The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in

broadcast Broadcasting is the data distribution, distribution of sound, audio audiovisual content to dispersed audiences via a electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), ...

and digital

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

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 by

Washington and Lee University Washington and Lee University (Washington and Lee or W&L) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, United States. Established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, it is among ...

's O. W. Riegel, Curator and Head of the Department of Journalism and Communications. Since 1968 they have been administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

, and are considered by some to be the broadcast equivalent of the

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

, another program administered by

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

. 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 by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband Alfred I. du Pont. It is the most well-respected journalism-only award for

broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

; starting in 2009, it began accepting digital submissions. The duPont, along with the George 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 architect Louis I. Kahn. The gold baton, when awarded, is given exclusively in honor of truly outstanding broadcast journalism.

Notable winners

In 2003, the first-ever foreign-language program was awarded a duPont-Columbia Award: CNN en Español and reporter Jorge Gestoso won a Silver Baton for investigative reporting on Argentina's '' desaparecidos''. In 2010, the first award for digital reporting was given to MediaStorm and photographer Jonathan Torgovnik for "Intended Consequences" about children born of rape in

Rwanda Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...

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

Note

All winners are listed on the website of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

duPont Award

1942

* Fulton Lewis Jr. * KGEI Radio,

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

1943

* Raymond Gram Swing *

WLW WLW (700 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial news/talk radio station city of license, licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, WLW is a clear-channel station, often identifying itself as "The Big One". Its studios ...

Radio,

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...

* WMAZ Radio,

Macon, Georgia Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States. Situated near the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is southeast of Atlanta and near the ...

1944

* H. V. Kaltenborn * WJR Radio,

Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

* WTAG Radio,

Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the list of United States cities by population, 113th most populous city in the United States. Named after Worcester ...

1945

* Lowell Thomas * KDKA Radio,

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...

* WNAX Radio,

Yankton, South Dakota Yankton is a city in and the county seat of Yankton County, South Dakota, United States. It became a city in 1889. The population was 15,411 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in South Dakota, 7th most po ...

1946

* Elmer Davis * WHO Radio,

Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Iowa, most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County, Iowa, Polk County with parts extending into Warren County, Iowa, Wa ...

* WFIL Radio,

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

1947

* Edward R. Murrow * WBBM Radio,

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

* WFIL Radio, Philadelphia

1948

* Henry J. Taylor * KLZ Radio,

Denver Denver ( ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county, the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous city of the U.S. state of ...

* WLS Radio, Chicago

1949

* Morgan Beatty * WNOX Radio,

Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division ...

* WPIX-TV, New York * WWJ Radio, Detroit * Special Program Award—

American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division ...

and Association

1950

* John Cameron Swayze * AVZ Radio,

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 ce ...

* WFIL-TV, Philadelphia

1951

* Joseph C. Harsch * WCAU Radio and WCAU-TV, Philadelphia * WEEI Radio,

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

1952

* Gerald W. Johnson * WBNS-TV,

Columbus, Ohio Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States ...

* WMT Radio,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States, and its county seat. The population was 137,710 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Iowa, second-most populous city in Iowa. The city lies o ...

1953

* Pauline Frederick * WBZ Radio and WBZ-TV, Boston * WOI-TV,

Ames, Iowa Ames () is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States, located approximately north of Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines in central Iowa. It is the home of Iowa State University (ISU). According to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Ames ha ...

1954

* Eric Sevareid * KGAK Radio, Gallup, New Mexico * WHAS Radio,

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...

1955

* Howard K. Smith * WICC Radio,

Bridgeport, Connecticut Bridgeport is the List of municipalities in Connecticut, most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut and the List of cities in New England by population, fifth-most populous city in New England, with a population of 148,654 in 2020. Loc ...

* WTIC Radio,

1956

* Chet Huntley * KNXT-TV,

Los Angeles Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

WFMT WFMT (98.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, with a classical music radio format. It is part of Window to the World Communications, Inc, in the same company as Chicago's PBS member station WTTW. WFMT seeks donations ...

Radio, Chicago

1957

* Clifton Utley * KARD-TV,

Wichita, Kansas Wichita ( ) is the List of cities in Kansas, most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397, ...

KRON-TV KRON-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States, serving as the San Francisco Bay Area's outlet for The CW. Owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, KRON-TV has studios ...

, San Francisco

1958

* David Brinkley * KLZ-TV, Denver * WSNY Radio, Schenectady

1959

* David Schoenbrun * KOLN-TV,

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The city covers and had a population of 291,082 as of the 2020 census. It is the state's List of cities in Nebraska, second-most populous city a ...

* WNTA-TV,

Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area. ...

1960

Edward P. Morgan Edward Paddock Morgan (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 1993) was an American journalist and writer who reported for newspapers, radio, and television media services including American Broadcasting Company, ABC, CBS networks, and the Public Broadcas ...

KDKA-TV KDKA-TV (channel 2), branded CBS Pittsburgh, is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS television network through its CBS News and Stations division alongside WPKD-TV (channel 19), a ...

, Pittsburgh * WAVZ Radio,

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is List ...

1961

* Martin Agronsky * KING-TV,

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

* KPFK Radio, Los Angeles

1962

* Howard K. Smith * KVOA-TV,

Tucson, Arizona Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson ...

Radio, Chicago

1963

* Louis M. Lyons * WFBM Radio,

Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...

* Silver Baton— WJZ-TV,

Baltimore Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-large ...

1964

* WFTV,

Orlando, Florida Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville ...

* WRCV-TV, Philadelphia

1965

* Cecil Brown * KTWO-TV,

Casper, Wyoming Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the List of municipalities in Wyoming, second-most populous city in the state after Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cheyenne, with the population at 59,038 as of th ...

* WBBM-TV, Chicago * WCCO Radio,

Minneapolis Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...

* WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, Indiana * WHCU Radio,

Ithaca, New York Ithaca () is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, Ithaca is the largest community in the Ithaca metrop ...

* WRVR Radio, New York

duPont–Columbia Award

1969

* 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 National Educational Television (NET) was an American non-commercial educational, educational terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It op ...

and Public Broadcast Laboratory,
Defense and Domestic Needs: The Contest for Tomorrow
(produced by Alan Levin) * NBC News, "First Tuesday: CBW (Chemical-Biological Warfare): The Secrets of Secrecy" (produced by Tom Pettit) * WRKL Radio, Mount Ivy-New City, NY for outstanding coverage of the 1968 political campaigns * WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia "Investigation of Organized Crime"

1971

* Kenneth A. Cox *CBS News, Ernest Leiser; Russ Bensley; John Laurence, " Charlie Company" *

and Frederick Wiseman, "

Hospital A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically ...

" *NBC News and Fred Freed, "

White Paper A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. Since the 199 ...

