Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award
Awarded for	The best intelevision, radio, anddigital journalism
Location	North Carolina
Country	United States
Presented by	Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Website	dupont.org

TheAlfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence inbroadcast and digitaljournalism in the public service and is considered one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. The awards were established in 1942 and administered until 1967 byWashington and Lee University's O. W. Riegel, Curator and Head of the Department of Journalism and Communications.^[1] Since 1968 they have been administered by theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism inNew York City, and are considered by some to be the broadcast equivalent of thePulitzer Prize, another program administered byColumbia University.^[2]

Dedicated to upholding the highest journalism standards, the duPont awards inform the public about the contributions news organizations and journalists make to their communities, support journalism education and innovation, and cultivate a collective spirit for the profession.

The duPont-Columbia Awards were established byJessie Ball duPont in memory of her husbandAlfred I. du Pont. It is the most well-respected journalism-only award forbroadcast journalism; starting in 2009, it began acceptingdigital submissions. The duPont, along with theGeorge Foster Peabody Awards, rank among the most prestigious awards programs in all electronic media.

The duPont-Columbia jury selects the winners from programs that air in the United States between July 1 and June 30 of each year. Award winners receive batons in gold and silver designed by the American architectLouis I. Kahn. The gold baton, when awarded, is given exclusively in honor of truly outstanding broadcast journalism.

In 2003, the first-ever foreign-language program was awarded a duPont-Columbia Award:CNN en Español and reporterJorge Gestoso won a Silver Baton for investigative reporting on Argentina'sdesaparecidos.

In 2010, the first award for digital reporting was given toMediaStorm and photographerJonathan Torgovnik for "Intended Consequences" about children born of rape inRwanda.

In 2012, the first-ever theatrically released documentary film was honored by the duPont jury: the Oscar-nominatedHell and Back Again, about thewar in Afghanistan and the struggles facing veterans when they return home.

All winners are listed on the website of theColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[3]

• Dr.Everett C. Parker
• KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, California, "The Slow Guillotine"
• KQED, San Francisco, for local coverage of the 1968 political campaigns
• National Educational Television andPublic Broadcast Laboratory, "Defense and Domestic Needs: The Contest for Tomorrow" (produced byAlan Levin^[6])
• NBC News, "First Tuesday: CBW (Chemical-Biological Warfare): The Secrets of Secrecy" (produced byTom Pettit)
• WRKL Radio, Mount Ivy-New City, NY for outstanding coverage of the 1968 political campaigns
• WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia "Investigation of Organized Crime"

• Kenneth A. Cox
• CBS News,Ernest Leiser; Russ Bensley;John Laurence, "Charlie Company"
• National Educational Television andFrederick Wiseman, "Hospital"
• NBC News and Fred Freed, "White Paper: Pollution is a Matter of Choice"
• WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, "Grunt's Little War"
• WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, Dick Cheverton and Herb Thurman, "Our Poisoned World"

• CBS News, John Sharnik andEric Sevareid, "Justice in America"
• Group W, George Moynihan and Susan Garfield, "All The Kids Like That: Tommy's Story"
• KUTV, Salt Lake City, Richard Spratling, Diane Orr and Fred Edwards, "Warriors Without A Weapon"
• NBC News, William B. Hill andTom Pettit, "First Tuesday: The Man from Uncle (Sam)" and "The FBI"
• NBC News,Martin Carr, "White Paper: This Child is Rated X"
• WABC-TV,Geraldo Rivera, "Drug Crisis in East Harlem"

• Mike Wallace for outstanding reporting on CBS News "60 Minutes"
• CBS News, Perry Wolff,Robert Markowitz, andCharles Kuralt, "CBS Reports: ...But What If the Dream Comes True?"
• Group W, Dick Hubert and Paul Altmeyer, "The Search for Quality Education"
• KERA-TV, Dallas, for outstanding coverage of the 1972 political campaigns
• National Public Affairs Center for Television, for coverage of the 1972 political campaigns
• NBC News and Fred Freed, "White Paper: The Blue Collar Trap"
• WABC-TV, Richard Thruston Watkins, "Like It Is: Attica -- the Unanswered Questions"
• WNET-TV, New York, and Tony Batten, "The 51st State: Youth Gangs in the South Bronx"
• WNJT-TV, Trenton, New Jersey, Ken Stein and John Dimmer, "Towers of Frustration: Assignment: New Jersey"
• WTVJ-TV, Miami, "The Swift Justice of Europe" and "A Seed of Hope"

• ABC News andArthur Holch, "Inquiry: Chile: Experiment in Red"
• CBS News,Irv Drasnin, "CBS News Reports: You and the Commercial"
• Group W, Dick Hubert andRod MacLeish "And the Rich Shall Inherit the Earth"
• KGW-TV, Portland, Oregon, Pete Maroney, "Death of a Slideshow"
• KNX Radio, Los Angeles, California, for editorials on important community issues
• NBC News and Robert Northshield, "The Sins of the Fathers" (a segment ofNBC Reports)
• National Public Affairs Center for Television andElizabeth Drew, "Thirty Minutes With..."
• WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, Judy Muntz, Jim Hatfield, andLee Phillip, "The Rape of Paulette"
• WTIC-TV, Hartford, Connecticut, Jean Sablon and Bard Davis "The Nine-Year-Old in Norfolk Prison"

• ABC News,Av Westin, "Close-Up"
• CBS News,Don Hewitt,60 Minutes
• KFWB Radio, Los Angeles, "SLA 54th Street Shootout"
• KNXT, Los Angeles, "Why Me?"
• NBC News, Fred Freed, "The Energy Crisis" (anNBC White Paper)
• NBC News, Series of Reports on Feeding the Poor
• National Public Affairs Center for Television, "Washington Week in Review"
• National Public Affairs Center for Television, Watergate coverage
• WNET-TV, New York andFrederick Wiseman, "Juvenile Court"
• TVTV and WNET, New York andDavid Loxton,Lord of the Universe
• WKY-TV, Oklahoma City andBob Dotson, "Through the Looking Glass Darkly"
• WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, "Public Bridges and Private Riches"

• KNBC, Burbank, California,Don Harris, "Prison Gangs"
• NBC Nightly News andTom Pettit for a series on feeding the poor
• NPR,All Things Considered
• WBTV, Charlotte, for news and documentary programming
• WCCO, Minneapolis, Minnesota,David Moore, "Moore on Sunday"
• WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, for news and documentary programming
• WGBH, Boston,Roger Fisher, "Arabs and Israelis"
• WHEC, Rochester and Warren Doremus, "The Riots Plus Ten Years"
• WKYC, Cleveland andBrian Ross, "Teamster Power"
• WPLG, Miami and Clarence Jones, for crime reporting

• Group W andPaul Wilkes, "Six American Families"
• KCET-TV, Los Angeles, "28 Tonight" (citing the segmentsNational Lead andNumber Our Days)
• KGW-TV, Portland, "The Timber Farmers"
• NBC News, "Human Rights: A Soviet-American Debate" (moderated byEdwin Newman) and "NBC Reports: The Struggle for Freedom" (anchored byGarrick Utley)^[7]
• Walter Cronkite and the "CBS Evening News"
• WBBM-TV, Chicago, Scott Craig andBill Kurtis, "Once a Priest"
• WFAA-TV, Dallas "Clear and Present Danger"
• WNET-TV, New York andWETA-TV, Washington D.C., "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report" for "Carter's Energy Plan," "Woodward-Bernstein: Frost Interview," and "Korea and Congress: the Scandal So Far"
• WNET-TV, New York "The Police Tapes"

