Award winners

duPont Award

1942

• Fulton Lewis Jr.

• KGEI Radio, San Francisco

1943

• Raymond Gram Swing

• WLW Radio, Cincinnati

• WMAZ Radio, Macon, Georgia

1944

• H. V. Kaltenborn

• WJR Radio, Detroit

• WTAG Radio, Worcester, Massachusetts

1945

• Lowell Thomas

• KDKA Radio, Pittsburgh

• WNAX Radio, Yankton, South Dakota

1946

• Elmer Davis

• WHO Radio, Des Moines, Iowa

• WFIL Radio, Philadelphia

1947

• Edward R. Murrow

• WBBM Radio, Chicago

• WFIL Radio, Philadelphia

1948

• Henry J. Taylor

• KLZ Radio, Denver

• WLS Radio, Chicago

1949

• Morgan Beatty

• WNOX Radio, Knoxville, Tennessee

• WPIX-TV, New York

• WWJ Radio, Detroit

• Special Program Award—American Broadcasting Company and Association

1950

• John Cameron Swayze

• AVZ Radio, Hartford, Connecticut

• WFIL-TV, Philadelphia

1951

• Joseph C. Harsch

• WCAU Radio and WCAU-TV, Philadelphia

• WEEI Radio, Boston

1952

• Gerald W. Johnson

• WBNS-TV, Columbus, Ohio

• WMT Radio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1953

• Pauline Frederick^[4]

• WBZ Radio and WBZ-TV, Boston

• WOI-TV, Ames, Iowa

1954

• Eric Sevareid

• KGAK Radio, Gallup, New Mexico

• WHAS Radio, Louisville, Kentucky

1955

• Howard K. Smith

• WICC Radio, Bridgeport, Connecticut

• WTIC Radio, Hartford, Connecticut

1956

• Chet Huntley

• KNXT-TV, Los Angeles

• WFMT Radio, Chicago

1957

• Clifton Utley

• KARD-TV, Wichita, Kansas

• KRON-TV, San Francisco

1958

• David Brinkley

• KLZ-TV, Denver

• WSNY Radio, Schenectady

1959

• David Schoenbrun

• KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Nebraska

• WNTA-TV, Newark, New Jersey

1960

• Edward P. Morgan

• KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh

• WAVZ Radio, New Haven, Connecticut

1961

• Martin Agronsky

• KING-TV, Seattle

• KPFK Radio, Los Angeles

1962

• Howard K. Smith

• KVOA-TV, Tucson, Arizona

• WFMT Radio, Chicago

1963

• Louis M. Lyons

• WFBM Radio, Indianapolis, Indiana

• Silver Baton—WJZ-TV, Baltimore

1964

• WFTV, Orlando, Florida

• WRCV-TV, Philadelphia

1965

• Cecil Brown

• KTWO-TV, Casper, Wyoming

• WBBM-TV, Chicago

• WCCO Radio, Minneapolis

• WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, Indiana

• WHCU Radio, Ithaca, New York

• WRVR Radio, New York

duPont–Columbia Award

1969–70

• John Laurence and CBS Evening News for report on "Charlie Company."

• 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"

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” (a segment of NBC Reports)

• 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"

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” (an NBC White Paper)

• 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, “Lord of the Universe”

• WKY-TV, Oklahoma City and Bob Dotson, “Through the Looking Glass Darkly” (parts one ^[21] , two ^[22] , and three ^[23] )

• WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, “Public Bridges and Private Riches”

1978

• The Police Tapes

1982

• The Day After Trinity

1985

• Vietnam: A Television History

1986

• Callie Crossley

1987

• George Rochberg

• John Laurence and Ene Riisna, 20/20, "By His Father's Hand, the Zumwalts."

1988

• Eyes on the Prize

• Huey Long

1989

• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth

1990

• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

1991

• Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads

• Who Killed Vincent Chin?

1992

• The Civil War

1994

• ETC Films for Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson on NBC

• PBS, The Pacific Century

• Deborah Weiner ^[24] and WBFF TV for a three part series on inner city violence: "Justice on Trial: The Lost Generation", "Finding the Lost Generation" and "The Walking Wounded."

