Index


2023

60 Minutes: National Security in the Information Age - CBS News

Arctic Sinkholes - PBS | GBH | NOVA

EP 758 - Talking While Black - This American Life

Coverage of the Fall of Afghanistan and the War in Ukraine - PBS NewsHour & Jane Ferguson

Finding Tamika - Audible

KARE 11 Investigates - The GAP: Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect - KARE 11 Minneapolis/St. Paul & A.J. Lagoe

The Janes - Warner Brothers Discovery | HBO

#Keeping - WXIA-TV Atlanta & Rebecca Lindstrom

Leave No Trace: A Hidden History of The Boy Scouts - ABC News Studios | Hulu

MURDER - LIES - HIDDEN EVIDENCE: Holding Louisiana State Police Accountable

Navalny - CNN Films & HBO Max

NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Revealed - WTVF-TV Nashville & Phil Williams

Paper Tag Nation - KXAS-TV NBC Dallas/Ft. Worth & Scott Friedman

A Post-Roe America: Continuation Coverage of Abortion - The Washington Post: Post Reports

Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s - Gimlet Media | Spotify

Ukraine Coverage - CNN Worldwide

2022

According to Need - 99% Invisible | PRX | Stitcher Media

Blindspot: Tulsa Burning - The HISTORY Channel | WNYC Studios | KOSU

KARE11 Investigates: Cruel & Unusual - KARE11 Minneapolis/St. Paul & A.J. Lagoe

Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol - The New York Times

FIRE - POWER - MONEY: Holding PG&E Accountable - KXTV Sacramento & Brandon Rittiman

Full Disclosure & Politically Charged - KNXV Phoenix and Dave Biscobing

In the Same Breath | HBO Documentary Films

Military Sexual Assault: Norah O’Donnell Investigates - CBS News

The Moms of Magnolia Street - NBC Bay Area (KNTV)

My Name is Pauli Murray - Amazon Studios | Participant Media | Storyville Films

Philly D.A. - PBS | Independent Lens | TOPIC

Softie - PBS | POV | American Documentary | LBx Africa

The Line - Apple TV+| Jigsaw Productions

The Shockwave - VICE News

Through the Night - POV on PBS | American Documentary | Third Shift Media

Waste Land - NPR | Planet Money | Frontline on PBS & Laura Sullivan

2022 Finalists

2021

Decoding COVID-19 - NOVA

The Epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic - WNBC-TV New York

George Floyd Protest Coverage - KSTP Minneapolis

The Flag and the Fury - WNYC Studios | Radiolab | OSM Audio

Lafayette Reconstruction - The Washington Post

India Burning - VICE on SHOWTIME

The Other Latif - WNYC Studios | Radiolab

Ear Hustle - Radiotopia from PRX

A Different Kind of Force—Policing Mental Illness - NBC News Digital

Bedlam - Upper East Films | Independent Lens | PBS

Bob's Choice - KING 5 News Seattle

For Sama - FRONTLINE | PBS

Crip Camp - Netflix

Verify Road Trip: Climate Truth - WFAA-TV Dallas

Chasing the Moon - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

2021 Finalists

2020

In the Dark (Supreme Court Coverage) - APM

Believed - Michigan Radio & NPR

Bag Man - MSNBC

On the Border - CBS 60 Minutes

The Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi - CNN

Documenting Hate - FRONTLINE and ProPublica

The Facebook Dilemma - FRONTLINE

Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney - KARE 11

On the Veteran Beat - KARE 11 Investigates

The Bleeding Edge - Netflix

Inside Yemen - PBS NewsHour

The Apology - POV on PBS

Dark Money - POV on PBS

Fall from Grace: When Priests Prey and Bishops Betray - WKBW-TV

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War - PBS

Something Suspicious in District 9 - WSOC-TV

2019

GOLD BATON - FRONTLINE

The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide - WFOR

The Whistleblower and Too Big to Prosecute - CBS 60 Minutes

RBG - CNN Films

Human Rights Abuses Reporting - CNN International and Nima Elbagir

This is Home: A Refugee Story - EPIX, Gidalya Pictures & Blumhouse

The Vietnam War - Florentine Films & WETA

I Am Evidence - HBO Films

Drivers Under Siege - NBC Bay Area KNTV

Kept Out - Reveal, PRX, PBS NewHour, Associated Press

Imminent Danger - RMPBS Insight with John Ferrugia

On Her Shoulders - RYOT & Red Reel

Our Town - This American Life

Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice - WNYC

Trump, Inc - WNYC and ProPublica

Zombie Campaigns - WTSP-TV and Tampa Bay Times

2018

Cash for Compliance - ABC15

Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 - ABC News Lincoln Square Productions

America Reframed: Class of '27 - WGBH, PBS

The New Cold War - CBS 60 Minutes

The Road to Aleppo - CBS Evening News

Exodus - FRONTLINE PBS

The Lords of the Rings - HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Investigative Reporting - KARE 11