• Associated Press Radio, "The New South: Shade Behind the Sunbelt"
• KOOL-TV, Phoenix, Burt Kennedy, "Water: Arizona's Most Precious Resource"
• KPIX-TV, San Francisco, Robert Klein andRichard Hart, "Laser Con-Fusion"
• National Geographic Society andWQED-TV, Pittsburgh, "The Living Sands of Namib"
• NBC News, Robert Rogers andGarrick Utley, "NBC News Reports: Africa's Defiant White Tribe"
• WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, Gail Sikevitz, Scott Craig, Jim Hatfield, andMort Crim for documentary reporting
• WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, Byron Harris for investigative report
• WGBH-FM, Boston, "Banned in Chelsea"
• WGBH-TV, Boston and William Cran, "WORLD:Chachaji: My Poor Relation" and John Angier, "NOVA:The Final Frontier"
• WMHT-TV, Schenectady, "Capital Punishment: Inside Albany"
• WPLG-TV, Miami and Clarence Jones for investigative reporting
• Special Award:Richard Salant

• ABC News, "Closeup: Arson: Fire for Hire!" (reported byBrit Hume^[8]) and "World News Tonight: Second to None?"
• Bill Moyers, for outstanding reporting on CBS News andWNET-TV, New York
• CBS News, "CBS Reports: The Boat People" (produced byAndrew Lack and reported byEd Bradley^[9]) and "60 Minutes"
• KCTS-TV, Seattle, "Do I Look Like I Want to Die?"
• KDFW-TV, Dallas, for investigative reporting
• KUTV-TV, Salt Lake City, "Clouds of Doubt"
• KXL Radio, Portland, "The Air Space -- How Safe?"
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "WORLD:F-16: Sale of the Century" on PBS (reported byAndrew Cockburn)
• WHA-TV, Madison, Catalyst Films andWisconsin Educational Television Network, "An American Ism: Joe McCarthy" (parts1 and2, directed by Glenn Silber)

• SILVER BATON ABC News, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage"
• SILVER BATONEd Bradley and CBS News, "CBS Reports: Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?"
• SILVER BATONGroup W andKYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts;WJZ-TV, Baltimore Maryland for I-Team Investigations
• SILVER BATONMississippi Center for Educational Television, Jackson, Mississippi, "William Faulkner: A Life on Paper" (directed by Robert Squier)
• SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition"
• SILVER BATONPerry Miller Adato andWNET-TV, New York, New York, "Picasso: A Painter's Diary" (parts1,2, and3)
• SILVER BATON Red Cloud Productions andWGBY-TV, Springfield, Massachusetts, "Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story" (parts1,2, and3)
• SILVER BATONRoger Mudd and CBS News, "CBS Reports: Teddy"
• SILVER BATONReuven Frank and NBC News, "White Paper:If Japan Can... Why Can't We?"
• SILVER BATON Special Independent Production Award: Carol Mon Pere, Sandra Nichols andKTEH-TV, San Jose, California "The Battle of Westlands"
• SILVER BATON Special Tribute:Walter Cronkite
• SILVER BATONWalter Jacobson andWBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Perspectives"
• SILVER BATONWLS-TV, Chicago, Illinois andChicago Sun-Times, "The Accident Swindlers"

• SILVER BATON ABC News, "America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations"
• SILVER BATON CBS News,Charles Kuralt, "Sunday Morning"
• SILVER BATON CBS News,Dan Rather, "CBS REPORTS: The Defense of the United States"
• SILVER BATONDavid Productions and ABC News, "CLOSEUP: Can't it Be Anyone Else?" (produced byBill Couturié)
• SILVER BATONKCTS-TV, Dr.Willard Gaylin, "Hard Choices"
• SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown" (produced byDeborah Amos and written byJames Reston Jr. andNoah Adams)
• SILVER BATON Robert Spencer andWTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Six O'clock and All's Well"
• SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD:KTEH-TV, San Jose, California andJohn Else, "The Day After Trinity"
• SILVER BATON SPECIAL TRIBUTE:David Brinkley
• SILVER BATONWBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Election Night Coverage"
• SILVER BATONWCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dave Moore, The Moore Report
• SILVER BATONWGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "WORLD"
• SILVER BATONWPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "The Billion Dollar Ghetto"

• SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Good Cop, Bad Cop; Honor Thy Children; and Go Park It in Tokyo"
• SILVER BATON John Camp andWBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, For investigative reporting
• SILVER BATONKCTS-TV, Seattle, Washington and Face to Face Productions, "Rape: Face to Face" (directed byNicholas Kendall and Keet Neville)
• SILVER BATONKRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "The War Within" (Greg Lyon and Jonathan Dann, reporters)
• SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "The Most Dangerous Game: Nuclear Face-off in Europe"
• SILVER BATON NBC News, "News Overnight"
• SILVER BATONRichard Threlkeld, Status Reports on "ABC World News Tonight"
• SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD:Jon Alpert and NBC News, "American Survival" (aired onToday^[10])
• SILVER BATONTerry Drinkwater, Cancer Reports on "CBS Evening News"
• SILVER BATONWBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Killing Crime: A Police Cop-Out"
• SILVER BATONWMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Unit 5: The Chicago Police Investigations"
• SILVER BATONWSMV-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, "Innocent Shame: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse"
• SILVER BATONWTCN-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Herpes is Forever"

• SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline"
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "World News Tonight: US-USSR: A Balance of Powers"
• SILVER BATONBrian Ross and Ira Silverman, Outstanding investigative reporting on NBC News
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Lenell Geter's in Jail"
• SILVER BATONKOSU Radio, Stillwater, Oklahoma, "Selling the Public Spectrum"
• SILVER BATONKRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "Climate of Death"
• SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: Medvideo, Ltd. andGroup W, "Whispering Hope: Unmasking the Mystery of Alzheimer's"
• Special Independent Production Award: Quest Productions and PBS, "The First Fifty Years: Reflections on US-Soviet Relations"
• SILVER BATONSuburban Cablevision, Avenel, New Jersey, "Right to Know: Hillside: A Desegregation Story"
• SILVER BATON The Documentary Consortium and PBS "Frontline:Mind of a Murderer"
• SILVER BATONWGBH-TV and PBS, Boston, Massachusetts, "Vietnam: A Television History"
• SILVER BATONWJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Florida, "The Smell of Money"
• SILVER BATONWJZ-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, "Baby Boom: The Pig in the Python"

• GOLD BATON ABC News, "Nightline: South Africa"
• SILVER BATONCable News Network and IMAGO, Ltd., "Iran: In the Name of God"
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "CBS Evening News: Afghanistan: Operation Blackout" (with footage fromMike Hoover)
• SILVER BATONChris-Craft Television Productions andChurchill Films, "Down for the Count--an Inside Look at Boxing" (aired onFrontline)
• SILVER BATON Desert West News, Flagstaff, Arizona, For a series of radio reports on the AmericanSanctuary Movement
• SILVER BATONKNX Radio, Los Angeles, California, "Assignment 84/85"
• SILVER BATON Nancy Montoya andKGUN-TV, Tucson, Arizona, For outstanding reporting
• SILVER BATON NBC News, "The Real 'Star Wars'--Defense in Space"
• SILVER BATONWCAU-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Coverage of theMOVE siege
• SILVER BATONWCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "The Moore Report"
• SILVER BATONWDVM-TV, Washington, DC, Investigation of Dr.Milan Vuitch
• SILVER BATONWNET-TV, New York, New York, and PBS, "The Brain"

