NBC, CBS, ‘Nova’ among 2017 duPont-Columbia Award winners
NEW YORK — The European migrant crisis, environmental perils and the racial divide are among the issues confronted by winners of the 2017 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards honoured for their work in broadcast, digital and documentary journalism. Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism announced this year’s 14 winners on Thursday.
Four awards go to local television news investigations: KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas, for documenting racial profiling, WVIT-TV in West Hartford, Connecticut, for uncovering widespread faulty home construction, Indianapolis’ WTHR-TV for exposing a corrupt charity, and Atlanta’s WXIA-TV for spotlighting problems with the 911 emergency system.
Public broadcasting wins four awards, including “Frontline” for its Syria and Iraq reporting and “Nova” for its coverage of climate change. Other awards go to Michigan Radio’s coverage of the Flint water crisis and NPR/Colorado Public Radio’s expose on the Army’s mistreatment of disabled veterans.
Two duPonts go to the broadcast networks. NBC News’ “Dateline” wins for its program “The Cosby Accusers Speak,” while CBS News is being honoured for its breaking coverage of the migrant crisis.