Transparency - KHOU-TV

Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS - Nat. Geo. Documentary Films and Junger Quested Films

Arrested at School - NBC Bay Area KNTV

13th - Netflix, Forward Moment, Kandoo Films

The Daily - The New York Times

Russia's New Scapegoats - Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PRX, and Coda Story

Will I Know Anyone At This Party Act 1: Party in the USA - This American Life

Men on the Margin - WITI-TV

2017

Nowhere to Go: Europe's Migrant Crisis - CBS News

The Cosby Accusers Speak - Dateline NBC

O.J.: Made in America - ESPN Films and Laylow Films

The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl - Fusion

Escaping ISIS and the Children of Syria - FRONTLINE

Foreverstan: The Girls' School and Razia's Way - The GroundTruth Project

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - HBO Documentary Films and SOC Films

Racial Profiling Whitewash - KXAN

Not Safe to Drink - Michigan Radio

Crumbling Foundations - NBC Connecticut

Mystery Beneath the Ice - NOVA and WGBH-TV

Missed Treatment - NPR & Daniel Zwerdling, Colorado Public Radion and Michael de Yoanna

Charity Caught on Camera - WTHR-TV

Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation's Emergency Response System - WXIA 11

2016

Caitlyn Jenner: The Interview - ABC News

Hard Earned - Al Jazeera America and Kartemquin Films

A Crime Against Humanity - CBS 60 Minutes

Hooked: Tracking Heroin's Hold on Arizona - Cronkite News and Arizona PBS

Ebola Outbreak and Outbreak - FRONTLINE

Growing Up Trans - FRONTLINE

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - HBO

The Price of Glory - HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

The Injustice System: Cops, Courts, and Greedy Politicians - KMO-TV and Craig Cheatham

A Watershed Moment: Great Lakes at a Crossroads - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Selfie Soldiers: Russia's Army Checks into Ukraine - VICE News

Freddie Gray Investigation - WBAL-TV and Jayne Miller

Serial: Season One - WBEZ and This American Life

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies - WETA

NYPD Bruised - WNYC

Journey Alone - WRAL-TV

Specialist Finalist Citation - Unholy Water - KCBS Radio

2015

Weed: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports - CNN

Raked Over the Coals - KPNX 12 News Phoenix and Wendy Halloran

Betrayed by Silence - MPR News

Virunga - Netflix

Guilty and Charged - NPR and Joseph Shapiro

Particle Fever

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross w/Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - PBS

Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt - Planet Money and NPR Visuals

Sea Change: The Pacific's Perilous Turn - The Seattle Times

Incapacitated: Florida's Guardianship Program - WFTS-TV Tampa Bay

Syria's Second Front - FRONTLINE

United States of Secrets - FRONTLINE

DDS: When Systems Fail - WLXT Columbia

Short Yellows and the Red Light Fight - WTSP 10 News Tampa Bay

2014

The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - American Documentary, POV, Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday

Newtown Tragedy Coverage - CBS News

Broken Shield - Center for Investigative Reporting

Outside the Lines: Youth Football Concerns - ESPN

Colorado Rape Victims: Evidence Ignored, Justice Denied - KMGH-TV Denver and Keli Rabon

Tragedy on the Plaza - KSHB 41 Action News Kansas City

Devastation in Oklahoma - NBC News

The Revisionaries on Independent Lens - Scott Thurman and Silver Lining Film Group, Magic Hour Entertainment, Naked Edge Films

Rape in the Fields/Violación de un Sueño - U.C. Berkeley IRP, CIR, FRONTLINE and Univision

Harper High School Parts 1 and 2 - WBEZ Chicago, This American Life

Boston Marathon Bombings Coverage - WBZ-TV Boston

Denticaid: Medicaid Dental Abuse in Texas - WFAA-TV Dallas and Byron Harris

Body of Evidence - WVUE-TV New Orleans and Lee Zurik

The Lines Between Us - WYPR Baltimore

2013

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - Alison Klaman, Never Sorry LLC, United Expression Media and Sundance Selects, MUSE Films and Television

CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Inside Syria - CBS News and Clarissa Ward

Vanguard: Arming the Mexican Cartel - Current TV, Christof Putzel and Renaud Brothers

SoCal Connected: Courting Disaster - KCET, Southern California

Desert Underwater - KLAS-TV Las Vegas

Bully - Lee HIrsch, The Weinstein Company, Where We Live Films, BeCause Foundation, The Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, The Fledgling Fund, National Center for Leraning Disabilities, and the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention

Coverage of Syria - NPR, Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers

StoryCorps 9/11 - StoryCorps, NPR and POV

Ghost Factories - USA Today

The Interrupters - FRONTLINE, Kartemquin Films, Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz

Opium Brides - FRONTLINE, WGBH, Clover Films, Najibullah Quraishi

StateImpact Pennsylvania - witf, WHYY and NPR

Dirty Deeds and Hiding Behind the Badge - WVUE-TV, New Orleans and Lee Zurik

Wayne County Confidential - WXYZ-TV Detroit

2012

Faultlines, Haiti: Six Months On - Al Jazeera English

A Relentless Enemy - CBS 60 Minutes

Hell and Back Again - Danfung Dennis, Impact Partners, Roast Beef Productions, Sabotage Films, Thought Engine and Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation

Beyond the Light Switch - Detroit Public Television

Triangle: Remembering the Fire - HBO and Blowback Productions

Real Sports with Bryant Cumbel: Head Games - HBO

Undesired - MediaStorm and Walter Astrada for the Alexia Foundation

Coverage of the Arab Spring - NBC News and Richard Engel

A Year at War and Surviving Haiti's Earthquake: Children - The New York Times

Bitter Lessons - WFAA-TV Dallas and Byron Harris

NOVA: Japan's Killer Quake - WGBH-TV Boston

Alleged Illegal Searches by the NYPD - WNYC and Ailsa Chang

Stealing Houses - WSB-TV, Atlanta and Jodie Fleischer

Policing for Profit - WTVF-TV, Nashville and Phil Williams

Finalist: Radio Rookies: Coming Up in 2011 - WNYC

2011

9News at 10, Keys to the Castle - 9News/KUSA-TV, Denver

The Coach's Secret - ABC News, 20/20 Brian Ross Investigates

Haiti's Earthquake - BBC America, BBC World News America

The Blowout - CBS 60 Minutes

Up in Smoke, Protected or Neglected, and Hung Out to Dry? - KCET Los Angeles

Waste on the Water - KING-TV, Seattle and Susannah Frame

Bonding for Profit - NPR and Laura Sullivan

The English Surgeon on PBS - POV and Geoffrey Smith

Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas - The Las Vegas Sun

The Great Textbook War - West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Trey Kay

FRONTLINE: Behind Taliban Lines - WGBH Boston and Najibullah Quraishi

Who's Protecting You - WKOW-TV, Madison and Dan Cassuto

Reality Check: Where Are The Jobs? - WTHR-TV, Indianapolis and Bob Segall

2010

What Killed Sargent Gray - American RadioWorks, Michael Montgomery and Joshua E.S. Phillips

The Sarah Palin Interview - CBS News and Katie Couric

Children of the Recession - CBS Reports

The Recruiter - HBO and Edet Belzberg

Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard - KHOU-TV, Houston and Mark Greenblatt

33 Minutes to 34 Right - KMGH-TV, Denver and Tony Kovaleski

Intended Consequences - MediaStorm and Jonathan Torgovnik

The York Project: Race and the 2008 Vote - NPR, Michele Norris and Steve Inskeep

The Judge and the General - POV on PBS, Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco

Foreigners on the Farm - WCAX-TV Burlington and Kristin Carlson

FRONTLINE/World: Pakistan: Children of the Taliban - WGBH, Boston Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Dan Edge

Pill Mills - WSVN-TV, Miami, Carmel Cafiero and Anthony Pineda

General Sessions Court - WTVF-TV Nashville and Phil Williams

NOAH Housing Program Investigation - WWL-TV, New Orleans

2009

GOLD BATON: Money for Nothing, A Passing Offense, The Buried and the Dead - WFAA-TV Dallas

The Other War: Afghanistan - ABC News, Nightline

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? - California Newsreel & Vital Pictures, on PBS

The Giant Pool of Money - Chicago Public Radio, PRI, NPR, Alex Blumberg & Adam Davidson, This American Life

God's Warriors - CNN

From Russia with Hate - Current TV & Christof Putzel

Cinemax's Reel Life: The Blood of Yinghzhou District - HBO, Thomas Lennon & Ruby Yang

Sexual Abuse of Native American Women - NPR, All Things Considered

Coverage of the Chengdu Earthquake - NPR, All Things Considered, Melissa Block & Robert Siege

The Silent Invasion - Oregon Public Broadcasting

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story - Safari Media, ITV, PBS, Independent Lens

Drilling for Dollars: Children's Dentistry Investigation - WJLA-TV, Washington DC

Small Town Justice - WTVT-TV Tampa

2008

60 Minutes: The Mother of All Heists - CBS News

Which One of These Is Not Like the Others - Chicago Public Radio, Alix Spiegel & PRI, This American Life

Through Deaf Eyes - Florentine Films/Hott Productions & WETA-TV on PBS

The Trials of Darryl Hunt - HBO, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg

Rules of the Game - KHOU-TV, Houston

Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools - KMOV-TV St. Louis

Names, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina - KNOE-TV Monroe

War Zone Diary - MSNBC & Richard Engel

The Education of Ms. Groves - NBC News, Dateline

Mental Anguish and the Military - NPR & Daniel Zwerding

Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda - Paladin Invision, London & WETA

Fly At Your Own Risk - WBBM-TV Chicago

Television Justice - WFAA-TV Dallas

2007

Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace - Brook Lapping Productions, London on PBS

Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - WGBH-TV Boston, Massachusetts ,Cape and Islands NPR Stations

Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb? - Discovery Channel, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The New York Times