• GOLD BATON CBS News, "CBS Reports:The Vanishing Family--Crisis in Black America", presented byBill Moyers^[11]
• SILVER BATON ABC News withTed Koppel, "45/85"
• SILVER BATON Chedd-Angier Production Company and The Documentary Consortium, "Frontline: Sue the Doctor? on PBS
• SILVER BATONDrew Associates and PBS, "For Auction: An American Hero"
• SILVER BATONKING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Washington 2000"
• SILVER BATONKTUL-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma, "Tulsa's Golden Missionary"
• SILVER BATONKYTV-TV, Springfield, Missouri, For outstanding reporting by Erin Hayes
• SILVER BATON NBC News, Investigative Reporting onNBC Nightly News, citing the work ofBrian Ross andMark Nykanen
• SILVER BATON NBC Radio News, For coverage of the American raid on Tripoli
• SILVER BATONWBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Afghanistan: The Untold Story"
• SILVER BATONWCBS-TV, New York, New York, "No Place to Call Home"
• SILVER BATONWCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "State of Texas vs. Steven Lynn Fossum"
• SILVER BATONWMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Cicero: Community of Controversy"

• GOLD BATON Blackside, Inc.,Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "20/20: By His Father's Hand: The Zumwalkts"
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "48 Hours on Crack Street"
• SILVER BATON Florentine Films, "Huey Long"
• SILVER BATONKMOV-TV, St. Louis, Missouri, "Sauget: City of Shame"
• SILVER BATON NBC News,Robert Bazell, For Coverage of the AIDS epidemic
• SILVER BATONPam Zekman andWBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, For Investigative Reporting
• SILVER BATONRoberta Baskin andWJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. For Investigative Reporting
• SILVER BATONWCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, For the I-Team
• SILVER BATONWFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, SMU Investigation
• SILVER BATONWJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, "Jacksonville's Roads: The Deadly Drive Home"
• SILVER BATONWLAP Radio, Lexington, Kentucky, "Passing On the Secret of Sexual Abuse"
• SILVER BATONWPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Florida: State of Neglect"

• GOLD BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes"
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline: In the Holy Land"
• SILVER BATON CBS News, Coverage of the Persian Gulf by Alen Pizzey
• SILVER BATONKING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Looking for Lincoln"
• SILVER BATON NBC News, "A Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev, conducted byTom Brokaw
• SILVER BATONNina Totenberg andNational Public Radio, Coverage of the Supreme Court Nominations
• SILVER BATONPublic Affairs Television andAlvin H. Perlmutter, Inc., "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers"
• SILVER BATONWCAX-TV, Burlington, Vermont, "The Politics of Pollution"
• SILVER BATONWCVB-TV, Needham, Massachusetts, "We the Jury", reported byDavid Ropeik
• SILVER BATONWSMV-TV, Nashville, TN, for investigative reporting by Erin Hayes
• SILVER BATONWUSA-TV, Washington, D.C. "Thurgood Marshall: The Man", reported byCarl Rowan
• SILVER BATONWWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey, "For the I-Team"

• GOLD BATONWGBH andFrontline: "Remember My Lai," "The Spy Who Broke the Code," "Who Profits From Drugs?," "The Choice," and "Children of the Night"
• SILVER BATON ABC News andKoppel Communications, "The Koppel Report: Tragedy at Tiananmen--The Untold Story"
• SILVER BATON Byron Harris andWFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "Other People's Money"
• SILVER BATON CBS, Television and Radio Coverage of China
• SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of China
• SILVER BATONGardner Films andWETA, Washington, D.C., "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land" on PBS
• SILVER BATONKCET-TV, Los Angeles, California, "For the Sake of Appearances," and "Expecting Miracles"
• SILVER BATONKentucky Educational Television, "On Our Own Land" (produced byAnne Lewis) withAppalshop
• SILVER BATONMaryland Public Television, Owings Mills, Maryland, "Other Faces of AIDS"
• SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence"
• SILVER BATONWBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy"
• SILVER BATONWJXT, Jacksonville, Florida, "Crack Crisis: A Cry for Action"

• GOLD BATONWGBH-TV andMartin Smith Productions, "Frontline: Inside Gorbachev's USSR withHedrick Smith"
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields"
• SILVER BATONBlackside Inc., "Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads"
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" for human stories behind the fall of Communist governments (reported byDan Rather,Tom Fenton, Betsy Aaron,Anthony Mason andPeter Van Sant)
• SILVER BATONExit Films, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Near Death"
• SILVER BATONHelen Borten andNational Public Radio for "Horizons: And Justice for All"
• SILVER BATONKCBS-AM, San Francisco, California, for coverage ofthe earthquake
• SILVER BATONKING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Critical Choices: America's Health Care Crisis"
• SILVER BATONKQED-TV, San Francisco, California, Scott Pearson and Lewis Cohen, "Express: Shield for Abuse"
• SILVER BATON NBC News, "NBC Nightly News: Tragedy at Pine Ridge" (reported byBetty Rollin)
• SILVER BATONP.O.V. andWTVS-TV, "Who Killed Vincent Chin??
• SILVER BATONWCBD-TV, Charleston, South Carolina, Coverage ofHurricane Hugo
• SILVER BATONWJLA-TV, Washington D.C., "NFL Drug Testing: Illegal Procedure", for reporting onForest Tennant byRoberta Baskin
• SILVER BATONWKYC-TV, Cleveland, Ohio,Dick Feagler for nightly commentaries

• GOLD BATON PBS,Public Affairs Television,Bill Moyers, "After the War," "The Home Front," "Beyond Hate," "Amazing Grace"
• SILVER BATON ABC News,Peter Jennings, "A Line in the Sand: War or Peace?", "World News Tonight: Children in Crisis" and "World News Tonight: War in the Gulf: Answering Children's Questions"
• SILVER BATON CNN,Peter Arnett's Reports from Baghdad
• SILVER BATONKBDI-TV, Denver, Colorado, Carolyn Hales, Tierra O Muerte: Land or Death
• SILVER BATONKPIX-TV, San Francisco, Richard Saiz, California, "Wards of the State"
• SILVER BATONKWWL-TV, Waterloo, Iowa, "Cloud of Concern"
• SILVER BATONNational Public Radio for coverage of theGulf War
• SILVER BATON PBS,Friends of Le Chambon,Pierre Sauvage, "Weapons of the Spirit"
• SILVER BATON PBS,Frontline: High Crimes and Misdemeanors (reported byBill Moyers)
• SILVER BATONWETA-TV and Florentine Films,Ken Burns, "The Civil War"
• SILVER BATONWFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, Coverage of theGulf War
• SILVER BATONWGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline: Innocence Lost" (produced byOfra Bikel)
• SILVER BATONWTBS-TV,National Geographic Society, "Explorer:The Urban Gorilla"

• GOLD BATON National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," Coverage ofClarence Thomas Nomination Hearings, Coverage of the1992 Los Angeles Riots and Aftermath, Voices from the Backstairs, American Folklife Radio Project, and The Case Against Women: Sexism in the Court
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline" Coverage of the Los Angeles Riots
• SILVER BATONBill Leonard, former producer at CBS News and director of the duPont Awards
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Made in China" (reported byEd Bradley)
• SILVER BATONDavid Grubin Productions andKERA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "The American Experience: LBJ" on PBS
• SILVER BATON HBO, "Abortion: Desperate Choices" (America Undercover) (directed bySusan Froemke,Albert Maysles, and Deborah Dickson)
• SILVER BATONKCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Erin's Life"
• SILVER BATON Kitchell Films and "P.O.V.", "Berkeley in the Sixties"^[12]
• SILVER BATONKSTP-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota, "Who's Watching the Store"
• SILVER BATONKTTV-TV, Los Angeles, California, "Cops on Trial: TheRodney King Case"
• SILVER BATONLouisiana Public Broadcasting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana "Louisiana Boys" (produced by the Center for New American Media)
• SILVER BATON Lucky Duck Productions andNickelodeon, "Nick News: W/5"
• SILVER BATONWCPO-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Made in the USA?"
• SILVER BATONWCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Chronicle" and Environmental Reporting (byDavid Ropeik)
• SILVER BATONWGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline: Who Killed Adam Mann?"

