The duPont-Columbia Awards bring the best in broadcast and digital journalism to professional and public attention and honor those who produce it. The duPont Awards engender a collective spirit for the industry and inform the public of the contributions news organizations make to their communities and to the world. The awards program also supports journalism education and hosts events about reporting the news today.
Winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards receive gold or silver batons designed by the late American architect Louis I. Kahn.
The duPont Awards honor outstanding journalism in the public service at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Mission: The purpose of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards is to bring the best in broadcast and digital journalism to professional and public attention and to honor those who produce it.
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.
Look at those smiling faces! Director Lynn Novick & Producer Sarah Botstein were the female powerhouses behind the creation of the tour de force that is WETA The Vietnam War PBS. Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to both of you!
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 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.
Not one, not two, not three or even four, but FIVE women up on stage accepting #dupont2019 awards for This is Home, I AM EVIDENCE and RBG! That’s what we like to see. Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to the all-women teams out there getting it done.
What better way to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth than with #progress? HBO's #2019duPont winning doc "I AM EVIDENCE" is working to #ENDTHEBACKLOG of untested rape kits. The New York Times reports 64 attackers were convicted after city law enforcement tested their kits. “Having my kit finally tested was a catalyst for hope," said Maisha Sudbeck.
Three years ago, the Manhattan district attorney’s office donated $38 million to clear the backlog of untested rape kits around the country.
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
For those journalists looking to report on sensitive issues like rape and abuse, but don’t quite know where to start, our latest episode of #OnAssignmentPodcast is well worth a listen. Hear HBO “I Am Evidence” doc directors Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir talk to duPont Awards Director Lisa Cohen about the critical lessons they learned while asking sexual violence survivors to share their stories — like doing your homework ahead of time; and asking the right questions the right way. "Help me understand..." started most of them.
"I Am Evidence," produced by Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Mariska Hargitay, won a 2019 Alfred I. duPont Awards for its intimate storytelling and investigative reporting, a notable award in the #MeToo era. Since the film premiered last April, twelve states have put forward legislation to count, track and test rape kits.
So be sure to listen. And watch the film on HBOGO or HBO Now. Yeah, we’re not sure the difference either.#duPont2019
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2019 duPont-winning Directors Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir interviewed 14 eloquent, emotional rape survivors for “I Am Evidence,” but only four women’s stories made it into the film. Tune in to this episode to hear about the painstaking choices they had to make as they navigated finding, s...
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.
We are mourning the passing this weekend of longtime NBC News Producer Marc Kusnetz, a past duPont winner and Columbia University in the City of New York Class of '66/Columbia Journalism School Class of '67. He spent twenty-six years at NBC News as senior producer, foreign news producer, field producer, and writer. His exacting standards and critical analysis made him a standout duPont screener for many years as well. He will be missed.
There are so many living legends (and #dupontaward winners) to honor this year for #blackhistorymonth. Check out Columbia Journalism Schoolon Instagram to see some of our inspiring winners from last year alone.
A sneak peak: Here's Bryant Gumbel, who accepted his baton for “The Lords of the Rings,” about human rights violations during the Rio Olympics, which won Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel its 4th duPont award.
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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
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
2019 duPont winners - RBG's Betsy West and Julie Cohen went to lunch this week. The #Oscars lunch. Listen to how they made their duPont winning, Oscar nominated film at #OnAssignmentPodcast https://bit.ly/2Atrjw8
“I took a journalism class and the professor had us read a The New Yorker article that had the journalist’s subjective experience in there. She was using it as an example of why this is bad or wrong. And I remember disagreeing with it.”
Hundreds of amateur skateboarding videos, six years of production and 252 shoot days later, first-time director Bing Liu has held tight to his first instincts: making a Sundance Film Festival premiered, #Oscars nominated film, where he was a main character.
Minding The Gap is a documentary about skateboarders. And so much more. We talked to Liu at a recent #filmfridays about the unique way he chose to tell a story of child abuse and domestic violence—and in doing so, how he told his own story.
Tune in to our latest On Assignment Podcast for the full episode of our edited conversation. bit.ly/2DJ1HwT
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Director Bing Liu started making “Minding the Gap,” when he was 23-years-old. Now, six years later, he’s premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and snagged himself an Oscar nomination. As the countdown to the Academy Awards begins, get a behind the scenes look at how Liu made the film, plus h...
Emotional, informative I AM EVIDENCE screening with Directors. Pro Tips: have one of the survivors in your film help write the sensitive interview questions for the others. Start tough questions this way: "Help us understand..." #cjsFridays #duPont2019 iamevidencemov
More on Roger Stone backstory from #GetMeRogerStone Directors Morgan Pehme, Dylan Bank, and Dan DiMauro in last year's #OnAssignmentPodcast. https://bit.ly/2CHTAyY
"We always knew he was an absolutely deplorable person who had done horrible things to our nation. That being said, we wanted to really understand him."
Watch the 2019 Alfred I. duPont Awards at https://vimeo.com/313448040 CONGRATS to all the winners!
CONGRATULATIONS to 2019 Alfred I. duPont Awards winners Betsy West Julie Cohen Amy Entelis and the gang at RBG for their OSCAR NOM this am!! Watch them here and listen to them in our podcast https: //bit.ly/2RFXuCM
Excited to honor you tonight at duPont. #dupont2019
“RBG” Directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West plus Executive Producer Amy Entelis talk the power of optimism, the challenging rules for filming in the Supreme Court, and how RBG herself reacted to seeing the film for the first time in front of a sold out audience at Sundance.
