Television

Network Newsmagazine: "Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC, or Dateline, is a U.S. weekly television newsmagazine broadcast by NBC. It previously was NBC's flagship news magazine, but now focuses on true crime stories. It airs Friday at 9 p.m. EST and after football season on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST.-History:Dateline is historically notable for...

," for two powerful, sobering exposes—on puppy mills and on broadtail fur.

Television Dramatic Series: "Family Law" (CBS), for a story featuring a custody battle for a chimpanzee, exploring the arguments against keeping primates as companion animals.

Television Comedy Series: "Popular" (The WB), for a script questioning the eating of cows and the wearing of leather.

Television Talk Show: "Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher" (ABC), for arguments against hunting and declaring that the animals' right to live supersedes a dying child's wish to kill.

Cable Documentary: "Investigative Reports" (A&E), for a look at the perils facing the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park.

Cable Newsmagazine: "CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

 & TIME magazine" (CNN), for exposing greyhound racing.

Cable Documentary Series: "Earth Rescue" (Outdoor Life Network), for an overview of elephants in circuses, exposing the capture, transport, training methods and lifestyles they endure.

PBS Documentary: "Nature," for an unprecedented look at the history of elephants held captive for human curiosity and entertainment.

PBS Series: "ITN World News," for exposing some of the worst cases of animal torture around the world.

News Series: KING-TV (Seattle), for a seven-part series revealing the suffering of cows as they are turned into food.

News Feature: KARE-TV (Minneapolis), for revealing the cruelty to horses in the production of Premarin.

Reality Programming: "Wild Rescues" (Animal Planet), for a series of powerful segments spotlighting animals in peril, and those people whose valiant efforts save them.

Children's Programming: "Nick News With Linda Ellerbee." (Nickelodeon), for introducing information on myriad animal issues, presented in a format easily embraced by children.

Children's Programming - Animated: "The Wild Thornberrys" (Nickelodeon), for a sterling season of inspired and clever episodes nurturing a sense of compassion and responsibility.

Cartoonist: "Cathy," for challenging the fur industry's hype with style and wit, and for promoting the adoption of older dogs from shelters.

Print

Periodical: The Atlantic Monthly, for "From the Leash to the Laboratory," which unmasks the trade involving the theft of dogs for sale to laboratories.

Special awards

Ark Trust International Award: Daily Express (United Kingdom), for "Terrible Despair of Animals Cut Up in Name of Research," a two-part expose on xenotransplantation.

Brigitte Bardot International Award: (ARTE), for a segment airing in France and Germany that shines the media spotlight on the abuse of U.S. rodeo animals.