Streamers Make Big Splash at duPont Columbia Awards, But Many Big Traditional TV-News Outlets Don’t

variety.com:

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Three different streaming outlets — Max, Netflix and Paramount+ — were among the top winners at the duPont-Columbia Awards, some of the top honors accorded each year to audio and video reporting done in the public interest, while some of the usual news organizations named each year were not.

CNN, CBS News, NBC News and ABC News were not named among the 16 top honorees of this year’s awards, which were revealed Wednesday.

The awards have been administered since 1968 by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Max, Little Room Films & The Boston Globe took home a Silver Baton for “Murder in Boston,” a docuseries and a podcast that examined how a high-profile Boston murder led to a racist rush to judgment.

MTV Documentary Films and Paramount + won for “Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney,” a short documentary thatexplored the practice of forced reproduction in the antebellum South.