Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast journalism. The awards, administered since 1968 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, are considered a broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, another program administered by Columbia University.^[1]

The duPont-Columbia Award was established in 1942 by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband Alfred I. du Pont. It is the most prestigious journalism-only award for radio and TV, and along with the George Foster Peabody Awards ranks among the most prestigious awards programs in all electronic media. (The Peabodys also cover cultural programming as well as journalism.)

The duPont-Columbia jury select 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. Every once in a while, the Jury finds a super winner, like ABC News for so many great programs in a single year, a golden baton could be given. That hasn't happened for a few years. There's no obligation for the jury to give a gold one.

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.

1 Award winners
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Award winners

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[edit] 2008

The thirteen awards for 2008 were announced on December 17, 2007, and presented on January 16, 2008.^[2]

CBS News, for 60 Minutes

WBBM-TV, for Fly At Your Own Risk
WFAA-TV, for Television Justice

[edit] 2007^[1]

AMERICAN MASTERS and WNET, New York, for Bob Dylan: No Direction Home on PBS
Brook Lapping Productions, London, for Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace on PBS
WGBH's Cape and Islands NPR Stations for Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Discovery Times Channel, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The New York Times for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?
FRONTLINE and WGBH, Boston,for The Age of AIDS on PBS
HBO, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neillfor Baghdad ER
ITVS, Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth for INDEPENDENT LENS: Seoul Train on PBS
NBC Nightly News and Dateline for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
KCET, Los Angeles, KPBS, San Diego, KQED, San Francisco, KVIE, Sacramento, for California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D
NPR for Coverage of Iraq
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, for Dirty Secret
WLOX-TV, Biloxi, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
WRAL-TV, Raleigh, for Focal Point: Paper Thin Promise and Standards of Living
WWL-TV, New Orleans, for Coverage of Hurricane Katrina