CNN And PBS Win Two DuPont-Columbia Awards Apiece For Coverage Of War In Ukraine, U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
07.02.2023 - 06:45
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CNN and PBS took home two prizes apiece, headlining Monday’s duPont-Columbia Awards handed out by Columbia Journalism School.
Founded in 1942, the awards aim to uphold journalism standards, inform the public about accomplishments by video and audio journalists, and support journalism education and innovation.
CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz hosted the award ceremony, which returned to an in-person event for the first time in three years. A video stream of the 90-minute event is available here. “Tonight’s honorees are recognized for the quality of their work,” O’Donnell said at the start of the show. “This truly phenomenal journalism. But we also want to recognize the courage it took to embark on reporting these difficult stories and the doggedness to complete them.”
Nawaz gave a shout-out to her father, who graduated from Columbia’s journalism school. “He taughtme to always ask tough questions, to listen carefully, to choose my words wisely,” she said. “That’s what makes good journalism, and that is why we need at this moment in history more good journalism.”
This year’s jurors include jury chair Madhulika Sikka, Lynne Adrine, Nina Alvarez, June Cross, Mark Jurkowitz, Mark Lukasiewicz, David Rummel, Robert Smith and Mark Whitaker.
Here is the full list of winners, with descriptions by the jury:
CBS News60 Minutes: National Security in the Information AgeIn four related stories, this impressive series documented in chilling terms the clear and present danger of ongoing cyber attacks, primarily by Russia, to this country’s infrastructure and national security.
PBS | GBH | NOVA“Arctic Sinkholes”This episode of NOVA explored a recently discovered geological phenomenon with