2002 duPont-Columbia Award Winners
In a special program, the duPont-Columbia University Awards announced 13 winners.
Hopkins 24/7 - ABC News | Terence Wrong | Peter Bull
The ABC News team obtained access to virtually anything they wanted to follow at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore. The result is six illuminating hours focused on several doctors and their most challenging patients.
Reporting on National Security - CBS News | 60 Minutes | David Martin | Mary Walsh
Gaining unprecedented access to the National Security Agency, this piece takes viewers through an agency struggling to regain its priorities in a post Cold War environment, in exemplary reporting that repeatedly breaks through the barriers of official statements.
America's Worst Nightmare? - CBS News | 60 Minutes | Steve Kroft | Leslie Cockburn
This strikingly prophetic report examines the threat to the security of the United States and the world from Pakistan's political instability, its nuclear weapons and its ties to the Taliban.
CBS Evening News: Everybody Has Story - CBS News | Steve Hartman
With a boyish sense of wonder and precision writing, Correspondent Steve Hartman breaks open the definition of news in his feature stories about ordinary Americans.
Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace - CNN | Nic Robertson | Jonathan Miller
This one-hour documentary profiles Martin McGuinness, the former Irish Republican Army commander who is now Northern Ireland's Minister of Education.
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe - Court TV
This one-hour Court TV documentary reconstructs the police investigation and forced confession of a 14-year-old boy charged with murdering his sister.
Poison Paint - KCBS-TV Los Angeles | Randy Paige
Reporter Randy Paige reexamines the well-known hazard to children's health lead, lead paint, and finds it still to be a pervasive problem in southern California schools.
Why the Orcas of Puget Sound Are Dying - KIRO-TV Seattle
This one-hour documentary takes a well-known subject that is especially critical to the Seattle region and turns it into a splendid piece of journalism that is at once informative, affecting, urgent and thoughtful.
Exploding Patrol Cars? - KOLD-TV Tucson | Chip Yost
This classic two-part investigation demonstrates the enterprise of a young reporter in a small-market station who examines why local police patrol cars often explode when hit from behind, leaving officers trapped inside when the car busts into flames.
Campaign Finance Coverage - NPR | Peter Overby
Peter Overby's prolific reporting on campaign finance for National Public Radio has set the bar for stories about money, power and political influence.
FRONTLINE/Nova: Harvest of Fear - Palfreman Film Group | WGBH-TV Boston on PBS
This two-hour special collaboration provides a stunning, comprehensive look at genetically modified agriculture and its global consequences.
Caught Off Guard - WABC-TV New York | Jim Hoffer | Daniela Royes
In a series of four enterprising reports produced over several months, security around naval bases on the east coast proved to be surprisingly vulnerable.
The Edison Schools Vote - WNYC Radio, New York and Beth Fertig
This four-part series for public radio station WNYC dissects the reasons why New York City parents voted against hiring the for-profit company, Edison Schools, to run several of the city's worst elementary schools.