On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
On Assignment brings you some of the best conversations from the Columbia Journalism School, produced and hosted by the school's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The duPont-Columbia Awards honor the best in audio-visual reporting across platforms including broadcast, documentary, local...
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#95: Local Hero Phil Williams
Phil Williams, titan of local journalism, five-time duPont-Columbia Award winner and dubbed “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch” - by satirist John Oliver - ta...
#94: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow & Dean Jelani Cobb on Covering American Politics
“I don't want to have my chain yanked. I do not want to report on things in the news because a bad faith actor is driving me to do that. I do not pla...
#93 Correspondent Matt Gutman and His ABC News Producing Team on Tracking Trash
“If we're not looking at these issues and understanding them for what they actually are - not just what we hope they are - I don't see much of a brig...
#92 Revisiting HBO Real Sports’ David Scott as an Era Comes to an End
“We have all these new media forms. But we haven't really found one that does what the old school news magazine still do well, which is sit across fro...
#91 “The Janes” Doc Directors on Its Relevance Today
“These were just ordinary women turned outlaws.” - Director Tia Lessin
Directors of the 2023 DuPont award-winning film ‘The Janes’, Emma...
#90 CNN's Jake Tapper with Dean Jelani Cobb
“The incentive structures in the worlds of politics and news media… are geared towards division and not just division, but demonizing people. And it'...
#89: The New Yorker's Masha Gessen with Dean Jelani Cobb
#89: The New Yorker's Masha Gessen with Dean Jelani Cobb by On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
#88: “Leave No Trace” Director Irene Taylor on the Boy Scouts’ Hidden History
“I respect the Boy Scouts. I respect what they were founded on. But there was a really dark side and no one was talking about it.”
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#87: "Stolen's" Connie Walker on Her Personal Story with a Nationwide Reach
“We all understand just how easily history is forgotten. And this history is being actively destroyed.”
–Podcast Host Connie Walker
#86: Erika Alexander on Finding Tamika
“They had told the story of how Tamika died, but not how she lived.”
—Podcast Producer Erika Alexander
“Finding Tamika” is the 2023...
#85: “Navalny”: Daniel Roher’s Real Life Political Thriller
“People are often surprised when they watch the film and they realize that it's sort of a dark comedy.”
“Navalny” follows Alexei Navalny,...
#84: Arizona Law Enforcement Under Fire: ABC 15's Dave Biscobing
“I've seen officers lie in reports or stretching the truth -- that's not new - - but to entirely make something up completely and unequivocally, that...
#83: NBC Bay Area’s “The Moms of Magnolia Street”
“We knew it was important to let the cameras continue to roll live. But I'll be honest, we were nervous about where this was going to go when we saw t...
#82: Director Malachy Browne on the January 6th “Day of Rage”
“We understood the magnitude of the event fairly early on and the need to start collecting evidence…That's how we think of this. As evidence, not just...
#81: Revisiting Ira Glass Behind the Scenes at This American Life
“A story is an engine for feelings.”
- This American Life founder, host and producer Ira Glass
In 2019, This American Life founder...
#80: Director Loira Limbal’s Heartfelt Homage to Working Mothers
“I felt like I don't have to tell you how brutal racial capitalism is in the United States if I am showing you. I wanted capitalism to indict itself i...
#79: Nanfu Wang’s Brave COVID Doc Draws Dramatic Parallels
“Finding people who praise the government is easy. Finding people who are critical of the government is easy. What is the most difficult is convincing...
#78: CBS’s Norah O’Donnell On Her Toughest Story Yet: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military
“These women who join the military are just the finest…and the fact that they are being harassed and abused and driven from military service is really...
#77: Tracing Trauma with WNYC's KalaLea
In episode two of Season 15, WNYC’s KalaLea discusses how her 2022 duPont-Columbia award-winning audio series, "Blindspot: Tulsa Burning," immerses li...
