These 16
winning programs and one citation appeared on air, online or in theaters
between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015
.
ABC News
A
substantive, sensitive interview spotlighted one of this year’s most talked
about social issues – transgenderism is cathay dupont award.
Diane Sawyer, Anchor; David Sloan, Sr. Executive
Producer; Mark Robertson, Sr. Editorial Director; Rob Vint, Director; Jessica
Velmans, Senior Producer; Margaret
Dawson, Sean Dooley, Lead Producers; Gail Deutsch, Keturah Gray, Eric
Johnson, Tess Scott, Candace Smith, Claire Weinraub, Producers; Mary Kathryn
Burke, Mark Abdelmalek, Editorial Producers; Sunny Antrim, Emily Whipp, Field
Producers; Francesca Ferreira, Christina Ng, Associate Producers; James
Holbrook, Kevin Bartles, Graphic Artist; Robert Ferrari, Ruth Iwano, Luis
Mendizabal, Gina Pampinella, Jack Pyle, Bud Proctor, Joi DeLeon, Kenneth Kerr,
Jeremy Phillips, Nicole Swink, Christine
“Tine” Fields, Editors; Thomas Buttner, Assistant Editor; Chris Komives, Sam
Painter, Herb Forsberg, Tony Forma,
Camera; Dave Coulter, Alex Klymko, David Mitlyng, Jeremy Drowne, Mike Karas, Audio.
Digital
Content: Dan Silver, Executive Producer, Digital; Xana O’Neill, Managing
Editor; Ronnie Polidoro, Senior Producer; Lauren Effron, Producer; Meghan
Keneally, Digital Reporter; Lori Neuhardt, Lead Creative Designer; Jeff
Schneider, Producer; Emily Quartaro, Social Media Editor; Terri Lichstein,
Senior Producer, ABC News Magazines for Digital and Social Content
Al Jazeera America – Kartemquin Films
Hard Earned
The
immersive verité filmmaking of this six-part series invested viewers in the
lives of the struggling working class by creating compelling human portraits.
Cynthia
Kane, Senior Commissioning Producer; Gordon Quinn, Steve James and Justine
Nagan, Executive Producers; Maggie Bowman, Series Producer; Katy Chevigny,
Maria Finitzo, Ruth Leitman, Brad Lichtenstein, and Joanna Rudnick, Directors;
David E. Simpson and Liz Kaar, Co-Directors/Editors; Mary Morrissette and
Elizabeth Stanton, Co-Producers; Hillary Bachelder, Associate Editor.
CBS NEWS - 60 Minutes
A Crime Against Humanity
Previously
unheard testimony and unseen images bore shocking witness to the 2013 Syrian
sarin gas attacks.
Scott
Pelley, Correspondent; Jeff Fager, Executive Producer; Bill Owens, Executive
Editor; Nicole Young, Producer; Katie Kerbstat, CoProducer; Amjad Tadros,
CoProducer; Ali Rawaf, Associate Producer; Jorge J. Garcia, Editor; Dan
Bussell, Chris Everson, Ian Robbie, Camera; Anton van der Merwe and Everett
Wong, Sound.
Cronkite News | Arizona PBS
Hooked: Tracking Heroin's Hold on
Arizona
A local
student/professional partnership highlighted a flourishing but hidden heroin
epidemic in Arizona.
Jacqueline
Petchel, Mark Lodato, Executive Producers; Erin Patrick O'Connor,
Director/Editor; Elizabeth Blackburn, Producer/Assistant Editor; Sandy Balazic,
Lauren Loftus, Hunter Marrow, Reporters; Sean Logan, Jessica Boehm, Dominick
DiFurio, Emilie Eaton, Danielle Grobmeier, Lauren Handley, Vivian Padilla,
Hannah Lawrence, Liliana Salgado, Reporters/Photographers; Jim Jacoby,
Production Manager.
FRONTLINE - PBS
Ebola Outbreak & Outbreak
Two separate
comprehensive Ebola hours combined to dominate coverage of this tragic
international story.
Ebola Outbreak
David
Fanning, Executive Producer; Raney AronsonRath (CJS '95), Deputy Executive
Producer; Eamonn Matthews, Executive Producer, Quicksilver Media; Dan Edge,
Senior Producer; Andrew Metz, Series Senior Editor; Wael Dabbous,
Producer/Director/Camera, Shaunagh Connaire, Reporter.
Outbreak
David
Fanning, Executive Producer; Raney AronsonRath, Deputy Executive Producer;
Andrew Metz, Series Senior Editor; Dan Edge, Director/Producer; Sasha Joelle
Achilli, CoProducer.
FRONTLINE - PBS
Growing Up Trans
An artful
feature length documentary presented a poignant, cleareyed examination of the
complex world of transgender children.
