The 45th News and Documentary Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), to honor the best in American news and documentary programming in 2023. The winners were announced on two ceremonies held at Palladium Times Square in New York City and live-streamed at Watch.TheEmmys.TV and the Emmys app.
The nominees were announced on July 25, 2024. CNN was the most nominated network, scoring 39 nominations. National Geographic's investigative series Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller led the nominations with 20, followed by PBS' documentary program FRONTLINE with 17. The nominations for the international categories were announced on August 8, 2024, where both Brazil and the United Kingdom received two nominations each, while Bulgaria and India achieved their first nominations for the Current Affairs & News awards.
The winners of the news categories were announced on September 25, 2024, with the winners for the documentary categories being revealed on September 26, 2024. The most awards for a network were won by CNN, numbering eleven. The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper and Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller were the most awarded programs with five awards each.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on July 25, 2023. The winners were announced on September 25 and 26, 2024.
Lifetime Achievement Award Jane Pauley (news) Alex Gibney (documentary)
Gold Circle Inductees Rodney Batten – Photojournalist, NBC News (news) Rita Braver – National Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News (news) María Antonieta Collins – Journalist, Television Host, Univision (news) Marvin Kalb – Chief Diplomatic Correspontand, NBC News, CBS News, Meet the Press (news) Tom Spain – Director and Cinematographer, Tom Spain Inc. (documentary)
Silver Circle Inductees Catherine MacKenzie – Executive Producer, ABC News (news) Javier Morgado – Executive Producer, New Day, Early Start, CNN (news) Eduardo Suárez – Vice President of Production Programs, CNN en Español (news) Pierre Thomas – Chief Justice Correspondent, ABC News (news) Raney Aronson-Rath – Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer, Frontline (documentary) Ric Esther Bienstock – Documentary Filmmaker and Executive Producer, Good Soup Productions Inc. (documentary) Abby Ginzberg – Documentary Producer and Director, Ginzberg Productions (documentary) Mette Hoffman Meyer – CEO/Executive Producer, The Why Foundation (documentary)
News Programming Outstanding Live News Program Outstanding Recorded News Program ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (ABC) CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell (CBS) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis (ABC) Anderson Cooper 360° (CNN) NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (NBC) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper (CNN) 20/20 (ABC) CBS News Sunday Morning (CBS) IMPACT x Nightline (Hulu) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller (National Geographic) Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage Outstanding Emerging Journalist "Israel-Hamas War" (CNN) NBC News Specials & Saturday Today: "Attack on Israel – October 7" (NBC / Peacock) ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "Israel at War" (ABC) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "Mass Shooting and Manhunt in Lewiston, Maine" (ABC) The ReidOut: "Tyre Nichols" (MSNBC) Nada Bashir (CNN) Ellison Barber (NBC) Dasha Burns (NBC) Jeremy Diamond (CNN) Ashan Singh (ABC) Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form "Clarissa Ward Covers the Israel-Hamas War" (CNN) AC360: "David Culver Covers the Migrant Crisis" (CNN) "Israel – Gaza War" (BBC World News) "War in Gaza" (The New York Times) "War in Ukraine: Hope, Death and Defiance" (BBC World News) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "Terror in Israel Series" (CNN) On Assignment with Richard Engel: "Richard Engel Reports: Rise of Wagner"(NBC) 20/20 & ABC News Live: "Uvalde 365" (ABC) PBS News Hour: "War in the Holy Land" (PBS) Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form ABC World News Tonight with David Muir: "South Sudan: Isolated by Water and War" (ABC) "How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement" (Retro Report) VICE News Tonight: "On the Frontlines of the Abortion War: Death Threats and Arsons" (Vice) CBS Sunday Morning: "This Land... Eatonville, FL" (CBS) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "Uvalde 365: Recovering from Robb" (ABC) 20/20: "It Happened Here: A Year in Uvalde" (ABC) "After the Blast: The Will to Survive" (ABC) "Moving Isa" (Business Insider) Op-Docs: "The Army We Had" (The New York Times) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "What Happened to San Francisco?" (CNN) Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form AJ+ Reports: "It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive" (AJ+) "'I Cry Quietly': A Soldier Describes the Toll of Russia's War" (The New York Times) "Clarissa Ward Reports from Rafah Field Hospital in Gaza" (CNN) PBS News Hour: "Haiti in Crisis" (PBS) The Guardian Focus: "How I Survive: A Seven-Year-Old's Life in Gaza" (The Guardian) VICE Special Report: "Inside Wagner: The Rise of Russia's Notorious Mercenaries" (Vice) FRONTLINE: "After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics" (PBS) VICE Special Report: "The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate" (Vice) "Exclusive: Inside a Ukrainian Battlefield Hospital" (The New York Times) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America" (CNN) VICE Special Report: "Warped By War: Inside Putin's Russia" (Vice) Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Short Form Outstanding Investigative News Coverage: Long Form "Poisoned Water" (Scripps News) "The Coast Guard's Secret" (CNN) "Dishonored" (CBS) NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: "NBC News Investigates: Hospital Giant Putting Profits Over Patients?" (NBC) "Visual Evidence Shows Israel Dropped 2,000-Pound Bombs Where It Ordered Gaza's Civilians to Move for Safety" (The New York Times) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: Going Home: The War in Sudan (CNN) FRONTLINE: "Inside the Uvalde Response" (PBS) FRONTLINE: "The Discord Leaks" (PBS) "Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia's Secret War Company" (The Wall Street Journal) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Terrorist Oil" (National Geographic) Outstanding Live News Special Outstanding Recorded News Special "A CNN Town Hall: Toxic Train Disaster, Ohio Residents Speak Out" (CNN) The 17th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (CNN) Good Morning America: "Maui Strong, ABC News, 08/17/23" (ABC) CNN Primetime: "Navalny and the Cost of Standing Up to Putin" (CNN) 20/20: "Our Barbara" (ABC) CBS Reports: "Campaign of Deceit: The Election of George Santos" (CBS) Retro Report: "How Saba Kept Singing" (PBS) "Uvalde: 365 Presents: Crisis of Command" (ABC) CNN Special Report: "The Will to Win: Ukraine at War" (CNN) Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis: Editorial and Opinion Meet The Press Reports: "Guns: Three American Stories" (NBC News NOW) Anderson Cooper 360°: "America Addicted: The Fentanyl Crisis" (CNN) Nightline: "Justice for Tyre" (ABC) The Circus: "Nothing But the Truth" (Showtime) ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "This Week: Live From Tel Aviv" (ABC) The New York Times Opinion: "Meet the World's Most Honorable Bank Robbers" (The New York Times) "The Night Doctrine" (ProPublica and The New Yorker) The New York Times Opinion: "They Know What They Did. They'd Like You to Know Who They've Become" (The New York Times) "We Went to Puerto Rico: The Inequality We Saw Will Shock You" (More Perfect Union) The New York Times Opinion: "Your Rewards Card is Actually Bad for You, and for Everyone Else" (The New York Times) Outstanding Live Interview: Short Form Outstanding Live Interview: Long Form ABC News Live: "Israeli Leader Speaks Out" (ABC) "A Father's Plea: Interview with Thomas Hand" (CBS) Face the Nation: "Interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy" (CBS) Katy Tur Reports: "Interview with Hunter Biden's Attorney Chris Clark" (MSNBC) ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "Interview with The House Majority Leader" (ABC) ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: "One on One with John Lauro" (ABC) Amanpour: "Christiane Amanpour interviews Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian" (CNN) Amanpour: "Christiane Amanpour interviews Queen Rania Al Abdullah" (CNN) Amanpour: "Christiane Amanpour interviews Siamak Namazi from inside Iran's Evin Prison" (CNN) The Lead with Jake Tapper: "One-on-One with Cassidy Hutchinson" (CNN) ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: "The Death of Tyre Nichols: A Family Speaks" (ABC) Outstanding Edited Interview Outstanding Science and Technology Coverage 60 Minutes: "The Hostage Story" (CBS) 60 Minutes: "The Attorney General" (CBS) Fareed Zakaria GPS: "Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi" (CNN) Vice World News Meets: "Imran Khan" (Vice) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: "Wolf Blitzer Interview with Gali Idan in Israel" (CNN) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Cyber Pirates" (National Geographic) "CNN's Donie O'Sullivan Covers Science and Technology" (CNN) 60 Minutes: "Revolution" (CBS) In Real Life: "Voices of Nature" (Scripps News) The Future with Hannah Fry: "Weaponization of Data" (Bloomberg) Outstanding Climate, Environment and Weather Coverage Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage Fault Lines: "The Shark Fin Hunters" (Al Jazeera) The Future with Hannah Fry: "Can We Really Rewild the Planet?" (Bloomberg) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "How to Unscrew a Planet" (CNN) 60 Minutes: "The Sperm Whales of Domenica" (CBS) VICE Special Report: "Toxic Farmland" (Vice) IMPACT x Nightline: "On the Brink" (Hulu) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Black Market Organs" (National Geographic) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "Homebirth Journey: Saving Black Moms" (CNN) Transnational: "The Trans Parent Trap" (Vice) The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper: "Without Roe: The New Abortion Landscape" (CNN) Outstanding Arts, Culture or Entertainment Coverage Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Coverage "Rap Trap: Hip Hop On Trial" (Hulu) NBC News Digital: "50 Years Fly: The Rise, Fall and Revolution of Hip-Hop Fashion" (NBC) 60 Minutes: "James Nachtwey" (CBS) Soul of a Nation: "The New Face of Hollywood — A Soul of a Nation Presentation" (ABC) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Fight Clubs" (National Geographic) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Black Market Babies" (National Geographic) FRONTLINE: "America's Dangerous Trucks" (PBS) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Crypto Scams" (National Geographic) VICE Special Report: "Making a Killing: The Chinese Mafia Transforming the Global Drug Trade" (Vice) 60 Minutes: "Our Mistake is Your Responsibility" (CBS) "We Went to East Palestine: What We Saw Will Shock You" (More Perfect Union) Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage "Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK" (Hulu) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Gangs" (National Geographic) Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: "Ghost Guns" (National Geographic) "Inside Iran: What Happened to Iran's Women-led Uprising?" (Vice) "Stealing Ukraine's Children: Inside Russia's Camps" (Vice)
Spanish Language Programming Outstanding News Program in Spanish Outstanding Journalist in Spanish Language Media Noticiero Univision (Univision) Al Punto (Univision) Aquí y Ahora (Univision) Despierta America (Univision) Noticias Telemundo (Telemundo) Pedro Ultreras (Univision) Victor Andrade (Entravision Communications) Albert Martinez (The Weather Channel en Español) Jorge Ramos (Univision) Julio Vaqueiro (Telemundo) Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in Spanish Outstanding Investigative News Coverage in Spanish Noticias Telemundo: "Huracan Otis – Furia Repentina" (Telemundo) Noticiero Univision: "Acapulco Devastado por Otis" (Univision)