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2020
In the Dark (Supreme Court Coverage) - APM
Believed - Michigan Radio & NPR
On the Border - CBS 60 Minutes
The Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi - CNN
Documenting Hate - FRONTLINE and ProPublica
The Facebook Dilemma - FRONTLINE
Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney - KARE 11
On the Veteran Beat - KARE 11 Investigates
Fall from Grace: When Priests Prey and Bishops Betray - WKBW-TV
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - PBS
Something Suspicious in District 9 - WSOC-TV
2019
CBS Miami (WFOR), The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide
CBS News 60 Minutes and The Washington Post, “The Whistleblower” and “Too Big to Prosecute”
CNN International & Nima Elbagir, Human Rights Abuses Reporting
EPIX, Gidalya Pictures & Blumhouse, This is Home: A Refugee Story
Florentine Films & WETA, The Vietnam War
NBC Bay Area KNTV, Drivers Under Siege
Reveal | PRX | PBS NewsHour | Associated Press, Kept Out
RMPBS Insight with John Ferrugia, Imminent Danger
RYOT & RED REEL, On Her Shoulders
WNYC, Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice
WNYC & ProPublica, Trump, Inc.
WTSP-TV & Tampa Bay Times, Zombie Campaigns
2018
ABC15 Arizona, Cash for Compliance
ABC News Lincoln Square Productions, LET IT FALL: Los Angeles 1982-1992
American Documentary and WORLD Channel- WGBH | PBS, AMERICA REFRAMED: Class of ‘27
CBS News, 60 Minutes: The New Cold War
CBS Evening News, The Road to Aleppo
HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, The Lords of the Rings
KARE 11, Investigative Reporting
NBC Bay Area (KNTV), Arrested at School
Netflix | Forward Moment | Kandoo Films, 13th
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and 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
2017
CBS News, Nowhere to Go, Europe’s Migrant Crisis
Dateline NBC, The Cosby Accusers Speak
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 11Alive Atlanta, Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation’s Emergency Response System
2016
ABC News, Bruce Jenner: The Interview
Al Jazeera America & Kartemquin Films, Hard Earned
CBS News 60 Minutes, A Crime Against Humanity
Cronkite News & Arizona PBS, Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona
FRONTLINE PBS, Ebola Outbreak & Outbreak
FRONTLINE PBS, Growing Up Trans
HBO, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, The Price of Glory
KMO-TV & Craig Cheatham, The Injustice System: Cops, Courts and Greedy Politicians
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, A Watershed Moment: Great Lakes at a Crossroads
VICE News, Selfie Soldiers: Russia’s Army Checks into Ukraine
WBAL-TV & Jayne Miller, Freddie Gray Investigation
WBEZ & This American Life, Serial: Season One
WETA, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
Specialist Finalist Citation: KCBS Radio, Unholy Water
2015
CNN, WEED: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports
KPNX 12 News, Phoenix & Wendy Halloran, Raked Over the Coals
NPR & Joseph Shapiro, Guilty and Charged
PBS, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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, Boston, FRONTLINE: Syria's Second Front
WGBH, 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
2014
CBS News, Newtown Tragedy Coverage
Center for Investigative Reporting, “Broken Shield”
ESPN, Outside the Lines: Youth Football Concerns
KMGH-TV, Denver & Keli Rabon, Colorado Rape Victims: Evidence Ignored, Justice Denied
KSHB 41 Action News, Kansas City, “Tragedy on the Plaza”
NBC News, “Devastation in Oklahoma”
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”
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”
2013
CBS News & Clarissa Ward, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria
Current TV, Christof Putzel & The Renaud Brothers, “Vanguard: Arming the Mexican Cartel”
KCET, Southern California, “SoCal Connected: Courting Disaster”
KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, “Desert Underwater”
NPR, Deborah Amos & Kelly McEvers, Coverage of Syria
StoryCorps, NPR & POV, “StoryCorps 9/11”
WGBH, Kartemquin Films, Steve James & Alex Kotlowitz, “FRONTLINE: The Interrupters”
WGBH, Clover Films, Najibullah Quraishi, “FRONTLINE: Opium Brides”
witf, WHYY & NPR, StateImpact Pennsylvania
WVUE-TV, New Orleans & Lee Zurik, “Dirty Deeds,” “Hiding Behind the Badge,”
WXYZ-TV, Detroit, “Wayne County Confidential”
2012
Al Jazeera English, "Fault Lines, Haiti - Six Months On"
CBS News: 60 Minutes, "A Relentless Enemy"
Detroit Public Television, "Beyond the Light Switch"
HBO & Blowback Productions, "Triangle: Remembering the Fire"
HBO, "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Head Games"
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" and "Surviving Haiti's Earthquake: Children"
WFAA-TV, Dallas & Byron Harris, "Bitter Lessons"
WGBH-TV, Boston, "NOVA: Japan's Killer Quake"
WNYC & Ailsa Chang, "Alleged Illegal Searches by the NYPD"
WSB-TV, Atlanta & Jodie Fleischer, "Stealing Houses"
WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams, "Policing for Profit"
Finalist: WNYC, "Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011"
2011
9News/KUSA-TV, Denver "9News at 10, Keys to the Castle"
ABC News, 20/20 Brian Ross Investigates: "The Coach's Secret"
BBC America, BBC World News America: "Haiti’s Earthquake"
CBS News: 60 Minutes, "The Blowout"
KCET Los Angeles, "Up In Smoke," "Protected or Neglected?," "Hung Out to Dry?"
KING-TV, Seattle & Susannah Frame "Waste on the Water"
NPR & Laura Sullivan "Bonding for Profit"
POV & Geoffrey Smith "The English Surgeon on PBS"
The Las Vegas Sun, "Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas"
West Virginia Public Broadcasting & Trey Kay, "The Great Textbook War"
WGBH, Boston & Najibullah Quraishi "Frontline: Behind Taliban Lines"
WKOW-TV, Madison & Dan Cassuto, “Who’s Protecting You?”
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis & Bob Segall, “Reality Check: Where Are the Jobs?”
2010
American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery & Joshua E. S. Phillips: "What Killed Sergeant Gray"
CBS News & Katie Couric: "The Sarah Palin Interviews"
CBS Reports: "Children of the Recession"
HBO & Edet Belzberg: "The Recruiter"
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"
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"
2009
ABC News, Nightline, "The Other War: Afghanistan"
California Newsreel & Vital Pictures, "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" on PBS
Current TV & Christof Putzel: "From Russia with Hate"
HBO, Thomas Lennon & Ruby Yang: "Cinemax’s Reel Life: The Blood of Yingzhou District"
NPR, All Things Considered, "Sexual Abuse of Native American Women"
NPR, All Things Considered, Melissa Block & Robert Siegel, Coverage of the Chengdu Earthquake
Oregon Public Broadcasting: "The Silent Invasion"
Safari Media, ITV, PBS, Independent Lens, "Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story"
WJLA-TV, Washington, DC, "Drilling for Dollars: Children’s Dentistry Investigation"
WTVT-TV, Tampa, "Small Town Justice"
Gold Baton
WFAA-TV, Dallas, "Money for Nothing", "A Passing Offense", "The Buried and the Dead"
2008
CBS News "60 Minutes: The Mother of All Heists"
Florentine Films/Hott Productions & WETA-TV, "Through Deaf Eyes" on PBS
HBO, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg, "The Trials of Darryl Hunt"
KHOU-TV, Houston, "Rules of the Game"
KMOV-TV, St. Louis, "Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools"
KNOE-TV, Monroe, "Names, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina"
MSNBC & Richard Engel, "War Zone Diary"
NBC News, Dateline: "The Education of Ms. Groves"
NPR & Daniel Zwerdling, "Mental Anguish and the Military"
Paladin Invision, London, & WETA, Washington, DC, "Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda"
WBBM-TV, Chicago, "Fly At Your Own Risk"
WFAA-TV, Dallas, "Television Justice"
2007
