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The 2026 Sports Emmys and News & Documentary Emmys are being held connected 3 consecutive nights adjacent month, and nan National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences coming revealed nan life accomplishment grant honorees for each.
Longtime sports media and intermezo executive Steve Bornstein will beryllium feted during nan Sports Emmys connected May 26, Emmy-winning ABC News journalist Martha Raddatz is nan News Emmys honoree connected May 27, and Emmy-winning documentarian Sam Pollard will person nan Documentary Emmys prize connected May 28. See mini-bios for each below.
All 3 ceremonies will beryllium held astatine nan Jazz astatine Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall successful Manhattan.
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NATAS besides said coming that nan co-hosts of CNN’s Have I Got News for You will service arsenic emcees connected nan various nights. Roy Wood Jr will preside complete nan Sports Emmys, pinch Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black handling nan News and Documentary duties, respectively.
The trio of ceremonies observe excellence successful American sports, news and documentary broadcasting from nan past year.
Here are nan NATAS-provided bios for nan life accomplishment grant honorees:
Steve Bornstein is simply a starring sports media and intermezo executive pinch 40 years’ acquisition successful developing, launching and cultivating brands which time off a imperishable people connected a world scale. In 1980, he joined ESPN – past successful its infancy. He would emergence to go ESPN’s youngest President and CEO successful 1990, starring to important web improvement pinch nan launches of ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, nan ESPYs and nan X Games. Next, Bornstein worked astatine nan National Football League, serving arsenic nan President and Chief Executive Officer of NFL Network and arsenic nan NFL’s EVP Media. He presently is nan President of nan North American section of Genius Sports.
Martha Raddatz is ABC News’ main world affairs analogous and co-anchor of This Week. She has covered nationalist security, overseas argumentation and authorities for decades — reporting from nan State Department, nan White House and conflict zones astir nan world. She began covering wars during nan situation successful Bosnia successful nan precocious 1990s, but Iraq and Afghanistan are wherever she has spent astir of her clip overseas. Her reporting trips person taken her to Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Libya, Oman, nan United Arab Emirates and galore countries successful Africa and successful Asia. Raddatz has moderated 2 wide predetermination debates and is nan writer of bestseller The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family and nan soon-to-be-released The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose.
Sam Pollard is an accomplished characteristic movie and tv editor and documentary producer-director. Between 1990 and 2010, he edited nan Spike Lee films Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers and Bamboozled. Pollard and Lee besides co-produced a brace of documentary productions: Four Little Girls, an Oscar-nominated characteristic astir nan 1963 Birmingham religion bombings, and When nan Levees Broke, a four-part docuseries that won galore awards including a Peabody and 3 Emmys. In 2010, Pollard co-produced and supervised nan edit connected nan follow-up to Levees, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. He besides was an executive shaper connected Netflix’s Katrina: Come Hell and High Water and EP connected nan Oscar-nominated The Perfect Neighbor.