#76: NPR's Laura Sullivan Talks Trash
NPR’s Laura Sullivan reveals the surprising twists and turns behind her 2022 duPont-award winning Planet Money piece, “Waste Land.” Stowed in boxes of...
#75: Ed Ou, director of A Different Kind of Force — Policing Mental Illness
Ed Ou is co-director of the duPont-Columbia award-winning documentary A Different Kind of Force — Policing Mental Illness. Ou joins host Lisa Cohen to...
#74: Ear Hustle's Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor are the co-creators and co-hosts of the 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning podcast Ear Hustle, a unique podcast produced...
#73: Isobel Yeung
Isobel Yeung talks about India Burning, her 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning work for Vice on Showtime and the importance of international journalis...
#72: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht on their duPont Award-winning documentary Crip Camp
Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht discuss their 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning documentary Crip Camp. The directors of the film, which was also nom...
#71: Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad and OSM's Shima Oliaee on Reporting “The Flag and the Fury”
Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee join duPont-Columbia Awards Director Lisa R. Cohen to discuss how they reported "The Flag and the Fury" which...
#70: KSTP News Director Kirk Varner on Covering George Floyd’s Murder and a Summer of Protest
KSTP News Director, Kirk Varner discusses the difficulty of reporting on the murder of George Floyd and the protests that rocked Minneapolis throughou...
#69: WNBC Anchor David Ushery on Covering Coronavirus from the Epicenter
David Ushery, discusses reporting on coronavirus last spring, as New York City became the epicenter of a pandemic. The WNBC team brought viewers vital...
#68: The Washington Post's Nadine Ajaka on the Value of Visual Forensics
Nadine Ajaka, The Washington Post’s senior producer for visual forensics, talks about her team’s reconstruction of the crackdown on peaceful protester...
#67 Radiolab's Latif Nasser on Finding "The Other Latif"
In this conversation with duPont Awards Director, Lisa R. Cohen and Executive Director of Prizes, Abi Wright, Radiolab's Latif Nasser discusses his po...
#66: Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz on their 2020 duPont Award-Winning Podcast, Bag Man
In our latest episode, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz discuss their duPont Award-winning podcast, Bag Man, which details the brazen wrongdoing of R...
#65: Donald G. McNeil Jr. with Michael Barbaro in our own "The Daily: This Is Your Life" episode
The New York Times’ Science and Health Reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr., was months ahead of the general public, as he foretold the disastrous effects of...
#64: Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
In our latest episode of On Assignment, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and duPont juror Mark Whitaker reflect on the lessons learned from Gates’ 202...
#63: Uncovering the Stories of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
In this month’s On Assignment episode, listen to the 2018 duPont-Award winning filmmakers describe the tenacious reporting required to produce “Let it...
#62: Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados
In this episode of On Assignment, CBS News 60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados go behind the scenes of their duPont-winning r...
#61: Revisiting Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice
In this episode of On Assignment, we revisit a conversation with Kai Wright and Kaari Pitkin, creators of the award-winning podcast Caught: The Lives...
#60: Revisiting Jelani Cobb and James Jacoby on Policing the Police
In this episode of On Assignment, we revisit a conversation from 2016 between New Yorker Staff Writer and Columbia Journalism Professor Jelani Cobb, F...
#59: Charlie Specht
WKBW's Charlie Specht talks with Professor Nina Alvarez about a reporting journey that took many unexpected turns: from covert emails sent anonymously...
#58: Clarissa Ward
In this episode of On Assignment, Clarissa Ward joins duPont Awards Director, Lisa R. Cohen for a conversation about how CNN managed to break story af...
#57: Joe Bruno and Michael Stolp
Local reporters Joe Bruno and Michael Stolp of WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina discuss their duPont Award winning reporting “Something Suspicious in...
#56: Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin
Directors of the duPont winning documentary Love them First, Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin, talk with Director of the duPont-Columbia Awards, Lisa Co...