Three regular recipients of broadcast journalism awards, CBS, NBC and HBO, and two relatively new recipients, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times, were among those named winners of the annual Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards on Wednesday.
It is the first-ever DuPont win for Al Jazeera English, an international news network that is trying to make inroads in the United States. The award recognized an Al Jazeera report about the sluggish pace of recovery and reconstruction in Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake.
The DuPonts are awards for excellence in broadcast and digital reporting from Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism, which also presents the Pulitzer Prizes for print and digital reporting. Separately, Columbia recognized Al Jazeera English earlier this year with its Columbia Journalism Award.
The New York Times was awarded a DuPont for two digital stories: “A Year at War,” a multimedia series about a battalion of men and women in Afghanistan, and “Surviving the Earthquake: Children,” a documentary about two children injured in the Haiti earthquake.
The Times has shared two DuPonts in the past for collaborations with television production companies, but this award is the first to be presented solely to The Times for video and multimedia work.
Among the traditional broadcasters, CBS News was recognized for a “60 Minutes” segment featuring the correspondent Lara Logan on the front line of the war in Afghanistan. NBC News and its chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, were recognized for coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East earlier this year.
HBO received DuPonts for a documentary about the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and for a series of reports on “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” about concussions and sports. The latter represented the second win for “Real Sports,” which is the only sports television show ever to have received a DuPont award.
The production studio MediaStorm received an award for “Undesired,” an interactive report about the effects of cultural prejudice in India. The PBS program “Nova” received an award for “Japan’s Killer Quake.” A documentary, “Hell and Back Again,” was recognized for showing a soldier’s experiences at home and at war.
Local stations in New York, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, and Nashville were also recognized. The citations are accessible online.
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