Awards
IN PUBLIC MEDIA
NATAS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Once co-anchors, Kangas and O'Bryon reunited with lifetime Emmys
Longtime Nightly Business Report coanchors Paul Kangas and Linda O’Bryon will be honored with received a Lifetime Achievement Award in business and financial reporting from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). They’ll receive the award at a business Emmys ceremony at Fordham University Dec. 7 [2009].
Kangas, who will retire from the show at year’s end, and O’Bryon, the program’s founder, is now chief content officer at Northern California Public Broadcasting (KQED/KTEH) in San Francisco.
“As television’s first daily broadcast devoted to economic news, Nightly Business Report broke new ground when it launched over thirty years ago” said Bill Small, chair of the NATAS news awards. “Linda O’Bryon led a small group to create the show, and under her stewardship it became one of the most influential business news broadcasts on television. Longtime anchor and financial commentator Paul Kangas was also present at the creation, and his deep knowledge of the financial markets and skill in the anchor chair has been equally responsible for the show’s success.”
“One of the things I most admire about Linda and Paul is the integrity that they brought to this program,” said Rodney Ward, executive editor and senior v.p. of Nightly Business Report. “They did not fawn over CEOs or politicians. They were not cheerleaders. They did not seek to become a part of the game.”
Kangas, a South Florida stock broker, joined NBR as a stock commentator in 1979 and became co-anchor in 1990. In 2003 he received a Financial Writers and Editors Award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for his Stocks in the News segments. O’Bryon not only founded and co-anchored the show but served as g.m. of its producer, NBR Enterprises, a unit of WPBT in Miami.
PBS DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Top pubTV fundraisers saluted
Public TV's outstanding fundraisers ordinariily would have been lionized at the PBS 2009 Development Conference in October, but the conference and the awards presentation were both postponed until the PBS Annual Meeting in May 2010.
That's when PBS will name the 2009 C. Scott Elliott Development Professional of the Year.
But the names of other development prizewinners were released in November by PBS.
Award for Excellence in Overall Development
WILL, Urbana, Ill.
Overall Development
WFYI, Indianapolis
WILL, Urbana
WTIU, Bloomington, Ind.
Inspiration
Detroit Public Television
HoustonPBS
KERA, Dallas
KNME, Albuquerque
KVIE, Sacramento
Maine Public Broadcasting
Oregon Public Broadcasting
WGBH, Boston
WHYY, Philadelphia
WMHT, Albany
WQED, Pittsburgh
Texas Public Broadcasting Association
PRIMETIME EMMYS
Little Dorrit scored big in the Primetime Emmy Awards, September 2009.
The Masterpiece Classic miniseries Little Dorrit, a BBC Productions/WGBH Dickens adaptation considered an Emmy underdog, walked away with seven statuettes, including best miniseries.
PBS said it would quickly re-post the mini-series for online viewing on the PBS Video site Sept. 24 and would refeed it to stations.
The stunning victory even bested such powerhouses as Mad Men and 30 Rock. Here's a clip of just one of the acceptance speeches, and a PDF list of all the winners.
Little Dorrit won three Emmys during the on-air ceremony Sept. 20:
- Outstanding miniseries Anne Pivcevic and Rebecca Eaton, executive producers; Lisa Osborne, producer;
- Writing for a miniseries, movie or dramatic special, Andrew Davies; and
- Directing for a miniseries, movie or dramatic special, Dearbhla Walsh.
The miniseries won four creative-arts statuettes during an off-air event Sept. 12:
- Casting, Rachel Freck;
- Costumes, Barbara Kidd and Marion Weise;
- Art direction, James Merrifield, Paul Ghirardani and Deborah Wilson;
- Photography, Lukas Strebel.
American Masters, produced at New York’s WNET, won for outstanding nonfiction series. Great Performances, also a WNET production, received a crafts Emmy.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences also used the occasion Sept. 12 to present Emmys for program genres such as reality TV and animation and for some acting categories.
The nonfiction series Emmy for American Masters, the show’s seventh in the category in the past decade, was awarded for "Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About,” directed and produced by Judy Kinberg, written by Amanda Vaill, and narrated by Ron Rifkin. Also credited were American Masters producers Susan Lacey, Prudence Glass and Julie Sacks.
Great Performances scored its Emmy with new title music by John Williams.
RELIGION NEWSWRITERS ASSOCIATION
Public stations carried the best pieces of religion reporting in TV and radio judged in the Religion Newswriters Association competition.
