited InterviewOutstanding Science and Technology Coverage
Outstanding Climate, Environment and Weather CoverageOutstanding Health or Medical Coverage
Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment CoverageOutstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage
Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage

Spanish Language Programming

Outstanding News Program in SpanishOutstanding Journalist in Spanish Language Media
Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in SpanishOutstanding Investigative News Coverage in Spanish
  • "NarcoFiles: Tren de Aragua" (CNN Worldwide)
    • "Cada Vez Más Migrantes Viajan Encerrados en Tráileres por México Rumbo a EE.UU." (Telemundo)
    • N+ Focus: "China Inc: Un Negocio Criminal de Aduanas" (Vix / TelevisaUnivision)
    • N+ Focus: "Deportación Infantil: El Muro Mexicano" (Vix / TelevisaUnivision)
    • Noticiero Univision : "El Darién, Cementerio Sin Cruces" (Univision)
    • El Último Refugio de la Vaquita Marina: "La Lucha por Salvar las Últimas 8 Vaquitas Marinas del Mundo" (VICE News)
Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish
  • "Nacer Sin Extremidades: la Vida de Carlos Candelario Tras la Exposición a Pesticidas de su Madre" (Univision)

Documentary Programming

Best DocumentaryOutstanding Arts and Culture Documentary
Outstanding Current Affairs DocumentaryOutstanding Social Issue Documentary
Outstanding Politics and Government DocumentaryOutstanding Business and Economic Documentary
  • The Sixth (A24)
    • Battleground Texas (VICE News) (Simone Perez and Gianna Toboni, producers)
    • POV : "The Body Politic" (PBS) (Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough, director)
    • Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid (CNN Worldwide) (Brett Kelly, director)
    • From Russia With Lev (MSNBC)
    • American Experience : "The Riot Report" (PBS) (Michelle Ferrari and Connie Honeycutt, producers)
    • POV : "Who's Afraid of Nathan Law?" (PBS) (Joe Piscatella, director)
Outstanding Investigative DocumentaryOutstanding Historical Documentary
Outstanding Science and Technology DocumentaryOutstanding Nature Documentary
  • Photographer: "Paul Nicklen & Cristina Mittermeier: Win or Die" (National Geographic) (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, directors) [6]
    • Nature : "Patrick and the Whale" (PBS) (Mark Fletcher, director)
    • Nature : "Attenborough and the Jurassic Sea Monster" (PBS) (Victoria Bobin, director)
    • Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (National Geographic)
    • Nature : "Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons" (PBS) (Elizabeth Leiter, producer)
    • Our Living World (Netflix) (Laura Coates, Kirstine Davidson, Peter Lown, and James Shelton, directors)
    • Nature : "Silverback" (PBS) (Miles Blayden-Ryall, director)
Outstanding Crime and Justice DocumentaryOutstanding Short Documentary
  • Bloomberg Investigates : "The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering" (Bloomberg) (Adrianne Jeffries, producer)
    • Love To The Max (The New Yorker) (Tanya Selvaratnam, director)
    • Motorcycle Mary (ESPN) (Haley Watson, director)
    • Swept (Human Rights Watch) (Adam Silver, director)
    • Wings of Dust (Documentary+) (Giorgio Ghiotto, director)