Baghdad ER - HBO, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

Independent Lens: Seoul Train - ITVS, Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth on PBS

California Connected: War Stories from Ward 7-D - KCET-TV Los Angeles, KPBS-TV San Diego, KQED-TV San Fransisco, KVIE-TV Sacramento

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - NBC News, NBC Nightly News and Dateline

Coverage of Iraq - NPR

Dirty Secret - WBAL-TV Baltimore

Frontline: The Age of AIDS - WGBH Boston on PBS

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - WLOX-TV Biloxi, Mississippi

American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan - WNET-TV New York on PBS

Focal Point: Paper Thin Promises and Standards of Living - WRAL-TV Raleigh

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - WWL-TV New Orleans

2006

Live Coverage of the Death of Pope John Paul II and the Election of Pope Benedict XVI - ABC News

The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company - CNBC

Coverage of the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia - CNN

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Sport of Sheikhs

North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty - North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC, Chapel Hill

The World: The Global Race for Stem Cell Therapies - PRI, WGBH-TV, Boston, and BBC World Service

Hidden Kitchens - The Kitchen Sisters, Jay Allison and NPR

The Staircase - The Sundance Channel, Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier De Lestrade and Allyson Luchak

Crosstown Expressway Investigation - WFTS-TV Tampa

Frontline: Al Qaeda's New Front - WGBH Boston on PBS

The Secret History of the Credit Card - WGBH Boston & The New York Times on PBS

School Bus Bloat - WJW Cleveland

For Lauren's Sake - WPMI-TV Mobil

2005

Primetime Thursday: The Nuclear Smuggling Project - ABC News

Jesus and Paul: The Word and the Witness - ABC News and PJ Productions

Hoxie: The First Stand - David Appleby and The University of Memphis on PBS

The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt - HBO/Cinemax Reel Life, Victoria Bruce and Karin Hayes

Louisiana: Currents of Change - Louisiana Public Broadcasting

National Geographic Ultimate Explorer: Liberia: American Dream? - MSNBC

A Pattern of Suspicion - NBC News, Dateline

Mandela: An Audio History - NPR and Radio Diaries

JFK 40 - WBAP-AM Dallas

Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation - WCNC-TV Charlotte

State of Denial - WFAA-TV Dallas

Frontline: Truth, War and Consequences - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

2004

Nightline: Tip of the Spear - ABC News

Coverage of National Security - CBS News, David Martin & Mary Walsh

Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - HBO and Maysles Films Inc.

Shake-Up at City Hall - KBCI-TV Boise, Idaho

Evidence of Errors - KHOU-TV Houston

Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy - KMGH-TV Denver, Colorado

Coverage of the War in Iraq - NPR

Coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster - WESH-TV Orlando

Frontline: A Dangerous Business - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

Frontline: Failure to Protect; The Taking of Logan Marr; The Caseworker Files & A National Dialogue - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero - WGBH-TV Boston at PBS

POV: Two Towns of Jasper - Whitney Dow and Marco Williams on PBS

Friends in High Places - WTVF-TV Nashville, Tennessee

2003

GOLD BATON: A Series of Seven Programs on PBS About the Origin and Impact of Terrorism by Islamic Militants - WGBH-TV Boston

Coverage of 9/11 and Answering Children's Questions - ABC News Television and Radio

Nightline: Heart of Darkness - ABC News

La Doble Desaparecida - CNN en Espanol and Jorge Gestoso

Ghosts of Attica - Court TV and Lumiere Productions

In Memoium: New York City, 9/11/01 - HBO

Culture of Hate: Who are We? - KPBS-TV San Diego and Lee Harvey

Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - NBC News and Martin Fletcher

Coverage of 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan - NPR

The Smith Family - POV, Tasha Oldman and Small Town Productions on PBS

Surviving Torture: Inside Out - WBUR-FM Boston

Chronicle: Beyond the Big Dig - WCVB-TV Boston

Fake Drugs, Real Lives - WFAA-TV Dallas, Brett Ship and Mark Smith

American Experience: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

2002

Hopkins 24/7 - ABC News, Terence Wrong and Peter Bull

Reporting on National Security on CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes II - CBS News, David Martin and Mary Walsh

60 Minutes: America's Worst Nightmare? - CBS News, Steve Kroft and Leslie Cockburn

CBS Evening News: Everybody Has Story - CBS News and Steve Hartman

Northern Ireland: Dying for Peace - CNN, Nic Robertson and Jonathan Miller

The Interrogation of Michael Crowe - Court TV

Poison Paint - KCBS-TV Los Angeles and Randy Paige

Why the Orcas of Puget Sound Are Dying - KIRO-TV Seattle

Exploding Patrol Cars? - KOLD-TV Tucson and Chip Yost

Campaign Finance Coverage - NPR and Peter Overby

Frontline/Nova: Harvest of Fear - Palfreman Film Group and WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

