LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Two documentary films
were among the 14 winners of the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Award, making them the first theatrical releases to be
honored with the prize. USA Today also won its first duPont award.
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," Alison Klayman's profile of the Chinese artist-activist, and Emmy-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch's tale of schoolyard torment, "Bully," won alongside reporting from Current TV, CBS News, NPR, PBS's "Frontline" and USA Today.
USA Today was
honored for multimedia reporting on abandoned lead factories, and NPR's
"StoryCorps" will win its first silver baton.
Five awards will go
to local television and radio stations: KCET in Southern California,
KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, WVUE-TV in New Orleans, Detroit's WXYZ-TV and
partnerships with WHYY and NPR.
"This exceptional
group of journalists represents the best of broadcast, documentary and
digital news reporting today," Bill Wheatley,
the outgoing duPont Jury chair and the former executive vice president
of NBC News, said in a statement. "These groundbreaking stories set the
standard for excellent reporting; journalists gained access and insight
into critical issues in the public interest, and they are telling these
important stories in new ways."
Christiane
Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent and a global affairs
anchor for ABC News will present the awards with CBS News's Byron Pitts
on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at Columbia's Low Memorial Library.
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