Brook Lapping Productions, London, for “Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace” on PBS
HBO, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill, “Baghdad ER”
ITVS, Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth, “Independent Lens: Seoul Train” on PBS
KCET-TV, Los Angeles, KPBS-TV, San Diego, KQED-TV, San Francisco, KVIE-TV, Sacramento, “California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D”
NBC News, “NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline,” Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, “Dirty Secret”
WGBH, Boston, “Frontline: The Age of AIDS” on PBS
WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Mississippi, Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
WNET-TV, New York, "American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan" on PBS
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, “Focal Point: Paper Thin Promise and Standards of Living”
WWL-TV, New Orleans, for coverage of Hurricane Katrina
2006
ABC News, for live coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI
CNBC, “The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company”
CNN, Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia
HBO, “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs”
North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC, Chapel Hill, “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty”
PRI, WGBH-TV, Boston, and BBC World Service, “The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies”
The Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison and NPR, “Hidden Kitchens”
The Sundance Channel, Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier De Lestrade and Allyson Luchak, “The Staircase” WFTS-TV, Tampa, “Crosstown Expressway Investigation”
WGBH, Boston “Frontline: Al Qaeda's New Front” on PBS
WGBH, Boston, and The New York Times, “The Secret History of the Credit Card” on PBS
WJW, Cleveland, “School Bus Bloat”
WPMI-TV, Mobile, “For Lauren's Sake”
2005
ABC NEWS and "Primetime Thursday: The Nuclear Smuggling Project"
ABC News and PJ Productions, “Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness”
David Appleby and The University of Memphis, "Hoxie: The First Stand" on PBS
HBO/Cinemax Reel Life, Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes, "The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt"
Louisiana Public Broadcasting, "Louisiana: Currents of Change"
MSNBC, “National Geographic Ultimate Explorer: Liberia: American Dream?”
NBC News, Dateline, "A Pattern of Suspicion"
NPR and Radio Diaries, "Mandela: An Audio History"
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, "Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation"
WFAA-TV, Dallas, "State of Denial"
WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: Truth, War and Consequences" on PBS
WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda" on PBS
2004
ABC News, "Nightline: Tip of the Spear"
CBS News, David Martin and Mary Walsh, for coverage of national security
HBO and Maysles 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"
NPR, for coverage of the war in Iraq
WESH-TV, Orlando, for coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: A Dangerous Business" on PBS
WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" on PBS
Whitney Dow and Marco Williams, “POV: Two Towns of Jasper” on PBS
WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee, "Friends in High Places"
2003
ABC News Television and Radio for coverage of 9/11 and "Answering Children's Questions"
ABC News, "Nightline: Heart of Darkness"
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, for coverage of the Isreali-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"
WCVB-TV, Boston, "Chronicle: Beyond the Big Dig"
WFAA-TV, Dallas, Brett Ship and Mark Smith, "Fake Drugs, Real Lives"
Gold Baton
2002
ABC News, Terence Wrong and Peter Bull, "Hopkins 24/7"
CBS News, Steve Kroft, and Leslie Cockburn, "60 Minutes: America's Worst Nightmare?"
