Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism Hosted by Bob Woodruff

Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism Hosted by Bob Woodruff

Premieres on PBS Beginning January 15 (check local listings)

Thirteen/WNET airtime Tuesday, January 20th at 10:00 pm

NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- How we get the news is changing. Media partnerships, low-cost digital production, Internet news sites targeting younger audiences -- all of these trends are part of the changing face of broadcast news. They are also all evident in the winners of this year's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.

Telling the Truth: The Best in Broadcast Journalism, which premieres on PBS stations beginning on Thursday, January 15, showcases the outstanding reporting that won duPont Awards this year and offers a glimpse of this new, emerging media landscape. Hosted by Bob Woodruff, the program features excerpts from the 13 news reports that have earned Gold and Silver duPont Batons, as well as insightful interviews with many of the television and radio journalists who produced them.

Opening the program is the story behind a gripping combat report produced by ABC News Nightline and narrated by Brian Ross. The Other War is based on field reporting by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, who were on assignment for Vanity Fair in northeast Afghanistan, a front that until recently has received far less press attention than the war in Iraq.

Another award-winning international report featured in the program was produced by Christof Putzel for Current TV, which broadcasts on the growing array of digital and satellite channels as well as streaming stories on the Web. Putzel explains that he decided to report on the rise of neo-Nazi skinhead groups in the former Soviet Union after noticing the viral proliferation of homemade videos showing skinheads beating up immigrants on streets of Russian cities.

Telling the Truth concludes with coverage produced by WFAA-TV in Dallas, the first local television station ever to receive a duPont Gold Baton.

The winners of the 2009 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, administered by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, will receive their Gold and Silver Batons in a ceremony at Columbia on January 22.

Telling the Truth is produced by RAINmedia in association with the Journalism School and Thirteen/WNET. The program is funded by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. Produced by Will Cohen and Martin Smith. Directed by Will Cohen and written by Martin Smith. Executive in Charge for Thirteen/WNET: Stephen Segaller.

Source: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

CONTACT: Abi Wright of Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism, +1-212-854-5047, Cell, +1-917-456-2571, Aew2113@columbia.edu

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