In TV, the award went to Kim Lawton, managing editor and correspondent for WNET.org’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly for "Continuing King's Legacy" [video], in which Lawton asked “What would Martin Luther King Jr. be like as a minister if he were alive today?” Producer: Patti Jette Hanley. In radio, Stephanie Martin of KQED-FM in San Francisco won for "Catholics and Proposition 8" [audio]. The awards were presented Sept. 12 during RNA's annual conference in Minneapolis.
DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS
PBS brought in 13 Daytime Creative Arts Emmys Aug. 29 [2009].
Three children’s shows topped major program categories: WordWorld took the Emmy for outstanding children’s animated show; Between the Lions, for preschool children’s series; and From the Top at Carnegie Hall, for children’s series.
This Old House won the Emmy for best lifestyle show. The awards recognize achievement in creative fields of daytime television production.
Sesame Street received the academy’s lifetime achievement award the next night during the main Daytime Emmy ceremony at the Orpheum Theatre. Actress Sandra Oh was joined onstage by Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster.
Sesame Street’s four Creative Arts Emmys for 2009 included one to puppeteer Kevin Clash for his portrayal of Elmo. He was cited as outstanding performer in a children’s series, his ninth awarded in the category during his long tenure with the show.
Additional Emmys went to Sesame Street in the following categories:
Achievement in costume design/styling — credited for the award were costume designer/live actors Terry Roberson and Bill Kellard, and costume designer/Muppets Heather Asch, Taylor Harrison, Constance Peterson, Loryn Brantz, Marc Borders, Chelsea Carter, Jason Weber, Polly Smith, Michelle Hickey, Anney Mckilligan, Andrea Detwiler, and Rollin Krewson.
Directing in a children’s series — Lisa Simon, Matt Vogel, Scott Preston, Joey Mazzarino, Nadine Zylstra, Kevin Clash, Ken Diego, Jim Martin and Ted May.
New approaches in daytime children’s programming — Miles Ludwig, executive producer; Glace Chou, supervising producer; Johanna Egger, senior producer; Tina Moglia and Alison Folino, producers; Meghann Artes, editor; Russell Zambito, art director; John Caruso, creative director; Jessica Yin, director of online projects; and J. Milligan, creative director and head writer.
Word World, the PBS Kids winner for animated children’s series, also took an Emmy for writing in animation by Jacqueline Moody, head writer, and writers Tom K. Mason, Dan Danko, Eric Weil, Ken Olshansky, Martha Atwater, Jill Cozza-Turner and Robert Vargas. Sharing credit for the program Emmy were Don Moody, e.p.; Sue Hollenberg, supervising producer; and producers Alex Kay, Jacqueline Moody, Tyler Bunch and Olexa Hewryk.
Between the Lions also picked up a second Emmy for craft — writing in a children’s series by head writer Norman Stiles and writers Judith Stoia, Christopher Cerf, Beth Kirsch received Emmys in two categories — outstanding preschool children’s series and outstanding writing in a children’s series. Winners in the first category were executive producers Brigid Sullivan, Norman Stiles, Judith Stoia and Christopher Cerf; series producer Beth Kirsch; coordinating producers Diane Hartman, Chris Cardillo, Bill Berner, Rick Klein and Philippa Hall, and producers Scott Colwell and Carol Klein.
Writing winners were head writer Stiles, and writers Stoia, Kirsch, Cerf, Fred Newman, Luis Santeiro, Sarah Durkee, Ray Messecar, Jennifer Hamburg, Brian Meehl, Louise Gikow and Keri Horn.
From the Top at Carnegie Hall also hit a Daytime Emmy double. Its statuette for children’s series went to executive producers Don Mischer, Laurie Donnelly, Gerald Slavet and Jennifer Hurley-Wales, producers Gary Halvorson, Juliane Hare, Tim Banker and Anne Adams, and line producer Mark Leed. Its Emmy in the crafts category of achievement in multiple camera editing, cited Kevin Bourque, supervising editor.
Honorees for This Old House were Michael Burton, e.p.; David Vos, senior producer; and Deborah Hood, producer.
Additional Emmys went to pubTV shows in the following categories:
Special class writing — David Dunlop of Landscapes Through Time With David Dunlop.
Achievement in main title and graphic design — Lou Zumek, title designer for Biz Kid$, distributed by American Public Television.