CBS News and Steve Hartman, "CBS Evening News: Everybody Has Story"
CNN, Nic Robertson and Jonathan Miller “Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace”
Court TV, "The Interrogation of 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
Palfreman Film Group and WGBH-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, and Beth Fertig "The Edison Schools Vote"
2001
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" on WGBH-TV
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"
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
Gold Baton
American RadioWorks, "Massacre at Cuska" on NPR
2000
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 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
SoundVision Productions, Berkeley, "The DNA Files" on NPR
WGBH-TV, Boston, "Frontline: The Triumph of Evil" on PBS
WMTW-TV, Auburn, Maine & Christine Young for investigative reports on the Christian Civic League
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, "Guarding the Guardians"
Youth Radio, Berkeley, "Emails from Kosovo" on NPR
Gold Baton
Public Affairs Television, “Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers"
1999
ABC News and Ted Koppel, "Nightline: Crime and Punishment"
CBS News and Mike 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" on PRI
PBS, Laura Angelica Simón and Tracey Trench, "POV: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary"
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
Gold Baton
1998
ABC News, "Primetime Live: Debt Reckoning"
Blowback Productions, "CIA: America's Secret Warriors"
CBS News, "CBS Reports: Enter the Jury Room"
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" on Public Radio International
NBC News and Scripps Howard News Productions, "Why Can't We Live Together?"
Public Broadcasting Service, "An American Nile"
WABC-TV, New York, "Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis"
Wisconsin Public Television, "Welcome to Poverty Hollow"
Gold Baton
1997
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," "60 Minutes: Too Good to be True"
SILVER BATON KREM-TV, Spokane, Washington, "The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring"
SILVER BATON NBC News, "Dateline: Class Photo"
SILVER BATON Norman Corwin and Mary Beth Kirchner for "Fifty Years After 14 August" on NPR
SILVER BATON NOVA/WGBH-TV, "NOVA: Plague Fighters" 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"
SILVER BATON Radio Smithsonian for "Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was" on PRI
SILVER BATON WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, For investigate reporting
SILVER BATON WGBH, Frontline, "Shtetl" on PBS
1996
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
Brian Lapping Associates, London, United Kingdom, "Watergate" on The Discovery Channel
PBS, "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; FDR; and The Way West"
PBS, "When Billy Broke His Head...and Other Tales of Wonder"
WMAL-AM, Washington, D.C., for "American History -- The Disney Version"
WTVJ-TV and Kerry Sanders, Miami, Florida, "Coverage of Haiti"
WXYZ-TV, Detroit, Michigan, "Target 7: Michigan's Secret Soldiers"
Gold Baton
Daniel Schorr, his career spans CBS News, CNN and NPR
1995
GOLD BATON ABC News, "World News Tonight: Coverage of Haiti by Linda Pattillo," "American Agenda: Women's Health Week," "Day One: Smoke Screen," "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, "60 Minutes: Semipalatinsk"
SILVER BATON Charles Kuralt, for reporting on CBS News, "Sunday Morning"
SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of the Moscow Uprising
SILVER BATON Michael Skoler and NPR for coverage of Rwanda
SILVER BATON NPR for coverage of South Africa
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"
SILVER BATON WGBH, "Frontline: Innocence Lost: The Verdict" on PBS
SILVER BATON Wisconsin Pubic Television, "My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story"on PBS
SILVER BATON WTVS-TV, Detroit, Michigan "The Last Hit: Children and Violence"
1994
SILVER BATON ABC News, "20/20: The Gift of Life"
SILVER BATON CNN, Coverage of Bosnia
SILVER BATON ETC Films, Barbara Kopple, "Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson" on NBC
GOLD BATON Fred Friendly, winner for his lifetime contribution to the ethics and practice of journalism
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, "In the Shadow of the Wall"
SILVER BATON M.W. Productions, KQED "Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union"
SILVER BATON PBS, "Move Over: Women and the '92 Campaign"
SILVER BATON PBS, "The Pacific Century"
SILVER BATON WBAI/Pacifica Radio for "Massacre: The Story of East Timor"
SILVER BATON WBFF-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, "Justice on Trial/The Lost Generation/Walking Wounded"
SILVER BATON WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline," The Best Campaign Money Can Buy
SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, “Armed Enemies of Castro”
SILVER BATON WTVJ-TV, Miami, Florida The Coverage of Hurricane Andrew
1993
SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline" Coverage of the Los Angeles Riots
SILVER BATON Bill Leonard, former producer at CBS News and director of the duPont Awards
SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: Made in China"
SILVER BATON HBO, "Abortion: Desperate Choices" (America Undercover)
SILVER BATON KCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado, "Erin's Life"
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"
SILVER BATON Lucky Duck Productions and Nickelodeon, "Nick News: W/5"
GOLD BATON National Public Radio, "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition," "Weekend Edition," Coverage of Clarence Thomas Nomination Hearings, Coverage of the 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 WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Made in the USA?"
