National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards (NATAS)

These awards are won as part of a team unless otherwise noted:

Michael Whitney (BSJ66, MSJ67) has won five times:

Outstanding Interview
2001: as senior broadcast producer on "The Traitor," a segment on CBS' "60 Minutes II" about Robert Greenglass' testimony that resulted in Ethel Rosenberg being put on the electric chair for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.

Outstanding Investigative Journalism (segments)
2000: as senior broadcast producer on CBS' "The First Casualty," which was about navy pilot Michael Spiker, who was declared dead by the U.S. government after his plane was shot down over Iraq, but he might have been held prisoner by Iraq.

Outstanding Historical Programming (segments)
1999: as senior broadcast producer on CBS News' "The Lost Children," which was about children from England in early 1950s, who were deported to Australia, given up by their natural parents, raised by the "Christian Brothers" and experienced slave labor and sexual molestation. Through the efforts of a woman in Britain, they were reunited with their parents 50 years later.

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (segments)
1999: as senior broadcast producer for "The Shame of Srebrenica," a segment on CBS' "60 Minutes II," which was about the role of Dutch soldiers in Bosnia in letting genocide go on and suggested the lessons that the U.S. might learn when committing troops to that region.

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story
1998: as executive producer of the CBS News primetime special, "Farewell to a Princess," which was about the funeral of Princess Diana.

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (programs)
1989: as news bureau chief in Miami for CBS' "48 Hours," for "Hurricane Watch: Special Edition," which was about the devastation Hurricane Hugo wreaked on the Caribbean and southern U.S.

 

Christine Spolar (BSJ79) has won twice:

Best Report in a News Magazine
2002: as an associate producer for "The Lost Boys," a two-part broadcast about the plight of Sudanese refugees, who had lived a decade in refugee camps in Kenya, as they made their way to America in an unprecedented resettlement program by the United States. She also assisted in reporting and writing the piece and with the editing process.

National Award for Investigations
2001: As co-producer of "First Casualty," which won a national Emmy in 2001 (the 22nd Annual News and Documentary Awards) for investigations. The story detailed the first pilot shot down the first night of the Gulf War in 1991 and left for dead by the U.S. military. The piece raised questions about the fate of Michael Scott Speicher, the Navy pilot, and pointed out discrepancies in the military's handling of the case.

 

Mark Katkov has won once:

Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
2001: as producer for the CBS Evening News segment, "McVeigh Papers," the breaking story about documents the FBI erroneously forwarded to executed terrorist Timothy McVeigh's defense team, delaying the trial for six weeks and leading to an internal FBI investigation.

 

Inci Ulgur (BSJ91, MSJ92) has won once:

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story (programs)
2000: as supervising producer for MSNBC's "The Crash of Singapore Airlines," which covered a runway accident in Taipei, Taiwan, during a typhoon in which the plane ran into construction equipment. Due to the typhoon, none of the networks had live pictures; but MSNBC broadcast the first pictures after the crash while simultaneously interviewing a survivor in Taiwan and his wife in California by phone, essentially reuniting the couple.

 

Michael R. Whitney (BSJ66, MSJ67) has won four times:

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (segments)
1999: as senior producer on the CBS News "60 Minutes II" piece, "Shame on Srebrenica."

Outstanding Historical Program (segments)
1999: as senior producer on the CBS News "60 Minutes II" piece, "The Lost Children."

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story
1997: as executive producer on CBS News' "Farewell to a Princess."

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story
1989: as producer of CBS News "48 Hours" segments, "Hurricane Watch."

 

Lester Crystal (BSJ56, MSJ57) has won seven times:

Outstanding Background Analysis of a Single Current Story (segments) (3)
1998: as executive producer for the PBS' "MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour," for the two-part report, "Microsoft vs. the Justice Department;"
1985: as executive producer for PBS' "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour," for "Farm Suicide," about a farmer who killed himself due to the stress of huge debts and possible foreclosure;
1984: as executive producer for the "NewsHour," for "Zumwalt - Agent Orange," a profile of Elmo Zumwalt III, who developed lymphoma likely due to exposure to Agent Orange, which his father, Adm. Elmo Zumwalt Jr., chief of naval operations during the Vietnam War, had ordered used.

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story (segments)
1984: as executive producer for the "NewsHour," for a three-part report about the financial crisis facing U.S. farmers;

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (segments)
1983: as executive producer for the "NewsHour," for coverage of the Grenada invasion;

Outstanding Achievement Within Regularly Scheduled News Programs (2)
1973-74: as executive producer for "NBC Nightly News," for reports on world hunger;
1969-70: as producer for NBC's "Huntley Brinkley Report," for an investigation of a teenage drug addiction.

 

Barry Petersen (BSJ70, MSJ72) has won twice:

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
1996: as correspondent for the CBS Evening News two-part segment, "Amerasians Return to Vietnam," which followed children adopted by Americans during the Vietnam War as they returned to their homeland for the first time.

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (segments)
1993: for the CBS News Sunday Morning segment, "The Spirit of Sarajevo," which was about the defiance of Bosnians who continued to attend symphony concerts and other arts events even as snipers and tanks battled in the streets about them.

 

William Weinbaum (BSJ82, MSJ83) has won twice:

Outstanding Studio Show
1996: as feature producer on the daily ESPN show "SportsCenter."

Outstanding Edited Special -- Quick Turn-around
1995: for the ESPN series "Outside the Lines" and its episode, "Play Ball: Opening Day in America," for which he produced a segment on the first regular-season day in the history of the Colorado Rockies' Coors Field, a shooting, editing and writing task accomplished "in 48 sleepless hours."