• GOLD BATONFred Friendly, winner for his lifetime contribution to the ethics and practice of journalism
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "20/20: The Gift of Life" (Bob Brown, reporter)
• SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage ofBosnia byChristiane Amanpour,Jim Clancy,Brent Sadler, and Jackie Shymanski
• SILVER BATON ETC Films,Barbara Kopple, "Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson" on NBC
• SILVER BATONKRON-TV, San Francisco, "In the Shadow of theWall"
• SILVER BATON M.W. Productions,KQED "Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union" (directed by Berry Minott)
• SILVER BATON PBS and Jigsaw Productions, "The Pacific Century"
• SILVER BATONWBAI/Pacifica Radio for "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" (produced byAmy Goodman andAllan Nairn)
• SILVER BATONWBFF-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, "Justice on Trial/The Lost Generation/Walking Wounded" (reported by Deborah Weiner)
• SILVER BATONWGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline," The Best Campaign Money Can Buy (produced by theCenter for Investigative Reporting)
• SILVER BATONWisconsin Public Television, "Move Over: Women and the '92 Campaign"^[13]
• SILVER BATONWPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Armed Enemies of Castro"
• SILVER BATONWTVJ-TV, Miami, Florida The Coverage ofHurricane Andrew

• GOLD BATON ABC News
  • "World News Tonight: Coverage of Haiti by Linda Pattillo"
  • "American Agenda: Women's Health Week" (Sally Holm,Rick Kaplan,Jackie Judd,Tim Johnson, George Strait)
  • "Day One: Smoke Screen" (John Martin, correspondent)
  • "Turning Point: Inside the Struggle: TheAmy Biehl Story"
  • "Peter Jennings Reporting: While America Watched--The Bosnia Tragedy"
• SILVER BATONBlackside Inc., "The Great Depression" on PBS
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes:Semipalatinsk" (Ed Bradley, correspondent)
• SILVER BATONCharles Kuralt, for reporting on CBS News, "Sunday Morning"
• SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of theMoscow Uprising (Steve Hurst,Claire Shipman, Eileen O'Connor, Gene Randall, Walter Rogers, Hugh Williams)
• SILVER BATON Michael Skoler and NPR for coverage ofRwanda
• SILVER BATON NPR for coverage ofSouth Africa (Ray Suarez, Ann Cooper)
• SILVER BATON PBS, "Frontline:Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo"
• SILVER BATON Video Verite, "I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School" on HBO
• SILVER BATONWCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Missing the Beat" (Caroline Lowe, reporter)
• SILVER BATONWGBH, "Frontline: Innocence Lost: The Verdict" on PBS (produced byOfra Bikel)
• SILVER BATONWisconsin Public Television, "My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story" on PBS
• SILVER BATONWTVS-TV, Detroit, Michigan,HKO Media andChildren's Hospital of Michigan "The Last Hit: Children and Violence"

• Gold Baton:Daniel Schorr, his career spans CBS News, CNN and NPR
• ABC News, "Turning Point: Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today"
• ABC News, "World News Tonight": American Agenda: "Medicine Man"; "Vanishing Breed"; "Political Waters"
• Blackside Inc., "America's War on Poverty" on PBS
• Billy Golfus and David E. Simpson, "When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder" (broadcast on PBS)^[14]
• Brian Lapping Associates, London, United Kingdom, "Watergate" on The Discovery Channel
• NPR forpolitical coverage (such as the work ofElizabeth Arnold)
• PBS, theCenter for Investigative Reporting and Telesis Productions "Frontline: School Colors"^[14]
• PBS, "P.O.V., The American Documentary Inc. "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter"
• PBS, "The American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge (produced byThomas Lennon); FDR (produced byDavid Grubin); and The Way West" (produced byRic Burns)
• WMAL (AM), Washington, D.C., for "American History -- The Disney Version" (John Matthews, reporter)
• WTVJ-TV andKerry Sanders, Miami, Florida, "Coverage of Haiti"
• WXYZ-TV, Detroit, Michigan, "Target 7: Michigan's Secret Soldiers" (Shellee Smith, reporter)

• GOLD BATON Brian Lapping Associates, "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" on The Discovery Channel and the BBC
• SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline:The State vs. Simpson: The Verdict," "Nightline: Journey of a Country Doctor," "Nightline: Town Meeting: Thou Shall Not Kill"
• SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Punishing Saddam" (reported byLesley Stahl), "60 Minutes: Too Good to be True" (reported byMorley Safer)
• SILVER BATON HBO, "America Undercover:High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," and "The Celluloid Closet"
• SILVER BATONKREM-TV, Spokane, Washington, "The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring"
• SILVER BATON NBC News, "Dateline: Class Photo" (Neal Shapiro,John Block, Len Cannon, Geraldine Moriba-Meadows, Marc Rosenwasser)
• SILVER BATONNorman Corwin and Mary Beth Kirchner for "Fifty Years After 14 August" on NPR
• SILVER BATON NOVA/WGBH-TV, "NOVA:Plague Fighters" (directed byRic Esther Bienstock) on PBS
• SILVER BATON NPR andAnne Garrels for coverage of the former Soviet Union
• SILVER BATON Public Broadcasting Service, "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" (aired onAmerican Masters)
• SILVER BATON Radio Smithsonian for "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" on PRI
• SILVER BATONWFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, For investigate reporting by Robert Riggs
• SILVER BATONWGBH,Frontline, "Shtetl" on PBS

• Gold Baton: WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts,Frontline, for:** "Murder, Money and Mexico
  • "The Choice 96"
  • "Secret Daughter"
  • "Innocence Lost: The Plea" (produced byOfra Bikel)
• ABC News, "Primetime Live: Debt Reckoning"
• Blowback Productions, "CIA: America's Secret Warriors"
• CBS News, "CBS Reports: Enter the Jury Room", reported byRichard Schlesinger^[15]
• Center for New America Media, "Vote for Me: Politics in America"
• KCET-TV, Los Angeles, California, "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century"
• KTCA-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, "NewsNight Minnesota: Unisys"
• KUSC Radio, Los Angeles, "Marketplace" onPublic Radio International
• NBC News andScripps Howard News Productions, "Why Can't We Live Together?", reported byTom Brokaw
• Public Broadcasting Service, "Cadillac Desert: An American Nile"
• WABC-TV, New York, "Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis"
• Wisconsin Public Television, "Welcome to Poverty Hollow"

• Gold Baton:WGBH-TV, Boston, "NOVA: Everest: The Death Zone"; "The Brain Eater"; "Supersonic Spies"; "China's Mysterious Mummies"; "Coma"
• ABC News andTed Koppel, "Nightline: Crime and Punishment"
• CBS News andMike Wallace, "60 Minutes: Investigation of the International Pharmaceutical Industry"
• CBS News,Eric Engberg and Vince Gonzales, "CBS Evening News: Tomb of the Unknowns"
• Dan Collison, Rebecca Perl and Tom Jennings, "This American Life: Scenes from a Transplant" onPRI
• Independent Television Service,Tony Buba and Raymond Henderson, "Struggles in Steel: A Story of African American Steelworkers"
• PBS, Laura Angelica Simón andTracey Trench, "POV: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary"
• Thirteen/WNET, New York, andVanessa Roth, "Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children"
• WBBM-TV, Chicago, andCarol Marin, "Coverage of Congressman William Lipinski Campaign"
• WEWS-TV, Cleveland, and Bill Shiel, "Final Mission"
• WMAQ-TV, Chicago, "Strip Searched at O'Hare"
• WRAL-TV, Raleigh, and Stuart Watson for a series of investigate reports on military medicine