SILVER BATON WCVB-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Chronicle" and Environmental Reporting
SILVER BATON WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline: Who Killed Adam Mann?"
1992
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 National Public Radio for coverage of the Gulf War
SILVER BATON PBS, Friends of Le Chambon, Pierre Sauvage, "Weapons of the Spirit"
SILVER BATON PBS, Frontline: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
SILVER BATON WETA-TV and Florentine Films, Ken Burns, "The Civil War"
SILVER BATON WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, Coverage of the Gulf War
SILVER BATON WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "Frontline: Innocence Lost"
SILVER BATON WTBS-TV, National Geographic Society, "Explorer: The Urban Gorilla"
1991
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 Exit Films, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Near Death"
SILVER BATON Helen Borten and National Public Radio 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 Fransciso, California, Scott Pearson and Lewis Cohen, "Express: Shield for Abuse"
SILVER BATON NBC News, "NBC Nightly News: Tragedy at Pine Ridge"
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"
SILVER BATON WKYC-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, Dick Feagler for nightly commentaries
1990
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 Kentucky Educational Television, "On Our Own Land"
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"
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"
1989
SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline: In the Holy Land"
SILVER BATON CBS News, Coverage of the Persian Gulf by Alen Pizzey
GOLD BATON Gold Baton: CBS News, "60 Minutes"
SILVER BATON KING-TV, Seattle, Washington, "Looking for Lincoln"
SILVER BATON NBC News, "A Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev"
SILVER BATON Nina Totenberg and National Public Radio, Coverage of the Supreme Court Nominations
SILVER BATON WCAX-TV, Burlington, Vermont, "The Politics of Pollution"
SILVER BATON WCVB-TV, Needham, Massachusetts, "We the Jury"
SILVER BATON WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN, for investigative reporting by Erin Hayes
SILVER BATON WUSA-TV, Washington, D.C. "Thurgood Marshall: The Man"
SILVER BATON WWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey, "For the I-Team"
1988
SILVER BATON ABC News, "20/20: By His Father's Hand: The Zumwalkts"
GOLD BATON Blackside, Inc., Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
SILVER BATON CBS News, "48 Hours on Crack Street"
SILVER BATON Florence 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 WLAP Radio, Lexington, Kentucky, "Passing On the Secret of Sexual Abuse"
SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Florida: State of Neglect"
1987
SILVER BATON ABC News with Ted Koppel, "45/85"
GOLD BATON CBS News, "CBS Reports: The Vanishing Family--Crisis in Black America"
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 NBC Nightly News
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, 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: Community of Controversy"
1986
GOLD BATON ABC News, "Nightline: South Africa"
SILVER BATON Cable News Network and IMAGO, Ltd., "Iran: In the Name of God"
SILVER BATON CBS News, "CBS Evening News: Afghanistan: Operation Blackout"
SILVER BATON Desert West News, Tuscon, 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, Tuscon, Arizona, For outstanding reporting
SILVER BATON NBC News, "The Real 'Star Wars'--Defense in Space"
SILVER BATON WCAU-TV, 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"
1985
SILVER BATON ABC News, "Nightline"
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, "60 Minutes: Lenell Geter's in Jail"
SILVER BATON KOSU Radio, Stillwater, Oklahoma, "Selling the Public Spectrum"
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "Climate of Death"