 

Bill Lord (MSJ83) has won once:

Public Service
1996: as news director at KNBC in Los Angeles, for "Beating the Odds," a weekly series of reports on inner-city youth success stories.

 

Ira Sutow (BSJ68) has won 10 times as producer for CBS' "48 Hours":

Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (2)
1996: for "The Citadel," on admission of women, for the first time, to this military academy;
1993: for "Standoff at Waco," about the Branch Davidian-FBI conflict.

Outstanding General Coverage of a Continuing News Story (programs) (4)
1993: for "Ready for Love," which was about the personal rights of the mentally handicapped;
1993: for "Flood, Sweat & Tears," which was about the heaving flooding that year in the Midwest;
1992: for "The Heroin Connection," which was a look at the serious renewed problem of heroin use in the U.S., focusing on how it gets here;
1991: for "Fatal Secret," which was about the AIDS epidemic.

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (programs)
1989: for "Hurricane Watch: A Special Edition," which was about Hurricane Hugo.

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story
1988: for "Nightmare Next Door," an investigative look at the nuclear weapons waste scandal in the U.S.

Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story (programs) (2)
1988: for "Faith Under Fire," which focused on the televangelism scandals of the time;
1988: for "On Gang Street," which was a look at the youth gang problem in Los Angeles.

 

Diana Olick (MSJ91) has won once:

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
1996: as on-air correspondent for CBS News, for her coverage of TWA Flight 800.

 

David Bernknopf (BSJ80) has won once:

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story (programs)
1996: as director of news planning for CNN, for its coverage of the Olympic Park bombing. Although it wasn't Bernknopf's usual role, he "basically ran the newsroom" for several hours after the bombing because other senior managers were unable to get into work due to the area near the Park, which CNN's building fronts, being heavily road blocked; Bernknopf had been nearby because he had just seen a boxing match.

 

Robert Geline (MSJ69) has won once:

Outstanding Interview/Interviewers (programs)
1995: as series producer for ADAM SMITH, a weekly PBS business show, for the edition, "The Old Masters of Wall Street," which profiled Roy Neuberger, founder of the money management firm Neuberger and Berman and a well-known collector of American contemporary art.

 

James Cummins (BSJ67, MSJ68) has won once:

Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Single News Story (programs)
1993: for his reporting work on the NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw segment, "Flood of '93." He was stationed in Des Moines, Iowa, where the city's water treatment plant became flooded, necessitating massive distribution of bottled water.

 

Dan Forer (BSJ79) has won seven times as a producer for CBS Sports:

Outstanding Graphic Design
1992: Winter Olympics

Outstanding Live Sports Series (3)
1990: NCAA Basketball Tournament
1988: NCAA Basketball Tournament
1986: National Basketball Association

Outstanding Program Achievement (2)
1988: World Triathlon Championship
1981: Reggie Jackson Feature

Outstanding Live Sports Special
1986: Daytona 500

 

Richard Threlkeld (MSJ61) has won five times as an on-air correspondent:

Outstanding General Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story
1991: for the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather segment, "Liberation of Kuwait."

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story (3)
1985: for the ABC World News Tonight With Peter Jennings segment, "Vietnam Remembered," an analysis segment at the 10-year anniversary of the fall of Saigon;
1983: for the ABC World News segment, "A Balance of Power," a piece that covered the truck bombings that killed about 250 U.S. Marines in Lebanon and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Grenada;
1983: for the ABC World News segment, "Crime in America: Myth and Reality," a five-part series that later became a book and a documentary.

Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writers
1981: for CBS Reports' "Defense of the United States: The War Machine," a multi-part documentary that looked at America's defense posture anchored by Walter Cronkite.

 

Greg Dobbs (MSJ69) has won twice:

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single News Story
1988: for his reporting in an hour-long ABC News documentary on pollution, "Burning Question: The Poisoning of America."

Outstanding Program Achievement
1980: for his coverage of devastating earthquakes in southern Italy for ABC's World News Tonight.

 

Russ Bensley (BSJ51, MSJ52) has won four times:

Special Classification of Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement (segments)
1984: as executive producer of a piece about a family of steeplejacks that aired on CBS' "Crossroads" program with Charles Kuralt.

Outstanding Achievement in Coverage of Special Events
1973-74: as executive producer of the CBS special "Watergate: The White House Transcripts."

Outstanding Achievement Within Regularly Scheduled Programs
1972-73: as co-executive producer of a piece on CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite titled "U.S./Soviet Wheat Deal: Is There a Scandal?"

Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming
1970-71: as producer of the CBS News show, "The World of Charlie Company," an in-depth piece about a Vietnam-era Army unit.

 

David Cifrino (MSJ79) has won once:

Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current News Story (segments)
1984: for a piece called "Harbor Pollution" that he produced as Boston bureau manager for "CBS Evening News With Dan Rather." The story focused on the state, city and court maneuvering to solve the Boston harbor pollution later highlighted by the first President Bush in his 1988 campaign.

 

Richard Fischer (BSJ53, MSJ54) has won once:

Outstanding Achievement Within Regularly Scheduled News Programs
1973-74: for his role as producer of a five-part series on world hunger.

 

Walter Pfister (BSJ51) has won once:

Outstanding Achievement in Coverage of Special Events
1971-72: as executive producer of ABC News' series of specials called "The China Trip," about President Richard Nixon's historic trip to China that resulted in detente.

 

Robert Mulholland (BSJ55, MSJ56) has won twice:

Outstanding Achievement Within Regularly Scheduled News Programs
1971-72: as producer of NBC Nightly News, for a segment called "Defeat of Dacca," which was about the end of the 14-day war between India and Pakistan.

Outstanding Achievement in the Field of News Reports
1963-64: as Midwestern field producer for the Huntley-Brinkley Report.