Announcing the 2020 duPont-Columbia Winners
Congratulations to this year's inspiring winners! See Columbia Journalism School's page at http://bit.ly/duPont2020Announcement for more info and the full list. #duPont2020 #ColumbiaJourn
The Rachel Maddow Show “Bag Man”
Michigan Radio “Believed”
APM Reports for In the Dark’s Supreme Court coverage
FRONTLINE | PBS for “The Facebook Dilemma” and “Documenting Hate”
Netflix “The Bleeding Edge”
PBS for “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War”
POV for “The Apology” and “Dark Money”
PBS NewsHour for reporting from inside Yemen
60 Minutes for reporting on family separation at the US/Mexico border
CNN for coverage of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
KARE 11 for investigating veterans affairs and their original documentary Love Them First
WSOC-TV for coverage of election tampering in North Carolina
7 Eyewitness News WKBW for their investigation into sexual abuse in the Buffalo diocese for their investigation into sexual abuse in the Buffalo diocese
Katie Couric on that Sarah Palin interview.
Only two more days until the 2020 duPont-Columbia announce at www.duPont.org In the meantime, enjoy Katie Couric's words of wisdom. #duPont2020
2019 duPont-Columbia winner on his motivation to always do better.
“You have to do better”is the mantra that keeps #dupont2019 winner CBS Miami’s Jim DeFede going during the toughest times in journalism. Check out his emotional moment onstage and the origin story of his credo - it has a twist - and then enter your best reporting for #duPont2020 at www.duPont.org The deadline is coming up July 1!
Betsy West on the how to meet the challenges journalists face
RBG director and #dupont2019 award winner Betsy West isn’t fazed by the challenges journalists face. “I just like finding out the truth.” Find out what drives her and submit your best work that exposes the truth at (link: http://www.dupont.org) dupont.org by Jul 1. #duPont2020
Enter the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards. Deadline Jul 1
We are now open for submissions for #duPont2020. Deadline Jul 1. See duPont.org for info and to enter. Watch and be inspired to enter your best work from Jul 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019.
Raney Aronson-Rath, our final shout out to Women's History Month
FRONTLINE PBS was our final honoree at this year’s #duPont2019, winning a coveted Gold Baton, the first one awarded in a decade. Cited as both a standard bearer and innovator, the program is led by the inimitable Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath, who caps off our #WomensHistoryMonth shout outs. #WomenForTheWin!
LESLEY STAHL ON TODAY'S MEDIA SALAD
CBS News' 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl started her mega-career reporting #Watergate. At Columbia Journalism School's #duPont2019 awards, she told the crowd what’s different today. Hint: It involves media salad with a dash of cayenne pepper.
Listen to her sobering yet rousing words in the final week of #WomensHistoryMonth .
DUPONT 2019 HOST AILSA CHANG ON INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
For #WomensHistoryMonth we are spotlighting our two talented #duPont2019 hosts. Here NPRs Ailsa Chang, a Columbia Journalism School grad and duPont 2012 winner herself, paints a vivid picture of why investigative reporting is so very very exhausting and hard. And so very very important.
Women's History Month: duPont Awards celebrate NBC Bay Area's Vicky Nguyen
For #WomensHistoryMonth we continue celebrating: #duPont2019 winner NBC Bay Area's Vicky Nguyen's original reporting showed on-camera proof of a rise in violence against local bus drivers. Graphic images to follow. And after the report aired - changes followed too. #impact
CNN's Nima Elbagir's 2019 duPont-Columbia Award winning reporting on Human Rights Abuses.
CNN Nima Elbagir is a Columbia Journalism School #duPont2019 winner for reporting on Human Rights Abuses, including from a Libyan slave auction. We're highlighting her work for #WomensHistoryMonth. Watch as she explains in starkly human terms why the watchdogging is so important.
Women's History Month: Women Win Big - duPont Awards 2019
For #WomensHistoryMonth we'll be featuring the record number of women who were honored this #duPont2019 Columbia Journalism School. Let's let our 2019 ceremony host Lesley Stahl explain. Congrats to all
Ezra Edelman accepts 2017 duPont award for OJ: Made in America
Looking back on Ezra Edelman's #dupont2017 award speech this #BlackHistoryMonth. A good reminder for journalists to do better, then & now. His series, O.J.: Made in America, succeeds where news of the day failed: showing how race, celebrity & sports intertwined in the OJ Simpson trial.