• Gold Baton:Public Affairs Television, "Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers"
• ABC News andDiane Sawyer, "20/20: The Unwanted Children of Russia"
• CBS News andBob Simon, "60 Minutes II: The Shame of Srebrenica"
• CNN andCandy Crowley, for coverage of theimpeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton
• Stanley Nelson, "The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords" on PBS
• New England Cable News, Newton, Mass., for in-depth reporting
• PBS, "POV: If I Can't Do It"
• SoundVision Productions, Berkeley, "The DNA Files" on NPR (hosted byJohn Hockenberry)
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: The Triumph of Evil" on PBS
• WMTW-TV, Auburn, Maine &Christine Young for investigative reports on theChristian Civic League
• WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, "Guarding the Guardians"
• KTVX-TV, Salt Lake City, andChris Vanocur for investigative reporting on theOlympics' bribery scandal
• Youth Radio, Berkeley, "Emails from Kosovo" on NPR

• Gold Baton:American RadioWorks, "Massacre at Cuska" on NPR
• ABC News, "Nightline: AIDS in Africa"
• CBS News, "CBS Evening News: Armed America"
• Crowing Rooster Arts, New York, "Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants" onWGBH-TV (aired onIndependent Lens)
• KHOU-TV, Houston, "Deadly Tires?"
• KXLY-TV, Spokane, and Tom Grant, "Public Funds, Private Profit"
• Insight News TV, London,Sorious Samura and CNN Productions, "Cry Freetown"^[16]
• NBC News, "Dateline: The Paper Chase"
• NPR, "Radio Expeditions"
• Steeplechase Films, "New York: A Documentary Film" on PBS
• WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, and Laurie Quinlivan, for the I-Team stadium investigation
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: John Paul II: Millennial Pope" on PBS (directed byHelen Whitney)

• ABC News, Terence Wrong and Peter Bull, "Hopkins 24/7" (reported bySylvia Chase)
• CBS News,David Martin andMary Walsh, for reporting on national security on "CBS Evening News" and "60 Minutes II"
• CBS News,Steve Kroft, andLeslie Cockburn, "60 Minutes: America's Worst Nightmare?"
• CBS News andSteve Hartman, "CBS Evening News: Everybody Has Story"
• CNN,Nic Robertson and Jonathan Miller "Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace" (aired onCNN Presents)
• Court TV, "The Interrogation ofMichael Crowe"
• KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, and Randy Paige, "Poison Paint"
• KIRO-TV, Seattle, "Why the Orcas of Puget Sound Are Dying"
• KOLD-TV, Tucson, and Chip Yost, "Exploding Patrol Cars?"
• NPR and Peter Overby for campaign finance coverage
• Palfreman Film Group andWGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline/Nova: Harvest of Fear" on PBS
• WABC-TV, New York, Jim Hoffer and Daniela Royes, "Caught Off Guard"
• WNYC Radio, New York, andBeth Fertig "TheEdison Schools Vote"

• Gold Baton:WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline," for a series of seven programs on PBS ("Hunting bin Laden,"; "Target America,"; "Looking for Answers,"; "Trail of a Terrorist,"; "Gunning for Saddam,"; "Saudi Time Bomb,"; "Inside the Terror Network,") about the origin and impact of terrorism by Islamic militants
• ABC News Television and Radio for coverage of 9/11 (citing the work ofAnn Compton andJohn Miller) and "Answering Children's Questions" (citing the work ofPeter Jennings)
• ABC News, "Nightline: Heart of Darkness" (Martin Seemungal, correspondent)
• CNN en Español andJorge Gestoso, "La Doble Desaparecida"
• Court TV and Lumiere Productions, "Ghosts of Attica"
• HBO, "In Memorium: New York City, 9/11/01"
• KPBS-TV, San Diego, and Lee Harvey, "Culture of Hate: Who are We?"
• NBC News andMartin Fletcher, for coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• NPR, for coverage of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan
• POV, Tasha Oldman and Small Town Productions, "The Smith Family" on PBS
• WBUR-FM, Boston, "Surviving Torture: Inside Out" (Michael Goldfarb, correspondent)
• WCVB-TV, Boston, "Chronicle: Beyond the Big Dig"
• WFAA-TV, Dallas, Brett Ship and Mark Smith, "Fake Drugs, Real Lives"
• WGBH-TV, Boston,Steeplechase Films andSierra Club Productions, "American Experience:Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film" on PBS

• ABC News, "Nightline: Tip of the Spear" (Ted Koppel, correspondent)
• CBS News,David Martin andMary Walsh, for coverage of national security
• HBO andMaysles Films Inc., "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton"
• KBCI-TV, Boise, Idaho, "Shake-Up at City Hall"
• KHOU-TV, Houston, "Evidence of Errors"
• KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Honor and Betrayal:Scandal at the Academy" (John Ferrugia, reporter)
• NPR, for coverage of thewar in Iraq (citing the work of John Burnett,Anne Garrels,Steve Inskeep, Christopher Joyce,Mike Shuster,Ivan Watson and Eric Westervelt)
• WESH-TV, Orlando, for coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: A Dangerous Business" on PBS (Lowell Bergman andDavid Barstow, correspondents)
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline": Failure to Protect; "The Taking of Logan Marr"; "The Caseworker Files"; and "A National Dialogue" (moderated byJohn Hockenberry) on PBS
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" on PBS (directed byHelen Whitney)
• Whitney Dow andMarco Williams, "POV: Two Towns of Jasper" on PBS (about themurder of James Byrd Jr.)
• WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, "Friends in High Places"

• ABC NEWS andPJ PRODUCTIONS forJesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness (aired onPeter Jennings Reporting)
• PBSFRONTLINE andWGBH-TV forGhosts of Rwanda on PBS
• ABC NEWS andPRIMETIME THURSDAY forThe Nuclear Smuggling Project (Brian Ross, correspondent)
• DAVID APPLEBY andTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS forHoxie: The First Stand on PBS
• FRONTLINE and WGBH-TV forTruth, War and Consequences on PBS
• MSNBC andNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ULTIMATE EXPLORER forLiberia: American Dream?
• HBO/CINEMAX REEL LIFE, Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes forThe Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
• LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING forLouisiana: Currents of Change
• NBC NEWS andDATELINE forA Pattern of Suspicion (John Larson, correspondent)
• NPR andRADIO DIARIES forMandela: An Audio History
• WFAA-TV, DALLAS forState of Denial
• WBAP-AM, DALLAS forJFK 40
• WCNC-TV, CHARLOTTE forMedicaid Dental Centers Investigation

The duPont Jury also announced four finalists for their exemplary broadcast journalism:

• Independent Television Service (ITVS) andTracy Droz Tragos for "Be Good, Smile Pretty" on PBS (aired onIndependent Lens)
• MarketPlace andAmerican Public Media for "Spoils of War" on public radio stations
• NOVA, WGBH-TV andCanadian Broadcasting Corp. for "Crash of Flight 111"
• WISH-TV, Indianapolis, for "Will Your Vote Count?"^[17]

