This insightful one-hour program followed three families in an innovative anti-poverty effort in northern Wisconsin, a response to the state’s new welfare reform system. Poverty Hollow is an excellent treatment of contemporary poverty that goes beyond current rhetoric.

Frontline is awarded for four distinct programs on disparate controversial, sensitive subjects: Murder, Money and Mexico; The Choice '96; Secret Daughter; and Innocence Lost: The Plea

Primetime Live: Debt Reckoning - ABC News

This investigative report revealed that a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company called The Associates used manipulative practices to sell mortgage loans to unsophisticated borrowers, many of them poor homeowners.

CIA: America's Secret Warriors - Blowback Productions

Using archival footage and interviews about espionage efforts during World War II and later actions in Cuba, Iran and Central America, this biography of an institution chronicled the successes and excesses of this enormous agency.

CBS Reports: Enter the Jury Room - CBS News

CBS News illuminated the struggle of jurors in actual deliberations as they came to terms with their power to convict.

Vote For Me: Politics in America - Center for New American Media | PBS

This raucous four-hour miniseries was a celebration of American politics focused primarily on local campaigns and candidates heady with ambition to contribute to civic life.

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | KCET-TV

This series of eight one-hour programs used individual stories to drive home the chaotic origins and the devastating outcome of the first World War.

NewsNight Minnesota: Unisys - KTCA-TV

This series of reports showed the impact of downsizing on long-term employees of the Unisys Corporation.

Marketplace - KUSC Radio

Marketplace, a half-hour program aired nightly on public radio stations, proves that reporting on economic issues can be approached with energy and flair.

Why Can't We Live Together? - NBC News | Howard Scripps Productions

This one-hour documentary examined the self-fulfilling prophecies of race relations through the attitudes of upper-income blacks and whites in the Chicago suburb of Matteson, Illinois.

An American Nile - PBS

Beautifully written and documented with archival footage, interviews and graphics, this one-hour program chronicled the course of a river that no longer reaches the sea.

Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis - WABC-TV

This half-hour special program by a local station went behind the headlines of New York City’s troubled public schools and examined one of the many issues—overcrowding.