: 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"

1972

*CBS News, John Sharnik and Eric 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 and Tom Pettit, "First Tuesday: The Man from Uncle (Sam)" and "The FBI" *NBC News, Martin Carr, "

: This Child is Rated X" * WABC-TV, Geraldo Rivera, "Drug Crisis in East Harlem"

1973

Mike Wallace Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade car ...

for outstanding reporting on CBS News "

60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style o ...

" *CBS News, Perry Wolff, Robert Markowitz, and Charles 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, "

: 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"

1974

*ABC News and Arthur Holch, "Inquiry: Chile: Experiment in Red" *CBS News, Irv Drasnin, " CBS News Reports: You and the Commercial" * Group W, Dick Hubert and Rod 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 of ''NBC Reports'') * National Public Affairs Center for Television and Elizabeth Drew,
Thirty Minutes With...
* WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, Judy Muntz, Jim Hatfield, and Lee Phillip, "The Rape of Paulette" * WTIC-TV, Hartford, Connecticut, Jean Sablon and Bard Davis "The Nine-Year-Old in Norfolk Prison"

1975

*ABC News, Av Westin, "Close-Up" *CBS News, Don Hewitt, ''

'' * KFWB Radio, Los Angeles, "SLA 54th Street Shootout" * KNXT, Los Angeles, "Why Me?" *NBC News, Fred Freed, "The Energy Crisis" (an '' NBC 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 and Frederick Wiseman,
Juvenile Court
* TVTV and WNET, New York and David Loxton, '' Lord of the Universe'' * WKY-TV, Oklahoma City and Bob Dotson, "Through the Looking Glass Darkly" * WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, "Public Bridges and Private Riches"

1976

KNBC KNBC (channel 4) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast of the United States, West Coast flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network ...

, Burbank, California, Don Harris, " Prison Gangs" *

NBC Nightly News ''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas'' for its weeknight broadcasts ) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NBC television network ...

and Tom Pettit for a series on feeding the poor *NPR,

All Things Considered ''All Things Considered'' (''ATC'') is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United ...

* 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 and Brian Ross, " Teamster Power" * WPLG, Miami and Clarence Jones, for crime reporting

1978

* Group W and Paul Wilkes, "Six American Families" * KCET-TV, Los Angeles,
28 Tonight
(citing the segments ''National Lead'' and '' Number Our Days'') * KGW-TV, Portland, "The Timber Farmers" *NBC News, "Human Rights: A Soviet-American Debate" (moderated by Edwin Newman) and "NBC Reports: The Struggle for Freedom" (anchored by Garrick Utley) * Walter Cronkite and the "

CBS Evening News The ''CBS Evening News'' is the flagship evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States. The ''CBS Evening News'' is a daily evening broadcast featu ...

" * WBBM-TV, Chicago, Scott Craig and Bill Kurtis, "Once a Priest" * WFAA-TV, Dallas "Clear and Present Danger" * WNET-TV, New York and WETA-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"

1979

* 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 and Richard Hart, "Laser Con-Fusion" *

National Geographic Society The National Geographic Society, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world. Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, natural sc ...

and

WQED-TV WQED (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by WQED Multimedia, it is sister to public radio station WQED-FM (89.3). The two outlets share studios on Fifth Avenue near the Carnegie M ...

, Pittsburgh,
The Living Sands of Namib
*NBC News, Robert Rogers and Garrick Utley, "NBC News Reports: Africa's Defiant White Tribe" * WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, Gail Sikevitz, Scott Craig, Jim Hatfield, and Mort Crim for documentary reporting * WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, Byron Harris for investigative report * WGBH-FM, Boston, "Banned in Chelsea" *

WGBH-TV WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS List of PBS member stations, member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Affiliated stations and facilities WGBH-TV is the Flagship (broadcasting), ...

, 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

1980

*ABC News, "Closeup: Arson: Fire for Hire!" (reported by Brit Hume) and " World News Tonight: Second to None?" * Bill Moyers, for outstanding reporting on CBS News and WNET-TV, New York *CBS News, " CBS Reports: The Boat People" (produced by Andrew Lack and reported by Ed Bradley) and "

" * 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?" *

, Boston, "WORLD
F-16: Sale of the Century
on PBS (reported by Andrew Cockburn) * WHA-TV, Madison, Catalyst Films and Wisconsin Educational Television Network, "An American Ism: Joe McCarthy" (part
1
an
2
directed by Glenn Silber)

1981

*SILVER BATON ABC News, " The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage" *SILVER BATON Ed Bradley and CBS News, " CBS Reports: Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?" *SILVER BATON Group W and KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts; WJZ-TV, Baltimore Maryland for I-Team Investigations *SILVER BATON Mississippi Center for Educational Television, Jackson, Mississippi,
William Faulkner: A Life on Paper
(directed by Robert Squier) *SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "

" and "

Morning Edition ''Morning Edition'' is an American radio news program produced and distributed by NPR. It airs weekday mornings (Monday through Friday) and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 5:00 to 9:00 a ...

" *SILVER BATON Perry Miller Adato and WNET-TV, New York, New York, "Picasso: A Painter's Diary" (part
12
an
3
*SILVER BATON Red Cloud Productions and

WGBY-TV WGBY-TV (channel 57) is a PBS member television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Owned by the Boston-based WGBH Educational Foundation, it is a sister station to that organization's flagship (broadcasting), flagship and nam ...

, Springfield, Massachusetts, "Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story" (part
12
an
3
*SILVER BATON Roger Mudd and CBS News, " CBS Reports: Teddy" *SILVER BATON Reuven Frank and NBC News, "

: If Japan Can... Why Can't We?" *SILVER BATON Special Independent Production Award: Carol Mon Pere, Sandra Nichols and KTEH-TV, San Jose, California
The Battle of Westlands
*SILVER BATON Special Tribute: Walter Cronkite *SILVER BATON Walter Jacobson and WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Perspectives" *SILVER BATON WLS-TV, Chicago, Illinois and

Chicago Sun-Times The ''Chicago Sun-Times'' is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Since 2022, it is the flagship paper of Chicago Public Media, and has long held the second largest circulation among Chicago newspaper ...

, "The Accident Swindlers"

1982

*SILVER BATON ABC News, " America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations" *SILVER BATON CBS News, Charles Kuralt, " Sunday Morning" *SILVER BATON CBS News,

Dan Rather Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (; born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist, commentator, and former national evening news anchor. He began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurrica ...