SILVER BATON The Documentary Consortium and PBS “Frontline: Mind of a Murderer”
SILVER BATON WGBH-TV 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"
1984
SILVER BATON CBS News, "60 Minutes: 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"
SILVER BATON KRON-TV, San Francisco, California, "The War Within"
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"
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, Nashville, Tennessee, "Innocent Shame: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse"
SILVER BATON WTCN-TV, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Herpes is Forever"
1983
SILVER BATON ABC News, "Closeup: The Gene Merchants"
SILVER BATON ABC News, "Viewpoint"
SILVER BATON CBS News, "CBS Reports: People Like Us"
SILVER BATON Chester Panzer and WJLA-TV, Washington DC, For Air Florida crash coverage
SILVER BATON Dallas Townsend and CBS Radio, "World News Round-Up"
SILVER BATON Gannett Broadcasting Group, "Epidemic! Why Your Kid is On Drugs"
SILVER BATON KAIT-TV, Jonesboro, Arkansas, "The Economics of Water"
SILVER BATON KMTV-TV, Omaha, Nebraska, "McClelland Care Facility"
SILVER BATON KNXT-TV, Los Angeles, California, for Investigative Reporting
SILVER BATON KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, Utah, For Probe Five investigating reporting
SILVER BATON SPECIAL INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION AWARD: Robert Richter and WNET-TV New York, New York "For Export Only: Pesticides and Pills"
SILVER BATON WMAQ-TV, Chicago, Illinois, "All the King's Horses"
SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "Human Cargo"
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, "CBS REPORTS: The Defense of the United States"
SILVER BATON David Productions and ABC News, "CLOSEUP: Can't it Be Anyone Else?"
SILVER BATON KCTS-TV, Dr. Willard Gaylin, "Hard Choices"
SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown"
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 WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, "WORLD"
SILVER BATON WPLG-TV, Miami, Florida, "The Billion Dollar Ghetto"
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"
SILVER BATON National Public Radio, "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition"
SILVER BATON Perry Miller Adato and WNET-TV, New York, New York, "Picasso: A Painter's Diary"
SILVER BATON Red Cloud Productions and WGBY-TV, Springfield, Massachusetts, "Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story"
SILVER BATON Roger Mudd and CBS News, “CBS Reports: Teddy
SILVER BATON Rueven Frank and NBC News, "White Paper: 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 Accident Swindlers"
1980
ABC News, "Closeup: Arson: Fire for Hire!" 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" 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
WHA-TV, Madison, Catalyst Films and Wisconsin Educational Television Network, "An American Ism: Joe McCarthy"
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 and WQED-TV, 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 Crime 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
1978
Group W and Paul Wilkes, “Six American Families”
KCET-TV, Los Angeles, “28 Tonight,”
KGW-TV, Portland, “The Timber Farmers”
NBC News, “Human Rights: A Soviet-American Debate” and “NBC Reports: The Struggle for Freedom”
Walter Cronkite and the “CBS Evening News”
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”
1977
No Awards
1976
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 and Brian Ross, “Teamster Power”
WPLG, Miami and Clarence Jones, for crime reporting
1975
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”
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, “The Lord of the Universe”
WKY-TV, Oklahoma City and Bob Dotson, “Through the Looking Glass Darkly”
WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, “Public Bridges and Private Riches”
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”
