Awards
EMMYS
2019 WIN - Best Feature Story in a Newscast: Zero Tolerance, Vice News Tonight
2019 WIN - Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story: The Bret Kavanaugh Hearings, Vice News Tonight
2018 Nomination - Outstanding Special: Trump’s Inauguration, Vice News Tonight
2017 Nomination - Outstanding Coverage Of a Breaking Story in a Newscast: Pulse Nightclub Shooting, CBS This Morning
GRACIES
2018 WIN - Best News Program: Vice News Tonight
2011 WIN - Best Documentary: Don’t Fail Me: Education in America, CNN
FRONT PAGE AWARDS
2018 WIN - Best Documentary: Zero Tolerance, Vice News Tonight
PEABODY
2011 WIN - Gulf Oil Spill Coverage, CNN Specials
Press
Lisa Cortés, co-director of Amazon’s voter suppression documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, is set to direct The Empire of Ebony, a documentary that explores the rise and impact of the first black media empire Ebony magazine and its sister publication, Jet. Cortés will produce the pic with Alyse Shorland and Roger Ross Williams under his One Story Up banner. Cortés and Williams previously collaborated on the Emmy-winning doc, The Apollo.
Variety Review: Vice News Tonight
That five-minute segment in the middle of the debut episode of “Vice News Tonight,” …shows the promise of this new alliance between an old-media giant and the upstart Vice News organization. … It adds a human dimension to a story that is admirably concise, well-paced and informative.
New York Times: In a race for millennials, it’s time to speed up
Prison strike story highlighted in a report from the New York Times Ombudsman (RIP)
Vice News Tonight still has that rumpled, pre-release feel to it, but one particular segment caught my attention: it was about what Vice called a prison strike across 12 states that is affecting 24,000 prisoners who refuse to eat or work…For all that has changed at The Times, its deliberate approach to the prison story shows why the paper can’t seem to shake its reputation for thinking that something isn’t news until it says so, as if the world is just waiting for it to weigh in.