AP is proud to announce that we have been nominated for 3 Day Time Emmys last week. The 45th News & Documentary Nominations – The Emmys – July 25, 2024
The categories are:
OUTSTANDING CRIME AND JUSTICE COVERAGE
Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK – Hulu
OUTSTANDING EDITING: NEWS
Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK – Hulu – [ABC News Studios | The Associated Press]
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH: NEWS
Adrift: An AP Investigation – The Associated Press – apnews.com
You can find more information about the two nominated works in the below sections.
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Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK
Story Synopsis:
In 2023, George Stephanopoulos, in partnership with The Associated Press’s, Jason Dearen (AP Investigative Reporter), went inside the KKK with a Klan Grand Knighthawk FBI informant who is pushed to the edge as he fights to stop the modern-day lynching of a Black man in the Deep South.
“My mission was to go inside the KKK for the FBI.” ‘Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK’ captures the infiltration of the Klan in northern Florida by a former Army infantryman named Joe Moore and includes exclusive new interviews with the FBI agents who oversaw the operation and exposes systemic corruption. The new true crime documentary by George Stephanopoulos, ABC News Studios and AP, premiered April 27, 2023 on Hulu.
In a first-time collaboration, ABC News and The Associated Press announced todaya documentary that takes viewers inside one of the world’s most sinister secret societies — the Ku Klux Klan. Based on an award-winning investigative AP series, the true-crime documentary captures the infiltration of the Klan in northern Florida by a former Army infantryman named Joe Moore and includes exclusive new interviews with the FBI agents who oversaw the operation and exposes systemic corruption. “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK” premieres April 27 on Hulu.
Produced by award-winning anchor and journalist George Stephanopoulos and his production unit, George Stephanopoulos Productions within ABC News Studios, the documentary follows Moore, an undercover source working for the FBI. Told through firsthand accounts and rarely heard undercover audio and video recordings, Moore’s operation exposes not just the perverseness of white supremacy in the Deep South but also its troubling intersection with law enforcement.
The documentary marks the first time two of America’s largest and most-trusted news organizations are working together. AP award-winning journalist Jason Dearen’s investigative series “The Badge and the Cross” serves as the source material, which exposed ties between the white supremacist group and law enforcement. The series won the 2022 Online Journalism Award for feature reporting, large newsroom, as well as the Society for Professional Journalists’ 2022 Green Eyeshade Award for the best investigative reporting in the American South.
“Joe Moore’s story is chilling and instructive,” said ABC News’ “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor Stephanopoulos. “I’m grateful to Jason Dearen for uncovering it, and I’m honored to work with The Associated Press to bring this story to a wider audience.”
“The Associated Press is pleased to work with ABC News to bring to light a chilling investigation into the ongoing problem of extremist infiltration into U.S. law enforcement agencies,” said AP acting Global Investigative Editor Alison Kodjak. “The documentary reveals in granular detail an important story of systemic corruption.”
The AP project began in 2015 and centered on three current and former prison guards who authorities had arrested for plotting a former inmate’s murder and the FBI’s discovery that those guards were Klansmen. Following the story for years, in 2020, Dearen received transcripts from the trial of the KKK members and learned that an FBI informant by the name of Joe Moore was the star witness. Moore’s story helped show how the state’s corrections system is designed to keep such reports inside prison walls.
“Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK” is produced by George Stephanopoulos Productions and ABC News Studios in collaboration with The Associated Press. Jennifer Joseph is the executive producer for George Stephanopoulos Productions.
ABOUT ABC NEWS STUDIOS
ABC News Studios, inspired by ABC News’ trusted reporting, is a premium, narrative non-fiction original production house and commissioning partner of series and specials. ABC News Studios champions untold and authentic stories driving the cultural zeitgeist spanning true crime, investigations, pop culture, and news-adjacent stories. Its subsidiary, ABC News Films, acquires and produces feature documentary films.
ABOUT GEORGE STEPHONOPOLOUS PRODUCTIONS
George Stephanopoulos Productions is a production unit within ABC News Studios that focuses on nonfiction long-form projects, including news-making interviews and gripping investigations. Projects from the unit include “Two Men at War,” ”Out of the Shadows: The Man Behind the Steele Dossier,” “The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland,” ABC News’ exclusive Emmy-nominated interview with actor Alec Baldwin, following the deadly shooting on the set of the film “Rust,” which aired in a primetime special, and “Power Trip,” a weekly docuseries that followed a group of seven campaign reporters as they covered the campaign trail leading into the 2022 midterm election, streaming on Hulu. Jennifer Joseph is the executive producer.
ABOUT AP
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: www.ap.org
For the Grand Knighthawk – AP Credits were:
Consulting Producer – Jason Dearen
Associate Producers for The Associated Press
Cliff Decatrel, Jaime Holguin, Alison Kodjak, Ron Nixon and Jeannie Ohm
Additional Footage Shot by The Associated Press Journalists
Robert Bumsted and David Goldman
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Adrift: An AP Investigation Documentary
The other Emmy nom was for ADRIFT: An AP Investigation: AP mini-doc investigates how migrant boat drifted across the Atlantic. An AP investigation traces the story of one boat across three continents — and the people it carried from hope to death.
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH: NEWS – Adrift: An AP Investigation Documentary – The Associated Press – apnews.com
Story Synopsis:
Around 6:30 a.m. on May 28, 2021, off the beach near the Caribbean island of Tobago, a narrow white-and-blue boat drifted onto the horizon.
From a distance, it seemed no one was aboard. But as fishermen approached, they smelled death. Then they saw the decomposing bodies of more than a dozen Black men.
What is clear now, but was not then, is this: 135 days earlier, 43 people were believed to have left a port city across the ocean in Mauritania. They were trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands.
Instead, they ended up here, on the other side of the Atlantic.
At least seven boats carrying dead bodies appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil in 2021. These “ghost boats” — and likely many others that have vanished — are in part an unintended result of years of efforts and billions of dollars spent by Europe to stop crossings on the Mediterranean Sea.
For Adrift – AP Credits were:
Reporting: Renata Brito & Felipe Dana
Editing: Renata Brito, Nat Castañeda & Bram Janssen
Cinematography: Renata Brito, Felipe Dana & Bram Janssen
Photography: Felipe Dana
Motion Design: Marshall Ritzel
Illustrations: Peter Hamlin
Audio: Sander Houtman
Exec. Video Producers Chris Hulme & Raghuram Vadarevu
