The 2024 duPont-Columbia Awards

20 Days in Mariupol

The Associated Press | PBS FRONTLINE

An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggled to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion and captured images of war's trauma that shook the conscience of the world.

Accountability After Uvalde

Tony Plohetski & KVUE TV | The Austin American-Statesman

A local reporter was the first to obtain video from inside Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School of the haunting 77-minute delay by law enforcement during a mass shooting, which helped collapse a false narrative and brought transparency to police failures.

Afghanistan Undercover

PBS FRONTLINE

After the Taliban returned to power, correspondent Ramita Navai and photographer Karim Shah went back to Afghanistan with hidden cameras to report on the deteriorating situation for women, including those imprisoned for “immorally” traveling without a male family member.

Aftershock

ABC News Studios | Onyx Collective | Hulu

This compelling documentary goes behind the shocking fact that more women die in the United States from preventable childbirth complications than in any other industrialized country, and that Black women die at three times the rate of white women.

Against All Enemies

Scott Friedman & KXAS-TV (NBC)

A chilling local investigation uncovered the wide-ranging influence of one man's extremist ideology on local law enforcement that was used to foment radicalization and obstruction of federal law enforcement among sheriffs across the country.

Beyond Utopia

Independent Lens | Ideal Partners

A harrowing journey was brought to life in this immersive documentary about a North Korean family of defectors, including an elderly grandmother and young children, who are smuggled across five countries, over mountains and through the jungles to freedom.

BURNED

KUSA 9NEWS Denver

In the wake of Colorado’s devastating Marshall Fire, this tech savvy local news team gathered hundreds of cell phone videos and security footage to produce a series of revealing reports, a documentary and an interactive website showing exactly how the fire started and why a warning system failed.

Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha

The New York Times

Using cutting edge technology, this stunning forensic account systematically investigated and revealed the likely culprits for the murders of dozens of Ukrainian civilians under Russian military occupation in the town of Bucha.

Mother Country Radicals

Crooked Media

This podcast series tells the dramatic story of the 'The Weathermen,' a violent, radical movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s, as told by the aging militants to the podcast producer, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, who himself is the son of the groups’ leaders.

Putin vs the West

Brook Lapping | Les Films D’ici

In the words of those in the room where it happened, from Prime Ministers and Presidents and more, this fascinating documentary examined the challenges Western powers have had in coming to consensus on how to deal with Vladimir Putin.

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

APM Reports

In this six-part podcast series, education reporter Emily Hanford unraveled the two decades-long mystery behind the declining ability of American school children to read.

The 13th Step

New Hampshire Public Radio

Reporter Lauren Chooljian revealed a toxic culture of sexual misconduct in a local addiction treatment network and faced threats, broken windows and an ongoing legal brawl in retaliation for her reporting.

The Sixth

Andy Pierrotti & WANF-TV | InvestigateTV

The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution is supposed to guarantee the right to an attorney and a speedy trial, but this investigative series showed a shortage of public defenders in Georgia and many other states, where defendants languish in jail for months, even years.

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Florentine Films | WETA

This eye-opening, six hour series laid bare America's often shameful response to the unfolding nightmare for European Jews that became the Holocaust, and revealed deeply ingrained threads of racism and anti-semitism in America.