1999 duPont-Columbia Award Winners

In a special program, the duPont-Columbia University Awards announced 12 winners.


Nightline: Crime & Punishment - ABC News

In this four-part series, Ted Koppel penetrates the myth of high-tech maximum-security prisons.

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Investigation of the International Pharmaceutical Industry - 60 Minutes

This three-part series presents shocking evidence that the international pharmaceutical industry preys on the sick, especially in developing nations.

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Tombs of the Unknowns - CBS News | Eric Engberg | Vince Gonzales

In this seven-part series for the CBS Evening News, Eric Engberg and Vince Gonzales broke the story that the Vietnam war hero buried at Arlington National Cemetery was not an unknown soldier.

 
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Scenes from a Transplant - This American Life

This hour-long, independently-produced radio documentary is the autobiographical account of a cancer patient: National Public Radio health reporter Rebecca Perl, who records her treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

 
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Struggles in Steel: A Story of African American Steelworkers - International Television Service

This one-hour documentary is beautifully focused on the role of African-American laborers throughout the history of the steel industry.

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Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary - POV on PBS

Independent filmmaker and fourth-grade teacher Laura Simón is unabashed in her use of this documentary, her first, to demonstrate a point of view—that California’s Proposition 187, California’s new immigration policy, is turning teachers into a quasi border patrol.

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Taken In: The Lives of America’s Foster Children - Thirteen | WNET

This riveting debut documentary by social worker Vanessa Roth is a compassionate look at the troubled system of foster care in New York City.

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Coverage of Congressman William Lipinski Campaign - WBBM-TV

Chicago Reporter Carol Marin is intrepid in her reporting on illegal petitions that favored Democratic Congressman William Lipinski in his last primary campaign. This three-part series is local reporting at its best.

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Final Mission - WEWS-TV

This half-hour documentary chronicles the discovery of the wreckage of an American fighter plane and its pilot, Wilton Erickson, shot down by German gunfire over Belgium during World War II.

 
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Strip Searched at O'Hare - WMAQ-TV

Reporter Renee Ferguson uncovers racial discrimination by immigration agents at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

 
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Investigate Reports on Military Medicine - WRAL-TV

A massive investigative undertaking for a local television station, this six-part series on inadequate medical care provided to military families became a national story.

 
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NOVA - WGBH-TV

Coma closely follows the treatment of several patients with severe head injuries to demystify the notion of sudden and miraculous recoveries.

 
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