, " CBS REPORTS: The Defense of the United States" *SILVER BATON David Productions and ABC News, "CLOSEUP: Can't it Be Anyone Else?" (produced by Bill Couturié) *SILVER BATON KCTS-TV, Dr. Willard Gaylin, "Hard Choices" *SILVER BATON National Public Radio,
Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown
(produced by Deborah Amos and written by James Reston Jr. and Noah Adams) *SILVER BATON Robert Spencer and WTTW-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Six O'clock and All's Well" *SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: KTEH-TV, San Jose, California and John Else, " The Day After Trinity" *SILVER BATON SPECIAL TRIBUTE: David Brinkley *SILVER BATON WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Election Night Coverage" *SILVER BATON WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dave Moore, The Moore Report *SILVER BATON

, Boston, Massachusetts, "WORLD" *SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "The Billion Dollar Ghetto"

1984

*SILVER BATON CBS News, "

: Good Cop, Bad Cop; Honor Thy Children; and Go Park It in Tokyo" *SILVER BATON John Camp and WBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, For investigative reporting *SILVER BATON KCTS-TV, Seattle, Washington and Face to Face Productions, "Rape: Face to Face" (directed by Nicholas Kendall and Keet Neville) *SILVER BATON

, 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 BATON Richard Threlkeld, Status Reports on "ABC World News Tonight" *SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: Jon Alpert and NBC News, "American Survival" (aired on '' Today'') *SILVER BATON Terry Drinkwater, Cancer Reports on "CBS Evening News" *SILVER BATON WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Killing Crime: A Police Cop-Out" *SILVER BATON WMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "Unit 5: The Chicago Police Investigations" *SILVER BATON

WSMV-TV WSMV-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTNX-LD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Knob Road i ...

, Nashville, Tennessee, "Innocent Shame: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse" *SILVER BATON WTCN-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Herpes is Forever"

1985

*SILVER BATON ABC News, "

Nightline ''Nightline'' (or ''ABC News Nightline'') is ABC News (United States), ABC News' Late night television in the United States, late-night television news program broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC in the United States with a franchis ...

" *SILVER BATON ABC News, " World News Tonight: US-USSR: A Balance of Powers" *SILVER BATON Brian Ross and Ira Silverman, Outstanding investigative reporting on NBC News *SILVER BATON CBS News, "

: Lenell Geter's in Jail" *SILVER BATON KOSU Radio, Stillwater, Oklahoma, "Selling the Public Spectrum" *SILVER BATON

, San Francisco, California, "Climate of Death" *SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: Medvideo, Ltd. and Group 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 BATON Suburban Cablevision, Avenel, New Jersey, "Right to Know: Hillside: A Desegregation Story" *SILVER BATON The Documentary Consortium and PBS " Frontline
Mind of a Murderer
*SILVER BATON

and PBS, Boston, Massachusetts, " Vietnam: A Television History" *SILVER BATON WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Florida, "The Smell of Money" *SILVER BATON WJZ-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, "Baby Boom: The Pig in the Python"

1986

*GOLD BATON ABC News, "

: South Africa" *SILVER BATON Cable News Network and IMAGO, Ltd., "Iran: In the Name of God" *SILVER BATON CBS News, "

: Afghanistan: Operation Blackout" (with footage from Mike Hoover) *SILVER BATON Chris-Craft Television Productions and Churchill Films, "Down for the Count--an Inside Look at Boxing" (aired on '' Frontline'') *SILVER BATON Desert West News, Flagstaff, Arizona, For a series of radio reports on the American Sanctuary Movement *SILVER BATON KNX Radio, Los Angeles, California, "Assignment 84/85" *SILVER BATON Nancy Montoya and KGUN-TV, Tucson, Arizona, For outstanding reporting *SILVER BATON NBC News, "The Real 'Star Wars'--Defense in Space" *SILVER BATON

WCAU-TV WCAU (channel 10) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned and operated by the NBC television network through its NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Mount Laurel, New Jersey–licensed Tel ...

, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Coverage of the MOVE siege *SILVER BATON WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "The Moore Report" *SILVER BATON WDVM-TV, Washington, DC, Investigation of Dr. Milan Vuitch *SILVER BATON WNET-TV, New York, New York, and PBS, "The Brain"

1987

*GOLD BATON CBS News, " CBS Reports: The Vanishing Family--Crisis in Black America", presented by Bill Moyers *SILVER BATON ABC News with

Ted Koppel Edward James Martin Koppel (born February 8, 1940) is an American broadcast Journalism, journalist, best known as the News presenter, anchor for ''Nightline'', from the program's inception in 1980 until 2005. Before ''Nightline'', he spent 20 y ...

, " 45/85" *SILVER BATON Chedd-Angier Production Company and The Documentary Consortium, " Frontline: Sue the Doctor? on PBS *SILVER BATON Drew Associates and PBS,
For Auction: An American Hero
*SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Washington 2000" *SILVER BATON KTUL-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma, "Tulsa's Golden Missionary" *SILVER BATON KYTV-TV, Springfield, Missouri, For outstanding reporting by Erin Hayes *SILVER BATON NBC News, Investigative Reporting on

, citing the work of Brian Ross and Mark Nykanen *SILVER BATON NBC Radio News, For coverage of the American raid on Tripoli *SILVER BATON WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Afghanistan: The Untold Story" *SILVER BATON

WCBS-TV WCBS-TV (channel 2), branded CBS New York, is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York–lic ...

, New York, New York, "No Place to Call Home" *SILVER BATON WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "State of Texas vs. Steven Lynn Fossum" *SILVER BATON WMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...

: Community of Controversy"

1988

*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 BATON KMOV-TV, St. Louis, Missouri, "Sauget: City of Shame" *SILVER BATON NBC News, Robert Bazell, For Coverage of the AIDS epidemic *SILVER BATON Pam Zekman and WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois, For Investigative Reporting *SILVER BATON Roberta Baskin and WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. For Investigative Reporting *SILVER BATON WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, For the I-Team *SILVER BATON WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, SMU Investigation *SILVER BATON WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, "Jacksonville's Roads: The Deadly Drive Home" *SILVER BATON

WLAP WLAP (630 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial radio, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station in Lexington, Kentucky, serving the Central Kentucky region. It airs a talk radio, news/talk Radio format, format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The s ...

Radio, Lexington, Kentucky, "Passing On the Secret of Sexual Abuse" *SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Florida: State of Neglect"

1989

*GOLD BATON CBS News, "

" *SILVER BATON ABC News, "

: In the Holy Land" *SILVER BATON CBS News, Coverage of the Persian Gulf by Alen Pizzey *SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Looking for Lincoln" *SILVER BATON NBC News, "A Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev, conducted by

Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American author and retired network television journalist. He first served as the co-anchor of Today (American TV program), ''The Today Show'' from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anch ...

*SILVER BATON Nina Totenberg and

National Public Radio National Public Radio (NPR) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It serves as a national Radio syndication, syndicator to a network of more ...

