Jane Pauley and Alex Gibney will be honored with Lifetime Achievement awards at the 45th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) made the announcement on Wednesday.
Pauley, the Emmy-winning journalist, anchor and author who spent who first rose to national prominence as co-anchor of NBC’s “Today” in 1976, will receive her award at the News ceremony on Wednesday, September 25. Director and producer Gibney, who won the best documentary Oscar in 2008 for “Taxi to the Dark Side” and took home two Primetime Emmys in 2013 (for “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God”) and three in 2015 (for “Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief”), will be honored at the Documentary ceremony on Thursday, September 26.