Raney
AronsonRath, Executive Producer; David Fanning, Executive Producer at Large;
Andrew Metz, Series Senior Editor; Karen O'Connor, Producer; Miri Navasky,
Producer
HBO
HBO
Documentary Films in association with Sky Atlantic and Jigsaw Productions
Going Clear: Scientology and the
Prison of Belief
A
blockbuster feature length documentary exposé of Scientology challenged
powerful interests head on.
Alex Gibney,
Writer/Producer/Director; Sheila Nevins, Executive Producer for HBO; Sara
Bernstein, Supervising Producer for HBO; Lawrence Wright, Kristen Vaurio,
Producers; Chris Wilson, Executive Producer, Sky Atlantic
HBO - Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
The Price of Glory
An
exceptional magazine investigation exposed the dark side of Qatar’s plan to
host the 2022 World Cup, from buying athletes to exploiting workers.
Josh Fine,
Producer; David Scott, Correspondent/Producer; J'13 Jake Rosenwasser, Associate
Producer; Joe Perskie, Senior Producer; Andy Bowley, Director of Photography;
Mike Long, Stuart Ash, Editor; Tim Walker, Coordinating Producer; Nick Dolin,
Senior Coordinating Producer; Bryant Gumbel, Host; Rick Bernstein, Executive
Producer
KMOV-TV & Craig Cheatham
The Injustice System: Cops, Courts
and Greedy Politicians
This
commercial-free hour-long documentary exposed a revenue-driven system of law
enforcement in St. Louis County.
Craig
Cheatham, Executive Producer/Investigative Reporter; Mike Murphy, General
Manager; Brian Thouvenot, Executive News Director; Jim Thomas, News
Photographer/Editor; Ryan Bellamy, Photographer/Editor.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Watershed moment: Great Lakes at a
Crossroads
An
informative multimedia project clearly illustrated the damage caused to the Great
Lakes by invasive species.
Dan Egan,
Reporter Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Erin Caughey, Bill Schulz, Multimedia
journalists; Lou Saldivar, Graphic artist; Mark Hoffman, Photojournalist.
VICE News
Selfie Soldiers: Russia's Army Checks
in to Ukraine
Innovative
reporting tracked Russian soldiers to Ukraine through their social media
accounts
Simon
Ostrovsky, Host/Producer; Shane Smith, Jason Mojica, Eddy Moretti, Suroosh
Alvi, Executive Producers; Martina Veltroni, Supervising Producer; Neha
Shastry, J'12 Nilo Tabrizy, Associate
Producers;
Mikhail
Galustov, Director of Photography; Dina Rayzman, Dmitriy Khavin, Editors;
Brittany Ross, Associate Editor.
WBAL-TV & Jayne Miller
Freddie Gray Investigation
Outstanding
local breaking news coverage of the death of Freddie Gray
Tim Tunison,
News Director; Jayne Miller, Lead Investigative Reporter.
WBEZ & This American Life
Serial: Season One
A
groundbreaking podcast series about the inadequacies of the criminal justice
system
Sarah
Koenig, Host/Executive Producer; Julie Snyder, Executive Producer; J'09 Dana
Chivvis, Producer; Ira Glass, Editorial Advisor; Emily Condon, Production &
Operations Manager.
WETA
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
An ambitious
documentary series tackled a challenging topic with depth, context and
humanity.
Ken Burns,
Executive Producer, CoWriter; J'86 Barak Goodman, Series
Producer/Director/CoWriter; Dalton Delan, Pamela Oas Williams, David S.
Thompson, Laura Ziskin, Executive Producers; Siddhartha Mukherjee, Author;
Chris Durrance, Deborah Dickson, Jack Youngelson, Directors; Peter Livingston,
Karen Sim, Nancy Novack, Editors; Geoffrey Ward, David Blistein, CoWriters
WNYC
NYPD Bruised
The hard
hitting series of investigative radio reports used data analysis to show
questionable NYPD practices.
Jim
Schachter, Vice President, News; Robert Lewis, Investigative Reporter; David L.
Lewis, Metropolitan Editor; Noah Veltman, Data News Reporter; John Keefe,
Senior Editor, Data News.
WRAL-TV
Journey Alone
An
enlightening short documentary about the surge in illegal immigration of
unaccompanied minors and its impact on North Carolina
Leyla
Santiago, Anchor/Reporter; Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL.com Reporter; Rick Gall,
News Director; Aysu Basaran, Assistant News Director; Zac Gooch,
Photographer/Editor; Steve Loyd, Graphic Artist.
Special Finalist Citation KCBS Radio
Unholy Water
An unvarnished
series of investigative radio reports exposes a church soaking the homeless
overnight to keep them from sleeping on the church steps.
Doug Sovern,
Reporter; Ed Cavagnaro, Director of News & Programming.
