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Left/Right and The New York Times’ series The Weekly has won four awards at the 41st News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

The series premiered June 2, 2019 on FX and Hulu, and its award wins include Outstanding Feature Story in a Newsmagazine for The Gallagher Effect; Outstanding Editing: News for Collision – an episode about an American couple killed during a run-in with ISIS; Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Newsmagazine category for El Chapo’s Son: The Siege of Culiacán; and Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary for The Myth of the Medallion.

The Weekly was nominated for a further five awards, including Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Video Journalism: News for Collision; as well as in the Outstanding Research categories for The Myth of the Medallion episode; and episodes Baby Constantin and Connecting the World were both nominated for the Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newsmagazine category.

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards honor programming content from more than 2000 submissions that originally premiered in 2019, judged by a pool of 875 peer professionals from across the television and streaming/digital media news & documentary industry.

The Weekly is produced by Red Arrow Studios company Left/Right and The New York Times. Executive producers of The Weekly are Mat Skene, Jason Stallman, Sam Dolnick, Stephanie Preiss, and Ken Druckerman and Banks Tarver for Left/Right.

The same team that produced the acclaimed documentary series, have partnered on new 10-part series The New York Times Presents for FX and Hulu. The series presents investigations and character-driven stories and features reporting from journalists at The New York Times.

Both The Weekly and The New York Times Presents, which is marketed internationally as The Weekly: Special Edition and launches at MIPCOM next month, are distributed worldwide by Red Arrow Studios International.