Achievement in music direction and composition — Composer Christopher Elves scored for Animalia.
Achievement in single camera editing — Rob Tate, Laura Deney and Mustafa Bhagat for Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, distributed by APT.
Achievement in single camera photography (film or electronic) — Greg Barna, director of photography for Equitrekking, also fromAPT.
PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
Tim Emmons received the 2009 Don Otto Award from the Public Radio Program Directors Association.
The award recognizes individuals whose “talents, smarts and humor” have helped advance public radio, according to PRPD’s description.
Emmons has served as g.m. of WNIJ/WNIU in DeKalb, Ill., since 1995. He also founded the consulting group Strategic Programming Partners with Peter Dominowski and Scott Williams. Their Morning Edition Graduate School training program aims to help stations improve local presentation of Morning Edition.
“He is indeed one of a kind, and we would not have come as far as an industry without him,” said Steve Olson, president of Audience Research Analysis, who presented the award.
(Photo courtesy of PRPD.)
PARENTS' CHOICE AWARDS
PBS and its producers won two Gold Awards and two Silvers in the fall 2009 competition.
Gold winners were the PBS Parents site and the PBS Kids Island site.
Silver winners were Sesame Street: Elmo Loves You and Sid the Science Kid: Change Happens, along with the Dragonfly TV website.
The Parents' Choice Foundation, founded in 1978, recognizes quality children's media including books, toys, music and storytelling, magazines, software, videogames, television and websites. It presents its TV production awards in the spring.
IMAGEN AWARD
“A Class Apart,” on American Experience, was honored for positive portrayals of Latinos and Latino culture in entertainment.
The documentary traces a small-town Texas murder trial that emerged as a landmark civil rights case, Hernandez v. Texas, which went to the Supreme Court, challenging Jim Crow-style discrimination.
Three additional PBS shows were nominated for Imagens: Latinos ’08, which analyzed how candidates and advocacy groups mobilize and attract Hispanics, and P.O.V.’s “The Last Conquistador,” about a sculptor’s controversial and massive monument to Juan de Onate for the city of El Paso, were both nominated for best TV doc. Nominated for best children’s programming was Maya and Miguel, which promotes multiculturalism through the adventures of 10-year-old twins Maya and Miguel Santos.
The awards were presented Aug. 21 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
CIVWORLD INTERDEPENDENCE DAY PRIZE
PRI talk host Tavis Smiley was saluted for broadcasting in the public interest.
Smiley received the 2009 Interdependence Day Prize on Sept. 12 from CivWorld project of Demos, a nonpartisan public advocacy organization. About 100 delegates from around the world attended the policy forum in Istanbul, Turkey.
CivWorld President Benjamin R. Barber called Smiley a “fearless television broadcaster, intrepid interviewer and ardent humanitarian, who has become a voice for all humankind by putting honesty before interest, civil discourse before polemics, and integrity before advantage.”
Past recipients include actor/activist Harry Belafonte; Lord Bhikhu Parekh, professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster; and Polish Solidarity founder Adam Michnik. [Release.]
BEST OF STATEHOUSE REPORTING AWARDS,
ASSOCIATION OF CAPITOL REPORTERS AND EDITORS
Public TV and radio stations across the country won ACRE's Best of Statehouse Reporting awards
Idaho Public Television won four first-place trophies. Other winning pubcasters were Twin Cities Public Television, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Capital Public Radio in California, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network and Illinois Public Radio.
From Idaho, in markets 51-210, Richard Ochoa, Thanh Tan and the Idaho Reports staff won for beat reporting and, along with Hank Nystram, for a single report, “Veto Mania.” Also from Idaho, Joan Cartan-Hansen, Ricardo Ochoa and the Dialogue staff won for in-depth reporting for “Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer.” Cartan-Hansen, Ochoa and the Dialogue staff also won for columns /commentary/ news analysis.
In markets 1-50, Twin Cities’ David Gillette won for columns/commentary/news analysis.
Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Valarie Edwards won for a single report, markets 1-50, for “Predatory Lenders.”
Marianne Russ of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Calif., was honored for her beat reporting.
Anna Sale of WNPR/Connecticut Public Broadcasting won for her single report, “Prison workers’ contract tests tough budget talk.”
For in-depth reporting, first place went to Sean Crawford and Amanda Vinicky of WUIS/Illinois Public Radio for “The Fall of Governor Rod Blagojevich.”