Michele Norris' 2010 duPont Award's Speech
Nearly a decade later and everything Michele Norris said in her 2010 #duPont Awards speech for NPR's “The York Project” still rings true.
“Journalists play a very important role in the national conversation on race. We can lead that conversation, we can stoke that conversation. We can shut it down. If anything I hope these series of conversations taught us that race and controversy do not always have to occupy the same branch.” #BlackHistoryMonth
Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen plus Exec Producer Amy Entelis talk about RBG documentary
Watch Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West plus CNN's Amy Entelis dish on what it was like to watch Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aka #notoriousRBG, watch their film RBG for the first time...at the Sundance Film Festival. Then listen to the whole conversation in this week’s new podcast episode of #OnAssignmentpodcast. bit.ly/2Atrjw8
Michael Barbaro advice to young journalists
The duPont 2019 deadline has passed. NEED AN EXTENSION? CONTACT US AT [email protected] - then watch #duPont2018 winner, The New York Times Michael Barbaro tell us the most embarassing mistake he ever made. And why that was good for his career. #duPont2019
Zoe Chace advice to young journos
#duPont2018 winner Zoe Chace of This American Life believes teamwork makes the dream work. Have you and your team submitted your best work? Head over to dupont.org SOON to enter before end of the week deadline: July 1! #duPont2019
ABC News Producer Jeanmarie Condon advice for young journos
ABC News Producer Jeanmarie Condon joined her Director, John Ridley, to accept a #duPont2018 baton, then offered some heartwarming advice for new journalists - watch then submit your best work to dupont.org - the July 1 deadline approaches for #duPont2019!
Director/Screenwriter John Ridley advice to young journos
Watch #Oscar & #duPont winner John Ridley’s advice for budding journalists. Then don’t miss the JUL 1 DEADLINE to submit your best reporting for a #duPont2019 baton - visit dupont.org to enter!
Gayle King advice for young journos
The amazing Gayle King of CBS This Morning hosted #duPont2018 this year, and she has some short, sweet, and powerful advice for young journalists. Take a look, then enter your best work at www.dupont.org. DEADLINE Jul 1. #duPont2019
The amazing Gayle King of CBS This Morning hosted #duPont2018 this year, and she has some short, sweet, and powerful advice for young journalists. Take a look, then enter your best work at www.dupont.org. DEADLINE Jul 1. #duPont2019
Bigad Shaban advice for young journalists
We asked #duPont2018 winner @NBC Bay Area Bigad Shaban for his advice to young journalists. Enter your best work at www.dupont.org. DEADLINE Jul 1. #duPont2019
Raney Aronson advice to young journos
Watch the advice Raney Aronson at FRONTLINE has for doing your best work. Hint: the last one’s her personal credo. Then submit YOUR best work for #duPont2019 at www.dupont.org before July 1!
Bryant Gumbel advice to young journos at 2018 duPont ceremony
When Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’s #legend Bryant Gumbel won #duPont2018, he told us what young journalists need to succeed. Check it out, then enter your best work at www.dupont.org. DEADLINE Jul 1 for #duPont2019
Nina Alvarez with advice to young journos
Take it from 2018 duPont winner Nina Alvarez - challenging the narrative pays off. Challenge yourself and enter your best reporting at dupont.org by July 1!
Ira Glass advice to young journos.
Advice to young journalists? We asked award-winning veterans at this year’s @duPontColumbiaAwards. Listen to Ira Glass of This American Life. Then enter your best work at www.dupont.org. DEADLINE Jul 1.
A Refugee Family Decides Who Saves Who
Hear from Director James Bluemel—and Filmmaker Hassan Akkad, who was one of the refugees who documented his escape from Syria.
We're screening their FRONTLINE film tonight at 6:30PM at the Columbia Journalism School. The documentary is a 2018 duPont-Columbia Award winner.
On A Sinking Dinghy in the Mediterranean
Join us for a screening of "Exodus," followed by a conversation with director James Bluemel and filmmaker Hassan Akkad—the man swimming in this video and then seen filming himself.
