Awards & Winners

News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing

News & Documentary Emmy Award

The News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing is one of the awards presented at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony.

Check all the winners of News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing presented under News & Documentary Emmy Award since 1981 .


Michael H. Gavshon, Bob Simon

Honored for : 60 Minutes
(The Recyclers)

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Diane Sawyer 20/20
Unbreakable: One Girl Changing the World
Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes
Cosmic Roulette
Andy Court 60 Minutes
Cosmic Roulette
Michael H. Gavshon 60 Minutes
The Recyclers
Bob Simon 60 Minutes
The Recyclers
Doug Shultz Defiant Requiem
Ric Esther Bienstock Tales from the Organ Trade
HBO Documentary Film Series
John Larson PBS NewsHour Weekend
Flying Coach

Nick Paton Walsh

(CNN - Nick Paton Walsh: Reports from Syria and Afghanistan)

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nick Paton Walsh
Nick Paton Walsh: Reports from Syria and Afghanistan
Bill Weir Nightline
Amazing Race: Organ Donation
Nicole Young 60 Minutes
Hard Landing
Robert G. Anderson 60 Minutes
Hard Landing
Scott Pelley 60 Minutes
Hard Landing
Bob Simon 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo
Clem Taylor 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo
Magalie Laguerre 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo
Warren Lustig 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo
Steve Kroft 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
Scott Pelley 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
Morley Safer 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
Lesley Stahl 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
David Browning 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
Warren Lustig 60 Minutes
Remembering Mike Wallace
Steve Kroft 60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission
Michael Radutzky 60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission
Michael Rey 60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission
Oriana Zill de Granados 60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission
Sam Hornblower 60 Minutes
The Cost of Admission
Janet Hess Nature
An Original DUCKumentary

Robert G. Anderson, Scott Pelley, Nicole Young

Honored for : 60 Minutes
(Hard Times Generation \u2013 Families in Cars)

David Attenborough, Martin Williams, Anthony Geffen

Honored for : First Life
(First Life With David Attenborough)

Bill D. Moyers, Michael Winship

Honored for : Bill Moyers Journal
(Essays - Gilded Age, It Was Oil, Memorial Day)

Chad Cohen

Honored for : National Geographic Specials
(Incredible Human Machine)

Gail Willumsen

Honored for : Nova
(The Mummy Who Would Be King)

Ric Burns, Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb

Honored for : American Experience
(Eugene O'Neill)

Nic Young

Honored for : Ape to Man

Janet Hess

Honored for : Nature
(Pale Male)

Donald F. Campbell

Honored for : Russia, Land of the Tsars

Serge Schmemann

Honored for : Behind the Hatred: Mortal Enemies

Julia Cort

Honored for : Nova
(Life's Greatest Miracle)

Peter Freundlich

Honored for : CBS News Sunday Morning
(Goodbye, and Thanks)

CBS Evening News

(Everybody Has a Story)

Ian McGee

Honored for : Twisted Tales
(Bats)

Jerusalem, City of Heaven

National Geographic Specials

(Volcano)

3 Minutes to Impact

American Experience

(TR: The Story Of Theodore Roosevelt)

Edward Gray

Honored for : American Experience
(The Orphan Trains)

Titanic: The Complete Story

(Death of a Dream)

Jon H. Else

Honored for : The Great Depression
(A Job at Ford's)

American Experience

(The Kennedy's)

Frontline

(In The Shadow Of Sakharov)

Frontline

(Don King Unauthorized)

Sheila Curran Bernard, Samuel D. Pollard

Honored for : Eyes on the Prize
(Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More)

Harry Smith

Honored for : CBS This Morning
(The Party's Over; Flag Burning; Death Penalty)

James A. DeVinney, Madison Davis Lacy

Honored for : Eyes on the Prize
(The Time Has Come)

CBS News Sunday Morning

(Milepost - Student Stopping Tank in Beijing)

Eric Sevareid

Honored for : American Experience
(Not So Wild a Dream)

National Geographic Specials

(Australia's Twilight of the Dreamtime)

Steve Fayer

Honored for : Eyes on the Prize
(Mississippi: Is This America?: 1962-1964)

CBS News Sunday Morning

(We've Grown Accustomed)

Richard Gerdau, Linda Ellerbee, Ray Gandolf

Honored for : Our World
(Halloween 1983)

ABC News Close-up!

(Fire Unleashed, The)

CBS Reports

(Whose America Is It?)

The Precious Legacy

Marshall Frady, Judy Crichton, Richard Gerdau, Kathy Slobogin, Joseph Angier, Thomas Lennon

Honored for : ABC News Close-up!
(To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children)

Oh, Tell The World What Happened

CBS Evening News

(Cicada Invasion)

Juilliard and Beyond: A Life in Music

CBS News Special

(Inside Hollywood: The Movie Business)

CBS Reports

(Defense Of The United States: The War Machine)

CBS Reports

(The Best Little Statehouse In Texas)

CBS Reports

(Defense Of The United States: Ground Zero)

CBS Reports

(Defense Of The United States: Nuclear Battlefield)

CBS News Sunday Morning

(News In Review)

ABC News Close-up!

(The Monastery)

Bill Moyers Journal

(Our Times)

CBS News Special

(American Dream, American Nightmare)

CBS Reports

(What Shall We Do About Mother?)

National Geographic Specials

(Mysteries of the Mind)

NBC Reports

(The Migrants)