News Programs Emmys Announced
CBS News was awarded six News and Documentary Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at a ceremony held in New York City Wednesday night.
Programs recognized for outstanding work were 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes II, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, plus Correspondent Steve Hartman.
Here are details:
- Outstanding Interview/Interviewers: Roberto Begnini, a profile on 60 Minutes of this highly animated comedian, writer, actor and director. (Correspondent: Bob Simon. Producers: Michael Gavshon and Carolyn McEwen)
- Outstanding Background Analysis of a Single Current Story-Segments: 'Shame of Srebrenca. Dutch troops who volunteered to serve as U.N. peacekeepers in Srebrenca revealed to 60 Minutes II what they failed to do to stop the most heinous acts of genocide in Europe since World War II. (Correspondent: Bob Simon. Producer: Randall Joyce)
- Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story - Segments: The Forgotten Veterans. In 1989, Morley Safer sat down with female veterans who said that what they experienced during the Vietnam War was nothing compared to the cold, even hostile America they found when they came home. A decade later, for a 60 Minutes II Classic, Safer revisited several women who are still haunted by Vietnam but are no longer the forgotten veterans. (Correspondent: Morley Safer. Producer: Barbara Dury and Marti Galovic-Palmer.)
- Outstanding Historical Programming - Segments: The Lost Children, a 60 Minutes II report on orphaned children in post-war Britain who were shipped to Australia but never adopted (Correspondent: Bob Simon. Producer: Draggan Mihailovich.)
- Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast: City of New Orleans Train Crash, a series of reports on CBS Evening News With Dan Rather about the crash of Amtrak's City of New Orleans in March 1999. (Correspondents: Cynthia Bowers, Bob McNamara, Bob Orr and Byron Pitts. Producers: Mark Hooper, James Kraft, John Mondello and Ward Sloane)
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming, Writers: Steve Hartman for Everybody Has A Story. Hartman picks a person at random out of a local telephone book and tells his/her story a weekly feature broadcast on The Early Show, The Saturday Early Show and CBS Evening News Saturday edition.