Caught Off Guard - WABC-TV New York, Jim Hoffer and Daniela Royes

The Edison Schools Vote - WNYC Radio, New York and Beth Fertig

2001

GOLD BATON: Massacre at Cuska - American Radioworks on NPR

Nightline: AIDS in Africa - ABC News

CBS Evening News: Armed America - CBS News

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

Deadly Tires? - KHOU-TV Houston

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

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

Dateline: The Paper Chase - NBC News

Radio Expeditions - NPR

New York: A Documentary Film - Steeplechase Films on PBS

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

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

2000

GOLD BATON: Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers - Public Affairs Television

20/20: The Unwanted Children of Russia - ABC News and Diane Sawyer

60 Minutes II: The Shame of Srebrenica - CBS News and Bob Simon

Coverage of the Impeachment and Trial of President Bill Clinton - CNN and Candy Crowley

The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords - Stanley Nelson on PBS

In-Depth Reporting - New England Cable News, Newton, Mass.

POV: If I Can't Do It - PBS

The DNA Files - SoundVision Productions, Berkeley on NPR

Frontline: The Triumph of Evil - WGBH-TV Boston on PBS

Investigative Reports on the Christian Civic League - WMTW-TV Auburn, Maine and Christine Young

Guarding the Guardians - WTHR-TV Indianapolis

Investigative Reporting on the Olympics' Bribery Scandal - KTVX-TV Salt Lake City and Chris Vanocur

Emails from Kosovo - Youth Radio, Berkeley on NPR


For all winners prior to 2000, our archives are organized on a yearly basis. Click on the year to learn more about those winning entries.

1999

Nightline: Crime and Punishment - ABC News

Investigation of the International Pharmaceutical Industry - 60 Minutes

Tomb of the Unknowns - CBS News | Eric Engberg | Vince Gonzales

Scenes from a Transplant - This American Life

Struggles in Steel: A Story of African-American Steelworkers - International Television Service

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary - POV on PBS

Taken In: The Lives of America’s Foster Children - Thirteen | WNET

Coverage of Congressman William Lipinski Campaign - WBBM-TV

Final Mission - WEWS-TV

Strip Searched At O’Hare - WMAQ-TV

Investigative Reports on Military Medicine - WRAL-TV

Nova Series of Science - WGBH-TV

1998

GOLD BATON - Welcome to Poverty Hollow - Wisconsin Public Television

GOLD BATON - 4-Part Series on Frontline

Primetime Live: Debt Reckoning - ABC News

CIA: America’s Secret Warriors - Blowback Productions

CBS Reports: Enter the Jury Room - CBS News

Vote for Me: Politics in America - Center for New American Media | PBS

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century - KCET-TV

NewsNight Minnesota: Unisys - KTCA-TV

Marketplace - KUSC Radio

Why Can’t We Live Together? -NBC News | Howard Scripps Productions

An American Nile - PBS

Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis - WABC-TV

1997

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation - BBC & Discovery Channel

The State vs. Simpson: The Verdict - ABC News

Journey of a Country Doctor - ABC News

60 Minutes: Punishing Saddam - CBS News

60 Minutes: Too Good to be True - CBS News

Town Meeting: Thou Shalt Not Kill - ABC News

“High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell,” & “The Celluloid Closet” - HBO

The Wenatchee Child Sex Ring - KREM-TV

Dateline: Class Photo - NBC News

Fifty Years After 14 August - NPR

Plague Fighters - NOVA & WGBH-TV

Coverage of the Former Soviet Union - NPR

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud - PBS

Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was - PRI

Robert Riggs for Investigate Reporting - WFAA-TV

Shtetl - Frontline and WGBH

1996

GOLD BATON - Daniel Schorr for lifelong journalistic integrity

Turning Point Of Human Bondage: Slavery Today - ABC News

American Agenda: Political Waters - ABC News

America's War on Poverty - PBS

Watergate - BBC | Discovery Channel

Political Coverage - NPR

School Colors - Frontline on PBS

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter - P.O.V. | The American Documentary Inc.

The American Experience - The American Experience on PBS

When Billy Broke His Head - PBS

American History: The Disney Version - WMAL-AM

Coverage of Haiti - WTVJ-TV

Target 7: Michigan's Secret Soldiers - WXYZ, Detroit

1995

GOLD BATON: Five Reports by ABC News

The Great Depression - PBS | Blackside, Inc.