1995

• National Public Radio for coverage of South Africa

• Michael Skoler and NPR for coverage of Rwanda

• CNN for coverage of the Moscow Uprising

• Charles Kuralt for reporting on CBS News, "Sunday Morning"

• Video Verite for I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School on HBO

• Wisconsin Public Television for "My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story" on PBS

1996

• Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

• Watergate

1997

• Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation

• America Undercover: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell and The Celluloid Closet

• Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

1998

• Richard Schlesinger for CBS Reports: "Enter the Jury Room"^[5]

• Cadillac Desert: An American Nile

• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

1999

• Documentary Filmmaker Tony Buba ^[25] (Producer) and Raymond Henderson ^[26] (Co-Producer) for Documentary "Struggles in Steel"

2001

• Cry Freetown^[6]

• New York: A Documentary Film

2005

• ABC NEWS and PJ PRODUCTIONS for Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness

• PBS FRONTLINE and WGBH-TV for Ghosts of Rwandaon PBS

• ABC NEWS and PRIMETIME THURSDAY for The Nuclear Smuggling Project

• DAVID APPLEBY and THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS for Hoxie: The First Stand on PBS

• FRONTLINE and WGBH-TV for Truth, War and Consequences on PBS

• MSNBC and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ULTIMATE EXPLORER for Liberia: American Dream?

• HBO/CINEMAX REEL LIFE, VICTORIA BRUCE and KARIN HAYES for The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt

• LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING for Louisiana: Currents of Change

• NBC NEWS and DATELINE for A Pattern of Suspicion

• NPR and RADIO DIARIES for Mandela: An Audio History

• WFAA-TV, DALLAS for State of Denial

• WBAP-AM, DALLAS for JFK 40

• WCNC-TV, CHARLOTTE for Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation

• WFTS-TV, Crosstown Expressway Investigation, Investigative Reporter Mike Mason

• Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Tracy Droz Tragos for "Be Good, Smile Pretty" on PBS

• MarketPlace and American Public Media for "Spoils of War" on public radio stations

• NOVA, WGBH-TV and Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for "Crash of Flight 111"

• WISH-TV, Indianapolis, for "Will Your Vote Count?"^[7]

2006

• ABC NEWS for Live Coverage of the Death of Pope John Paul II and the Election of Pope Benedict XVI

• CNBC for The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company

• CNN for Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia

• FRONTLINE and WGBH, BOSTON, for Al Qaeda's New Front on PBS

• FRONTLINE, WGBH, BOSTON, and The New York Times for The Secret History of the Credit Card on PBS

• HBO for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs

• North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC, Chapel Hill, for North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty

• PRI, WGBH, BOSTON, and BBC WORLD SERVICE for The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies

• The Kitchen Sisters, JAY ALLISON and NPR for Hidden Kitchens

• THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL, DENIS PONCET, JEAN-XAVIER de LESTRADE and ALLYSON LUCHAK for The Staircase

• WFTS-TV, TAMPA, for Crosstown Expressway Investigation

• WJW, CLEVELAND, for School Bus Bloat

• WPMI-TV, MOBILE, for For Lauren's Sake

2007

• 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

• Investigation Discovery, 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'Neill for 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

2008

• CBS News for 60 Minutes: The Mother of All Heists

• Chicago Public Radio, Alix Spiegel & PRI for This American Life: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?

• Florentine Films/Hott Productions & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for Through Deaf Eyes on PBS

• HBO, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg for The Trials of Darryl Hunt

• KHOU-TV, Houston, for Rules of the Game

• KMOV-TV, St. Louis, for Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools

• KNOE-TV, Monroe, Louisiana, for Names, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina

• MSNBC & Richard Engel for War Zone Diary

• NBC News for Dateline: The Education of Ms. Groves

• NPR & Daniel Zwerdling for Mental Anguish and the Military

• Paladin Invision, London, & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda on PBS

• WBBM-TV, for Fly At Your Own Risk

• WFAA-TV, for Television Justice

2009

• WFAA-TV in Dallas for "Money for Nothing, A Passing Offense, The Buried and the Dead"

• ABC News / Nightline for "The Other War: Afghanistan"

• California Newsreel, San Francisco & Vital Pictures for "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?"

• CNN for "God's Warriors"

• Current TV for "From Russia with Hate"

• HBO for "Cinemax's Reel Life: The Blood of Yingzhou District"

• Oregon Public Broadcasting for "the Silent Invasion"

• Safari Media, ITV, PBS for "Independent Lens, Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story"

• WJLA-TV, Washington, DC for "Drilling for Dollars: Children's Dentistry Investigation"

• WTVT-TV, Tampa & Doug Smith for "Small Town Justice"

• All Things Considered, for "Coverage of the Chengdu Earthquake"

• This American Life, for "The Giant Pool of Money"

• All Things Considered, for "Sexual Abuse of Native American Women"

2010

• American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery & Joshua E. S. Phillips for "What Killed Sergeant Gray"

• CBS News & Katie Couric for "The Sarah Palin Interviews"

• CBS News for "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession"

• HBO & Edet Belzberg for "The Recruiter"

• KHOU-TV, Houston & Mark Greenblatt for "Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard"

• KMGH-TV, Denver & Tony Kovaleski for "33 Minutes to 34 Right"

