The 43rd News and Documentary Emmy Awards was presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), to honor the best in American news and documentary programming in 2021. 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 for the news categories were announced on September 28, 2022, while the ones for the documentary categories were revealed on September 29, 2022.
The nominees were announced on July 28, 2022, with Vice's news program VICE News Tonight and HBO's film unit HBO Documentary Films leading with 19 nominations each, while ABC was the most nominated network with 39. PBS NewsHours anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff and filmmaker and biologist Sir David Attenborough received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the news and documentary ceremonies, respectively.
Winners and nominees The nominees were announced on July 28, 2022. The winners are listed first and in bold.
Lifetime Achievement Award Judy Woodruff (news) Sir David Attenborough' (documentary)
News Programming Outstanding Live News Program Outstanding Recorded News Program CBS Mornings / CBS This Morning (CBS) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC) Anderson Cooper 360° (CNN) NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC) The Lead with Jake Tapper (CNN) TODAY (NBC) 60 Minutes (CBS) 20/20 (ABC) ABC News Soul of a Nation (ABC) CBS Sunday Morning (CBS) Nightline (ABC) Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage Outstanding Edited Breaking News Coverage NBC News Specials: "January 6 Attack on the Capitol" (NBC) ABC News Special Events: "The January 6th Insurrection" (ABC) Belarus: Inside a Manufactured Migrant Crisis (CNN) CBS News: "Assault on the Capitol" (CBS) Haitians Converge on the U.S. Mexico Border (CNN) PBS NewsHour: "PBS NewsHour's Special Coverage of the Electoral College Count" (PBS) Vice News: "Inside the Battle for Jerusalem" (Vice) 60 Minutes: "January 6th" (reported by Lesley Stahl) (CBS) 60 Minutes: "The Beast 30." (CBS) A Reporter's Video from Inside the Capitol Siege (by Luke Mogelson) (The New Yorker) ABC News Originals for Hulu: "24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol" (Hulu) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "The Insurrection" (ABC) Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "The Climate Crisis" (ABC) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "Afghanistan Unraveling" (ABC) NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: "Richard Engel - Afghanistan Continuing Coverage" (NBC) The Coup in Myanmar (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "India's Deadly Delta Wave" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Battle for Care" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Haiti: Descent into Chaos" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Yemen: The Forgotten War" (Vice) 20/20: "George Floyd" (ABC) The Fall of Afghanistan (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "Taliban's Takeover of Afghanistan" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Six Weeks: Inside the Texas Abortion Ban" (Vice) Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form ABC News Soul of a Nation: "Miss Lucille" (ABC) CNN Digital: "Running as Equals" (CNN) CNN Heroes: "Shirley Raines" (CNN) The Undefeated Presents: "Why We Kneel" (ESPN) Vice News: "Deaf in a Pandemic" (Vice) 20/20: "The Babies of 9/11: Twenty Years Later" (reported by Diane Sawyer) (ABC) 48 Hours: "What Happened to the Perfect Child?" (reported by Troy Roberts) (CBS) 60 Minutes: "The Comeback" (reported by Norah O'Donnell) (CBS) The New York Times Opinion Video: "How Life Looks Through My ‘Whale Eyes’" (The New York Times) VICE News Tonight: "This Family of Black Cowboys Dates Back 5 Generations" (Vice) Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form The Lead with Jake Tapper: "9-Year-Old Afghan Sold into Marriage" (reported by Anna Coren) (CNN) Axum: Journey to a Sacred City (reported by Nima Elbagir) (CNN) Chinese Detective Turned Whistleblower