Akkad documented his escape from Syria and the perils he and fellow refugees faced coming to Europe.
The film has won a 2018 duPont-Columbia Award.
Thursday, January 18th at 6:30PM in the Columbia Journalism Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
Behind the Scenes with Reveal and CodaStory
"I noticed a gun on the table next to him. I was holding the recorder in my hand and the shot of adrenaline just fired down my arm. "
— Amy McKinnon, Reporter and Senior Editor, Coda Story.
Coda Story, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX won a duPont-Columbia Award for their episode "Russia's New Scapegoats."
Go behind the scenes with some of the winners of this year's duPont-Columbia Awards: http://bit.ly/2EA326R
Gayle King and Jake Tapper to Host 2018 duPont-Columbia Awards
The duPont-Columbia Awards Ceremony is just two weeks away! Catch our livestream of the event January 16th, 2018, at 8:00PM EST. Join us on Facebook to watch, or on our website at www.duPont.org.
Announcing the 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2018 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. See the full list of the best broadcast, documentary and online reporting of the year here: http://bit.ly/2B8CjAP
2018 duPont Awards: Call for Entries
Submissions are now open for the 2018 duPont Awards. Enter your best reporting by July 1. www.duPont.org #duPont2018
NOVA PBS: "Mystery Beneath the Ice" | 2017 duPont-Columbia Winner
In honor of #EarthDay, here's duPont winner Chris Schmidt on why science reporting matters. Watch more of the NOVA l PBS documentary here: http://bit.ly/2p7Fody
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Raney Aronson-Rath
"I'm trying to inspire younger people to say, this is what you should do with your life. Because if we don't do it, nobody does." Raney Aronson-Rath, Executive Producer at PBS Frontline, accepted two duPont awards on behalf of the Frontline team this year for the films "Escaping ISIS" and "Children of Syria."
For #WomensHistoryMonth, we've been honoring the duPont winners who continue to pave the way for women journalists. Thank you to all the women who make the news.
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Lindsey Smith
"It was the residents who really drove the media and the scientists to the point where no one could ignore it anymore," said Michigan Radio reporter Lindsey Smith, on covering the #Flint Water Crisis.
For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring all the women passing the duPont baton on to future generations of journalists.
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Christiane Aman...
"You just have to take a breath, resist, and fight back. Because this isn't 1984. This is 2017."
CNN's Christiane Amanpour, anchor of CNN International's "Amanpour" spoke about being a journalist in the age of alternative facts and fake news at the duPont ceremony earlier this year. For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring the women passing the duPont baton on to future generations of journalists.
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Mariana Van Zeller
"When Mariana Van Zeller says 'We have to do a story on Fentanyl,' you do a story on Fentanyl." — Keith Summa, SVP Content and Programming at Fusion.
For #WomenHistoryMonth, we're honoring the women passing the duPont baton along to future generations of journalists.
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Holly Williams
"It's inspiring for us when we're in the field to know that you care about these stories," says Holly Williams, speaking about the hunger for foreign reporting at CBS News.
Holly Williams won a duPont this year for CBS's coverage of Europe's migrant crisis. For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring her work and all the women journalists who have passed on the duPont baton over the years.
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Kate Snow
Kate Snow won a duPont this year for Dateline NBC's special feature on the Bill Cosby accusers, "27 Women." For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring the women passing the duPont baton on to future generations of journalists.
#duPont75
duPont-Columbia Awards Women's History Month | Beth Murphy
Beth Murphy won a duPont this year for The GroundTruth Project's multiplatform documentary about the Zabuli Education Center, a girl's school in Afghanistan.
For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring her work and all the women journalists who have passed on the duPont baton over the years.
#duPont75
Michigan Radio: "Not Safe to Drink" | 2017 duPont Columbia Awa...
Michigan Radio has won a Scripps Howard Foundation Award for Radio In-Depth Coverage of the #Flint water crisis.
The team also won a duPont for their coverage earlier this year—and dedicated their award to the people of Flint.
The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards honor excellence in broadcast & digital journalism. Administered by Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, the duPont Awards are one of the most prestigious broadcast awards. 