• MediaStorm & Jonathan Torgovnik for "Intended Consequences"

• NPR, Michele Norris & Steve Inskeep for "The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote"

• POV, Elizabeth Farnsworth & Patricio Lanfranco for "The Judge and the General," on PBS

• WCAX-TV, Burlington & Kristin Carlson for "Foreigners on the Farm"

• WGBH, Boston, FRONTLINE/World, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Dan Edge for "PAKISTAN: Children of the Taliban," on PBS

• WSVN-TV, Miami, Carmel Cafiero & Anthony Pineda for "Pill Mills"

• WTVF-TV, Nashville & Phil Williams for "General Sessions Court"

• WWL-TV, New Orleans for "NOAH Housing Program Investigation"

2011

• ABC News, for 20/20, "Brian Ross Investigates: The Coach's Secret"

• BBC America, for "BBC World News America: Haiti's Earthquake"

• CBS News, for "60 Minutes: "The Blowout"

• KCET, Los Angeles for "Up In Smoke, Protected or Neglected?, Hung Out to Dry?"

• KING-TV, Seattle & Susannah Frame for "Waste on the Water"

• 9News/KUSA-TV, Denver, 9News at 10 for "Keys to the Castle"

• NPR & Laura Sullivan for "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 & Deborah George for "The Great Textbook War"

• WGBH, Frontline & Najibullah Quraishi for "Behind Taliban Lines"

• WKOW-TV, Madison & Dan Cassuto for "Who's Protecting You?"

• WTHR-TV, Indianapolis & Bob Segall for "Reality Check: Where are the Jobs?"

2012

• Al Jazeera English, Fault Lines, "Haiti - Six Months On"

• CBS News: 60 Minutes, "A Relentless Enemy"

• Danfung Dennis, Impact Partners, Roast Beef Productions, Sabotage Films, Thought Engine and Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation, "Hell and Back Again"

• 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"

2013

• Alison Klayman, A Never Sorry LLC, United Expression Media, Sundance Selects, MUSE Film and Television, "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"

• CBS News and Clarissa Ward, for "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria"

• Current TV, Christof Putzel and The Renaud Brothers, "Vangard: Arming the Mexican Cartel"

• KCET, Southern California for "SoCal Connected: Courting Disaster"

• KLAS-TV, Las Vegas for "Desert Underwater"

• A film by Lee Hirsch, The Weinstein Company, Where We Live Films, BeCause Foundation, The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, The Fledgling Fund, National Center for Learning Disabilities, and the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, for "Bully"

• NPR, Deborah Amos, and Kelly McEvers for Coverage of Syria

• StoryCorps, NPR, and POV, for "StoryCorps 9/11"

• USA Today, for "Ghost Factories"

• WGBH, Kartemquin Films, Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz, for "FRONTLINE: The Interrupters"

• WGBH, Clover Films and Najibullah Quraishi, for "FRONTLINE: Opium Brides"

• WITF, WHYY and NPR, for "StateImpact Pennsylvania"

• WVUE-TV, New Orleans, and Lee Zurik for "Dirty Deeds", "Hiding Behind the Badge"

• WXYZ-TV, Detroit, for "Wayne County Confidential"

2014

• American Documentary – POV, Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday, “The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement”, on PBS

• 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”

• Scott Thurman & Silver Lining Film Group, Magic Hour Entertainment, Naked Edge Films, “The Revisionaries” on Independent Lens

• 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”

2015

• CNN, WEED: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports (link is external

• KPNX 12 News, Phoenix & Wendy Halloran, Raked Over the Coals

• MPR News, Betrayed by Silence

• Netflix, Virunga

• NPR & Joseph Shapiro, Guilty and Charged

• Particle Fever

• 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-TV, Boston, FRONTLINE: Syria's Second Front

• WGBH-TV, 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

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-TV, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

• WNYC, NYPD Bruised

• WRAL-TV, Journey Alone

• Specialist Finalist Citation: KCBS Radio, Unholy Water

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-TV, Alive Atlanta, Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System

2018

• ABC15 Arizona, Cash for Compliance

• ABC News Lincoln Square Productions, LET IT FALL: Los Angeles 1982-1992

• American Documentary and WORLD Channel - PBS, AMERICA REFRAMED: Class of ‘27

• CBS News, 60 MINUTES: The New Cold War

• CBS Evening News, The Road to Aleppo

• Frontline - PBS, Exodus

• HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, The Lords of the Rings

• KARE 11, Investigative Reporting

• KHOU-TV, Transparency

• National Geographic Documentary Films and Junger Quested Films, Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS

• NBC Bay Area (KNTV), Arrested at School

• Netflix | Forward Movement | Kandoo Films, 13th

• The New York Times, The Daily

• 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

• WITI-TV, Men on the Margin