Anchor Jane Pauley and director-producer Alex Gibney will receive Lifetime Achievement awards at the 45th News & Documentary Emmys.
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Pauley will be honored for her career in broadcasting at the news ceremony on Sept. 25. Gibney will be feted for his contributions in documentary filmmaking at the doc ceremony on Sept. 26. Both events will take place live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.
“We are honored to pay tribute to these two revered icons of our industry. Jane Pauley and Alex Gibney continue to reach viewers while at the same time opening doors for those coming behind them,” said NATAS CEO and President Adam Sharp. “This honor is not only about impressive longevity in a competitive space, but also the broad and sweeping impact each has had on the business, their audiences, and the greater community. NATAS is proud to celebrate their enduring dedication to television excellence.”
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Pauley, who has worked as a broadcast journalist for more than 50 years, anchors CBS’ Sunday Morning . She has earned four Daytime Emmy Awards, five News & Documentary Emmys, and a Sports Emmy, along with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Gracie Allen Award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television.
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Gibney has earned an Oscar, four News & Documentary Emmys, five Primetime Emmys, the Grammy Award, six Peabody Awards and six Writers Guild Awards. He was honored with the International Documentary Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2013 and the first-ever Christopher Hitchens Prize in 2015. His films include Taxi to the Dark Side , Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room , Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God , The History of the Eagles , Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown and The Armstrong Lie .
His two-part series on David Chase called Wise Guys will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival and be available on HBO Max later this year. Gibney is currently in production on the documentary Musk about Elon Musk, and Knife , a tentatively titled documentary inspired by Salman Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”
The 45th News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be streamed live on NATAS’ dedicated viewing platform powered by Vimeo, available on the web at watch.theemmys.tv and via The Emmys apps for iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, and Roku.
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