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Paula Lerner holding Emmy
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The Toronto Globe and Mail, The New York Times, and
Time magazine all won News & Documentary Emmy Awards for
Web productions at a ceremony held at Lincoln Center this
week.
The Toronto Globe and Mail won an award for "Behind
the Veil," a six-part multimedia series about women in
Kandahar, Afghanistan that was spearheaded by photojournalists
Paula Lerner.
"This topic typically gets very little coverage in the mainstream
press," Lerner said in a prepared statement. "People in the
West know very little about Afghan women...This feature tells some
very important, untold stories that we need to hear in order to
inform our policy decisions."
"Behind the Veil" won the Emmy for New Approaches to News and
Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage. Other contenders in
that category included The New York Times, Media
Storm, Reuters, and the San Jose Mercury News.
The New York Times won an Emmy in the category of New
Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries for
"
One in 8 Million," a year-long series of multimedia portraits
of individual New Yorkers. Todd Heisler was the photographer.
Executive producers were Juliet Gorman, Jodi Rudoren, and Andrew De
Vigal.
Runners-up in that category included Nova (pbs.org), The Los
Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Soul of Athens, and
MediaStorm.
Meanwhile, Time won an Emmy for its "
The Iconic Photos" series in the category of New Approaches to
News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture.
The series, by photographer Anthony Suau, photo editor Mark Rykoff
and producer/editor Craig Duff, tells the stories behind iconic
news photos from World War II to Woodstock to the recent earthquake
in Haiti.
Other finalists in that category were National Geographic
and Chow.com.
The Emmy Awards are sponsored by the National Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences. The Academy has been awarding Emmys for news
and documentary programming since 1980.