, Coverage of the Supreme Court Nominations *SILVER BATON Public Affairs Television and Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc., " Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers" *SILVER BATON WCAX-TV, Burlington, Vermont, "The Politics of Pollution" *SILVER BATON WCVB-TV, Needham, Massachusetts, "We the Jury", reported by David Ropeik *SILVER BATON

, Nashville, TN, for investigative reporting by Erin Hayes *SILVER BATON WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C. "Thurgood Marshall: The Man", reported by Carl Rowan *SILVER BATON WWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey, "For the I-Team"

1990

*GOLD BATON WGBH and Frontline: "Remember My Lai," "The Spy Who Broke the Code," "Who Profits From Drugs?," "The Choice," and "Children of the Night" *SILVER BATON ABC News and Koppel Communications, " The Koppel Report: Tragedy at Tiananmen--The Untold Story" *SILVER BATON Byron Harris and WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "Other People's Money" *SILVER BATON CBS, Television and Radio Coverage of China *SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of China *SILVER BATON Gardner Films and WETA, Washington, D.C., " Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land" on PBS *SILVER BATON KCET-TV, Los Angeles, California, "For the Sake of Appearances," and "Expecting Miracles" *SILVER BATON Kentucky Educational Television,
On Our Own Land
(produced by Anne Lewis) with Appalshop *SILVER BATON Maryland Public Television, Owings Mills, Maryland, "Other Faces of AIDS" *SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence" *SILVER BATON WBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, "The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy" *SILVER BATON WJXT, Jacksonville, Florida, "Crack Crisis: A Cry for Action"

1991

*GOLD BATON

and Martin Smith Productions, " Frontline: Inside Gorbachev's USSR with

Hedrick Smith Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former ''New York Times'' reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with ''The New York Times'' from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Mos ...

" *SILVER BATON ABC News, " Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields" *SILVER BATON Blackside 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 by

, Tom Fenton, Betsy Aaron, Anthony Mason and Peter Van Sant) *SILVER BATON Exit Films, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Near Death
*SILVER BATON Helen Borten and

for "Horizons: And Justice for All" *SILVER BATON KCBS-AM, San Francisco, California, for coverage of the earthquake *SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Critical Choices: America's Health Care Crisis" *SILVER BATON KQED-TV, San Francisco, California, Scott Pearson and Lewis Cohen, "Express: Shield for Abuse" *SILVER BATON NBC News, "

: Tragedy at Pine Ridge" (reported by Betty Rollin) *SILVER BATON P.O.V. and WTVS-TV, " Who Killed Vincent Chin?? *SILVER BATON WCBD-TV, Charleston, South Carolina, Coverage of Hurricane Hugo *SILVER BATON WJLA-TV, Washington D.C., "NFL Drug Testing: Illegal Procedure", for reporting on Forest Tennant by Roberta Baskin *SILVER BATON WKYC-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, Dick Feagler for nightly commentaries

1992

*GOLD BATON PBS, Public Affairs Television, Bill Moyers, "After the War," "The Home Front," "Beyond Hate," "Amazing Grace" *SILVER BATON ABC News,

Peter Jennings Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ''ABC World News Tonight'' from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 200 ...

, "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 BATON KBDI-TV, Denver, Colorado, Carolyn Hales, Tierra O Muerte: Land or Death *SILVER BATON KPIX-TV, San Francisco, Richard Saiz, California, "Wards of the State" *SILVER BATON KWWL-TV, Waterloo, Iowa, "Cloud of Concern" *SILVER BATON

for coverage of the

Gulf War , combatant2 = , commander1 = , commander2 = , strength1 = Over 950,000 soldiers3,113 tanks1,800 aircraft2,200 artillery systems , page = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-PEMD-96- ...

*SILVER BATON PBS, Friends of Le Chambon, Pierre Sauvage, "Weapons of the Spirit" *SILVER BATON PBS, Frontline: High Crimes and Misdemeanors (reported by Bill Moyers) *SILVER BATON WETA-TV and Florentine Films, Ken Burns, " The Civil War" *SILVER BATON WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, Coverage of the

*SILVER BATON

, Boston, Massachusetts, " Frontline: Innocence Lost" (produced by Ofra Bikel) *SILVER BATON WTBS-TV,

, "

Explorer Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some Expectation (epistemic), expectation of Discovery (observation), discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organis ...

: The Urban Gorilla"

1993

*GOLD BATON National Public Radio, "

," "

," " Weekend Edition," Coverage of Clarence Thomas Nomination Hearings, Coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 1992 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, "

" Coverage of the Los Angeles Riots *SILVER BATON Bill Leonard (journalist), Bill Leonard, former producer at CBS News and director of the duPont Awards *SILVER BATON CBS News, "

: Made in China" (reported by Ed Bradley) *SILVER BATON David Grubin Productions and KERA-TV, Dallas, Texas, "American Experience, The American Experience: LBJ" on PBS *SILVER BATON HBO, "Abortion: Desperate Choices" (America Undercover) (directed by Susan Froemke, Albert and David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Deborah Dickson) *SILVER BATON KCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Erin's Life" *SILVER BATON Kitchell Films and " P.O.V.", "Berkeley in the Sixties" *SILVER BATON KSTP-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota, "Who's Watching the Store" *SILVER BATON KTTV-TV, Los Angeles, California, "Cops on Trial: The Rodney King Case" *SILVER BATON Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana "Louisiana Boys" (produced by the Center for New American Media) *SILVER BATON Lucky Duck Productions and Nickelodeon, "Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, Nick News: W/5" *SILVER BATON WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Made in the USA?" *SILVER BATON WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Chronicle (American TV program), Chronicle" and Environmental Reporting (by David Ropeik) *SILVER BATON

, Boston, Massachusetts, " Frontline: Who Killed Adam Mann?"

1994

*GOLD BATON Fred 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 of Bosnian War, Bosnia by Christiane Amanpour, Jim Clancy (journalist), Jim Clancy, Brent Sadler, and Jackie Shymanski *SILVER BATON ETC Films, Barbara Kopple, "Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson" on NBC *SILVER BATON

, San Francisco, "In the Shadow of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Wall" *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 BATON WBAI/Pacifica Radio for "Massacre: The Story of East Timor" (produced by Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn) *SILVER BATON WBFF-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, "Justice on Trial/The Lost Generation/Walking Wounded" (reported by Deborah Weiner) *SILVER BATON

, Boston, Massachusetts, " Frontline," The Best Campaign Money Can Buy (produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting) *SILVER BATON Wisconsin Public Television, "Move Over: Women and the '92 Campaign" *SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Armed Enemies of Castro" *SILVER BATON WTVJ-TV, Miami, Florida The Coverage of Hurricane Andrew

