2012 Salute to Excellence Television
Finalists
Television Market 16 & Below
Television – General Assignment: Short Form
"Dancing Through History”
TaRhonda
Thomas, Byron Reed
9NEWS
"Closing the Educational Gap”
Kandiss
Crone
KMTV
"Red Tails Remembered”
Steve
Crump
WBTV
"War on Crime: Start Snitching”
Kandiss
Crone
KMTV
Television - General Assignment: Long Form
"The N Word”
Garry
Kelly, Ebony Hall, Marcus Stroud
WBMA-TV
"King Memorial
Weekend”
Steven
Crump
WBTV
Television - Investigative
"Injustice Files”
Keith
Beauchamp, Susan Zirinsky, Nancy Kramer, Hal
Gessner, Judy Rybak
"Secrets of Natchez"
Television - Feature: Short Form
"A Black History Month Discussion With Whitman
Elementary Students”
Jamie
McGriff, Charlie Willsey
KOTV – The News on 6
"Honoring
Romare Bearden”
Steven
Crump
WBTV
Hakeem Hicks: "Never give up."
Tim
Pulliam, Clint Stevenson
WIS News 10
"A Place to
Hang Her Crown”
TaRhonda
Thomas, Ken Mostek
KUSA-TV / 9 NEWS – Denver, CO
"Riding Out A
Wildfire”
Wendell
Edwards
KOCO-TV5 / Oklahoma City, OK
Television - Feature: Long Form
"Teen Issues”
Bruce Nix, Yenu Wodajo, Carlos
Chaverst, Kenya Maxey
WBMA-TV/ ABC 33-40
"Black
Nouveau: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”
Everett L. Marshburn
Milwaukee Public Television
"Black Nouveau:
Mr. Perkins”
Liddie Collins
Milwaukee Public Television
"Remembering
The Freedom Riders”
Steven
Crump
WBTV
"Making
New History”
Nelson
Garcia, Byron Reed
KUSA-TV /
9 News
"Natural Hair Comeback”
Reba
Hollingsworth, Ama Arthur-Asmah
WTVR
Television – Specialty
"The Real O.G."
TaRhonda
Thomas, Corky Scholl
9NEWS
Television – Sports
"The Ricky Frazier Story”
Jon King,
Frank Cusumano
KSDK-TV
Television – Documentary
"Deadly Deception"
Sherri
Jackson, Sonia Dicarlo, Scott MacDowell, Toby Carter
Tiffany
Westry, Ken Lass, Bill Ballard, Bill Payer
WIAT – TV
Television Network
Television - General Assignment: Short Form
"American Story - Millionaire Janitor”
Jim Bell,
Bob Dotson, Amanda Marshall, Debbie Kosofsky
Glenn
Aust, Mark Evans
NBC News/TODAY
"Anniston
Freedom Riders Anniversary”
Alturo
Rhymes, Russ Mitchell, Patricia Shevlin,
Jared Kindestin
CBS Evening News Weekend Editions
"Hudson River
Tragedy”
Mara
Schiavocampo, Chip Bell, Steve Forrest
NBC - Today Show
"A Black Student Comes Home”
Steve
Osunsami, Harvey Goldberg, Catherine Cole,
Judy
Isikow, Diane Sawyer, Jon Banner
ABC News: World News with Diane Sawyer
Television - General Assignment: Long Form
"Queen of Soul: Aretha Franklin”
Ramon
Parkins, Anthony Mason, Robin Skeete, Rand
Morrison
CBS News Sunday Morning
"Education Nation"
Aurelia
Grayson, Rehema Ellis,Sue Kroll, Aarne
Heikkila, Janelle Richards
NBC Nightly News
Television - Spot News
"Hudson River Tragedy”
Mara
Schiavocampo, Chip Bell
Nightly News with Brian Williams
"Alabama
Tornadoes – Searching for the Missing"
Steve
Osunsami, Harvey Goldberg, Audrey Taylor, Nils Kongshaug
World News with Diane Sawyer
Television -
Investigative
"World's Untold Stories: Locked Up and Forgotten”