The duPont-Columbia Awards has lost a friend, colleague, past winner, and longtime screener. Sylvia Chase will be missed for her integrity, tenacity, journalism chops, grace, and so much more. RIP https://nyti.ms/2Rj47eb
Ms. Chase was at the forefront of a generation of women who took themselves seriously and demanded that the industry and viewers did, too.
Look what just arrived! Two weeks and counting #duPont2019
“I was always torn between whether I wanted to be a historian or a journalist but ultimately decided journalists get to write history as it's happening. Journalists write for the masses; historians largely write for other history nerds.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine just won Columbia Journalism School's 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Reporting.
In our latest #OnAssignmentPodcast, she talks with NBC News Lester Holt to Columbia Journalism School students about what objectivity REALLY means, covering race, and the complexities many journalists miss.
Tune in for the full episode of their edited conversation. bit.ly/2R4mOlv #ChancellorAward
NYT Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones talks to NBC News anchor Lester Holt about the work that garnered her a 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Reporting.
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Congratulations to the 2019 duPont-Columbia winners! We'll celebrate them all at the Jan 22 ceremony. #duPont2019
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Alfred I. duPont Awards! Each are exemplary pieces of broadcast and digital journalism in the public service; one, in particular, is "notorious."
“I've worked on many projects of sensitive material and I've never encountered an environment as hermetic as Fox. I've never had more people start conversations by asking, ‘are you recording this conversation?’"
In our latest podcast Jigsaw Productions Producer Will Cohen talks to Columbia Journalism School Prizes Exec Director Abi Wright about how challenging it was to find sources for the new film “Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes.” #OnAssignmentPodcast
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Roger Ailes founded Fox News, kicked off #MeToo, and helped elect Donald Trump. “It was about using Roger's story to try to make sense of where we were as a country...it gave us a point of entry to a difficult, complicated, national moment,” says Producer Will Cohen. In this episode of On Assign...
Our 2017 Alfred I. duPont Awards winner Michigan Radio's Lindsey Smith is at it again - important reporting on a tough subject, Larry Nassar's heinous crimes. https://believed.michiganradio.org/
Believed. A new podcast from Michigan Radio and NPR.
This image from 2018 duPont winner NBC Bay Area & reporter Bigad Shaban's "Arrested at School" was heartbreaking. Today perhaps some healing:
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On Thursday, a sheriff’s office in Kentucky has agreed to pay more than $337,000 for the painful and unconstitutional handcuffing of elementary school students with disabilities. The two plaintiffs, both of whom were children of color and both of whom have disabilities, were so small that the depu...
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
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“It was against the law for a black person and a white person to play checkers together in Birmingham. You could go to jail if you were caught. So it was so much more than just water fountains and restrooms.” Listen to acclaimed author of Lukas Prize winner "The Warmth of Other Suns" Isabel Wilkerson from her conversation last semester with Dean Steve Coll. They talk craft - why it took 15 years and 1200 interviews; looking for great sources - they should have a sense of humor when you're talking about tough subjects; and how relevant the book is today. Check out the latest On Assignment podcast!
When you spend 15 years on a story, you tend to get so close to your sources, they sometimes get jealous: “They felt as if I was in some ways cheating on them by talking with other people.” Lukas Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson talks about how to navigate source relationships in her immers...
Check out our latest On Assignment podcast - ABC15 Arizona's #duPont2018 winner Dave Biscobing - Investigative Reporter tells about the colorful "advocacy group" who was really "advocating" for its own bank account, and how relentless reporting (the kind that made one duPont juror compare Dave to the Energizer Bunny) exposed them. http://onassignmentpodcast.com/
The On Assignment podcast brings you some of the best conversations from the Columbia Journalism School , produced and hosted by the school's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards .
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
#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 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!
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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!
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
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
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!
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
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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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
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
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
#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 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!
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!
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
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
"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
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.
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
Submissions are now open for the 2018 duPont Awards. Enter your best reporting by July 1. www.duPont.org #duPont2018
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
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won a duPont this year for her film "A Girl in the River," about Saba, a young woman in Pakistan who survives an attempted honor killing. For #WomensHistoryMonth, we're honoring her work and all the women journalists who have passed on the duPont baton over the years.
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
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 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.
"Krill don't matter to us—directly." NOVA l PBS's Chris Schmidt explains why, nevertheless, science reporting does matter to us directly. NOVA's "Mystery Beneath the Ice" won a duPont Award this year for "Mystery Beneath the Ice" More details about the film here: http://bit.ly/2gO0U3Z
ICYMI, O.J.: Made in America won for best documentary at the #Oscars last night! Here's director Ezra Edelman accepting a #duPont Award for the film earlier this year. Watch his full speech here: http://bit.ly/2g3ftjr
"Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants" examines the effects of a 1996 deportation law, which vastly expanded the range of "deportable offenses" to minor infractions, like shoplifting, and wreaked havoc on thousands of immigrant families in the US. Produced by Crowing Rooster Arts, it won a #duPont in 2001.
We had three outstanding radio/audio wins at this year's duPont Awards. Michigan Radio was one of them, rewarded for their coverage of the #Flint water crisis in "Not Safe To Drink." Listen to it here: buff.ly/2l0JWyk
For #WorldRadioDay, we're listening to This American Life's "Harper High School" Parts I and II. The story won a duPont in 2014. Listen to the full episodes here: http://bit.ly/2hluc9p
"Lot of folks told me I would get killed... Dying ain't the worst thing a man can do. The worst thing a man can do is live for nothing." —James Armstrong, Civil Rights foot soldier, otherwise known as the Barber of Birmingham. Revisit POV's documentary, "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" for #BlackHistoryMonth. The short film won a duPont Award in 2014.
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