1995

*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, Timothy Johnson (medical journalist), Tim Johnson, George Strait) **"Day One (TV program), Day One: Smoke Screen" (John Martin, correspondent) **"Turning Point (TV program), Turning Point: Inside the Struggle: The Amy Biehl Story" **" Peter Jennings Reporting: While America Watched--The Bosnia Tragedy" * SILVER BATON Blackside Inc., "The Great Depression" on PBS * SILVER BATON CBS News, "

: Semipalatinsk" ( Ed Bradley, correspondent) * SILVER BATON Charles Kuralt, for reporting on CBS News, "CBS News Sunday Morning, Sunday Morning" * SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Moscow Uprising (Steve Hurst, Claire Shipman, Eileen O'Connor, Gene Randall, Walter Rogers, Hugh Williams) * SILVER BATON Michael Skoler and NPR for coverage of Rwandan genocide, Rwanda * SILVER BATON NPR for coverage of 1994 South African general election, South 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 BATON WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota "Missing the Beat" (Caroline Lowe, reporter) * SILVER BATON WGBH, " Frontline: Innocence Lost: The Verdict" on PBS (produced by Ofra Bikel) * SILVER BATON Wisconsin Public Television, "My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story" on PBS * SILVER BATON WTVS-TV, Detroit, Michigan, HKO Media and Children's Hospital of Michigan "The Last Hit: Children and Violence"

1996

*Gold Baton: Daniel Schorr, his career spans CBS News, CNN and NPR *ABC News, "Turning Point (TV program), Turning Point: Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today" *ABC News, "ABC World News Tonight, 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) *Brian Lapping Associates, London, United Kingdom, "Watergate (TV series), Watergate" on The Discovery Channel *NPR for Republican Revolution, political coverage (such as the work of Elizabeth Arnold (reporter), Elizabeth Arnold) *PBS, the Center for Investigative Reporting and Telesis Productions " Frontline: School Colors" *PBS, " P.O.V., The American Documentary Inc. "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter" *PBS, "The American Experience: The Battle of the Bulge (produced by Thomas Lennon (filmmaker), Thomas Lennon); FDR (produced by David Grubin); and The Way West" (produced by Ric Burns) *WSBN, WMAL (AM), Washington, D.C., for "American History -- The Disney Version" (John Matthews, reporter) * WTVJ-TV and Kerry Sanders, Miami, Florida, "Coverage of Haiti" *WXYZ-TV, Detroit, Michigan, "Target 7: Michigan's Secret Soldiers" (Shellee Smith, reporter)

1997

*GOLD BATON Brian Lapping Associates, "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" on The Discovery Channel and the BBC *SILVER BATON ABC News, "

: O. J. Simpson murder case, 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 by Lesley Stahl), "60 Minutes: Too Good to be True" (reported by Morley Safer) *SILVER BATON HBO, "America Undercover: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," and "The Celluloid Closet (film), The Celluloid Closet" *SILVER BATON KREM-TV, Spokane, Washington, "Wenatchee child abuse prosecutions, The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring" *SILVER BATON NBC News, "Dateline NBC, Dateline: Class Photo" (Neal Shapiro, John Block (filmmaker), John Block, Len Cannon, Geraldine Moriba-Meadows, Marc Rosenwasser) *SILVER BATON Norman Corwin and Mary Beth Kirchner for "Fifty Years After 14 August" on NPR *SILVER BATON NOVA/WGBH-TV, " NOVA
Plague Fighters
(directed by Ric Esther Bienstock) on PBS *SILVER BATON NPR and Anne Garrels for coverage of the former Soviet Union *SILVER BATON Public Broadcasting Service, "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" (aired on ''American Masters'') *SILVER BATON Radio Smithsonian for "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" on PRI *SILVER BATON WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, For investigate reporting by Robert Riggs *SILVER BATON WGBH, Frontline, "Shtetl (film), Shtetl" on PBS

1998

*Gold Baton: WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, Frontline, for:**
Murder, Money and Mexico
**"The Choice 96" **"Secret Daughter" **"Innocence Lost: The Plea" (produced by Ofra Bikel) *ABC News, "Primetime Live: Debt Reckoning" *Blowback Productions, "CIA: America's Secret Warriors" *CBS News, " CBS Reports: Enter the Jury Room", reported by Richard Schlesinger (journalist), Richard Schlesinger *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 (radio program), Marketplace" on Public Radio International *NBC News and Scripps Howard, Scripps Howard News Productions, "Why Can't We Live Together?", reported by

*Public Broadcasting Service, "Cadillac Desert (film), Cadillac Desert: An American Nile" * WABC-TV, New York, "Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis" *Wisconsin Public Television, "Welcome to Poverty Hollow"

1999

*Gold Baton:

, Boston, " NOVA: Everest: The Death Zone"; "The Brain Eater"; "Supersonic Spies"; "China's Mysterious Mummies"; "Coma" *ABC News and

, "

: Crime and Punishment" *CBS News and

, "

: Investigation of the International Pharmaceutical Industry" *CBS News, Eric Engberg and Vince Gonzales, "

: Tomb of the Unknowns" *Dan Collison, Rebecca Perl and Tom Jennings, "This American Life: Scenes from a Transplant" on Public Radio International, PRI *Independent Television Service, Tony Buba and Raymond Henderson, "Struggles in Steel: A Story of African American Steelworkers" *PBS, Laura Angelica Simón and Tracey Trench, "POV (TV series), POV: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary" *WNET, Thirteen/WNET, New York, and Vanessa Roth, "Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children" * WBBM-TV, Chicago, and Carol 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

2000

*Gold Baton: Public Affairs Television, "Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers" *ABC News and Diane Sawyer, " 20/20: The Unwanted Children of Russia" *CBS News and Bob Simon, "60 Minutes II: The Shame of Srebrenica" *CNN and Candy Crowley, for coverage of the Impeachment of Bill Clinton, impeachment 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 (TV series), POV: If I Can't Do It" *SoundVision Productions, Berkeley, "The DNA Files" on NPR (hosted by John Hockenberry) *

, Boston, " Frontline: The Triumph of Evil" on PBS *WMTW (TV), WMTW-TV, Auburn, Maine & Christine Young for investigative reports on the Christian Civic League of Maine, Christian Civic League *WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, "Guarding the Guardians" *KTVX-TV, Salt Lake City, and Chris Vanocur for investigative reporting on the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal, Olympics' bribery scandal *Youth Radio, Berkeley, "Emails from Kosovo" on NPR

2001

*Gold Baton: American RadioWorks, "Massacre at Cuska" on NPR *ABC News, "

: AIDS in Africa" *CBS News, "

: Armed America" *Crowing Rooster Arts, New York, "Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants" on

(aired on ''Independent 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" *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 *

, Boston, " Frontline: John Paul II: Millennial Pope" on PBS (directed by Helen Whitney)