• ABC NEWS for Live Coverage of theDeath of Pope John Paul II and theElection of Pope Benedict XVI
• CNBC forThe Age ofWal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company (David Faber, reporter)
• CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia
• FRONTLINE andWGBH, BOSTON, forAl Qaeda's New Front on PBS (Lowell Bergman, correspondent)
• FRONTLINE, WGBH, BOSTON, andThe New York Times for "The Secret History of the Credit Card" on PBS (Lowell Bergman, correspondent)
• HBO forReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs (Bernard Goldberg, correspondent)
• North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, Chapel Hill, forNorth Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty
• PRI,WGBH, BOSTON, andBBC WORLD SERVICE for "The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies"
• The Kitchen Sisters,Jay Allison and NPR forHidden Kitchens
• THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL, Denis Poncet,Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Allyson Luchak for "The Staircase"
• WFTS-TV, TAMPA, forCrosstown Expressway Investigation (Mike Mason, reporter)
• WJW, CLEVELAND, forSchool Bus Bloat (Tom Merriman, reporter)
• WPMI-TV, MOBILE, forFor Lauren's Sake (Bruce Mildwurf, reporter)

• American Masters andWNET, New York, forBob Dylan: No Direction Home on PBS
• Brook Lapping Productions, London, forIsrael and the Arabs: Elusive Peace on PBS
• WGBH's Cape and Islands NPR Stations forTwo Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands (Sean Corcoran, reporter)
• Investigation Discovery,Canadian Broadcasting Corporation andThe New York Times forNuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb? (Julian Sher, director;William Broad andDavid E. Sanger, reporters)
• Frontline andWGBH, Boston, forThe Age of AIDS on PBS (Renata Simone, reporter;Greg Barker and William Cran, directors)
• HBO,Jon Alpert andMatthew O'Neill forBaghdad ER
• ITVS, Lisa Sleeth andJim Butterworth forIndependent Lens:Seoul Train on PBS
• NBC Nightly News andDateline forCoverage of Hurricane Katrina
• KCET, Los Angeles,KPBS, San Diego,KQED, San Francisco,KVIE, Sacramento, forCalifornia Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D (Lisa McRee, reporter)
• NPR forCoverage of Iraq
• WBAL-TV, Baltimore, forDirty Secret (John Sherman, reporter)
• WLOX-TV,Biloxi, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
• WRAL-TV, Raleigh, forFocal Point:Paper Thin Promise and Standards of Living (Lynda Loveland andDavid Crabtree, anchors)
• WWL-TV, New Orleans, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina

The thirteen awards for 2008 were announced on December 17, 2007, and presented on January 16, 2008.^[18]

• CBS News for60 Minutes: The Mother of All Heists (Steve Kroft, correspondent)
• Chicago Public Radio,Alix Spiegel &PRI forThis American Life: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?
• PBS, Florentine Films/Hott Productions &WETA-TV, Washington, DC, forThrough Deaf Eyes
• HBO,Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg forThe Trials of Darryl Hunt
• KHOU-TV, Houston, forRules of the Game (Jeremy Rogalski, reporter)
• KMOV-TV, St. Louis, forLeft Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools (Craig Cheatham, reporter)
• KNOE-TV, Monroe, Louisiana, forNames, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina (Taylor Henry, reporter)
• MSNBC &Richard Engel forWar Zone Diary
• NBC News forDateline: The Education of Ms. Groves (Hoda Kotb, correspondent)
• NPR &Daniel Zwerdling forMental Anguish and the Military
• PBS, Paladin Invision, London, &WETA-TV, Washington, DC, forJihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda (William Cran, director) (aired onAmerica at a Crossroads)
• WBBM-TV, forFly At Your Own Risk (Dave Savini, reporter)
• WFAA-TV, forTelevision Justice (Byron Harris, reporter)

Television:Golden Baton Winner

• WFAA-TV in Dallas for "Money for Nothing", "A Passing Offense", "The Buried and the Dead" (Byron Harris, Brett Shipp, reporters)

Television & Radio, Silver Baton Winners

• ABC News /Nightline for "The Other War: Afghanistan" (Sebastian Junger, reporter;Tim Hetherington, photographer;Brian Ross, correspondent)
• California Newsreel, San Francisco & Vital Pictures for "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?"
• Chicago Public Radio,PRI,NPR,Alex Blumberg &Adam Davidson for "This American Life:The Giant Pool of Money"
• CNN for "God's Warriors" (Christiane Amanpour, correspondent) (aired onCNN Presents)
• Current TV &Christof Putzel for "From Russia with Hate"
• HBO,Thomas Lennon &Ruby Yang forCinemax's Reel Life:The Blood of Yingzhou District
• NPR,All Things Considered,Melissa Block, &Robert Siegel for "Coverage of the Chengdu Earthquake" (Louisa Lim,Anthony Kuhn, correspondents)
• NPR, All Things Considered, for "Sexual Abuse of Native American Women" (Laura Sullivan, correspondent)
• Oregon Public Broadcasting for "The Silent Invasion" (Ed Jahn, producer)
• Safari Media,ITVS, PBS for "Independent Lens,Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story" (Patty Kim andChris Sheridan, directors)
• WJLA-TV, Washington, DC for "Drilling for Dollars: Children's Dentistry Investigation" (Roberta Baskin, correspondent)
• WTVT-TV, Tampa for "Small Town Justice" (Doug Smith, reporter)

Television, Radio, and Web: Silver Baton Winners

• American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery & Joshua E. S. Phillips for "What Killed Sergeant Gray"
• CBS News &Katie Couric for "The Sarah Palin Interviews"
• CBS News for "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession" (Katie Couric, reporter)
• HBO &Edet Belzberg for "The Recruiter"
• KHOU-TV, Houston &Mark Greenblatt for "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard"
• KMGH-TV, Denver &Tony Kovaleski for "33 Minutes to 34 Right"
• MediaStorm &Jonathan Torgovnik for "Intended Consequences"
• NPR,Michele Norris &Steve Inskeep for "The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote"
• POV,Elizabeth Farnsworth & Patricio Lanfranco for "The Judge and the General," on PBS
• WCAX-TV, Burlington & Kristin Carlson for "Foreigners on the Farm"
• WGBH, Boston,FRONTLINE/World,Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge for "PAKISTAN: Children of the Taliban," on PBS
• WSVN-TV, Miami, Carmel Cafiero & Anthony Pineda for "Pill Mills"
• WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams for "General Sessions Court"
• WWL-TV, New Orleans for "NOAH Housing Program Investigation" (Lee Zurik, reporter)

Television, Radio, and Digital: Silver Baton Winners

• ABC News, for20/20, "Brian Ross Investigates: The Coach's Secret"
• BBC America, for "BBC World News America: Haiti's Earthquake" (Matt Frei,Matthew Price, correspondents)
• CBS News, for "60 Minutes: "The Blowout" (Scott Pelley, correspondent)
• KCET, Los Angeles for "Up In Smoke", "Protected or Neglected?", "Hung Out to Dry?" (John Larson,Steve Lopez, Judy Muller, Vince Gonzales, reporters; Val Zavala, anchor)
• KING-TV, Seattle & Susannah Frame for "Waste on the Water"
• 9News/KUSA-TV, Denver, 9News at 10 for "Keys to the Castle" (Jace Larson, reporter)
• NPR &Laura Sullivan for "Bonding for Profit"
• POV & Geoffrey Smith, "The English Surgeon" on PBS
• The Las Vegas Sun, "Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas" (Scott Den Herder, Liz Benston, Patrick Coolican, reporters)
• West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Trey Kay & Deborah George for "The Great Textbook War"
• WGBH,Frontline &Najibullah Quraishi for "Behind Taliban Lines"
• WKOW-TV, Madison & Dan Cassuto for "Who's Protecting You?"
• WTHR-TV, Indianapolis & Bob Segall for "Reality Check: Where are the Jobs?"