Craft

Outstanding Video Journalism: NewsOutstanding Cinematography: Documentary
  • Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough – Camera Team [a] (Netflix)
    • Earthsounds – Rod Clarke, Dawson Dunning, Dan Hunter, Louis Labrom, Mark Payne-Gill, David Reichert, Ed Saltau, Romilly Spiers (Apple TV+)
    • POV : "King Coal" – Curren Sheldon (PBS)
    • Nature : "Lions of the Skeleton Coast" – Lianne Steenkamp, Will Steenkamp (PBS)
    • Mammals – Neil Anderson, Howard Bourne, Jo Charlesworth, Olly Jelley, Xuan Hui Ke, Florian Ledoux, Kieran O'Donovan, Jacky Poon, Oliver Richards, John Shier, Max Smith, Bertie Gregory, Jamie McPherson, Hugh Miller, Vincent Munier, Florian Schulz, Phil Timpany (BBC America / AMC+)
    • Our Living World – Camera Team [b] (Netflix)
Outstanding Direction: NewsOutstanding Direction: Documentary
Outstanding Editing: NewsOutstanding Editing: Documentary
  • Blink – Ryan Mullins, Miranda Yousef, Rachelle Hamilton (National Geographic)
    • Apollo 13: Survival – Otto Burham (Netflix)
    • Citizen Nation – Anne Checler, Jane Jo, Benji Kast, Elana Meyers (PBS)
    • Death Without Mercy – Agnieszka Liggett (Showtime)
    • We Will Dance Again – Yasmine Novak, Roy Roy Balbirsky (Paramount+)
Outstanding Graphic Design: NewsOutstanding Graphic Design: Documentary
  • The New York Times Opinion : "You're Being Lied To About Voter Fraud. Here's the Truth." – Neil Makhija, Molly Crabapple, Kim Boekbinder, Jim Batt (The New York Times)
    • "AFP Videographic: The International Criminal Court" – Julie Pereira (AFP)
    • "Four Gazans Show How War Devastated Their Coastline" – Barbara Corbellini Duarte, Robert Leslie, Dorian Barranco, Liz Kraker, Reem Makhoul, Erica Berenstein, Yasser Abu Wazna, Matilda Hay, Mark Abadi, Marisa Frey, Amelia Kosciulek, Clancy Morgan (Business Insider)
    • "The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash" – Jacqueline Lin, Ryan Trefes (The Wall Street Journal)
    • Bloomberg News Spotlight : "The Price of Money" – Rubab Shakir, Alex Sears (Bloomberg)
    • "Rohingya Hijras Facing Transphobic Abuse and Sexual Violence" – Laden Anoushfar, Elisa Solinas, Patrick Gallagher, Yukari Schrickel, Meera Senthilingam, Ankur Paliwal (CNN Worldwide)
  • Omnivore – Margherita Premuroso, Sky Bird, Steven Do, Cindy SooHoo, Trix Taylor, Benjamin Woodlock, Steve Biggert, Rachel Fowler, Javier Gonzalez (Apple TV+)
    • Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy – Colin Thornton, Neil Wilson, Ka Hei Heiley Chiu, Sam Jewitt, Chris MacDonald, Hannah Privett, Beth Archibald, Henry Esterson, Yafang Hsueh, Hokun Tsou, Oliver Weinfeld, Katleen Kattnig, Tomas Koza, Assim Kumaka, Nik Maund, Becky Vicars, Ryan Wintle, Orla Smith, Genevieve Weatherburn, J.S. Young (Netflix)
    • Food, Inc. 2 – Virgil Conklin, Ross Henderson, Josh Norton, Riley Carson, Doug Chang, Idil Gozde, Ann Kruetzkamp, Sohyun Park, Brian Landisman, Justin Nixon, Conner O'Brian, Nick Woythaler, Carson Hood, Ayden Ackerman, Adam Afzali, Padraic Driscoll, Casey Drogin, Marvin Perez, Kurt Huggins (Apple TV+)
    • Frida – Sofía Inés Cázares, Renata Galindo (Prime Video)
    • Join or Die – Mark Lopez (Delevan Street Films)
Outstanding Research: NewsOutstanding Research: Documentary
  • "The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash" – Frank Matt, Paul Overberg, Emma Scott (The Wall Street Journal)
    • Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller : "Apes" – Eugen Bräunig, Cara Fitts, Jeffrey D. Allen, JJ Kelley, Jeffrey Plunkett, Mariana van Zeller, Paul Burger, Christopher Weeks, Erin Fifer, Mark Levenstein, Paulina Vaca, Robert Muraskin (National Geographic)
    • Frontline : "Breakdown in Maine" – Kristina Abovyan, Julia Arenstam, Katherine Griwert, Steve Mistler, Nicole Reinert, Susan Sharon, John Terhune (PBS)
    • 60 Minutes : "The Cap Arcona" – Marc Lieberman, Warren Lustig, Cassidy McDonald, Bill Whitaker (CBS News)
    • Frontline : "Documenting Police Use of Force" – Martha Bellisle, Reece Dunklin, Ryan J. Foley, Kristin M. Hall, Holbrook Mohr, Aaron Morrison, Mitch Weiss, Roxana Hegeman, Angeliki Kastanis, Justin Pritchard, Rhonda Shafner, Helen Wieffering, Taylor Stevens, Sean Mussenden (PBS)
    • "K File Investigation in North Carolina Governor's Race" – Matthew Phillips, Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck (CNN Worldwide)
    • Fault Lines : "Starving Gaza" – Júlia Nueno Guitart, Hind Hassan, Peter Polack, Mark Scialla (Al Jazeera International USA)
  • The Grab – McKenzie Funk, Nathan Halverson, JoeBill Muñoz, Mallory Newman, Amanda Pike, David Ritsher, Emma C. Schwartz, Yinuo Shi (Center for Investigative Reporting Studios)
    • The Bibi Files – Eitan Amrami, Daniel Bellone, Alexis Bloom (Jolt.film)
    • Frontline : "China, The U.S. and the Rise of Xi Jinping" – Scott Anger, Josephine Bradlee, Lily Wang, Elizabeth Hope Williams (PBS)
    • American Experience : "Nazi Town, USA" – Peter Yost, Edna Alburquerque (PBS)
    • Our Oceans – Kate Colley, Zoe Cousins, Inka Cresswell, Asher Flatt, Estelle Ngoumtsa, Ella Potts, Nadia Rashid Aswani, Dr Alex Schnell, Megan Soulsby, Nathalie SwainDiaz, Peter Webster (Netflix)
Outstanding Lighting Direction: NewsOutstanding Lighting Direction: Documentary
Outstanding Music Composition: DocumentaryOutstanding Sound: Documentary
  • Earthsounds – Marc Anderson, Jonny Crew, Tom Mercer, Tim Owens, Luke O’Connell, Owen Peters, Owen Shirley, Graham Wild, Paul Ackerman, Rory Joseph, Myles Ackerman Smith, Ellie Bowler, Kate Hopkins (Apple TV+)
    • Apollo 13: Survival – Greg Gettens, Rebecca Heathcote, Olly Freemantle, Glen Gathard, Paul Darling (Netflix)
    • Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story – Renzo Spiteri, Kate Hopkins, Graham Wild (National Geographic)
    • Mammals – Paul Fisher, Oliver Baldwin, Dan Brown, Graham Wild (BBC America / AMC+)
    • Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough – Paul Fisher, Angela Groves, Brian Moseley, Chris Watson, Ioannis Spanos, Ellie Wiiliams (Netflix)
Outstanding Writing: NewsOutstanding Writing: Documentary
Outstanding Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design: DocumentaryOutstanding Show Open or Title Sequence: News
  • The New York Times Opinion : "You're Being Lied To About Voter Fraud. Here's the Truth." – Neil Makhija, Jim Batt, Kim Boekbinder, Molly Crabpple (The New York Times)
    • Apollo 13: Survival – Fiona Albrow, Beck Rainford, Mert L. Balta (Netflix)
    • Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story – Brian Hodge, Chloe Reisen (Prime Video)
    • Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial – Rita Viktória Hetényi, Bernadett Redenczki, Janka Erdély (Netflix)
    • SeparatedEugenio Caballero (MSNBC)
    • The New York Times Opinion : "This Is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like" – Jonah Kessel, Axel Sence, Swann Valenza (The New York Times)
Outstanding Promotional Announcement: NewsOutstanding Promotional Announcement: Documentary
Outstanding Technical Excellence: News