Reveals Torture Against Uyghurs (reported by Ivan Watson) (CNN) Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana's Enslaved People (The New York Times) VICE News Tonight: "The Central African Republic Is Enlisting Russians in its War Against Rebels" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "Death Threats: Election Officials Call It Quits" (Vice) VICE News Tonight: "A Christian Summer Camp's History of Abuse" (Vice) ‘So They Know We Existed’: Palestinians Film War in Gaza (The New York Times) Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol (The New York Times) Fault Lines: "Buried Truths: America's Indigenous Boarding Schools" (Al Jazeera International USA) NBC News Digital: "Southlake: Racial Reckoning in a Texas Suburb" (NBC) Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form How a U.S. Drone Strike Killed the Wrong Person (by Christoph Koettl, Evan Hill, Matthieu Aikins, Eric Schmitt, Ainara Tiefenthäler and Drew Jordan) (The New York Times) Anderson Cooper 360°: "The Lost Children of Xinjiang" (reported by David Culver) (CNN) CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell: "Norah O'Donnell Investigates: A Silent Epidemic in the U.S. Military" (CBS) CBS Mornings and CBS Evening News: "Seatback Collapse" (reported by Kris Van Cleave) (CBS) Ethiopia: Exposing the Hallmarks of a Genocide (reported by Nima Elbagir) (CNN) Frontline: "Yemen's COVID Cover-Up" (reported by Nawal al-Maghafi of BBC News Arabic) (PBS) 60 Minutes: "Handcuffed to the Truth" (reported by Scott Pelley (CBS) Fault Lines: "Unrelinquished: When Abusers Keep Their Guns" (reported by Jennifer Gollan of The Center for Investigative Reporting) (Al Jazeera International USA) Frontline in partnership with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: "The Pandora Papers" (reported by Richard Bilton of Panorama) (PBS) Nightline: "Blindsided" (reported by Pete Madden and Ryan Smith (ABC) The Source: "The Shockwave" (directed by Paula Neudorf) (Vice) Outstanding Live News Special Outstanding Recorded News Special The 15th Annual CNN Heroes All-Star Tribute (hosted by Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa) (CNN) ABC News Live: "Mission to Mars, Live!" (ABC) ABC News Special Events: "The Inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr." (ABC) ABC News Special Events: "9/11 - Twenty Years Later - America Remembers" (ABC) Deadline: White House: "Lives Well Lived" (hosted by Nicolle Wallace) (MSNBC) 60 Minutes: "9/11: The FDNY" (reported by Scott Pelley) (CBS) ABC News Soul of a Nation: "Reckonings" (ABC) ABC News Soul of a Nation: "Juneteenth: Together We Triumph" (hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. (ABC) CBS Sunday Morning: "Behind the Badge" (reported by Ted Koppel) (CBS) The Moms of Magnolia Street (reported by Melissa Colorado, Cheryl Hurd, Kris Sanchez) (NBC) Return of the Taliban: A VICE News Special Report (Hind Hassan, Ben Soloman, Seb Walker, and Isobel Yeung, correspondents (Showtime) Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Outstanding News Analysis: Editorial and Opinion Meet the Press: "Schools, America & Race" (Chuck Todd with Nikole Hannah-Jones, Joshua Johnson and Keith Mayes) (NBC) A Fareed Zakaria Special: "A Radical Rebellion: The Transformation of the GOP" (CNN) CBS News Face the Nation: "Afghanistan's Collapse" (CBS) CBS News Face the Nation: "Dr. Deborah Birx: A COVID Autopsy" (CBS) The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth: "Reigning Chaos" (John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon, Alex Wagner and Jenn Palmieri) (Showtime) This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "Capitol Insurrection" (ABC) The New York Times Opinion Video: "Blue States, You're the Problem" (Johnny Harris and Binyamin Appelbaum) (The New York Times) The New York Times Opinion Video: "Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians" (by Norma V. Toraya and Jared P. Scott) (The New York Times) Amanpour: "60 Years Ago, We Saw the Face of Evil" (by Elie Honig) (CNN) The New