The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
The next duPont Awards will be presented at Columbia on January 28, 2009.
Read the press release and descriptions of the 2008 winning programs
2008 Awards Ceremony They were honored and presented with their baton at the duPont Awards ceremony on January 16, 2008 at Columbia University. These outstanding journalists and their award-winning coverage were also featured in the annual PBS broadcast of Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism, hosted by Christiane Amanpour, which premiered on Monday, January 28, 2008.
Selected from 510 submissions, the 2008 duPont-Columbia Awards award winners are:
- CBS News for 60 Minutes: The Mother of All Heists
- Chicago Public Radio, Alix Spiegel & PRI for This American Life: Which One of These Is Not Like the Others?
- Florentine Films/Hott Productions & WETA-TV, Washington, DC, for Through Deaf Eyes on PBS
- HBO, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg for The Trials of Darryl Hunt
- KHOU-TV, Houston, for Rules of the Game
- KMOV-TV, St. Louis, for Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools
- KNOE-TV, Monroe, Louisiana, for Names, Ranks and Serial Plunder: The National Guard and Katrina
- MSNBC & Richard Engel for War Zone Diary
- NBC News for Dateline: The Education of Ms. Groves
- NPR & Daniel Zwerdling for Mental Anguish and the Military
- Paladin Invision, London, & WETA, Washington, DC, for Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda on PBS
- WBBM-TV, Chicago, for Fly At Your Own Risk
- WFAA-TV, Dallas, for Television Justice
Contact Information:
Abi Wright, Director
Jonnet Abeles, Program Director, Prizes and Programs
Madiha Tahir, Assistant
dupontawards@jrn.columbia.edu
212/854-5047
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