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 investigative, radio and interactive journalism. We started the On Assignment Podcast to go behind the scenes and bring you the conversations we were having with the leading journalists in the fiel ...
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#93 Correspondent Matt Gutman and His ABC News Producing Team on Tracking Trash
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“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 bright future, for my kids or anybody else's.”—Evan Simon, ABC News ProducerEver wonder if your plastic really gets recycled when you throw it in that bin? Lisa Cohen and Abi Wright speak to ABC News’ Chie…
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#92 Revisiting HBO Real Sports’ David Scott as an Era Comes to an End
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“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 from someone and look them in the eye and turn TV into a lie detector.“ --HBO Real Sports’ Correspondent David Scott Multiple duPont Award-winning journalist David Scott invited Prizes’ Executive Directo…
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#91 “The Janes” Doc Directors on Its Relevance Today
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“These were just ordinary women turned outlaws.” - Director Tia LessinDirectors of the 2023 DuPont award-winning film ‘The Janes’, Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin join journalist and J School Adjunct Professor Jessica Bruder for a lively conversation about their film that deep dives into an historic underground service for women seeking safe, affordable…
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#90 CNN's Jake Tapper with Dean Jelani Cobb
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“The incentive structures in the worlds of politics and news media… are geared towards division and not just division, but demonizing people. And it's very dangerous. It has already resulted in loss of life."-CNN’s Jake TapperJake Tapper is the CNN Chief Washington Correspondent, anchor of The Lead with Jake Tapper, and co-host of the Sunday mornin…
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#89: The New Yorker's Masha Gessen with Dean Jelani Cobb
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#88: “Leave No Trace” Director Irene Taylor on the Boy Scouts’ Hidden History
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“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.” –"Leave No Trace" Director Irene Taylor“Leave No Trace” is a 2023 duPont-Columbia Award winning documentary that exposes the stunning history of sexual abuse faced by over 80,000 young men and its subsequent cover up by…
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#87: "Stolen's" Connie Walker on Her Personal Story with a Nationwide Reach
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“We all understand just how easily history is forgotten. And this history is being actively destroyed.” –Podcast Host Connie Walker“Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s” is a 2023 duPont-winning series that uncovers the horrific abuse many young indigenous children–including the reporter’s own family–faced at a Canadian residential school.Host and inves…
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#86: Erika Alexander on Finding Tamika
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“They had told the story of how Tamika died, but not how she lived.”—Podcast Producer Erika Alexander“Finding Tamika” is the 2023 duPont-winning Audible series about Tamika Huston, a Black woman who went missing in 2004. The media paid scant attention, and she became a rallying cry for missing Black women and girls. But who was she outside of this …
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#85: “Navalny”: Daniel Roher’s Real Life Political Thriller
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“People are often surprised when they watch the film and they realize that it's sort of a dark comedy.”“Navalny” follows Alexei Navalny, his team and his family as he investigates his own poisoning, and heads back to Russia to meet his fate. Director Daniel Roher explains how he built a relationship with Russia’s most prominent opposition leader.…
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#84: Arizona Law Enforcement Under Fire: ABC 15's Dave Biscobing
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“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 just was really disturbing." - Dave Biscobing, ABC15 Chief Investigative ReporterDave Biscobing’s investigations of the Phoenix police department exposed both dishonest officers lying on the witness s…
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#83: NBC Bay Area’s “The Moms of Magnolia Street”
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“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 those armored vehicles show up.” - VP of News Stephanie Adrouny, NBC Bay AreaThe 2022 duPont-winning documentary “The Moms of Magnolia Street” follows three mothers who protest Oakland’s affordable hou…
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#82: Director Malachy Browne on the January 6th “Day of Rage”
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“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 cover or B-roll.”— New York Times Visual Investigations Lead Malachy Browne on the January 6 Capitol riots.“Day of Rage” is the duPont-Columbia award-winning, New York Times visual investigation of t…
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#81: Revisiting Ira Glass Behind the Scenes at This American Life
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“A story is an engine for feelings.” - This American Life founder, host and producer Ira GlassIn 2019, This American Life founder, host, and producer Ira Glass gave his special brand of insight into how he crafts “This American Life,” from story inception, to reporting, writing, and production. We revisit his preeminent editorial style that paved t…
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#80: Director Loira Limbal’s Heartfelt Homage to Working Mothers
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“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 in the film.” -- director and producer Loira LimbalIn her 2022 duPont Award-winning documentary “Through the Night,” filmmaker Loira Limbal intimately captured the burdens on working mothers and puts a…
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#79: Nanfu Wang’s Brave COVID Doc Draws Dramatic Parallels
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“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 some people who are ordinary citizens who have information to come out and speak up. ”--- director and producer Nanfu WangBởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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#78: CBS’s Norah O’Donnell On Her Toughest Story Yet: Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military
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“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 a national security issue.” --- CBS Managing Editor and Anchor Norah O’DonnellBởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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#77: Tracing Trauma with WNYC's KalaLea
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In episode two of Season 15, WNYC’s KalaLea discusses how her 2022 duPont-Columbia award-winning audio series, "Blindspot: Tulsa Burning," immerses listeners in the past, embedding them in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, while threading the impact of generational trauma through to the present.Bởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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#76: NPR's Laura Sullivan Talks Trash
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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 old lobbying documents in private family homes, away from public view, Laura finds out that the oil and gas industry knew all along that plastic recycling would never work – a revelation that led her…
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#75: Ed Ou, director of A Different Kind of Force — Policing Mental Illness
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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 talk about the process of creating a nuanced and intimate documentary that tackles two of the most fraught subjects in American life — police violence and mental illness.…
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#74: Ear Hustle's Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
