CNN and PBS took home two prizes apiece, headlining Monday’s duPont-Columbia Awards handed out by Columbia Journalism School.
Founded in 1942, the awards aim to uphold journalism standards, inform the public about accomplishments by video and audio journalists, and support journalism education and innovation.
CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz hosted the award ceremony, which returned to an in-person event for the first time in three years. A video stream of the 90-minute event is available here.
“Tonight’s honorees are recognized for the quality of their work,” O’Donnell said at the start of the show. “This truly phenomenal journalism. But we also want to recognize the courage it took to embark on reporting these difficult stories and the doggedness to complete them.”
Nawaz gave a shout-out to her father, who graduated from Columbia’s journalism school. “He taught
me to always ask tough questions,...
Founded in 1942, the awards aim to uphold journalism standards, inform the public about accomplishments by video and audio journalists, and support journalism education and innovation.
CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz hosted the award ceremony, which returned to an in-person event for the first time in three years. A video stream of the 90-minute event is available here.
“Tonight’s honorees are recognized for the quality of their work,” O’Donnell said at the start of the show. “This truly phenomenal journalism. But we also want to recognize the courage it took to embark on reporting these difficult stories and the doggedness to complete them.”
Nawaz gave a shout-out to her father, who graduated from Columbia’s journalism school. “He taught
me to always ask tough questions,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount Plus released a trailer for the fifth season of “The Good Fight,” which will premiere on June 24.
In the fifth season, Diane (Christine Baranski) is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz (Audra McDonald) after the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa (Sarah Steele) and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner (Mandy Patinkin), a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop.
The cast also includes Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi, Zach Grenier and Charmaine Bingwa.
Showrunners Robert and Michelle King co-created the series with Phil Alden Robinson. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Brooke Kennedy, Liz Glotzer, William Finkelstein, Jonathan Tolins and Jacquelyn Reingold also serve as executive producers.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Apple TV Plus announced that the documentary special “Who Are You,...
In the fifth season, Diane (Christine Baranski) is forced to question whether it’s appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz (Audra McDonald) after the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa (Sarah Steele) and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner (Mandy Patinkin), a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his own courtroom in the back of a copy shop.
The cast also includes Michael Boatman, Nyambi Nyambi, Zach Grenier and Charmaine Bingwa.
Showrunners Robert and Michelle King co-created the series with Phil Alden Robinson. Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Brooke Kennedy, Liz Glotzer, William Finkelstein, Jonathan Tolins and Jacquelyn Reingold also serve as executive producers.
Also in today’s TV news roundup:
Dates
Apple TV Plus announced that the documentary special “Who Are You,...
- 6/4/2021
- by Antonio Ferme
- Variety Film + TV
Media job change worth noting: Mark Whitaker -- the former editor of Newsweek and the late Tim Russert's successor as Washington bureau chief for NBC News -- is jumping to CNN. Whitaker, who joined NBC in 2007 after eight years at Newsweek and the Washington Post Company, will be executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide, a newly-created position. (Whitaker is pictured left with Howard Kurtz.) He'll oversee "editorial coverage across CNN’s multiple platforms and influence the overall approach, tone and direction of CNN’s reporting." More from the release: As managing editor,...
- 1/28/2011
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
By Dylan Stableford
On Tuesday's "View" while discussing the late night chaos over at NBC, Barbara Walters revealed that executives at the Peacock network tried to woo her away from ABC last summer.
Walters said that in June Jeff Zucker, NBC News president Steve Capus and Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker "made me an offer to come back to NBC News." Walters was the show's first female co-host in the mid-70s.
Here's the transcript, via TVNewser:
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On Tuesday's "View" while discussing the late night chaos over at NBC, Barbara Walters revealed that executives at the Peacock network tried to woo her away from ABC last summer.
Walters said that in June Jeff Zucker, NBC News president Steve Capus and Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker "made me an offer to come back to NBC News." Walters was the show's first female co-host in the mid-70s.
Here's the transcript, via TVNewser:
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- 1/12/2010
- by Dylan Stableford
- The Wrap
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