Newsday nominated for 23 New York Emmy Awards

Members of the Brentwood marching band practice under the direction of... — Members of the Brentwood marching band practice under the direction of Joe Sitler in a scene from "Brentwood's Green Machine," one of the Newsday productions nominated for a New York Emmy Award. Credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa Loarca

By Newsday StaffFebruary 26, 2020

Newsday collected 23 nominations in the 63rd annual New York Emmy Awards competition for work across a broad variety of multimedia and video packages.

Newsday's nominations came in the categories of business/consumer, crime, directing, education/schools, entertainment, health/science, historical/cultural, human interest, informational/instructional, lifestyle, magazine, photography, politics/government, promotion, public/current/community affairs, religion, sports and video journalist. Nine of Newsday's nominations were for FeedMeTV, a show that features stories behind Long Island's food scene.

“The scope and range of Newsday’s 23 Emmy nominations represent a spectrum of rich and inventive storytelling — from ‘An Innocent Man?’ to ‘Brentwood’s Green Machine,’ ” Newsday publisher Debby Krenek said. “We are so proud of all of the work and so proud of our talented and creative colleagues.”

The Green Machine is the well-known marching band of Brentwood High School. During the 2018 season, Newsday followed members of the Green Machine on their journey to the annual New York State Field Band Conference championship show in Syracuse. Credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa Loarca

The nominations for the annual competition, which evaluates work done at area news outlets, were announced Tuesday at the studios of CUNY-TV by local media personalities, including News 12 Long Island reporter and Emmy winner Virginia Huie.

Keith Bush was a 17-year-old junior at Bellport High School when Suffolk authorities charged him with killing Sherese Watson, 14, after a late-night house party in North Bellport. For the past 44 years, Keith Bush has claimed he was an innocent man, ever since he was accused and convicted of the 1975 Suffolk County sex-related murder. Credit: Newsday Staff

News 12 collected 69 nominations for work done at seven of its outlets in the region, as well as by its digital team: 17 on Long Island, 26 in Westchester, 10 in New Jersey, six in Connecticut, five in the Bronx, two in Brooklyn, two for News12 digital and one in the Hudson Valley.

The awards are conferred annually by the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. They will be announced April 18 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.

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