2002

*ABC News, Terence Wrong and Peter Bull, "Hopkins 24/7" (reported by Sylvia Chase) *CBS News, David Martin (journalist), David Martin and Mary Walsh (journalist), Mary Walsh, for reporting on national security on "

" and "60 Minutes II" *CBS News, Steve Kroft, and Leslie Cockburn, "

: America's Worst Nightmare?" *CBS News and Steve Hartman, "

: Everybody Has Story" *CNN, Nic Robertson and Jonathan Miller "Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace" (aired on ''CNN Presents'') *Court TV, "The Interrogation of Murder of Stephanie Crowe, Michael 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 *Jon Palfreman, Palfreman Film Group and

, Boston, " Frontline/Nova (American TV program), Nova: Harvest of Fear" on PBS * WABC-TV, New York, Jim Hoffer and Daniela Royes, "Caught Off Guard" *WNYC Radio, New York, and Beth Fertig "The EdisonLearning, Edison Schools Vote"

2003

*Gold Baton:

, 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 of Ann Compton and John Miller (police official), John Miller) and "Answering Children's Questions" (citing the work of

) *ABC News, "

: Heart of Darkness" (Martin Seemungal, correspondent) * CNN en Español and Jorge 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 and Martin Fletcher (TV reporter), Martin Fletcher, for coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict *NPR, for coverage of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan *POV (TV series), POV, Tasha Oldman and Small Town Productions, "The Smith Family" on PBS *WBUR-FM, Boston, "Surviving Torture: Inside Out" (Michael Goldfarb (author and journalist), Michael Goldfarb, correspondent) * WCVB-TV, Boston, "Chronicle (American TV program), Chronicle: Beyond the Big Dig" * WFAA-TV, Dallas, Brett Ship and Mark Smith, "Fake Drugs, Real Lives" *

, Boston, Steeplechase Films and Sierra Club, Sierra Club Productions, "American Experience: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film" on PBS

2004

*ABC News, "

: Tip of the Spear" (

, correspondent) *CBS News, David Martin (journalist), David Martin and Mary Walsh (journalist), Mary Walsh, for coverage of national security *HBO and Albert and David Maysles, Maysles Films Inc., "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton" *KBCI-TV, Boise, Idaho, "H. Brent Coles, Shake-Up at City Hall" *KHOU-TV, Houston, "Evidence of Errors" *KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Honor and Betrayal: 2003 United States Air Force Academy sexual assault scandal, Scandal at the Academy" (John Ferrugia, reporter) *NPR, for coverage of the Iraq War, war 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 *

, Boston, " Frontline: A Dangerous Business" on PBS (Lowell Bergman and David Barstow, correspondents) *WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline": Failure to Protect; "The Taking of Logan Marr"; "The Caseworker Files"; and "A National Dialogue" (moderated by John Hockenberry) on PBS *WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" on PBS (directed by Helen Whitney) *Whitney Dow and Marco Williams, "POV (TV series), POV: Two Towns of Jasper" on PBS (about the murder of James Byrd Jr.) *WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, "Friends in High Places"

2005

* ABC NEWS and Peter Jennings, PJ PRODUCTIONS for ''Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness'' (aired on '' Peter Jennings Reporting'') * PBS Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE and

for ''Ghosts of Rwanda'' on PBS * ABC NEWS and Primetime Thursday, PRIMETIME THURSDAY for ''The Nuclear Smuggling Project'' ( Brian Ross, correspondent) * DAVID APPLEBY and University of Memphis, THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS for ''Hoxie: The First Stand'' on PBS * FRONTLINE and WGBH-TV for ''Truth, War and Consequences'' on PBS * MSNBC and National Geographic Ultimate Explorer, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ULTIMATE EXPLORER for ''Liberia: American Dream?'' * HBO/Cinemax, CINEMAX REEL LIFE, Victoria Bruce & Karin Hayes for ''The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt'' * Louisiana Public Broadcasting, LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING for ''Louisiana: Currents of Change'' * NBC NEWS and Dateline NBC, DATELINE for ''A Pattern of Suspicion'' (John Larson, correspondent) * NPR and Radio Diaries, RADIO DIARIES for ''Mandela: An Audio History'' * WFAA-TV, DALLAS for ''State of Denial'' * WBAP-AM, DALLAS for ''JFK 40 '' * WCNC-TV, CHARLOTTE for ''Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation'' The duPont Jury also announced four finalists for their exemplary broadcast journalism: * Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Tracy Droz Tragos for "Be Good, Smile Pretty" on PBS (aired on ''Independent Lens'') * Marketplace (radio program), MarketPlace and American Public Media for "Spoils of War" on public radio stations * '' NOVA'', WGBH-TV and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for "Crash of Flight 111" * WISH-TV, Indianapolis, for "Will Your Vote Count?"

2006

* ABC NEWS for Live Coverage of the ''Death of Pope John Paul II and the 2005 papal conclave, Election of Pope Benedict XVI'' * CNBC for ''The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company'' (David Faber (CNBC), David Faber, reporter) * CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia * Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE and WGBH, BOSTON, for ''Al Qaeda's New Front'' on PBS (Lowell Bergman, correspondent) * FRONTLINE, WGBH, BOSTON, and The New York Times for "The Secret History of the Credit Card" on PBS (Lowell Bergman, correspondent) * HBO for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs (Bernard Goldberg, correspondent) * WUNC (FM), North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, Chapel Hill, for ''North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty'' * Public Radio International, PRI, WGBH (FM), WGBH, BOSTON, and BBC World Service, BBC WORLD SERVICE for "The World (radio program), The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies" * The Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison and NPR for ''Hidden Kitchens'' * Sundance TV, THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL, Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Allyson Luchak for "The Staircase (French miniseries), The Staircase" * WFTS-TV, TAMPA, for ''Crosstown Expressway Investigation'' (Mike Mason, reporter) * WJW (TV), WJW, CLEVELAND, for ''School Bus Bloat'' (Tom Merriman, reporter) * WPMI-TV, MOBILE, for ''For Lauren's Sake'' (Bruce Mildwurf, reporter)

