CNN, Vice, and the New York Times were among the big winners on the first of two nights for the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
CNN led the news portion of the Emmys with ten wins, with trailing Vice winning nine and the New York Times with five. Vice’s wins saw eight of them come for the now-canceled program, Vice News Tonight.
CBS’ Sunday Morning won for recorded news program, while ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir was named outstanding live news program.
Among major individual winners, CNN’s Selina Wang was named outstanding emerging journalist, while Univision’s Jorge Ramos won the award for journalist in Spanish language media Wolf Blitzer, anchor of CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 50-year career in journalism, including 33 years at CNN.
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