ABC News and National Geographic are among the top winners for one night at the 2026 News and Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday.
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir CNN Worldwide won the award for best live news program ever The full story with Anderson Cooper It won the award for Outstanding Recorded News Program. Overall, ABC took home eight awards, She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller Via National Geographic/Muck Media won seven Emmys and CNN received four.
Amber Ruffin hosted the jazz concert at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City. ABC’s Debra O’Connell was also on hand to present the Lifetime Achievement Honor to Martha Raddatz, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning ABC News correspondent, while Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard will receive the Lifetime Achievement Honor on Thursday.
“When the Revolutionary generation put pen to paper 250 years ago, they chose to join the vision of public freedom strengthened by the First Amendment a decade later,” Adam Sharp, president and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, said in a statement. “Generations of writers, publishers, and broadcasters have rightly joined together to fight back ever since.” “Journalists are the torchbearers for the public’s right to know and speak.”
Wednesday night’s anchors included Lisa Abramovich (Bloomberg), Jason Bellini (Scripps), Jim Cantor (The Weather Channel), Jeremy Diamond (CNN), Johnny Harris (YouTube), Vanessa Hook (Telemundo), Haley Jackson (NBC News) and Areva Martin (NBC News).Special report), Camilo Montoya Galvez (CBS News), Bill Owens (former 60 minutes Producer), former Lifetime Achievement recipient Jorge Ramos (YouTube), Maria Roseman (Spectrum Noticias), and Natasha Zufis (NewsNation).
Winners in the documentary categories will be announced on Thursday. Below is a complete list of winners for this year’s night.
Outstanding live news programme
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
Outstanding recorded news program
The full story with Anderson Cooper
CNN Global
Outstanding coverage of breaking news
“The Great Military Parade of the US Army”
ABC News special report
ABC News
Outstanding expanded breaking news coverage
“Fires”
60 minutes
CBS News
Special live news
“American Disaster: The Burning of Los Angeles”
20/20 & ABC World News tonight
ABC News
Special premium recorded news
“Children of Gaza”
ABC News Live
ABC News [ABC News Studios]
Premium Continuing Coverage: Short Form
Earthquake in Myanmar
BBC News
Premium Continuing Coverage: Long Form
“Along the Green Line”
The Guardian
Distinctive lighting feature: short form
“What Japan’s atomic bomb survivors taught us”
Retro report
Distinctive lighting feature: long shape
“Operation Raising Children: A 50-Year Journey”
20/20 & ABC News Live
ABC News
Outstanding Hard News Reporting: Short Form
“The war in Gaza”
60 minutes
CBS News
Outstanding Hard News Reporting: Long Form
“Chasing a Ghost: The Search for Austin Tice”
CNN Global
Featured investigative reporting: short form
“Doge Pack”
New York Times
Featured investigative coverage: long form
“A strike on Iran: the nuclear issue”
Front line | TV show[[The Washington Post | Bellingcat | clear media]
Discussing and analyzing distinguished news
“Deport them all: Who’s to blame for Springfield’s migrant crisis?”
More perfect union
Featured interview: short form
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond presses a Hamas official about the suffering in Gaza
CNN Global
Featured interview: long form
“Eric Dane speaks”
ABC News [ABC News Studios]
Outstanding coverage of war or violent conflict
“Children under fire”
Fault lines
Al Jazeera International America
Outstanding coverage of science and technology
“Fraud City”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Premium coverage of climate, environment or weather
“Shark Hunters”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Premium health or medical coverage
“The psychedelic underground.”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Distinctive artistic, cultural or entertainment coverage
“Underground street racing”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Distinctive commercial, consumer or economic coverage
“Zombie debt makes Wall Street rich.”
Bloomberg investigations
Bloomberg Origins
Outstanding coverage of social issues
“Black Market Love”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
“Repression: Deportation in the Era of Trump”
Fault lines
Al Jazeera International America
Outstanding coverage of true crime
The Wicked Game: Devil in the Desert
ABC News Studios
Artistic Excellence: News
Live from the Southern California wildfires
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
ABC News
Outstanding emerging news journalist
Hanako Montgomery
CNN Global
A distinguished journalist in the Spanish language
Victor Valles are dead
TelevisaUnivision
Outstanding news program in Spanish
“Jorge Ramos: Asi Vio Las Cosas”
I had returned
Tres Albregis LLC
Suspended breaking news story in Spanish
“Cobertura de los Incendios in Los Ángeles”
Noticias Telemundo con Julio Vaqueiro
Telemundo notifications
Premium investigative news coverage in Spanish
“SUPER LIFE AT CECOT”
ProPublica | Texas Tribune | Alianza Rebelde
Investigation | cazadores for fake news]
Featured news story in Spanish
“Status: Venezuela”
ProPublica | Frontline features [ProPublica | FRONTLINE]
Distinguished Writing: News
“Children under fire”
Fault lines
Al Jazeera International America
Distinguished Research: News
“Brides for sale”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Featured trend: news
“Black Market Love”
She was trafficked to Mariana van Zeller
Corrupt media[[National Geographic]
Outstanding video journalism: news
“Filmed in Gaza”
NBC News
Distinguished Editing: News
Filmed in Gaza
NBC News
Premium Graphic Design: News
Johnny Harris
Newpress
Title Sequence or Featured Cold Open: News
“How new magnets could power the future”
Bloomberg Primer
Bloomberg Origins
Featured Promo: News
“The essence and soul of the South”
AJC [Jam Entertainment]
Featured regional news story: breaking/instant news
Hurricane Francine Live Rescue
WDSU
Notable regional news story: investigative
“Inspectors’ inspection”
KMOV-TV
