Gray’s InvestigateTV and WANF Presented with 2024 duPont-Columbia Award
January 26 2024 - 12:00PM
Columbia Journalism School announced the 15 winners of the 2024
duPont-Columbia Awards during a special ceremony last night
highlighting outstanding audio and video reporting in the public
interest, including InvestigateTV, Gray Television Inc.’s (“Gray”)
(NYSE: GTN) national investigative unit, and WANF, Gray’s Atlanta
CBS affiliate. ABC World News Tonight Anchor David Muir and CNN
Anchor and Correspondent Audie Cornish hosted the ceremony at the
Low Memorial Library on Columbia University’s campus. Their award
recognizes the outstanding work of both teams on the multi-part
investigative series “The Sixth,” which exposed a critical shortage
of public defenders in Georgia and many other states, where
defendants can languish in jail for months, even years, awaiting
trial.
The duPont-Columbia Awards noted the "innovative
collaboration” of the production team of Investigative Reporter
Andy Pierrotti, Investigative Photographer Luke Carter, Managing
Editor Jamie Grey, and Executive Producer of Investigations Lindsey
Basye.
“Gray will commit every resource necessary to
investigative journalism that uncovers injustices and the solutions
needed to help real people who are impacted,” Gray’s Chief
Operating Officer Sandy Breland said. “This honor demonstrates how
our national unit and local investigators can join forces to shine
an even brighter light on issues that affect all of our
communities.”
For more than 80 years, the duPont-Columbia Awards
have recognized professionals and projects that “uphold the highest
standards in journalism by honoring winners annually, informing the
public about those journalists’ contributions, and supporting
journalism education and innovation.”
InvestigateTV launched in 2018 and provides innovative, original
journalism from a dedicated investigative team and partners,
including News21 at Arizona State University’s Cronkite
School of Journalism, and NerdWallet. In 2023, it expanded to
a daily, 30-minute news magazine, InvestigateTV+, which airs in all
113 Gray
markets. About
Gray:
Gray Television, Inc. is a multimedia company headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia. Gray is the nation’s largest owner of top-rated
local television stations and digital assets in the United States.
Its television stations serve 113 television markets that
collectively reach approximately 36 percent of US television
households. This portfolio includes 80 markets with the top-rated
television station and 102 markets with the first and/or second
highest rated television station. Gray also owns video program
companies Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, and PowerNation
Studios, as well as the studio production facilities Assembly
Atlanta and Third Rail Studios. Gray owns a majority interest in
Swirl Films. For more information, please visit www.gray.tv.
Gray Contact:
Sandy Breland, Executive Vice President, Chief
Operating Officer, 404-266-8333
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