60 Minutes: Targeting Americans

CBS News

This three-part investigation clearly laid out how an unknown foreign adversary targeted the best and brightest intelligence officers with high powered microwave weapons, both while posted in U.S. embassies abroad and even on the grounds of the White House.

9/12

Pineapple Street Studios

Dan Taberski and his podcast team created a series of fresh and insightful ways to look at the most reported event of our time, 9/11, and in the end created a meditation on how history is made and what we choose to remember.

After Hours: Fostering Chaos

KING 5 News Seattle & Chris Ingalls/Taylor Mirfendereski

KING 5’s unflinching exposé about the mistreatment of foster children in the Seattle area by the very agency designed to protect them prompted a state probe that led to immediate changes to help ensure the safety of vulnerable children. 

Attica

SHOWTIME

Hunting down hundreds of hours of archival and closed-circuit footage, and interviewing dozens of survivors on both sides of the hostage crisis, director Stanley Nelson gives the definitive documentary account of the 1971 Attica prison riot.

Bonded By Tragedy: 30 Days In Surfside

CBS Miami & Jim DeFede

A compelling documentary about the tragic Surfside collapse featured tremendous access to — and candor from — the leaders that managed this daunting search process, all interwoven with the families’ stories.

Failure Factory

WBFF-TV Baltimore & Chris Papst 

Through a series of investigative reports, Chris Papst uncovered numbing neglect and corruption in the Baltimore Public School system, including an examination of "ghost students," absent but still on school rolls and costing taxpayers millions.

RACE: Listen. Learn. Live. AAPI

KSDK St. Louis

As hate crimes against Asians increased nationally, members of the Asian American Journalists Association at KSDK St. Louis gathered seven subjects together and produced a series of packages aimed at telling their history and lived experiences. 

Slow Burn: The L.A. Riots

Slate Podcasts

This podcast series on a seminal moment in American history constructed a nuanced account - within the context of race and the law - of how it all happened, and how the seeds were sown well before Rodney King was beaten, sparking the 1992 uprising.

Through Our Eyes: Homefront

HBO Max | Catalyst Films | Shine Global

This short documentary film wove the stories of three children of veteran families as they coped with the emotional impact of having a wounded parent, and navigated the unique challenges of both visible and invisible injuries sustained during military service.

War in Ukraine

PBS NewsHour

With empathy and context, a team of courageous reporters and producers fanned out across Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, and Russia itself to report on the huge impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.