du-Pont Award Wins for Reveal and FRONTLINE
PRX is proud to share that two of our key investigative journalism partners won Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards this week. FRONTLINE PBS received the du-Pont Gold Baton, the award’s highest honor, and Reveal won two awards.
Of the 16 winners this year, 12 of the Batons will be awarded to reporting teams led by women. According to the Columbia announcement, the 2019 winners also highlight the growth in newsroom partnerships that pool resources and skills to deliver impactful news stories.
FRONTLINE PBS received the du-Pont Gold Baton, the award’s highest honor and the first awarded in a decade. PRX is a partner on the FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast. The award honored their work on “Living with Murder,” a two-part story about a series of Supreme Court rulings that found the sentences of thousands of inmates who committed their crimes as juveniles to be unconstitutional.
“This Gold Baton is an acknowledgement of FRONTLINE’s evolution from a longstanding documentary series to a multi-platform journalism organization, that is also committed to uncovering vital stories and telling them in new ways. From our long-form documentaries, to our audio stories, to our digital interactives — it is an incredible honor to have the full breadth of FRONTLINE’s work this year recognized by the duPont jury in this way.” — FRONTLINE Executive Producer Raney Aronson-Rath (read more in the FRONTLINE press release)
Each episode of the FRONTLINE Dispatch focuses on uncovering crucial domestic and international stories, with the same authenticity and transparency that you’ve come to expect from FRONTLINE’s award-winning documentaries.
Reveal won the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for “Kept Out,” an investigation that exposed troubling home mortgage denials to African Americans and Latinos.
“Kept Out” was based on a yearlong analysis of 31 million mortgage records. It found that in 61 cities across America people of color were more likely to be turned down for a loan, even when they made the same amount of money, tried to take out the same size loan, and wanted to buy in the same neighborhood as their white counterparts.
Columbia said Reveal produced a “painstakingly researched exposé on modern day ‘redlining,’” which provided “a meticulous, multi-platform indictment of today’s banking system.”
“PRX is proud to work with our colleagues at The Center for Investigative Reporting to ensure this modern-day redlining story reaches as many listeners as possible and was customized for stations to localize their own probes into banks and discriminatory lending.” — PRX Chief Content Officer John Barth
“Kept Out” aired in February, 2018 as an hour-long documentary on Reveal’s radio program and podcast, and as a two-part series on PBS NewsHour. The Associated Press partnered on the data analysis and distributed a series of print stories to its members, along with customized local data about lending disparities in each market.
