Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation - BBC & Discovery Channel

This five part epic series, made for the BBC and the Discovery Channel, untangles the political and military events that led to the dismemberment of the country that was Yugoslavia.

The State vs. Simpson: The Verdict - ABC News

Nightline broadened our exceptions of what nightly news coverage can be in a week-long examination of the implication of the outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial.

Journey of a Country Doctor: The Verdict - ABC News

This two-part broadcast was an uplifting view of a courageous doctor in her struggle to deal with the death of her patients.

60 Minutes: Punishing Saddam - CBS News

Focusing on shortages of food and medicine as well as the decline in sanitary conditions because of the embargo, Lesley Stahl demonstrated the moral dilemmas of foreign policy.

60 Minutes: Too Good to be True - CBS News

In this program, Morley Safer revisited graduates of West Side Prep, a private inner-city school in Chicago, that he had profiled 16 years before.

Town Meeting: Thou Shalt Not Kill | ABC News

A two-hour live discussion in Jerusalem shortly after the assassination of Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin.

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“High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell,” & “The Celluloid Closet” - HBO

Exemplary commitment to non-fiction programming on important social issues by two programs - one a portrait of crack-addicts in a declining Massachusetts neighborhood, the other an engaging documentary about the evolution of gay and lesbian characters in Hollywood films.

The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring - KREM-TV

Tom Grant was the only reporter to investigate a rash of indictments on charges of child sexual abuse in the rural area of Wenatchee, Washington, in 1995.

Dateline: Class Photo - NBC News

Dateline orchestrated an enlightening and powerful reunion of a 1982 fourth grade class from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant.

Fifty Years After 14 August - NPR

A half-hour elegy on the 50th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan, based on the original essay created by Norman Corwin for Orson Welles.

Plague Fighters - NOVA & WGBH-TV

NOVA spent a month near Kikwit, Zaire, taking the same risks as the international medical rescue team, to record Ebola’s effects on the local population and the heroic scientific war against the disease.

Coverage of Former Soviet Union - NPR

Anne Garrels’ journalism represents the best of NPR’s international coverage, especially in her ability to find individual characters to personalize her stories.

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud - PBS

This 90-minute biography of a fabulously quirky character used superb archival footage that demonstrated the genius and the iconoclast in Buckminster Fuller.

Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was - PRI

This 13-part, six-and-a half-hour series created for Public Radio International is a masterpiece of historical programming.

Robert Riggs for Investigative Reporting - WFAA-TV

Robert Riggs and WFAA-TV broke the story of suspicious payments and commissions between a member of the Dallas Independent School Board and the insurance agent who provided the school’s many insurance and pension policies.

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Shtetl - Frontline & WGBH

In this three-hour special edition of Frontline, Marian Marzynski returned to his native Poland with a friend to rediscover the Jewish village, or Shtetl, of their past, to see how much had survived the Holocaust.