#97: Eva Orner on The Making of "Surviving Ohio State"
“Surviving Ohio State” is a 2026 duPont-Columbia Award-winning documentary that follows the heartbreaking testimonies of former Ohio State U...
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#96: Alice Driver on Her Lukas Prize-Winning Book
Author and journalist Alice Driver remembers her first time meeting people from other countries as a child in rural Arkansas – they were all...
#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 O...
#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 d...
#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...
#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...
#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 Pil...
#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...
#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.” –"Leave N...
#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 “Stolen:...
#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 duPont-w...
#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, hi...
#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 unequivoca...
#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 whe...
#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...
#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, host, an...
#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 indic...
#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...
#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...