60 Minutes: Semipalatinsk - CBS NE

Charles Kuralt for reporting on "Sunday Morning" - CBS News

Coverage of the Moscow Uprising -CNN

Coverage of Rwanda - NPR

Coverage of South Africa - NPR

Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo - Frontline on PBS

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School - HBO

Missing the Beat - WCCO-TV

Innocence Lost: The Verdict - Frontline on PBS

My Promised Land: Bernice Cooper's Story - Wisconsin Public Television

The Last Hit: Children and Violence - WTVS-TV

1994

GOLD BATON - Fred Friendly, for his lifetime contribution to the ethics and practice of journalism

20/20: The Gift of Life - ABC News

Coverage of Bosnia - CNN

Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson - NBC | ETC Films | Barbara Kopple

In the Shadow of the Wall - KRON-TV

Harry Bridges: a Man and his Union - M.W. Productions | KQED

Move Over: Women and the '92 Campaign - PBS

The Pacific Century - PBS

Massacre: The Story of East Timor - WBAI/Pacifica Radio

Justice on Trial, The Lost Generation & Walking Wounded - WBFF-TV

The Best Campaign Money Can Buy - Frontline on PBS

Armed Enemies of Castro - WPLG-TV

The Coverage of Hurricane Andrew - WTVJ-TV

1993

GOLD BATON - National Public Radio: All Things Considered, Morning Edition, & Weekend Edition

Nightline: Coverage of the Los Angeles Riots - ABC News

Bill Leonard, Former Producer at CBS News and Director of the duPont Awards

60 Minutes: Made in China - CBS News

The American Experience: LBJ - KERA-TV | PBS

Abortion: Desperate Choices - HBO

Erin's Life - KCNC-TV

Who's Watching the Store - KSTP-TV

Cops on Trial: The Rodney King Case - KTTV-TV

Louisiana Boys - Louisiana Public Broadcasting

Nick News: W/5 - Lucky Duck Productions | Nickelodeon

Made in the USA? - WCPO-TV

Chronicle and Environmental Reporting - WCVB-TV

Berkeley in the Sixties - PBS

Who Killed Adam Mann? - Frontline and WGBH

1992

GOLD BATON - Bill Moyers for Four Documentaries on PBS and Public Affairs Television

Gulf War Coverage - Peter Jennings | ABC News

Reports from Baghdad - CNN

Land or Death - KBDI-TV

Wards of the State - KPIX-TV

Cloud of Concern - KWWL-TV

Gulf War Coverage - NPR

Weapons of the Spirit - Pierre Sauvage

High Crimes and Misdemeanors - Frontline on PBS

The Civil War - Ken Burns | WETA-TV | Florentine Films

Gulf War Coverage - WFAA-TV

Innocence Lost - Frontline on WGBH-TV

Explorer: The Urban Gorilla - WTBS-TV

1991

GOLD BATON - Inside Gorbachev's USSR - Frontline | WGBH-TV | Martin Smith Productions

Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Killing Fields - ABC News

Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads - Blackside, Inc.

Fall of the Communist Governments - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Near Death - Exit Films

Horizons: And Justice for All - NPR

Coverage of California Earthquake - KCBS-AM

Critical Choices: America's Health Care Crisis - KING-TV

Express: Shield for Abuse - KQED-TV

Who Killed Vincent Chin? - P.O.V. & WTVS-TV

Coverage of Hurricane Hugo - WCBD-TV

NFL Drug Testing: Illegal Procedure - WJLA-TV

Dick Feagler for Nightly Commentaries - WKYC-TV

1990

GOLD BATON - Frontline & WGBH-TV for Five Outstanding Programs

The Koppel Report: Tragedy at Tiananmen, The Untold Story - ABC News

Other People's Money - Byron Harris ? WFAA-TV

Coverage of China - CBS News

Coverage of China - CNN

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land - Gardner Films & WETA-TV

For the Sake of Appearances and Expecting Miracles - KCET-TV

On Our Own Land - Kentucky Educational Television

Other Faces of AIDS - Maryland Public Television

The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy - WBRZ

Crack Crisis: A Cry for Action - WJXT

1989

GOLD BATON - 60 Minutes on CBS News

Nightline: In the Holy Land - ABC News

Coverage of the Persian Gulf - CBS News

Looking for Lincoln - KING-TV

A Conversation with Mikhail Gorbachev - NBC News

Coverage of the Supreme Court Nominations - NPR

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth - Public Affairs Television

The Politics of Pollution - WCAX-TV

We the Jury - WCVB-TV

Investigative Reporting by Erin Hayes - WSMV-TV

Thurgood Marshall: The Man - WUSA-TV

For the I-Team - WWOR-TV

1988

GOLD BATON - Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years - WGBH-TV

By His Father's Hands: The Zumwalkts - ABC News

48 Hours on Crack Street - CBS News

Huey Long - WETA-TV & Florentine Films

Sauget: City of Shame - KMOV-TV

Coverage of the AIDS Epidemic - NBC News

Investigative Reporting by Pam Zekman - WBBM-TV

Reporting by the I-Team - WCCO-TV

SMU Investigation. -WFAA-TV

Jacksonville's Roads: The Deadly Drive Home - WJXT-TV

Passing On the Secret of Sexual Abuse - WLAP-Radio

Florida: State of Neglect - WPLG-TV

1987

GOLD BATON - The Vanishing Family: Crisis in Black America - CBS News

45/85 - ABC News

Sue the Doctor? - Frontline on PBS | Chedd Angier Production Company

For Auction: An American Hero - PBS | Drew Associates

Washington 2000 - KING-TV

Tulsa's Golden Missionary - KTUL-TV

Outstanding Reporting by Erin Hayes - KYTV

Investigative Reporting on Nightly News - NBC News

Coverage of the American Raid on Tripoli - NBC Radio News

Afghanistan: The Untold Story - WBZ-TV

No Place to Call Home - WCBS-TV

State of Texas vs. Steven Lynn Fossum - WCCO-TV

Cicero: Community of Controversy - WMAQ-TV

1986

GOLD BATON - Nightline: South Africa - CBS News

Iran: In the Name of God. - CNN and IMAGO, Ltd.

