New York – The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 2012 Current Affairs and News categories. The Academy will present the nominees with their medals and certificates, at a breakfast event on October 1, in New York City, featuring guest speaker David Westin, former President of ABC News and author of recently published Exit Interview.

Winners will be announced that night at a ceremony at the Frederick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The international winners will be honored alongside their American news and documentary counterparts.

Among the nominees are: Brazil’s TV Globo, which bagged two nominations – one for Current Affairs (Profession: Reporter – Children and Drugs: A Childhood Overtaken by Addiction) and another for News (Jornal Nacional – Rains in the Mountain Region of Rio); Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Television for China Dolls – Fragile Bodies, Strong Minds in the Current Affairs category; and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp) for Great East Japan Earthquake Emergency News in the News category.