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
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
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
Through the Night - POV on PBS | American Documentary | Third Shift Media
Waste Land - NPR | Planet Money | Frontline on PBS & Laura Sullivan
2021
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
Verify Road Trip: Climate Truth - WFAA-TV Dallas
Chasing the Moon - AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
2020
In the Dark (Supreme Court Coverage) - APM
Believed - Michigan Radio & NPR
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
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
The Everglades: Where Politics, Money and Race Collide - WFOR
The Whistleblower and Too Big to Prosecute - CBS 60 Minutes
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
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
Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice - WNYC
Trump, Inc - WNYC and ProPublica
Zombie Campaigns - WTSP-TV and Tampa Bay Times
2018
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
The Lords of the Rings - HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Investigative Reporting - KARE 11
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
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
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
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
Guilty and Charged - NPR and Joseph Shapiro
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
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
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
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
Coverage of Syria - NPR, Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers
StoryCorps 9/11 - StoryCorps, NPR and POV
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
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
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
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
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
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
Baghdad ER - HBO, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Independent Lens: Seoul Train - ITVS, Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth on PBS
Coverage of Hurricane Katrina - NBC News, NBC Nightly News and Dateline
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
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: 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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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