In summary
CalMatters has won a Northern California Emmy award for the second year in a row, with videos produced in partnership with Julie Watts of CBS Sacramento.
CalMatters’ second Emmy win comes thanks to our partnership with CBS Sacramento.
The award in the “Crime/Justice” category honored CalMatters criminal justice reporter Nigel Duara and CBS investigative journalist Julie Watts for their segment on how California investigates shootings by law enforcement officers of unarmed civilians. It was announced Saturday night by the Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The video segment probes the state Justice Department’s enforcement of a 2021 law passed after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Before the law, investigations of fatal police shootings in California were conducted at the local level and officers were rarely charged.
CalMatters was nominated for two other Emmys: Investigative reporter Byrhonda Lyons’ story on the lack of oversight of a state rehabilitation program; and a series by Jeanne Kuang and Alejandro Lazo for the California Divide team on wage theft and workers’ long waits to get paid.
This year’s win comes after CalMatters’ first Emmy last year for another collaboration with Watts that featured Julie Cart’s coverage of the devastating effects of endless wildfires on the mental health of California’s firefighters.