• Al Jazeera English,Fault Lines, "Haiti - Six Months On"
• CBS News:60 Minutes, "A Relentless Enemy" (Lara Logan, correspondent_
• Danfung Dennis, Impact Partners,Roast Beef Productions, Sabotage Films,Thought Engine and Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation,Hell and Back Again
• Detroit Public Television, "Beyond the Light Switch"
• HBO &Blowback Productions, "Triangle: Remembering the Fire"
• HBO, "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Head Games" (Bernard Goldberg, correspondent)
• MediaStorm & Walter Astrada, "Undesired" for the Alexia Foundation
• NBC News &Richard Engel, Coverage of theArab Spring
• The New York Times, "A Year at War" (James Dao, reporter) and "Surviving Haiti's Earthquake: Children" (Brent Renaud & Craig Renaud, reporters)
• WFAA-TV, Dallas & Byron Harris, "Bitter Lessons"
• WGBH-TV, Boston, "NOVA: Japan's Killer Quake" (Richard Burke-Ward, Robert Strange, producers)
• WNYC &Ailsa Chang, "Alleged Illegal Searches by the NYPD"
• WSB-TV, Atlanta & Jodie Fleischer, "Stealing Houses"
• WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams, "Policing for Profit"

Source:^[19]

• Alison Klayman, Never Sorry LLC, United Expression Media,Sundance Selects,MUSE Film and Television, "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (aired onIndependent Lens)
• CBS News andClarissa Ward, for "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria"
• Current TV,Christof Putzel and theRenaud Brothers, "Vangard: Arming the Mexican Cartel"
• KCET, Southern California for "SoCal Connected: Courting Disaster"
• KLAS-TV, Las Vegas for "Desert Underwater"
• Lee Hirsch,The Weinstein Company, Where We Live Films, BeCause Foundation,The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust,The Fledgling Fund, National Center for Learning Disabilities, and theWaitt Institute for Violence Prevention, forBully (aired onIndependent Lens)
• NPR, Deborah Amos, andKelly McEvers for Coverage of Syria
• StoryCorps, NPR, andPOV, for "StoryCorps 9/11"
• USA Today, for "Ghost Factories"
• WGBH,Kartemquin Films,Steve James andAlex Kotlowitz, for "FRONTLINE:The Interrupters
• WGBH,Clover Films andNajibullah Quraishi, for "FRONTLINE: Opium Brides"
• WITF,WHYY and NPR, for "StateImpact Pennsylvania"
• WVUE-TV, New Orleans, and Lee Zurik for "Dirty Deeds", "Hiding Behind the Badge"
• WXYZ-TV, Detroit, for "Wayne County Confidential"

• American Documentary –POV,Gail Dolgin &Robin Fryday, "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement", on PBS
• CBS News,Newtown Tragedy Coverage
• Center for Investigative Reporting, "Broken Shield"
• ESPN,Outside the Lines: Youth Football Concerns (Tom Farrey, Paula Lavigne, reporters)
• KMGH-TV, Denver & Keli Rabon, Colorado Rape Victims: Evidence Ignored, Justice Denied
• KSHB 41 Action News, Kansas City, "Tragedy on the Plaza" (Keith King, Ryan Kath, & Melissa Yeager, reporters)
• NBC News, "Devastation in Oklahoma"
• Scott Thurman & Silver Lining Film Group, Magic Hour Entertainment,Naked Edge Films, "The Revisionaries" onIndependent Lens
• U. C. Berkeley IRP, CIR,FRONTLINE & UNIVISION, "Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño"
• WBEZ Chicago, This American Life: "Harper High School Parts 1 and 2" (Ben Calhoun,Alex Kotlowitz, Linda Lutton, reporters)
• WBZ-TV, Boston,Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage
• WFAA-TV, Dallas & Byron Harris, "Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas"
• WVUE-TV, New Orleans & Lee Zurik, "Body of Evidence"
• WYPR, Baltimore, "The Lines Between Us" (Sheilah Kast & Tom Hall, hosts)

• CNN, WEED: Dr.Sanjay Gupta Reports
• KPNX 12 News, Phoenix & Wendy Halloran, Raked Over the Coals
• MPR News, Betrayed by Silence
• Netflix,Virunga
• NPR & Joseph Shapiro, Guilty and Charged
• PBS,The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross withHenry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Particle Fever
• Planet Money & NPR Visuals, Planet Money Makes a T-shirt
• The Seattle Times, Sea Change: The Pacific's Perilous Turn
• WFTS-TV, Tampa Bay, Incapacitated: Florida's Guardianship Program
• WGBH-TV, Boston,FRONTLINE: Syria's Second Front
• WGBH-TV, Boston, FRONTLINE: United States of Secrets
• WLTX-TV, Columbia, DDS: When the System Fails
• WTSP 10 News, Tampa Bay, Short Yellows and the Red Light Fight

• ABC News,Bruce Jenner: The Interview (aired on20/20)
• Al Jazeera America &Kartemquin Films, Hard Earned
• CBS News60 Minutes, A Crime Against Humanity (Scott Pelley, reporter)
• Cronkite News &Arizona PBS, Hooked: Tracking Heroin's Hold on Arizona
• FRONTLINEPBS, Ebola Outbreak (produced byWael Dabbous) & Outbreak (Dan Edge & Sasha Joelle Achilli, producers)
• FRONTLINEPBS, Growing Up Trans (Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, producers)
• HBO,Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• HBOReal Sports with Bryant Gumbel, The Price of Glory (David Scott, correspondent)
• KMO-TV & Craig Cheatham, The Injustice System: Cops, Courts and Greedy Politicians
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, A Watershed Moment: Great Lakes at a Crossroads (Dan Egan, reporter)
• VICE News, Selfie Soldiers: Russia's Army Checks into Ukraine (Simon Ostrovsky, correspondent)
• WBAL-TV & Jayne Miller,Freddie Gray Investigation
• WBEZ &This American Life,Serial: Season One
• WETA-TV,Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
• WNYC, NYPD Bruised
• WRAL-TV, Journey Alone
• Specialist Finalist Citation:KCBS Radio, Unholy Water

• CBS News, Nowhere to Go, Europe's Migrant Crisis (Charlie D'Agata,Mark Phillips, &Holly Williams, correspondents)
• Dateline NBC, TheCosby Accusers Speak (Kate Snow, correspondent)
• ESPN Films and Laylow Films,O.J.: Made in America
• Fusion, The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl
• Frontline -PBS, Escaping ISIS and Children of Syria
• The GroundTruth Project, Foreverstan: The Girls' School and Razia's Way
• HBO Documentary Films and SOC Films,A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
• KXAN, Racial Profiling Whitewash
• Michigan Radio, Not Safe to Drink
• NBC Connecticut, Crumbling Foundations
• NOVA and WGBH-TV, Mystery Beneath the Ice
• NPR &Daniel Zwerdling |Colorado Public Radio & Michael de Yoanna, Missed Treatment
• WTHR-TV, Charity Caught on Camera
• WXIA-TV, Alive Atlanta, Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System

