Emmys Announced

David Schlesinger, emmy awards, emmys, Media, Na Eng

2 Dec, 2008 by New York Herald in Media

NEW YORK CITY – CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour presented David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters, with the Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award at a luncheon ceremony in the Rainbow Room of the famed Rockefeller Center. Notable speakers included Peter Price, President/CEO of the National Academy of Television Art & Sciences, Robert Thomson, Editor-In-Chief of the Dow Jones Company and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal; and Bill Small, Chairman of the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, who presented the awards on behalf of the Academy.

Notable Winners:

ABC World News with Charles Gibson, Global Food Crisis

ABC New Nightline, Brian Ross Investigates: The Multimillion Dollar ‘Appeal’

Bloomberg, 401(k) Hidden Fees

Bloomberg, The Human Toll of Ethanol

CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Life and Debt in America

CBS News 60 Minutes, King of Sushi

CNBC Business Nation, Field of Dreams

PBS, NOW, India Rising

PBS, NOW, Taxing the Poor

above: Na Eng wins an Emmy as producer of “Taxing the Poor”, a segment on the show NOW on PBS.

photo courtesy of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.