The awards were handed out Aug. 22 at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
Thirteen NABJ awards went to public broadcasters from the National Association of Black Journalists.
NPR’s Michele Norris also received NABJ Journalist of the Year, as announced in April. The association called her reporting “crisp, bold, assertive and heart-warming.”
NPR also accepted three of the association's Salute to Excellence awards and WAMU in Washington, D.C., took two. Other winners were WUNC, Chapel Hill, N.C.; WYPR, Baltimore; WBEZ, Chicago; WNYC, New York; KETC, St. Louis; WSFU, Tallahassee, Fla.; and Milwaukee Public Television.
For radio markets 16 and below, WUNC’s Leoneda Inge won for news, short form for “NCCU Obama.” For long form, Donna Owens from WYPR was honored for “Tubman Legacy Getting New Attention.”
In the radio top 15 markets division, the investigative winners were Natalie Moore and Julia McEvoy of WBEZ for “Mixed Income.” Josetta Adams and Sanda Htyte of WNYC took the feature prize for “I’m Not Emo.” For public affairs program, the staff of the Kojo Nnamdi Show at WAMU won for “Education and the Tradition of Debate,” as well as for public affairs interview/discussion for “D.C. Riots: Forty Years Later.”
For network radio, long-form news, winners were Gwen Thompkins, Didi Schanche and Jon Baer of NPR for “Darfur Humanitarian Crisis.” Also winning for NPR was Allison Keyes in the feature category for “Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World,” and Michele Norris and Steve Inskeep’s “The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote.”
For public affairs interview/discussion, the honor went to Anita S. Woodley and Dick Gordon of WUNC for “Lessons From A Dropout.”
In the television market 16 and below division, the winner for long-form feature was Ruth Ezell of KETC for Living St. Louis: "Jazz Men.” In the documentary category, the statuette went to Theresa Marsenburg and Thomas Jones of WFSU for “When Babies Die.” The staff of Black Nouveau from Milwaukee’s MPTV won for public affairs program for its “Fatherhood Summit.”
The awards recognize journalists in more than 70 categories including new media. According to the association, these are the country’s only honors to “commend the exemplary journalists covering the African and African-American experience.”
Ceremonies took place at the Tampa Convention Center.
LOS ANGELES EMMY AWARDS
KCET received six statuettes, and KLCS one at the 61st L.A. Area Emmy Awards, Aug. 29.
KCET’s SoCal Connected won for informational/public affairs series, more than 50 percent remote. Cited were Bret Marcus, executive producer; Linda Burns, supervising producer; Justine Schmidt, senior producer; producers Joseph Angier, Vicki Curry, Saul Gonzalez, Karen Forshay Kolesnikow, Angela Shelley and Alexandre Shey; and anchor Val Zavala.
The award for public affairs series, less than 50 percent remote, was presented to KLCS for Between the Lines, Barry Kibrick, host and producer.
Inside Locke High from KCET won for education program. Marcus is executive producer, Schmidt is senior producer, Shelley is producer and Alexandria Gales is associate producer.
Feature segment honors went to KCET’s “Guerrilla Gardeners” from SoCal Connected; Zavala, on-camera talent and producer; Brett Wood on camera.
Another SoCal Connected Emmy was for “Foreclosure Alley.” Marcus is executive producer, Schmidt, senior producer; Shelley, producer; and Lisa Ling, on-camera talent.
KCET’s Marcos Villatoro took a statuette for outstanding nonnews writer. Videographer Wood was honored for outstanding nonnews videographer (single camera).
Ceremonies took place at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, WEST COAST FLORIDA CHAPTER
WEDU exec Richard M. Lobo and Caren Lobo will receive a regional AJC Civic Achievement Award.
NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez, speaker at an AJC West Coast Florida Chapter dinner in Sarasota, Fla., Nov. 11, will present the award.
The couple is being honored for their professional contributions and involvement in the community. They are co-founders of the independent bookstore Sarasota News & Books.
Dick Lobo, a longtime commercial broadcaster, has headed the Tampa station since June 2002. He is active locally and was former president of Sarasota's Downtown Association. He served as director of Cuba broadcasting for the U.S. Information Agency during the Clinton administration.
Caren Lobo serves on the board of the Florida Humanities Council and helped found the Sarasota Reading Festival and other arts groups.
Compiled by Karen Everhart, Dru Sefton and colleagues.
Posted Nov. 5, 2009
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