2017 duPont-Columbia University Award Winners Announced: Michigan Radio, NPR, Colorado Public Radio Among Honorees

Winners

The 2017 winners of the ALFRED I. DUPONT-COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AWARDS honoring "the best in broadcast, documentary and online reporting" were announced TODAY (12/15) by COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY's GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.  Fourteen winners were honored this year and will be feted at the awards' 75th anniversary celebration at COLUMBIA's LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY on JANUARY 25th.

The winners include:

• MICHIGAN RADIO: "Not Safe To Drink"
• NPR and DANIEL ZWERDLING/COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO and MICHAEL DEYOANNA: "Missed Treatment"
• CBS NEWS, "Nowhere to Go, EUROPE’s Migrant Crisis"
• NBC NEWS, "DATELINE NBC: The COSBY Accusers Speak"
• ESPN FILMS and LAYLOW FILMS, "O.J.: Made in America"
• FUSION: "The Naked Truth: Death by Fentanyl"
• PBS FRONTLINE: "Escaping ISIS" and "Children of SYRIA"
• THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT: "Foreverstan: The Girls’ School and RAZIA’s Way"
• HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS and SOC FILMS: "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness"
• KXAN-TV/AUSTIN: "Racial Profiling Whitewash"
• WVIT-TV (NBC CONNECTICUT)/NEW BRITAIN-HARTFORD: "Crumbling Foundations"
• NOVA and WGBH-TV/BOSTON: "Mystery Beneath the Ice"
• WTHR-TV/INDIANAPOLIS: "Charity Caught on Camera"
• WXIA-TV (11 ALIVE)/ATLANTA: "Dying for Help: Fixing the Nation’s Emergency Response System"

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