2007

* American Masters and WNET, New York, for ''No Direction Home, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home'' on PBS * Brook Lapping, Brook Lapping Productions, London, for ''Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace'' on PBS * WCAI, WGBH's Cape and Islands NPR Stations for ''Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands'' (Sean Corcoran, reporter) * Investigation Discovery, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The New York Times for ''Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?'' (Julian Sher, director; William Broad and David E. Sanger, reporters) * Frontline (U.S. TV series), Frontline and WGBH-TV, WGBH, Boston, for ''The Age of AIDS'' on PBS (Renata Simone, reporter; Greg Barker and William Cran, directors) * HBO, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill (filmmaker), Matthew O'Neill for ''Baghdad ER'' * ITVS, Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur), Jim Butterworth for Independent Lens: ''Seoul Train'' on PBS *

and Dateline NBC, Dateline for Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina, Coverage of Hurricane Katrina * KCET, Los Angeles, KPBS (TV), KPBS, San Diego, KQED, San Francisco, KVIE, Sacramento, for ''California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D'' (Lisa McRee, reporter) * NPR for Media coverage of the Iraq War, Coverage of Iraq * WBAL-TV, Baltimore, for ''Dirty Secret'' (John Sherman, reporter) * WLOX-TV, Biloxi, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina * WRAL-TV, Raleigh, for WRAL-TV#Affiliations with UNC-TV, Focal Point: ''Paper Thin Promise and Standards of Living'' (Lynda Loveland and David Crabtree, anchors) * WWL-TV, New Orleans, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina

2008

The thirteen awards for 2008 were announced on December 17, 2007, and presented on January 16, 2008. * CBS News for ''

: The Mother of All Heists'' (Steve Kroft, correspondent) * Chicago Public Radio, Alix Spiegel & Public Radio International, PRI for ''This American Life: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?'' * PBS, Florentine Films/Lawrence Hott, Hott Productions & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for ''Through Deaf Eyes'' * HBO, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg for ''The Trials of Darryl Hunt'' * KHOU-TV, Houston, for ''Rules of the Game'' (Jeremy Rogalski, reporter) * KMOV-TV, St. Louis, for ''Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools'' (Craig Cheatham, reporter) * KNOE-TV, Monroe, Louisiana, for ''Names, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina'' (Taylor Henry, reporter) * MSNBC & Richard Engel for ''War Zone Diary'' * NBC News for ''Dateline NBC, Dateline: The Education of Ms. Groves'' (Hoda Kotb, correspondent) * NPR & Daniel Zwerdling for ''Mental Anguish and the Military'' * PBS, Paladin Invision, London, & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for ''Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda'' (William Cran, director) (aired on ''America at a Crossroads'') * WBBM-TV, for ''Fly At Your Own Risk'' (Dave Savini, reporter) * WFAA-TV, for ''Television Justice'' (Byron Harris, reporter)

2009

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 /

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, Public Radio International, PRI, NPR, Alex Blumberg & Adam Davidson (journalist), Adam Davidson for "This American Life: The Giant Pool of Money" * CNN for "God's Warriors" (Christiane Amanpour, correspondent) (aired on ''CNN Presents'') * Current TV & Christof Putzel for "From Russia with Hate" * HBO, Thomas Lennon (filmmaker), Thomas Lennon & Ruby Yang for Cinemax's Reel Life: ''The Blood of Yingzhou District'' * NPR,

, 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 and Chris Sheridan (director), Chris 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)

2010

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 "Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric, The Sarah Palin Interviews" * CBS News for " CBS Reports: Children of the Recession" (Katie Couric, reporter) * HBO & Edet Belzberg for "The Recruiter (2008 film), 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 (TV series), 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, 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)

2011

Television, Radio, and Digital: Silver Baton Winners * ABC News, for ''20/20 (U.S. TV series), 20/20'', " 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 "

: "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 (U.S. TV series), 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?"

2012

* Al Jazeera English, ''Fault Lines (TV series), Fault Lines'', "Haiti - Six Months On" * CBS News:

, "A Relentless Enemy" (Lara Logan, correspondent_ * Danfung Dennis, Impact Partners, Mike Lerner (filmmaker), Roast Beef Productions, Sabotage Films, Karol Martesko-Fenster, 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 the Arab 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" *

, 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"

2013

Source: * Alison Klayman, Never Sorry LLC, United Expression Media, Sundance Selects, Karl Katz, MUSE Film and Television, "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" (aired on ''Independent Lens'') * CBS News and Clarissa Ward, for "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria" * Current TV, Christof Putzel and the Renaud Brothers, "Vanguard (TV series), 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, David Einhorn (hedge fund manager), The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Diana Barrett, The Fledgling Fund, National Center for Learning Disabilities, and the Ted Waitt, Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, for ''Bully (2011 film), Bully'' (aired on ''Independent Lens'') * NPR, Deborah Amos, and Kelly McEvers for Coverage of Syria * StoryCorps, NPR, and POV (TV series), POV, for "StoryCorps 9/11" * USA Today, for "Ghost Factories" * WGBH, Kartemquin Films, Steve James (producer), Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, for "Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE: ''The Interrupters (film), The Interrupters'' * WGBH, Jamie Doran, Clover Films and Najibullah Quraishi, for "FRONTLINE: Opium Brides" * WITF-FM, WITF, WHYY-FM, 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"

2014

* American Documentary – POV (TV series), POV, Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday, "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement", on PBS * CBS News, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 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, "2013 Moore tornado, Devastation in Oklahoma" * Scott Thurman & Silver Lining Film Group, Magic Hour Entertainment, Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur), Naked Edge Films, "The Revisionaries" on Independent Lens * UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program, U. C. Berkeley IRP, CIR, Frontline (American TV program), 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 bombing, 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)

2015

* CNN, WEED: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports * KPNX 12 News, Phoenix & Wendy Halloran, Raked Over the Coals * MPR News, Betrayed by Silence * Netflix, ''Virunga (film), Virunga'' * NPR & Joseph Shapiro, Guilty and Charged * PBS, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry 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 *

, Boston, Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE: Syria's Second Front *

, 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

2016

* ABC News (United States), ABC News, Bruce Jenner: The Interview (aired on 20/20) * Al Jazeera America & Kartemquin Films, Hard Earned * CBS News

, A Crime Against Humanity (Scott Pelley, reporter) * Cronkite News & Arizona PBS, Hooked: Tracking Heroin's Hold on Arizona * Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE PBS, Ebola Outbreak (produced by Wael Dabbous) & Outbreak (Dan Edge & Sasha Joelle Achilli, producers) * Frontline (American TV program), FRONTLINE PBS, Growing Up Trans (Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, producers) * HBO, ''Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief'' * HBO Real 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, Killing of Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray Investigation * WBEZ & This American Life, Serial (podcast), Serial: Season One * WETA-TV, ''Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies'' * WNYC, NYPD Bruised * WRAL-TV, Journey Alone * Specialist Finalist Citation: KCBS (AM), KCBS Radio, Unholy Water

2017

* CBS News, Nowhere to Go, Europe's Migrant Crisis (Charlie D'Agata, Mark Phillips (journalist), Mark Phillips, & Holly Williams (Australian journalist), Holly Williams, correspondents) * Dateline NBC, The Bill Cosby sexual assault cases, Cosby Accusers Speak (Kate Snow, correspondent) * ESPN Films and Laylow Films, ''O.J.: Made in America'' * Fusion TV, Fusion, The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl * Frontline (U.S. TV program), 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

