GOLD BATON: Massacre at Cuska - American Radioworks on NPR

This extraordinary hour-long radio documentary tracks down the perpetrators and the victims of ethnic cleansing in May 1999 in western Kosovo. The correspondents found Serbian soldiers who gave detailed descriptions of their actions and their orders, tracing the chain of command back to the Milosevic regime. Overlaying the first-person accounts are analysis history and explanations of the International War Crimes Tribunal This program reaffirms the effectiveness of radio in presenting complicated issues in a compelling way.

Nightline: AIDS in Africa - ABC News

"Nightline" devoted three consecutive programs to the massive problem of AIDS in Africa, focusing particularly on Zimbabwe.

CBS Evening News: Armed America - CBS News

CBS News took a broad look at the practices of local police and sheriffs' offices that sold their used weapons to dealers who then resold them to the public and to criminals.

Abandoned: The Betrayal of America's Immigrants - Crowing Rooster Arts, New York, on WGBH-TV

This startling documentary examines the plight of immigrants that resulted when Congress quietly passed a strict deportation law in 1996.

Deadly Tires? - KHOU-TV Houston

This superb investigative series spotted a dangerous trend in the link between Firestone ATX tire tread separations and fatal accidents in Ford Explorers.

Public Funds, Private Profit - KXLY-TV Spokane | Tom Grant

This series of more than 50 pieces demonstrates how a reporter with ingenuity and persistence can take a story about a parking garage and a bond issue and unravel public and private conflicts of interest behind a shopping mall in Spokane.

Cry Freetown - Insight News TV, London | Sorious Samura | CNN Productions

Photojournalist Sorious Samura produced a first-person report on the atrocities of civil war in his native country, Sierra Leone.

Dateline: The Paper Chase - NBC News

NBC News conducted a 15-month investigation and interviewed more than 250 people to reveal a disturbing pattern of “paper reviews” by major insurance companies to reduce their payments to accident victims.

Radio Expeditions - NPR

National Public Radio and the National Geographic Society have collaborated in the use of pioneering audio techniques to take listeners where they have never been before. With fine writing and storytelling, the reporters in this nine-part series enter the world of bats, insects and archaeological expeditions.

New York: A Documentary Film - Steeplechase Films on PBS

This sweeping ten-hour series is masterful in its scope and authenticity, and captures the eccentricities of the place while unfurling the history of New York against broad social trends.

The I-Team Stadium Investigation - WCPO-TV Cincinnati and Laurie Quinlivan

Reporter Laure Quinlivan pursued virtually every detail about the construction of a stadium for two years, and her digging uncovered a wide variety of abuses.

Frontline: John Paul II: Millennial Pope - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

This epic documentary about the life and papacy of John Paul II is a masterful accomplishment because it takes a challenging subject, who is not interviewed at all, and weaves a tapestry of great intellectual and visual sophistication.