Mike McCarthy, Sheri England, David
McKenzie
Ingrid
Formanek, Earl Nurse
CNN
Television – Feature: Short Form
"Hudson River Survivor”
Mara
Schiavocampo, Steve Forrest, Daria Shelton
Today Show
"Blackstone Bicycle Shop”
Alturo
Rhymes, Dean Reynolds, Patricia Shevlin, Paul Rose
CBS Evening News Weekend Editions
"The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: MLK Photographer”
Scott Pelley, Alturo Rhymes, Byron Pitts,
Patricia Shevlin, Kimberly Godwin
The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
"Judge Jimmie Edwards”
Jim Bell,
Don Nash, Debbie Kosofsky, Jennifer Long, Amy Robach, Andrew Condell
NBC News/TODAY
"The Mountaintop”
Chris
Jansing, Aurelia Grayson, Amber Payne
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
Television - Feature: Long Form
"The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Famine in Somalia”
Betty Chin, Scott Pelley, Michael
Solmsen, Ben Plesser, Patricia Shevlin, Ashley Velie
CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
"Wynton”
Morley Safer, David Browning,
Diane Beasley, Matthew Danowski
CBS News - 60 Minutes
"Harry
Belafonte”
Reid
Orvedahl, Russ Mitchell, Joe Frandino, Rand
Morrison
CBS News - Sunday Morning
"On
Broadway: Samuel L. Jackson”
Kay Lim,
Russ Mitchell, David Small, Rand Morrison
CBS News - Sunday Morning
"State of
Shame”
Ami
Schmitz, David Corvo, Rome Hartman,
Nancy Snyderman, M.D.
NBC News - Rock Center with Brian Williams
Television – International
"Haiti Rubble Survivor”
Mara
Schiavocampo, Aarne Heikkila, John Bailey
Weekend Nightly News
"In Chaos of Post-Earthquake Haiti, Artists Create
Poetry Amid Rubble”
Jeffrey Brown, Anne Davenport, Linda Winslow
PBS
NEWSHOUR
"The CBS Evening News:
Haiti, One Year Later”
Erin Lyall George, Bill Whitaker,
Kimberly Godwin, Karen Raffensperger, Richard Kaplan,
Patricia Shevlin, Chris Dinan, Christopher Hulme, John Mondello
CBS
Evening News
"This is Namibia”
Jim Bell,
Don Nash, Mary Alice O’Rourke, Robin Sindler, David Varga, John Taggart
NBC News/TODAY
"Haiti: Saving Kimberly Update”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Roni Selig, Danielle Dellorto, Jerry
Simonson
CNN
Television - Specialty
"Human Factor: Ashley Smith”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Roni Selig, Jennifer Bixler
Georgiann
Caruso, Miriam Falco
CNN
"Hunger at Home"
Steve
Osunsami, David Muir, Christine Romo, Catherine Cole
Diane Sawyer,
Jon Banner, Judy Isikow, Jared Wiener
ABC News – World News with Diane Sawyer
Television – Sports
"The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Haitian
Amputees/ Wounded Warriors”
Scott Pelley, Byron Pitts, Kimberly Godwin, Patricia Shevlin, Nicole Young
The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
"E:60 In the name of the Father: Nnamdi Asomugha”
John Minton, Andy Tennant, Ben Houser, Michael Smith, Michael Baltierra,
Martin Khodabakhshian, Andrew Armas, Katelin Collard, Samson Chan, Matthew Rissmiller
E:60
"E:60 Philly Stakes”
Heather Lombardo, Andy Tennant,
