Two Emmy nominations for CalMatters’ Digital Democracy and CBS-TV

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<p>By <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.org/author/sonya-quick/"" title=""Posts" by="" sonya="" quick="" class=""author" url="" fn="" rel=""author"">Sonya Fast</a>CalMatters</p>
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				<figcaption>Digital Democracy reporter Ryan Sabalow, left, and CalMatters senior editor Dave Lesher overview a Digital Democracy web page within the CalMatters newsroom on April 3, 2024. Photograph by Fred Greaves for CalMatters</figcaption></figure>
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<p>CalMatters’ collaborations with CBS-TV are once more <a target="_blank" href=""https://emmysf.tv/files/2025/05/E25-Nomination-Press-Release.pdf"">nominated</a> for Emmy awards, following two earlier Emmy wins, and bringing nominations three years in a row.</p>
<p>Each awards, given by the Northern California chapter of the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences, are for work produced in partnership with CBS Information and utilizing deep reporting from CalMatters’ <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/"">Digital Democracy</a>a software that makes use of knowledge and synthetic intelligence to look at state authorities. This comes only a week after Digital Democracy was <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2025/05/journalism-innovation-digital-democracy/"">awarded</a> the Punch Sulzberger Prize for Journalism Innovation within the nationwide Poynter Journalism Prizes.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href=""https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-lawmakers-kill-popular-bills-not-voting/"">“<strong>Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by *not* voting</strong>”</a> pairs CalMatters’ state authorities evaluation with video reporting by Julie Watts of CBS Information. The entry is nominated for politics and authorities information protection and acknowledges Watts and producer Dennis Lopez together with CalMatters’ reporters Sameea Kamal and Ryan Sabalow. Foaad Khosmood, a pc science professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an architect of Digital Democracy, was additionally acknowledged.</p>
<p>The video tells the story of how advocates for fentanyl laws had been upset to be taught via Digital Democracy that their payments died when legislators declined to vote. The printed adopted a CalMatters’ story, <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-democrats-no-votes/"">“Power is never having to say ‘no.’ How California Democrats kill bills without voting against them”</a> co-authored by Watts and CalMatters reporter Ryan Sabalow. The story used knowledge from Digital Democracy to indicate that as an alternative of instantly voting in opposition to a invoice, Democrats usually killed payments by declining to vote.</p>
<p>And <a target="_blank" href=""https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-democrats-getting-money-from-big-oil-and-voting-against-environmental-laws/""><strong>“Why some California Democrats take Big Oil money and vote against environmental laws”</strong></a>  pairs CBS’ information evaluation, powered by Digital Democracy, this time for a nomination for politics and authorities short-form content material. The section reveals “that California Republicans in Congress voted against most (92%) environmental bills in the last session, even though surveys show that most of the people they represent think lawmakers should do more to prevent climate change.”</p>
<p>The nomination acknowledges CBS’ Watts together with Grace Manthey, Kurtis Ming, Jui Sarwate and Dennis Lopez – once more with Khosmood.</p>
<p>Emmy winners shall be introduced June 14 in Sacramento.</p>
<p>CalMatters’ <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2023/06/calmatters-first-emmy-award-displays-the-power-of-collaboration/"">first</a> Emmy win two years in the past was for Watts that includes CalMatters reporter Julie Cart’s protection of the devastating results of infinite wildfires on the psychological well being of California’s firefighters. And the <a target="_blank" href=""https://calmatters.org/inside-the-newsroom/2024/06/emmy-calmatters-cbs-partnership/"">second</a> Emmy award final yr was for CalMatters felony justice reporter Nigel Duara and Julie Watts for his or her section on how California investigates shootings by legislation enforcement officers of unarmed civilians.</p>
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