Monday, January 21, 2008

INDUSTRY:Stations and Networks Win DuPont Awards

by Barbara Fought
Stations in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, and yes even small a TV station in Monroe, La., won national awards last week. Broadcasting and Cable reports that both CBS' 60 Minutes , NBC and MSNBC also won awards. It's hard to tell the content of the winner stories from the titles but some related to justice, education, the Iraq war and crime. The small Louisiana station exposed looting by National Guard members during Katrina. The radio piece that won, from Chicago Public Radio, focused on discrimination a New Jersey Muslim family faced.

Note that several of these stations are owned by the Belo Corporation, which Newhouse faculty believe is one of the best companies around.

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