This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information – Series or Special. Originally entitled Outstanding News, Talk or Information, the award was later split to honor series' and specials separately. The categories were merged back together following the 2003 ceremony, before a separate category for talk series' was created in 2008 and the category was renamed to its current title.
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
| Year | Series / Special | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | ||
| Oprah Winfrey: On Location in Forsythe County | [1] |
| Year | Series / Special | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 – 91 | colspan="2" | ||
| 1992 | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | [2] | ||
| 1993 | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | [3] | ||
| 1994 | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | [4] | ||
| 1995 | |||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | [5] | ||
| 1996 | See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special | ||
| 1997 | |||
| BET News Special: Ron Brown – A Celebration of Life | [6] | ||
| 60 Minutes | |||
| America's Black Forum | |||
| Biography | |||
| Dateline NBC | |||
| 1998 – 99 | See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special | ||
| Year | Series / Special | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 – 02 | See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special | |
| 2003 | ||
| BET Tonight with Ed Gordon | [7] | |
| 60 Minutes II | ||
| ABC News Nightline | ||
| Biography | ||
| The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow | ||
| 2004 | ||
| Judge Mathis | [8] | |
| 106 & Park Top 10 Live | ||
| American Experience | ||
| Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | ||
| 2005 | ||
| Tavis Smiley | [9] | |
| American Experience | ||
| Brown vs. Board of Education Anniversary | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| 2006 | ||
| Tavis Smiley | [10] | |
| CNN | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| The Tyra Banks Show | ||
| 2007 | ||
| Tavis Smiley | [11] | |
| Biography | ||
| Crisis in Darfur | ||
| Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | ||
| The Tyra Banks Show | ||
| 2008 | ||
| In Conversation: The Senator Barack Obama Interview | [12] | |
| American Gangster | ||
| American Morning | ||
| Dr. Sonja Gupta: Saving Your Life | ||
| Good Morning America | ||
| 2009 | ||
| In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview | [13] | |
| American Gangster | ||
| Anderson Cooper 360° | ||
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | ||
| Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | ||
| Year | Series / Special | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | ||
| President Obama: The Inauguration | [14] | |
| Anderson Cooper 360° | ||
| CNN Presents | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| Leading Women | ||
| 2011 | ||
| Unsung | [15] | |
| A Conversation with President Obama | ||
| Anderson Cooper 360° | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| Washington Watch with Roland Martin | ||
| 2012 | ||
| Unsung | [16] | |
| BET News Exclusive: The President Answers Black America | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | ||
| Washington Watch with Roland Martin | ||
| 2013 | ||
| Unsung | [17] | |
| Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview with The President | ||
| Judge Mathis | ||
| Save My Son with Dr. Steve Perry | ||
| Washington Watch with Roland Martin | ||
| 2014 | ||
| The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | [18] | |
| Justice for Trayvon | ||
| Mandela: Freedom's Father | ||
| Unsung | ||
| 2015 | ||
| Unsung | [19] | |
| America After Ferguson | ||
| Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | ||
| Melissa Harris-Perry | ||
| Oprah's Lifeclass | ||
| 2016 | ||
| Unsung | [20] | |
| Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm | ||
| News One Now | ||
| Oprah Prime: Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later | ||
| 2017 | ||
| BET Love and Happiness White House Special | [21] | |
| AM Joy with Joy Reid | ||
| StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| Stay Woke | ||
| Unsung for Sugarhill Gang | ||
| 2018 | ||
| Unsung | [22] | |
| News One Now | ||
| Oprah's Master Class | ||
| The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman | ||
| Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama | ||
| 2019 | ||
| Oprah Winfrey Presents: Becoming Michelle Obama | [23] | |
| AM Joy | ||
| Angela Rye's State of the Union | ||
| A Thousand Words with Michelle Obama | ||
| Unsung |
| Year | Series / Special | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Unsung | [24] | |
| Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools | ||
| Surviving R. Kelly | ||
| The Breakfast Club | ||
| The Story of God with Morgan Freeman | ||
| 2021 | ||
| The New York Times Presents "The Killing of Breonna Taylor" | [25] | |
| AM Joy: Remembering John Lewis Special | ||
| Desus & Mero The Obama Interview | ||
| The Color of COVID | ||
| The ReidOut |