Michael Baltierra, Lisa Salters, Ben Houser, Martin Khodabakhshian,
Jason Sanchez, Doug Fitzsimmons, Jim Greico, Kevin Raullerson, Todd Wall, Clay Fraga
E:60
Television - Documentary
"Pictures Don't Lie”
Soledad O'Brien, Geraldine Moriba
Cecilia
Villanueva, Cameo George
CNN
"Fault Lines:
Horn of Africa Crisis- Somalia's Famine”
Andrea
Schmidt, Sebastian Walker, Warwick Meade,
Mathieu Skene,
Alfredo
Delara, Thierry Humeau, Bob Cherouny, Singeli Agnew
Al Jazeera English
"Gospel for
Teens”
Lesley Stahl, Shari Finkelstein, Jennie Held, Robert Shattuck
60 Minutes
"Alpha Man: The
Brotherhood of MLK”
Rob
Hardy, Will Packer, Dianne Ashford
BET Networks
"Dream on Hold”
Casey
Kauffman, Tuki Laumea
Al Jazeera English
Television - Public Affairs: Program
"Michelle Obama On A Mission: Impact Africa”
James
Blue, Dan Morris, Lola Ogunnaike,
Fletcher Johnson
BET Networks
"The Curious
Case of Citizen Cain”
Marie
Nelson, James Blue, Emmett Miller,
Fletcher Johnson
BET Networks
Television – Public Affairs: Segment
"Urban Prep”
Alturo Rhymes, Cynthia Bowers, Patricia Shevlin, Paul Rose
CBS Evening News Weekend Editions
Television - Public Affairs: Interview/Discussion
"The N-Word”
Byron Pitts, David Schneider, Robert Zimet, Joyce
Gesundheit
60 Minutes
"Exclusive:
President Obama Answers Black America”
James
Blue, Dan Morris, Emmett Miller, Fletcher
Johnson
BET News
Television Top 15 Market
Television - General Assignment: Short Form
"Two Years of
Hell”
Randy Mcllwain
NBC 5 / KXAS-TV
Television - General Assignment: Long Form
"FAMU & A Culture of Hazing”
Blayne Alexander, Benjamin Mayer
WXIA- WATL- TV/ Atlanta, GA
Television -
Investigative
"Black & Blue”
Bryan
Jenkins,
News 12 – New Jersey
"The Bluff:
Atlanta's Forgotten Community”
Keith
Whitney, Gary Stilwell
WXIA- WATL- TV/ Atlanta, GA
Television - Feature: Short Form
"The Dedication
of A Dream”
Cheryl
Burton, Ross Weidner, Annie Esp, Derek
Robinson
WLS-TV/ Chicago, IL
Television - Feature: Long Form
"Kristi's Gift”
Kristi
Nelson, Deborah Ferguson, Reginald Hardwick, Noah Bullard
NBC 5 / KXAS-TV
"Making
History: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial”
Lionel Moise, Karyn Greer, David Brooks, Erika Facey-Palmer
WXIA- WATL- TV/ Atlanta, GA
Television - Sports
"Future Hopes /Fighting Challenges”
Sam
Crenshaw, Pete Smith, Bruce Mason
WXIA- WATL- TV/ Atlanta, GA
Television – Documentary
"Oprah Looks Back, 25 Years of the Oprah Winfrey Show”
Cheryl
Burton, Bob Bates, Tim Kelleher
WLS-TV
"Hattie's Lost Legacy”
Robin
Hamilton, Jim Byrne, Fran Murphy, Rob
Shade
DC 50 TV
"Letters to Our Children": The John Lewis
Story
Erika
Facey-Palmer, David Brooks, Brenda Wood, Karyn
Greer
11 Alive News
Television - Public Affairs: Program
"A King Amongst Presidents"
Melanie
Lawson, Joseph Williams, Anthony Reed, John
Mubarak
KTRK-TV / Crossroads- Houston, TX
Television – Public Affairs: Inverview/Discussion
"Urban Gardens"
Angela
Robinson, Vickie Whitlock, Imara Canady, Ronnie Hoof
WPBA – Atlanta, GA
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