PBS News Hour Nominated for 3 News & Documentary Emmy Awards

Arlington, VA (May 1, 2025) – PBS News Hour today received three News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The news awards will be presented on Wednesday, June 25 at the Palladium Times Square in New York City and will be streamed live at watch.theEmmys.tv and via The Emmys app.

PBS News Hour’s nominations include:

Category: Outstanding Breaking News Coverage

“On the Brink”

Following the October 7, 2023 terror attacks against Israel, the PBS News Hour reported throughout the year on the brutal war between Israel and Hamas and Gaza; on the enormous suffering of Palestinians under daily, punishing bombardment in Gaza; and the Israeli and Lebanese citizens who fled their homes in northern Israel and Southern Lebanon as the war expanded there.

A few weeks before the first anniversary of the October 7^th attacks, the conflict exploded over the Lebanon border. PBS News Hour foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin reported from the Israeli side of the border as the fighting expanded and Israel entered Lebanon for the first time in nearly two decades. Hezbollah’s patron in Iran would launch the largest-ever set of airstrikes against Israel as Schifrin reported live from Tel Aviv. PBS News Hour special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen was by then in Beirut and reporting on the civilians there caught in the crossfire between Hezbollah and Israel.

Taken together, the breaking news coverage of the broadening war, with small teams and budgets far smaller than the News Hour’s competitors, proved the most revealing and informative on American television.

Credits: Nick Schifrin, Correspondent; Leila Molana-Allen, Correspondent; Morgan Till, Senior Producer; Dan Sagalyn, Senior Producer; Zeba Warsi, Producer; Hélène Franchineau; Cameraperson; Eric O’Connor, Cameraperson; Jana Barakat, Producer; Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer.

Category: Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form

“Sudan’s Civil War”

PBS News Hour special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen fought for months not only for the access to report in Sudan, but to go deeper and farther than had previously been possible. Her small team was the first U.S. TV crew to gain reporting access in 2024 successfully. They reported from Port Sudan and central Omdurman to the front lines of the battle with the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum and Bahri, and across the eastern front lines in Gedarif as hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people streamed in from the approaching offensive in Sennar.

The intention behind the three-part series was to overturn the prevailing media narrative on the conflict and to center the experience and voices of the millions of Sudanese whose lives are being destroyed by a war they did not start and have no part in except as its victims. Molana-Allen’s reporting lays out the realities of a complex conflict with nuance, sensitivity and respect.

Credits: Leila Molana-Allen, Correspondent; Morgan Till, Senior Producer; Dan Sagalyn, Senior Producer; Jorgen Samso Nielsen; Cameraperson; Ammar Sharif Saddig; Producer; Andrew Corcoran, Producer; Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer

Category: Outstanding Climate, Environment, and Weather Coverage

“Toxic Trifecta”

PBS News Hour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro’s series, Toxic Trifecta, is a vivid, trench-level examination of the global waste trade – a crisis that epitomizes environmental injustice. We illustrated three major categories of waste—automotive, electronic, and textile— from the end of the pipeline in Ghana. The field reporting amplified the voices of those most impacted and brought vivid dystopian visuals to the other end of the pipeline: the West. Backed by rigorous research and fact checking, and in partnership with the Under-Told Stories Project, Toxic Trifecta exposed an issue of global significance and urgency.

Credits: Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent; Morgan Till, Senior Producer; Richard Coolidge, Senior Producer; Simeon Lancaster, Producer; Dennis Nipah, Camera Operator; Joseph Harewicz, Cameraperson; Patti, Parson, Managing Producer; Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer.

Media contact: Ella Richardson, erichardson (at) newshour (dot) org