IndieWire Earns Two Daytime Emmy Nods for Video Series
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- IndieWire received two Daytime Emmy nominations announced July 14 for its Craft Roundtables series, in the Outstanding Directing for a Daytime Studio Non-Fiction Series and Outstanding Editing for a Daytime Studio Program categories
- IndieWire was nominated alongside traditional linear television programs including 'The Drew Barrymore Show,' 'Entertainment Tonight,' 'The Kelly Clarkson Show,' 'Today,' and 'Extra'
- Craft Roundtables premiered in December 2025 and aired on PBS SoCal in January, with a Season 2 focused on TV artists debuting this June
- Jim Hemphill hosts the series, which features conversations with editors, cinematographers, casting directors, and production designers from major recent films including 'Sinners,' 'Train Dreams,' 'Hamnet,' and 'Avatar: Fire & Ash'
- The editing roundtable included Kirk Baxter ('A House of Dynamite'), Michael P. Shawver ('Sinners'), and Pamela Martin ('Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere'), among others
- IndieWire also won Best Website at the June SoCal Journalism Awards, marking the second consecutive year receiving that honor
- The Craft Roundtables are available to stream on IndieWire.com and PBS SoCal.org
Why it matters: A digital-first publication competing in the same directing and editing categories as multi-decade linear TV franchises signals the Daytime Emmys' acknowledgment of online video as legitimate daytime television. For IndieWire, the nominations compound a second consecutive Best Website win at the SoCal Journalism Awards, underscoring the outlet's deliberate push from text journalism into original video.
