| Recipient[1] |
Area of Excellence |
| FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television |
Justified |
| Thirteen for WNET.org, Illuminations Television Ltd. |
Great Performances: Macbeth |
| CNN |
Coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill |
| WNYC |
Radiolab |
| Playtone, Dreamworks Productions, HBO |
The Pacific |
| Hartswood Films, BBC Cymru Wales, Masterpiece |
Sherlock, for the episode "A Study in Pink" |
| WGCU Public Media/Fort Myers, FL |
Lucia's Letter, a documentary about young women enslaved as drug smugglers |
| Thirteen's American Masters, Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, Dakota Group |
LennoNYC |
| Magic Hour Films, WG Film, Mediamente, Kamoli Films, Danish Film Institute, DR TV, HBO |
Burma VJ |
| TNT |
Men of a Certain Age |
| WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX |
"Bitter Lessons," an investigation into government-funded career schools |
| Youth Radio, NPR, Huffington Post |
All Things Considered, for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation" |
| Rezolution Pictures, National Film Board of Canada, CBS News Network, ARTE Germany, Documentary Channel Canada, Radio Canada, ARTV, Knowledge Network, APTN, AVRO, ITVS |
Independent Lens, for Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian |
| Launch Minneapolis, American Public Media |
The Promised Land with host Majora Carter |
| HBO Sports |
Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals |
| NPR |
Coverage of military conflict, flooding, and social issues in Pakistan |
| Science Channel, BBC |
Wonders of the Solar System with Brian Cox |
| NPR |
Investigation into low levels of consequence faced by perpetrators of campus rapes |
| TeenNick, Ncredible productions |
Degrassi: The Next Generation, for the episode "My Body Is a Cage" |
| C-SPAN |
C-SPAN Video Library |
| American Experience |
My Lai |
| The Moth, Public Radio Exchange, Atlantic Public Media |
The Moth Radio Hour |
| Mentorn, Antony Thomas Productions, HBO |
For Neda |
| NPR |
"Behind the Bail Bond System," an investigation airing on All Things Considered and Morning Edition |
| Loki Films, HBO |
12th & Delaware |
| Sikelia Productions, Far Hills Pictures, American Masters |
Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia |
| 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, HBO |
If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise |
| True Vision |
Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children |
| Art21, Inc. |
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible |
| ESPN |
30 for 30 |
| American Documentary, POV, ITVS |
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers |
| Phoenix Satellite Television |
"Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China" |
| WTHR/Indianapolis, IN |
"Reality Check: Where Are the Jobs?" an investigation into job creation claims by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation |
| Ruby Films, Gerson Saines Productions, HBO Films |
Temple Grandin |
| Jay Rosenstein Productions (for WILL-TV/Urbana, IL) |
The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today |
| washingtonpost.com |
"The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person" |
| KSTP-TV/Saint Paul, MN |
"Who Killed Doc?" an investigation into how a Minnesota sailor's death in Iraq was ill-explained |
| Frontline, Mongoose Pictures |
The Wounded Platoon |
| Scott Free Productions, King Size Productions, Small Wishes, CBS Productions |
The Good Wife |