York Times Opinion Video: "Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom" (by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King) (The New York Times) The New York Times Opinion Video: "I'm a Trans Runner Struggling to Compete Fairly" (by Lindsay Crouse, Taige Jensen and Adam Wolffbrandt) (The New York Times) Outstanding Live Interview Outstanding Edited Interview The New York Times DealBook Summit: One-on-One with Adam Neumann (interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin (The New York Times) ABC News Live Prime: "Unvaccinated Patient in Hospital Pleads for Others to Get Vaccine" (reported by Haley Yamada) (ABC) Don Lemon Tonight: "Exclusive Interview with Officer Michael Fanone" (interviewed by Don Lemon) (CNN) Katy Tur Reports: "Haiti: Biden Administration Expels Migrants to Danger" (MSNBC) State of the Union: "Dealing with Tragedy: Jake Tapper Interviews Rep. Jamie Raskin After Son's Death and January 6" (interviewed by Jake Tapper) (CNN) State of the Union: "A Congressman's Final Words: Jake Tapper Speaks to Rep. Paul Mitchell on his Deathbed" (interviewed by Jake Tapper) (CNN) 20/20: "Escape from a House of Horror" (reported by Diane Sawyer) (ABC) 60 Minutes: "The Facebook Whistleblower" (reported by Scott Pelley) (CBS) ABC News Soul of a Nation: "Officer Dunn: Capital Cop" (reported by Pierre Thomas) (ABC) ABC News Special Events: "Alec Baldwin Unscripted" (reported by George Stephanopoulos (ABC) CNN Special Report: "COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out" (reported by Sanjay Gupta) (CNN) Outstanding Science, Technology or Environmental Coverage Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage CNN Special Report: "Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food" (reported by Bill Weir) (CNN) Unlivable Oasis (directed by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Elizabeth Weil) (ProPublica, TIME, Truly CA, Univision Noticias) World News Tonight with David Muir/Nightline: "Madagascar: The Children of Climate Change" (reported by David Muir) (ABC) CBS News: CBS Mornings, CBS This Morning, and CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell: "CBS News: Eye on Earth" (CBS) Deforestation in the Deep: Forgotten Forests (CNN) VICE News Tonight: "Aging, Inc." (Vice) CNN Special Report: "WEED 6: Marijuana and Autism" (reported by Sanjay Gupta) (CNN) Nightline: "The Appointment" (reported by Rachel Scott) (ABC) The New York Times Opinion Video: "Death, Through a Nurse's Eyes" (by Alexander Stockton and Lucy King) (The New York Times) The New York Times Presents: "Move Fast & Vape Things" (directed by John Pappas) (FX) Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage The New York Times Presents: "Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson" (FX) 20/20: "Something's Coming: West Side Story" (anchored by David Muir and Amy Robach) (ABC) 60 Minutes: "The Final Act" (reported by Anderson Cooper) (CBS) ABC News Live Prime: "Soul of a Nation: Tulsa's Buried Truth" (reported by Steve Osunsami) (ABC) The Story Of: "A Thousand Miles" (directed by Dan Zabludovsky) (Vice) FRONTLINE and The New York Times: "Boeing's Fatal Flaw" (reported by David Gelles, James Glanz, Natalie Kitroeff, and Jack Nicas) (PBS) 60 Minutes: "A New Model" (reported by Lesley Stahl) (CBS) ABC News Originals for Hulu: "GameStopped" (reported by Rebecca Jarvis) (Hulu) Bloomberg Quicktake: "The Paycheck: The Systemic Overtaxing of Black Homes in America" (Bloomberg News) FRONTLINE and NPR in conjunction with the Investigative Reporting Workshop: "The Healthcare Divide" (reported by Laura Sullivan) (PBS) Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage Outstanding Emerging Journalist Get Away from the Target — Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard (directed by Ed Ou) (The Outlaw Ocean Project / The Guardian) 20/20: "George Floyd: A Man, A Moment, America Changed" (anchored by David Muir and Amy Robach) (ABC) 48 Hours: "The Station Nightclub Fire: Who's Responsible?" (reported by Jim Axelrod) (CBS)