Afghanistan: Operation Blackout - CBS Evening News

Down for the Count: An Inside Look at Boxing - Chris-Craft Television Productions and Churchill Films on Frontline

A Series of Radio Reports on the American Sanctuary Movement - Desert West News, Flagstaff

Outstanding Reporting by Nancy Montoya - KGUN-TV, Tucson

The Real Star Wars: Defense in Space - NBC News

Coverage of the MOVE Siege - WCAU-TV

The Moore Report - WCCO-TV

Investigation of Dr. Milan Vuitch - WDVM-TV

The Brain. - WNET-TV | PBS

1986 Special Citations

Choice Cuts - WSMV-TV

A Town Meeting: Iowa's Future - KWWL-TV

1985

Nightline - ABC News

US-USSR: A Balance of Powers - ABC News

Outstanding Investigative Reporting: Brian Ross and Ira Silverman - NBC News

60 Minutes: Lenell Geter's in Jail - CBS News

Selling the Public Spectrum - KOSU Radio

Hillside: A Desegregation Story - Suburban Cablevision

Mind of a Murderer - Documentary Consortium | Frontline on PBS

Vietnam: A Television History - WGBH-TV | PBS

The Smell of Money - WJXT-TV

Baby Boom: The Pig in the Python - WJZ-TV

The First Fifty Years: Reflections on US-Soviet Relations - Quest Productions | PBS

1985 Special Citations

The Blizzard of '84 - KFGO

The Phone Mess - WCBS,

Emergency Call for Help - KDFW-TV

Elevator Rip-Off - Pamela Zekman | WBBM-TV

I-Team - WBZ-TV

Outstanding Metropolitan Reporting - Gabe Pressman | WNBC-TV

Patterns of Practice - WCAX-TV

First Camera: Leader LaRouche - NBC News

1984

60 Minutes: Good Cop, Bad Cop; Honor Thy Children; Go Park It In Tokyo. - ABC News

Investigative Reporting by John Camp - WBRZ-TV

Rape: Face to Face - KCTS-TV

The War Within - KRON-TV

The Most Dangerous Game: Nuclear Face-Off in Europe - NPR

News Overnight - NBC News

Status Reports - ABC World News Tonight

Cancer Reports - CBS News

Killing Crime: A Police Cop-Out - WBBM-TV

Unit 5: The Chicago Police Investigations - WMAQ-TV

Innocent Shame: The Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse - WSMV-TV

Herpes is Forever - WTCN-TV

American Survival - Jon Alpert | NBC News

1983

World News Roundup

The Economics of Water

McClelland Care Facility

Probe Five

Human Cargo

Epidemic! Why Your Kid is on Drugs

Investigative Reporting: KNXT-TV

Air Florida Crash Coverage

All The King’s Horses

Closeup: The Gene Merchants

Viewpoint

CBS Reports: People Like Us

For Export Only: Pesticides and Pills

1982

America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations

Sunday Morning

The Defense of the United States

CLOSEUP: Can't It Be Anyone Else?

Hard Choices

Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown

Six O'Clock and All's Well

Election Night Coverage

The Moore Report

World

The Billion Dollar Ghetto

The Day After Trinity

Special Tribute: David Brinkley

1981

The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage

The Battle of Westlands

CBS Reports: Blacks in America: With All Deliberate Speed?

I-Team Investigations

William Faulkner: A Life on Paper

All Things Considered and Morning Edition

Picasso: A Painter’s Dairy

Joan Robinson: One Woman's Story

CBS Reports: Teddy

White Paper: If Japan Can... Why Can't We?

Perspectives

The Accident Swindlers

Special Tribute - Walter Cronkite

1981 CITATIONS

1980

Closeup

Outstanding Reporting: Bill Moyers

60 Minutes: The Boat People

Do I Look Like I Want to Die?

Clouds of Doubt

The Air Space - How Safe?

World/Inside Europe: F-16 Sale of the Century

An American Ism: Joe McCarthy

KDFW-TV, Dallas for Investigative Reporting

Second to None?

60 Minutes



See the detailed archive of all winners and citations from the 1970s here.

