The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
CBS News Wins Two Awards; Six Local Stations Honored in 2010; First Web Winner is MediaStorm.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced the 2010 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards on Jan. 14. CBS News won two duPont Awards for political and economic reporting. Six local television stations were also honored this year — the highest number of local stations to win in more than two decades. The first duPont Award for a Web-based production went to MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio.
Selected by the duPont Jury for excellence in broadcast journalism, the award-winning news programs aired in the United States between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. These honorees were presented with silver duPont batons at a ceremony held at Columbia University on Thursday, Jan. 21.
American Public Media, American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery & Joshua E. S. Phillips
What Killed Sergeant Gray
CBS News & Katie Couric
The Sarah Palin Interviews
CBS News
CBS Reports: Children of the Recession
HBO & Edet Belzberg
The Recruiter
KHOU-TV, Houston & Mark Greenblatt
Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard
KMGH-TV, Denver & Tony Kovaleski
33 Minutes to 34 Right
MediaStorm & Jonathan Torgovnik
Intended Consequences
NPR, Michele Norris & Steve Inskeep
The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote
POV, Elizabeth Farnsworth & Patricio Lanfranco
The Judge and the General, on PBS
WCAX-TV, Burlington & Kristin Carlson
Foreigners on the Farm
WGBH, Boston, FRONTLINE/World, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge
PAKISTAN: Children of the Taliban, on PBS
WSVN-TV, Miami, Carmel Cafiero & Anthony Pineda
Pill Mills
WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams
General Sessions Court
WWL-TV, New Orleans
NOAH Housing Program Investigation
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Learn more about the 2010 winners
For 40 years, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards have recognized excellence in broadcast journalism at Columbia University. Created by Jessie Ball duPont in 1942 as a tribute to the journalistic integrity and public-mindedness of her husband, Alfred I. duPont, these awards are regarded today as the most prestigious prizes in broadcast news, the equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes, which are also administered at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards receive gold or silver batons designed by the late American architect Louis I. Kahn. The batons are inscribed with the famous observation about the power of television by the late Edward R. Murrow: "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." (Address to the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Chicago, October 15, 1958.) |
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