Regional News

Outstanding Regional News Story: Breaking/Spot NewsOutstanding Regional News Story: Investigative
Outstanding Regional Documentary

Notes

  1. Kevin Flay, Hugo Kitching, James Aldred, Luke Barnett, Ralph Bower, Duncan Brake, Tavish Campbell, Rod Clarke, Ben Cunningham, Filipe Deandrade, Adam Horder, Deirdre Leowinata, Katie Mayhew, Sam Meyrick, Roger Munns, Duncan Parker, Robin Smith, Romilly Spiers, Gavin Thurston, Darren West, Mark Yates
  2. Knut Aas, Ben Adams, James Aldred, Felix Baker, Guillaume Beaudoin, Owen Bissell, Julian Braatvedt, Bernt Bruns, Juan Pablo Bueno Gomez, Sashwa Burrous, Santiago Cabral, Mauricio Copetti, Nate Dappen, Tania Escobar, James Ewen, Richard Fitzpatrick, Steve Hathaway, Corby Hines, Matt Hobbs, Jeff Hogan, Tom Hooker, David Hutchinson, Todd Kewley, Georgia Krause, Brett Kuxhausen, Joseph Large, Justin Lewis, Simon Lewis, Neil Losin, Michael Male, Andrew Manske, Michael Mauro, Kyle McBurnie, Zachary Moxley, Jordan Myers, Greg Nelson, Nick Pitt, Corey Robinson, Santiago Espindola Rodriguez, Dariosky Gonzalez Romero, Christiaan Muñoz Salas, Florian Schulz, Mark Sharman, Tim Shepherd, Alexander Sommer, Julian Tryba, Taylor Turner, Alex Vail, Noah Waldron, Darren West, Dom West, Alex Wiles, Shaun Wolfe, George Woodcock, David Wright, Mark Ó Fearghaíl

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