1979

The New South: Shade Behind the Sunbelt

Water: Arizona’s Most Precious Resource

Laser Con-Fusion

The Living Sands of Namib

Africa’s Defiant White Tribe

Documentary Reporting

Investigative Reporting, Dallas

Banned in Chelsea

WORLD: Chachaji: My Poor Relation and NOVA: The Final Frontier

Inside Albany: Capital Punishment

Investigative Reporting, Miami

Special Award: Richard Salant

1979 Special Citation: Panama Canal Debate Coverage

1978

Six American Families

28 Tonight

The Timber Farmers

Human Rights: A Soviet-American Debate & NBC Reports: The Struggle for Freedom

CBS Evening News and Walter Cronkite

Once a Priest

Clear and Present Danger

The MacNeil/Lehrer Report

The Police Tapes

1976

Prison Gangs

A Series on Feeding the Poor

All Things Considered

WBTV News and documentary programming

Moore on Sunday

WCCO Radio News and Documentary Programming

Arabs and Israelis

The Riots Plus Ten Years

Teamster Power

Crime Reporting

1975

Close-Up

60 Minutes

SLA 54th Street Shootout

Why Me?

The Energy Crisis an NBC White Paper

Washington Week in Review

Watergate Coverage

Juvenile Court

Lord of the Universe

Through the Looking Glass Darkly Parts I-III

Public Bridges and Private Riches

1974

Inquiry: Chile: Experiment in Red

CBS News Reports: You and the Commercial

And the Rich Shall Inherit the Earth

Death of a Slideshow

KNX Radio Editorials on important community issues

NBC Reports: The Sins of the Fathers

Thirty Minutes With...

The Rape of Paulette

The Nine-Year-Old in Norfolk Prison

1973

Outstanding Reporting: 60 Minutes CBS News

CBS Reports: ...But What If the Dream Comes True?

The Search for Quality Education

Outstanding Coverage of the 1972 Political Campaigns

White Paper: The Blue Collar Trap

Like It Is: Attica - the Unanswered Questions

The 51st State: Youth Gangs in the South Bronx

Towers of Frustration: Assignment: New Jersey

The Swift Justice of Europe and A Seed of Hope

1972

1971

Justice in America Parts I-III

All The Kids Like That: Tommy's Story

Warriors Without A Weapon

First Tuesday: The Man from Uncle (Sam) & The FBI

White Paper: This Child is Rated X

Drug Crisis in East Harlem

1970

Kenneth A. Cox

Hospital

Charlie Company

White Paper: Pollution is a Matter of Choice

Grunt's Little War

Our Poisoned World

1969

1965

Cecil Brown

KTWO-TV, Casper, Wyoming

WBBM-TV, Chicago, Illinois

WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota

WFBM-TV, Indianapolis, Indiana

WHCU Radio, Ithaca, New York

WRVR Radio, New York

1964

WFTV, Orlando, Florida

WRCV-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1963

Louis M. Lyons

WFBM Radio, Indianapolis, Indiana

Silver Baton: WJZ-TV, Baltimore, Maryland

1962

Howard K. Smith

KVOA-TV, Tuscon, Arizona

WFMT Radio, Chicago

1961

Martin Agronsky

KING-TV, Seattle, Washington

KPFK Radio, Los Angeles, California

1960

Edward P. Morgan

KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

WAVZ Radio, New Haven, Connecticut

1959

David Schoenbrun

KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Nebraska

WNTA-TV, Newark, New Jersey

1958

David Brinkley

KLZ-TV, Denver, Colorado

WSNY Radio, Schenectady, New York

1957

Clifton Utley

KARD-TV, Wichita, Kansas

KRON-TV, San Francisco, California

1956

Chet Huntley

KNXT-TV, Los Angeles, California

WFMT Radio, Chicago, Illinois

1955

Howard K. Smith

WICC Radio, Bridgeport, Connecticut

WTIC Radio, Hartford, Connecticut

1954

Eric Sevareid

KGAK Radio, Gallup, New Mexico

WHAS Radio, Louisville, Kentucky

1953

Pauline Frederick

WBZ Radio and WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts

WOI-TV, Ames, Iowa

1952

Gerald W. Johnson

WBNS-TV, Columbus, Ohio

WMT Radio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

1951

Joseph C. Harsch

WCAU Radio and WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

WEEI Radio, Boston, Massachusetts

1950

John Cameron Swayze

AVZ Radio, Hartford, Connecticut

WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1949

Morgan Beatty

WNOX Radio, Knoxville, Tennessee

WPIX-TV, New York, New York

WWJ Radio, Detroit, Michigan

Special Program Award: American Broadcasting Company and Association

1948

Henry J. Taylor

KLZ Radio, Denver, Colorado

WLS Radio, Chicago, Illinois

1947

Edward R. Murrow

WBBM Radio, Chicago, Illinois

WFIL Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1946

Elmer Davis

WHO Radio, Des Moines, Iowa

WFIL Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1945

Lowell Thomas

KDKA Radio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

WNAX Radio, Yankton, South Dakota

1944

H. V. Kaltenborn

WJR Radio, Detroit, Michigan

WTAG Radio, Worcester, Massachusetts

1943

Raymond Gram Swing

WLW Radio, Cincinnati, Ohio

WMAZ Radio, Macon, Georgia

1942

Fulton Lewis Jr.

KGEI Radio, San Francisco, California