• ABC15 Arizona,Cash for Compliance
• ABC News,Lincoln Square Productions,Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
• American Documentary andWORLD Channel -PBS,AMERICA REFRAMED: Class of '27
• CBS News,60 Minutes:The New Cold War
• CBS Evening News,The Road to Aleppo
• Frontline -PBS,Exodus
• HBOReal Sports With Bryant Gumbel,The Lords of the Rings
• KARE 11, Investigative Reporting
• KHOU-TV,Transparency
• National Geographic Documentary Films andJunger Quested Films,Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
• NBC Bay Area (KNTV),Arrested at School
• Netflix, Forward Movement,Kandoo Films,13th
• The New York Times,The Daily
• Reveal fromThe Center for Investigative Reporting andPRX, andCoda Story,Russia's New Scapegoats
• This American Life, Episode 600:Will I Know Anyone At This Party? Act One: Party in the USA
• WITI-TV,Men on the Margin

• Gold Baton:Frontline,Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia,Life on Parole,Living with Murder,Mosul,Myanmar's Killing Fields,Putin's Revenge,The Gang Crackdown andThe Last Generation
• Florentine Films &WETA,The Vietnam War
• Reveal,PRX,PBS NewsHour,Associated Press, Kept Out
• 60 Minutes,The Washington Post,The Whistleblower &Too Big to Prosecute
• WTSP,The Tampa Bay Times,Zombie Campaigns
• WNYC,ProPublica,Trump Inc.
• CNN Films,RBG
• NBC Bay Area, Nima Elbagir,Drivers Under Siege
• HBO,Mariska Hargitay, Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir,I Am Evidence
• RYOT, Alexandria Bombach, Nadia Murad,On Her Shoulders
• This American Life,Our Town
• EPIX,This Is Home
• WNYC,Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice
• CBS MiamiWFOR,The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide
• Rocky Mountain PBS' Insight withJohn Ferrugia,Imminent Danger

• APM Reports,In the Dark, Season Two: Supreme Court Coverage
• CBS News,60 Minutes,On the Border
• CNN,TheDisappearance of Jamal Khashoggi
• Frontline,ProPublica,PBS,Documenting Hate
• Frontline,The Facebook Dilemma
• KARE 11,Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary &On the Veterans Best (A.J. Lagoe, reporter)
• Netflix,The Bleeding Edge
• PBS Newshour,Inside Yemen
• POV &American Documentary, Inc.,The Apology
• POV,Dark Money
• Michigan Radio &NPR,Believed
• MSNBC,Bag Man
• WKBW-TV,Fall From Grace: When Priests Prey and Bishops Betray
• WETA,McGee Media &Inkwell Films,Reconstruction: After The Civil War
• WSOC-TV,Something Suspicious inDistrict 9

• American Experience,PBS,Chasing the Moon
• Frontline,PBS,For Sama
• KING-TV,Bob's Choice
• KSTP-TV,George Floyd coverage
• NBCNews.com,A Different Kind of Force—Policing Mental Illness
• Netflix,Crip Camp
• NOVA,PBS,Decoding COVID-19
• Radiotopia,Public Radio Exchange,Ear Hustle
• The Washington Post,Lafayette Reconstruction
• Upper East Films andIndependent Lens,PBS,Bedlam
• Vice,Showtime,India Burning
• WFAA,Verify Road Trip: Climate Truth
• WNBC,The Epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic
• OSM Audio,Radiolab,WNYC Studios,The Flag and the Fury
• Radiolab,WNYC Studios,The Other Latif

Source:^[20]

• 99% Invisible,Stitcher Media, andPRX,According to Need (hosted by Katie Mingle)
• The History Channel,WNYC Studios, andKOSU,Blindspot: Tulsa Burning (hosted by KalaLea)
• KARE,KARE11 Investigates: Cruel & Unusual (A.J. Lagoe, reporter)
• The New York Times,Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol
• KXTV,Fire - Power - Money: Holding PG&E Accountable (Brandon Rittiman, reporter)
• KNXV-TV,Full Disclosure andPolitically Charged (Dave Biscobing, reporter)
• HBO Documentary Films,In the Same Breath
• CBS News,Military Sexual Assault:Norah O'Donnell Investigates
• KNTV,The Moms of Magnolia Street
• Amazon Studios,Participant Media, and Storyville Films,My Name is Pauli Murray
• PBS,Independent Lens, andTOPIC,Philly D.A.
• POV, American Documentary, and LBx Africa,Softie
• Apple and Jigsaw Productions,The Line (hosted byDan Taberski)
• Vice News,The Shockwave (Lama Al-Arian, correspondent)
• POV, American Documentary, and Third Shift Media,Through the Night
• NPR,Planet Money, andFrontline,Waste Land (Laura Sullivan, correspondent)

Source:^[21]

• CBS News,60 Minutes: National Security in the Information Age ( "SolarWinds," "Deepfakes," "The Grid," "Shields Up";Bill Whitaker, correspondent)
• PBS,GBH,NOVA,Arctic Sinkholes
• This American Life,Talking While Black (Emanuele Berry host; Berry andChana Joffe-Walt, reporters)
• PBS NewsHour &Jane Ferguson, Coverage of the Fall of Afghanistan and the War in Ukraine (Ferguson,Nick Schifrin,Simon Ostrovsky, Ryan Chilcote, Willem Marx, Jack Hewson, andMalcolm Brabant, correspondents)
• Audible,Finding Tamika (Erika Alexander, host)
• KARE 11 Minneapolis/St. Paul & A.J. Lagoe,KARE 11 Investigates - The GAP: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect
• Warner Bros. Discovery,HBO,The Janes
• WXIA-TV Atlanta & Rebecca Lindstrom,#Keeping
• ABC News Studios | Hulu,Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts
• WBRZ-TV Baton Rouge & Chris Nakamoto,MURDER - LIES - HIDDEN EVIDENCE: Holding Louisiana State Police accountable
• CNN Films & HBO Max,Navalny
• WTVF-TV Nashville & Phil Williams,NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Revealed
• KXAS-TV NBC Dallas/Ft. Worth & Scott Friedman,Paper Tag Nation
• The Washington Post: Post Reports,A Post-Roe America: Continuing Coverage of Abortion
• Gimlet Media | Spotify,Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
• CNN Worldwide, Ukraine Coverage

Sources:^[22][23]

• The Associated Press,PBS Frontline,20 Days in Mariupol
• Tony Plohetski &KVUE TV,The Austin American-Statesman,Accountability After Uvalde
• PBS Frontline,Afghanistan Undercover (Ramita Navai, correspondent)
• ABC News Studios,Onyx Collective,Hulu,Aftershock
• Scott Friedman &KXAS-TV,Against All Enemies
• Ideal Partners,Independent Lens,Beyond Utopia
• KUSA 9NEWS Denver,BURNED
• The New York Times,Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha
• Crooked Media,Mother Country Radicals (Zayd Ayers Dohrn, producer)
• Brook Lapping, Les Films D’ici,Putin vs the West
• APM Reports,Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (Emily Hanford, reporter)
• New Hampshire Public Radio,The 13th Step (Lauren Chooljian, reporter)
• Andy Pierrotti &WANF-TV,InvestigateTV,The Sixth
• Florentine Films/WETA,The U.S. and the Holocaust
• ABC News, Environmental Reporting:The Power of Water (Chris Connelly, Jaclyn Lee,Steve Osunsami,John Quinones, Rachel Scott, Mireya Villareal, Kayna Whitworth, correspondents) &Trashed (Matt Gutman, correspondent)

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• The Peabody Awards

• Official site
• Award Winners Archive
• "Telling the Truth—The Best in Broadcast Journalism",PBS,Maria Hinojosa. Documentary on the 2010 Dupont award winners.

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• Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
• 1942 establishments in New York (state)

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