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"
1973
Mike Wallace for outstanding reporting on CBS News "60 Minutes"
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, “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”
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, “White Paper: This Child is Rated X”
WABC-TV, Geraldo Rivera, “Drug Crisis in East Harlem”
1971
Kenneth A. Cox
CBS News, Ernest Leiser; Russ Bensley; John Laurence, “Charlie Company”
National Educational Television and Frederick 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”
1970
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 and Public Broadcast Laboratory, “Defense and Domestic Needs: The Contest for Tomorrow”
NBC News, “First Tuesday: CBW (Chemical-Biological Warfare): The Secrets of Secrecy”
WRKL Radio, Mount Ivy-New City, NY for outstanding coverage of the 1968 political campaigns
WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia “Investigation of Organized Crime”
1968
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No Awards
1967
No Awards
1966
No Awards
1965
Cecil Brown
KTWO-TV, Casper
WBBM-TV, Chicago
WCCO Radio, Minneapolis
WFMB-TV, Indianapolis
WHCU Radio
WRVR Radio, New York
1964
WFTV, Orlando
WRCV-TV, Philadelphia
1963
Louis M. Lyons
WFBM Radio, Indianapolis
SILVER BATON WJZ-TV, Baltimore
1962
Howard K. Smith
KVOA-TV, Tucson
WFMT Radio, Chicago
1961
Martin Agronsky
KING-TV, Seattle
KPFK Radio, Los Angeles
1960
Edward P. Morgan
KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh
WAVZ Radio, New Haven
1959
David Schoenbrun
KOLN-TV, Lincoln
WNTA-TV, Newark
1958
David Brinkley
KLZ-TV, Denver
WSNY Radio, Schenectady
1957
Clifton Utley
KARD-TV, Wichita
KRON-TV, San Francisco
1956
Chet Huntley
KNXT-TV, Los Angeles
WFMT Radio, Chicago
1955
Howard K. Smith
WICC Radio, Bridgeport
WTIC Radio, Hartford
1954
Eric Sevareid
KGAK Radio, Gallup
WHAS Radio, Louisville
1953
Pauline Frederick
WBZ Radio and WBZ-TV, Boston
WOI-TV, Ames, Iowa
1952
Gerald W. Johnson
WBNS-TV, Columbus
WMT Radio, Cedar Rapids
1951
Joseph C. Harsch
WCAU Radio and WCAU-TV, Philadelphia
WEEI Radio, Boston
1950
John Cameron Swayze
AVZ Radio, Hartford
WFIL-TV, Philadelphia
1949
Morgan Beatty
WNOX Radio, Knoxville
WPIX-TV, New York
WWJ Radio, Detroit
Special Program Award: American Broadcasting Company and Association
1948
Henry J. Taylor
KLZ Radio, Denver
WLS Radio, Chicago
1947
Edward R. Murrow
WBBM Radio, Chicago
WFIL Radio, Philadelphia
1946
Elmer Davis
WHO Radio, Des Moines
WFIL Radio, Philadelphia
1945
Lowell Thomas
KDKA Radio, Pittsburgh
WNAX Radio, Yankton
1944
H.V. Kaltenborn
WJR Radio, Detroit
WTAG Radio, Worcester
1943
Raymond Gram Swing
WLW Radio, Cincinnati
WMAZ Radio, Macon
1942
Fulton Lewis Jr.
KGEI Radio, San Francisco
Staff and Jury
STAFF
Lisa R. Cohen
Director, duPont Awards/Professional Prizes; Adjunct Associate Professor
212-854-7696
[email protected]
Abi Wright
Executive Director, Professional Prizes
212-854-5048
[email protected]
Max Pearl
Program Administrator
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STUDENT FELLOWS
Jaden Edison, CJS '22
Emily Russell, CJS '22
Evan Solis, CJS '22
JURORS
Mark Whitaker, Author, Contributing Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning, Former Executive, CNN Worldwide; NBC News; Newsweek, Jury Chair
Nina Alvarez, CBS Asst Professor, International Journalism/Director of Global Journalism, Columbia Journalism School.
David Bauder, National Media Writer, Associated Press
Andy Bowers, Former Correspondent NPR; Executive, Slate; Co-Founder Panoply Media
Ann Cooper, Professor Emerita Columbia Journalism School; Correspondent NPR
Lee Kamlet, Former Dean Quinnipiac University; Former Producer ABC News/NBC News
Shelagh Leahy, Former Executive WGBH; MSNBC; CNN.
Geraldine Moriba, SVP, The Grio; Former Executive CNN, NBC; Documentary Filmmaker
Pam Hogan, Documentary Filmmaker, Former Executive, PBS
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