PBS Wins Four Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
deadline.comPBS was the top winner in the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards on Tuesday, with four honors for outstanding broadcast and digital reporting in the public interest.Amazon Studios and Apple were first-time winners, while CBS News, The New York Times and HBO also won awards.PBS’s wins were for an Independent Lens look into the first term of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, while POV won for coverage of Kenyan political activist Softie and the documentary Through the Night.
Frontline, NPR and Planet Money won for Waste Land, an audio investigation into the oil industry and plastic recycling.CBS News and anchor Norah O’Donnell were honored for the report on sexual assault in the U.S.
military, and The New York Times won for a documentary film on the January 6th Capitol insurrection. HBO’s award was for Nanfu Wang’s In the Same Breath, about the misinformation by the Chinese and U.S.
governments at the outset of the Covid pandemic. Vice News also won for The Shockwave, about the August, 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut.Apple TV’s award was for The Line, a six part audio documentary on modern warfare, produced in partnership with Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.
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