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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 in San Quentin State Prison. In this interview, they recount the origin story of this unlikely project, offer insight on the challenges of reporting inside prison, and share the true definiton of "ea…
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Isobel Yeung talks about India Burning, her 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning work for Vice on Showtime and the importance of international journalism. Visit our website: www.onassignmentpodcast.comVisit the duPont awards website: www.duPont.orgFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/columbiajournLike is on Facebook: facebook.com/duPontColumbiaAwards…
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#72: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht on their duPont Award-winning documentary Crip Camp
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Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht discuss their 2021 duPont Columbia Award-winning documentary Crip Camp. The directors of the film, which was also nominated for an Oscar, speak candidly about topics like disability representation in the media, the film's relationship to present-day grassroots movements, and what it was like to get edit notes from th…
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#71: Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad and OSM's Shima Oliaee on Reporting “The Flag and the Fury”
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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 won a 2021 duPont award. They explain how what started as an historical audio documentary turned into a breaking news story in the summer of 2020 and the ways they handled that change.Visit our websit…
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#70: KSTP News Director Kirk Varner on Covering George Floyd’s Murder and a Summer of Protest
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KSTP News Director, Kirk Varner discusses the difficulty of reporting on the murder of George Floyd and the protests that rocked Minneapolis throughout the summer of 2020. In this conversation with duPont Awards Director Lisa R. Cohen, Varner tells behind-the-scenes stories about split second newsroom decisions, like when a truck drove through prot…
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#69: WNBC Anchor David Ushery on Covering Coronavirus from the Epicenter
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David Ushery, discusses reporting on coronavirus last spring, as New York City became the epicenter of a pandemic. The WNBC team brought viewers vital life and death information about COVID, day after day, in real time. Their reporting won a 2021 duPont-Columbia award. In this conversation with duPont Awards Director, Lisa R. Cohen, Ushery recounts…
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#68: The Washington Post's Nadine Ajaka on the Value of Visual Forensics
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Nadine Ajaka, The Washington Post’s senior producer for visual forensics, talks about her team’s reconstruction of the crackdown on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square in Washington D.C which won a 2021 duPont-Columbia award. By analyzing visual evidence, Ajaka and her team meticulously recreated the moments leading up to Donald Trump’s infamou…
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#67 Radiolab's Latif Nasser on Finding "The Other Latif"
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In this conversation with duPont Awards Director, Lisa R. Cohen and Executive Director of Prizes, Abi Wright, Radiolab's Latif Nasser discusses his podcast "The Other Latif". Tune in as Nasser talks the challenges of reporting on Guantanamo Bay, reveals how he initially found this story via a tweet, and reflects on his own identity as a Muslim livi…
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#66: Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz on their 2020 duPont Award-Winning Podcast, Bag Man
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In our latest episode, Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz discuss their duPont Award-winning podcast, Bag Man, which details the brazen wrongdoing of Richard Nixon’s Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew -- and why so many have forgotten about him altogether.Bởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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#65: Donald G. McNeil Jr. with Michael Barbaro in our own "The Daily: This Is Your Life" episode
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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 COVID-19 early last spring. The winner of the 2020 John Chancellor Excellence in Journalism award-winner has been informing audiences of The Times’ podcast The Daily, and he’s joined here by The Dail…
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#64: Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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In our latest episode of On Assignment, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and duPont juror Mark Whitaker reflect on the lessons learned from Gates’ 2020 duPont-winning documentary series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. The conversation is timely, as the nation reckons with the current fragile political climate, and the country’s legacy …
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#63: Uncovering the Stories of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
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In this month’s On Assignment episode, listen to the 2018 duPont-Award winning filmmakers describe the tenacious reporting required to produce “Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992.” Director John Ridley and ABC News Producers Jeanmarie Condon, Melia Patria and Fatima Curry revisit the newly relevant documentary about the decade preceding the Rodney …
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#62: Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados
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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 reports on the US-Mexico Border. They describe basement meetings, months of back-and-forth with government sources, and having a U.S. president criticize their reporting. They also talk about how they …
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#61: Revisiting Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice
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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 of Juvenile Justice. The WNYC series showed the human side of the web-like juvenile justice system by giving young people the chance to tell their stories in their own words.…
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#60: Revisiting Jelani Cobb and James Jacoby on Policing the Police
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In this episode of On Assignment, we revisit a conversation from 2016 between New Yorker Staff Writer and Columbia Journalism Professor Jelani Cobb, FRONTLINE Producer James Jacoby, and Columbia Journalism Professor Betsy West about Cobb and Jacoby’s documentary Policing the Police. The film examines the troubled Newark, New Jersey police departmen…
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WKBW's Charlie Specht talks with Professor Nina Alvarez about a reporting journey that took many unexpected turns: from covert emails sent anonymously from inside the church, to parking lot meetings, from undercover recordings to Specht’s own conflicted personal ties as a devout Catholic.Bởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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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 after story on Khashoggi’s disappearance; how she has handled challenging reporting situations, including trauma self-care; and the creative ways she has continued reporting on COVID-19.…
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Local reporters Joe Bruno and Michael Stolp of WSOC in Charlotte, North Carolina discuss their duPont Award winning reporting “Something Suspicious in District 9.”Bởi On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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Directors of the duPont winning documentary Love them First, Lindsey Seavert and Ben Garvin, talk with Director of the duPont-Columbia Awards, Lisa Cohen (Serving Life) about their film. The documentary, built on unprecedented year-long access, is an intimate portrait of a North Minnesota elementary school and its visionary principal. Seavert and G…
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