1996 duPont-Columbia Award Winners
In a special program, the duPont-Columbia University Awards announced 1 Gold Baton recipient and 12 additional winners.
GOLD BATON - Daniel Schorr for Lifelong Journalistic Integrity
Daniel Schorr's achievements and boundless energy in both radio and television add up to nearly half a century of clear and probing reporting. First at CBS News for 23 years, then as a member of the starting team at CNN, and now in his tenth year as National Public Radio's senior news analyst, Schorr has reported on the biggest issues and political scandals of our time.
Turning Point of Human Bondage: Slavery Today - ABC News
A report on three different cases of slavery in the modern world - children working in rug factories in India; women held as prostitutes in the Amazon; and farm workers in North and South Carolina.
American Agenda: Political Waters - ABC News
Beautifully photographed in Surinam and Costa Rica, three segments make connections between discoveries of new medical cures in the rainforest, the impact of pollution on threatened species, and legislation in Washington.
America's War on Poverty - PBS
This powerfully constructed five-hour series documents the efforts under President Lyndon Johnson to create economic strategies to help the nation's poorest and most disadvantaged Americans.
Watergate - BBC | Discovery Channel
Breathtakingly thorough, Watergate brings significant new evidence to light, primarily in the on-camera revelations of principal players in the White House intrigue.
Political Coverage - NPR
In dozens of segments on all of its programs, National Public Radio provided consistent, comprehensive and imaginative coverage of the 1994 elections and the resulting Republican revolution.
School Colors - Frontline | PBS
This special edition of Frontline focused on the issues of race, integration and education at Berkeley High School in California, whose students are an ethnic microcosm of urban America.
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter - P.O.V. | The American Documentary Inc.
This intimate documentary hour addresses the serious subject of Alzheimer's disease with considerable warmth and humor.
“The Battle of the Bulge,” “FDR” and “The Way West” - The American Experience on PBS
This superb television series makes history its beat, enriching the present with a wide array of film and narrative styles that look at history through today's lens.
When Billy Broke His Head & Other Tales of Wonder - PBS
An hour-long documentary about life with disabilities, this first-person account is gritty, funny, angry and compelling.
American History: The Disney Version - WMAL-AM
This all-news commercial station is refreshingly original in the way it covered the furor over the Disney Company’s proposal to build a Civil War theme park in Haymarket, Virginia.
Coverage of Haiti - WTVJ-TV
With Haitian refugees streaming into south Florida, WTVJ maintained strong and informative coverage of the crisis in Haiti before, during and after the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Target 7: Michigan's Secret Soldiers - WXYZ Detroit
This series of three investigative reports on the growing citizens' militia movement aired six months before a bomb destroyed the Federal office building in Oklahoma City.