2017 duPont-Columbia Award Winners
In a special program hosted by Lester Holt and Jane Pauley, the duPont-Columbia University Awards announced the 14 winners of this year's duPont Awards.
Nowhere to Go: Europe's Migrant Crisis - CBS News
This timely series of breaking news reports filed by three teams of reporters from more than six countries witnessed history as it unfolded from deep inside the year’s human flood pouring into Europe.
The Cosby Accusers Speak - Dateline NBC
A gripping interview with a room full of women who speak out movingly against their alleged abuser Bill Cosby and challenge the belief that no one would ever hear them.
O.J.: Made in America - ESPN Films & Laylow Films
One of the most infamous crime stories of the 20th century was masterfully re-examined in this nearly eight-hour documentary series that provided a sobering lens through which to see race, celebrity, history and American culture.
The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl - Fusion
With its bold coverage, human details and timeliness, this investigation contributed to our understanding of the abuse of the drug Fentanyl as the latest development in America’s growing opioid painkiller epidemic.
Escaping ISIS and the Children of Syria - FRONTLINE | PBS
Two fearlessly reported in-depth hour-long programs told powerful human stories about families suffering—and surviving—the current conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
Foreverstan: The Girls' School and Razia's Way - The GroundTruth Project
A non-profit news organization devoted years to reporting this compelling cross platform project, to illuminate an improbable phenomenon - a successful girls’ school in Afghanistan.
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - HBO Documentary Films and SOC Films
This heartbreaking HBO documentary filmed in Pakistan covered every nuanced angle of a bewildering social construct—the need for patriarchal respect can be used to justify a daughter’s murder.
Racial Profiling Whitewash - KXAN
This massive data-driven investigation uncovered overwhelming evidence that law enforcement was subverting racial profiling statistics by consistently mis-reporting the race of minority motorists during traffic stops.
Not Safe to Drink - Michigan Radio
An impactful radio documentary that brought the Flint, Michigan water crisis to national attention and aggressively pursued the state agencies’ cover up of Flint’s extreme lead poisoning.
Crumbling Foundations - NBC Connecticut
One viewer’s tip led to dozens of stories in a hard hitting investigative series that exposed crumbling basement walls in hundreds of home, uncovering the cause and its connection to a single concrete company.
Mystery Beneath the Ice - NOVA & WGBH-TV
Why is the Antarctic’s essential krill population shrinking so dramatically? This visually stunning and engaging film follows scientific researchers under the Southern Ocean’s ice to discover the answer: climate change.
Missed Treatment - NPR & Daniel Zwerdling | Colorado Public Radio | Michael de Yoanna
NPR and Colorado Public Radio partnered on this groundbreaking exposé that revealed how the Army broke the spirit of the law when it kicked out more than 22,000 returning disabled veterans.
Charity Caught on Camera - WTHR-TV
WTHR-TV’s shocking undercover investigation exposed deplorable conditions and staggering mismanagement at a local rescue mission where tons of food and items donated for the homeless never made it to those who needed it most.
Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System - WXIA 11
This ongoing series of investigative reports first broke the news nationally, then helped prompt a solution for the systemic failures in an obsolete 911 system; that first responders can’t find cell phone callers during half of all emergencies, even deadly ones.