2018

* ABC15 Arizona, ''Cash for Compliance'' * ABC News (United States), ABC News, Lincoln Square Productions, ''Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992'' * American Documentary and WORLD Channel - WGBH-TV, PBS, ''America ReFramed, AMERICA REFRAMED: Class of '27'' * CBS News,

: ''The New Cold War'' *

, ''The Road to Aleppo'' * Frontline - PBS, ''Exodus'' * HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, ''The Lords of the Rings'' * KARE 11, Investigative Reporting * KHOU-TV, ''Transparency'' * National Geographic Documentary Films and Sebastian Junger, Junger 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 (film), 13th'' * The New York Times, ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily'' * Reveal (podcast), Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and Public Radio Exchange, PRX, and Coda 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''

2019

*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'' and ''The Last Generation'' *Florentine Films & WETA, ''The Vietnam War (TV series), The Vietnam War'' *Reveal (podcast), Reveal, Public Radio Exchange, PRX, PBS NewsHour, Associated Press, Kept Out *

, The Washington Post, ''The Whistleblower'' & ''Too Big to Prosecute'' *WTSP, The Tampa Bay Times, ''Zombie Campaigns'' *WNYC, ProPublica, ''Trump, Inc., Trump Inc.'' *CNN Films, ''RBG (film), 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 Miami WFOR-TV, WFOR, ''The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide'' *Rocky Mountain PBS' Insight with John Ferrugia, ''Imminent Danger''

2020

*APM Reports, ''In the Dark (podcast), In the Dark, Season Two: Supreme Court Coverage'' *CBS News,

, ''On the Border'' *CNN, ''The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, Disappearance 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 (TV series), POV & American Documentary, American Documentary, Inc., ''The Apology (2016 film), The Apology'' *POV, ''Dark Money (film), Dark Money'' *Michigan Radio & NPR, ''Believed (podcast), Believed'' *MSNBC, ''Bag Man'' *WKBW-TV, ''Fall From Grace: When Priests Prey and Bishops Betray'' * WETA, Dyllan McGee, McGee Media & Inkwell Films, ''Reconstruction: After The Civil War'' *WSOC-TV, ''Something Suspicious in 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election, District 9''

2021

*American Experience, PBS, ''Chasing the Moon (TV series), 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 and Independent Lens, PBS, ''Bedlam (2019 film), Bedlam'' *Vice (TV series), Vice, Showtime (TV network), 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''

2022

Source: * ''99% Invisible'', Stitcher Radio, Stitcher Media, and Public Radio Exchange, PRX, ''According to Need'' (hosted by Katie Mingle) * The History Channel, WNYC Studios, and KOSU, ''Blindspot: Tulsa Burning'' (hosted by KalaLea) * KARE (TV), 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'' and ''Politically 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, and First Look Media, TOPIC, ''Philly D.A.'' * ''POV (TV series), POV'', American Documentary, and LBx Africa, ''Softie (2020 film), Softie'' * Apple Inc., Apple and Jigsaw Productions, ''The Line (podcast), The Line'' (hosted by Dan Taberski) * Vice News, ''The Shockwave'' (Lama Al-Arian, correspondent) * ''POV'', American Documentary, and Third Shift Media, ''Through the Night (2020 film), Through the Night'' * NPR, ''Planet Money'', and '' Frontline'', ''Waste Land'' (Laura Sullivan, correspondent)

2023

Source: *CBS News, ''

: National Security in the Information Age'' ( "SolarWinds," "Deepfakes," "The Grid," "Shields Up"; Bill Whitaker (journalist), Bill Whitaker, correspondent) *PBS, WGBH-TV, GBH, NOVA, ''Arctic Sinkholes'' *''This American Life'', ''Talking While Black'' (Emanuele Berry host; Berry and Chana 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, and Malcolm Brabant, correspondents) *Audible (service), Audible, ''Finding Tamika'' (Erika Alexander, host) *KARE (TV), 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 (film), 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

2024

Sources:PBS And ABC News Lead The Honors At The 2024 DuPont Awards - Deadline
/ref> *The Associated Press, Frontline (American TV program), PBS Frontline, ''20 Days in Mariupol'' * Tony Plohetski & KVUE, KVUE TV, ''The Austin American-Statesman'', ''Accountability After Uvalde'' *PBS Frontline, ''Afghanistan Undercover'' (Ramita Navai, correspondent) *ABC News Studios, Onyx Collective, Hulu, ''Aftershock (2022 film), Aftershock'' *Scott Friedman & KXAS-TV, ''Against All Enemies'' *Ideal Partners, Independent Lens, ''Beyond Utopia'' *KUSA (TV), 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 (United States), ABC News, Environmental Reporting: ''The Power of Water'' (Chris Connelly (journalist), Chris Connelly, Jaclyn Lee, Steve Osunsami, John Quiñones, John Quinones, Rachel Scott, Mireya Villareal, Kayna Whitworth, correspondents) & ''Trashed'' (Matt Gutman, correspondent)

2025

* WTVF, WTVF-TV, NewsChannel 5 Nashville & Phil Williams, ''Hate Comes to Main Street'' *KFOR-TV, KFOR, Oklahoma City & Ali Meyer, ''The Wrong Man'' *HBO , Max (streaming service), Max, Little Room Films & The Boston Globe (Docuseries), The Boston Globe & HBO (Podcast), ''Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning, Murder in Boston'' *Reveal (podcast), Reveal, The Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley & Public Radio Exchange, PRX, ''We Regret to Inform You'' *Scripps News, ''Maine Shooting: Missed Warnings'' (Lori Jane Gliha, investigative correspondent) *KXTV, ABC10 KXTV, Sacramento & Andie Judson, ''The Wild West of Education'' *ProPublica & On the Media , WNYC Studios, ''We Don’t Talk About Leonard'' *Vice News, VICE News, ''Battleground Texas'' *Reveal (podcast), Reveal, Center for Public Integrity, The Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones & Public Radio Exchange, PRX, ''40 Acres and a Lie'' *National Geographic Documentary Films, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Alegria Films & Cortés Filmworks, ''The Space Race'' *MTV Documentary Films, Take Flight Films & Firelight Films, ''Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney'' *Netflix & Lucernam Films, ''You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolfpack'' *The Outlaw Ocean Project, ''China: The Superpower of Seafood'' *NPR, ''The War in Gaza Coverage'' *Songbird Studios & Imaginary Lane, ''Porcelain War''

References

External links

Official site

Award Winners Archive

"Telling the Truth—The Best in Broadcast Journalism"
PBS, Maria Hinojosa. Documentary on the 2010 Dupont award winners. {{DEFAULTSORT:Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award Alfred I. du Pont American journalism awards Awards established in 1942 Awards and prizes of Columbia University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 1942 establishments in New York (state)