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Business Mayor
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes Interview Receives Emmy Nomination
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has nominated 60 Minutes' interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris for a News & Documentary Emmy award or Outstanding Edited Interview. That interview is also the subject of a defamation suit brought by President Donald Trump, who accused CBS News of 'deceitful' editing. Shari Redstone—who heads up the network's parent company, Paramount Global—is reportedly seeking to settle the suit ahead of Paramount's planned merger with Skydance Media. On April 22, 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens exited the program citing a loss of journalistic independents. Correspondent Scott Pelley addressed his departure on-air last Sunday. Overall, CBS News received 28 nominations for the 46th News & Documentary Emmys. The Eye Network also received two nods in the Outstanding Live News Program category for CBS Mornings and CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell. (O'Donnell has since stepped down from the anchor's chair, and a new format has been introduced.) ABC News was also recognized in that category for its flagship morning and evening shows, Good Morning America and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. The network received 30 nominations overall when combined with Hulu. NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Top Story with Tom Llamas rounded out the Outstanding Live News Program nominees. Holt recently announced that he would be departing the anchor's chair on May 30, with Llamas taking over on June 2. CNN was the big winner among the cable news networks with 33 nominations, including a pair of nods for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage for its reports on Hurricane Milton and South Korea declaring martial law. Other news outlets to receive Emmy nods include NBC News (13), MSNBC (8), Scripps News (8), Telemundo (8), Univision/Vix (7), Al Jazeera (7), BBC News/BBC America (6), Vice News (4), Bloomberg (3), NewsNation (3), PBS (3), The Weather Channel (2), CNBC (1), ESPN (1). Prime Video also earned a single nod for its first foray into news, Brian Williams' Election Night special. That newscast was nominated for its title sequence. The 2025 News & Documentary Emmys ceremony will be held at the Palladium Times Square Theater in New York City. It will take place over two days, with the News Ceremony held on Wednesday, June 25, and the Documentary Ceremony on Thursday, June 26. The full list of nominees can be found here.
CBS News
04-05-2025
- General
- CBS News
Steve Lasker, renowned photojournalist who worked for decades with CBS Chicago, dies at 94
Steve Lasker, an award-winning newspaper and television photojournalist who spent 25 years with CBS Chicago, died last week. Lasker passed away on Thursday, May 1. He was 94. Lasker was just 13 years old when he began photographing World War II aircraft at Midway Airport, according to a bio from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Lasker went on to shoot photos for the student newspaper at Hyde Park High School and for the Hyde Park Herald neighborhood paper. As a young man, he also hung out at Chicago firehouses and rode with fire crews on emergency calls, where he took photos and sometimes sold them to insurance companies, his bio noted. On May 25, 1950, Lasker was hanging around at a firehouse when a horrible accident happened on the city's South Side. A Green Hornet Streetcar collided with a gasoline truck at 63rd and State streets, causing a horrific fire that killed 34 people. Lasker was the first photographer on the scene of the accident, and he sold his photos to Life Magazine and WNBQ-TV (now WMAQ-TV), NBC 5, where he was hired to shoot still photos for television newscasts, his bio noted. After five years with NBC 5, Lasker was hired as a press photographer at the Chicago American newspaper. In this role, Lasker was the first photographer on the scene for the tragic fire at Our Lady of Angels Catholic School in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Dec. 1, 1958. The fire claimed the lives of 92 students and three nuns. As noted in his bio, Lasker documented tragedy with several heartbreaking images — including one showing firefighter Richard Scheidt carrying the body of a 10-year-old boy, John Jajkowski, from the scene. Steve Lasker Scott Lasker In 1969, Lasker joined CBS Chicago, WBBM-TV, Channel 2, as a news and documentary cameraman. At Channel 2, Lasker worked in the field for many years on a two-man electronic news gathering team with sound man Bob Gadbois, and his assignments took him around the city, country, and beyond. Lasker spent 27 years at CBS Chicago. His assignments, to name just a very few, included a trip to Poland with Walter Jacobson in the late 70s, a trip to New York with reporter Phil Walters to cover the murder of John Lennon in 1980, and a variety of assignments with Bill Kurtis and covering organized crime and society's seedy underbelly with John Drummond. Lasker also worked at CBS Chicago with the late producer Scott Craig on several award-winning documentary projects. They included, "Oscar Brown is Back in Town," featuring singer and activist Oscar Brown; "No Place Like Home," which tracked the plight of the unhoused in Chicago; and "The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson," a dramatic reenactment that brought viewers to the courtroom after the 1919 scandal in which members of the White Sox conspired to throw the World Series. Lasker won several awards for his work with CBS Chicago. Steve Lasker National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences After retiring from CBS Chicago in 1995, Lasker shot photos part-time for the Chicago Tribune and later shot commercial photography. He was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in 2012. Lasker is survived by his wife of 60 years, Frances; daughters Wendy and Stacy; sons David and Scott, who both followed him into photojournalism; and grandson Jack. A memorial service is planned for Monday.
