| Recipient[2] |
Area of Excellence
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| CNN
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Coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings
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| TED.com
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Award to the website for "[making] creative thinkers and their ideas available everywhere, anytime"
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| American Experience in association with Apograph Productions, Firelight Media and Q-Ball Productions (presented on PBS)
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American Experience, for the documentaries "Triangle Fire", "Freedom Riders", and "Stonewall Uprising"
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| NPR
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"Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families", a 3-part report on the illegal practice by 33 states of separating Native American children from their families or tribes
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| American Documentary/POV/Red Square Productions, Bungalow Town Productions, ITVS International in association with YLE
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POV: My Perestroika
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| Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions, Comedy Central
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The Colbert Report, for its segments on Super PAC funding of political campaigns
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| CNN, Done & Dusted (aka Fun & Trusted)
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CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute
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| StoryCorps, NPR, POV, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
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StoryCorps recollections of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Morning Edition and YouTube
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| BBC.com
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Awarded in recognition of the website's "immediate, evolving coverage of news events great and small"
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| Loud Mouth Films, Limited, Independent Television Service (airing on KBDI/Denver, CO and other NETA stations)
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Who Killed Chea Vichea?
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| Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB Jade)
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News Magazine, for the reports "People's Republic of Cheating" (probes of academic plagiarism) and "Misjudged Cases" (probes of unjust arrests and prosecutions)
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| Showtime Presents, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21
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Homeland
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| Fuji Television
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The Untold Stories of the Tsunami in Japan
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| The New Yorker and Human Rights Watch
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Awards for the online reports "Acting Up: Russia's Civil Society" (documenting Russian dissidents) and "Gold's Costly Dividend: The Porgera Joint Venture" (report on abuse by security at a Papua New Guinea mine)
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| Clover and A Bee Films, 33&Out, Inc. in association with HBO Documentary Films
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Earth Made of Glass
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| NPR
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Reports by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro on the Arab Spring uprisings
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| CNN
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Award for work by Fareed Zakaria, citing his GPS analysis on Iran and the special Restoring the American Dream: Fixing Education
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| Independent Lens and Bhutto Film, LLC
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Bhutto
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| Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
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Treme
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| Broadway Video and IFC
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Portlandia
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| KING-TV/Seattle, WA
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"Their Crime, Your Dime", an investigation of food stamp and welfare scams
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| BBC
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Somalia: Land of Anarchy
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| Al Jazeera English
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Coverage of "The Arab Awakening"
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| KPHO-TV/Phoenix, AZ
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"Toxic Secrets", a report on the effects of buried Agent Orange drums at a US Army Base in South Korea
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| Showtime Presents
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Rebirth
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| Bighead, Littlehead, 360 Television, Grok and Generator Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
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Game of Thrones
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| CBS News
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Undercover reports by Clarissa Ward (airing on The CBS Evening News with Scot Pelley) on the uprising within Syria
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| Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon
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Parks and Recreation
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| KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, NV
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"Desert Underwater", a series of reports on the housing crisis in Las Vegas and its effects
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| NHK
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Surviving the Tsunami
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| WEWS-TV/Cleveland, OH
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"Operation Deep Freeze", a report on United States Navy personnel exposed to radiation at a base in Antarctica
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| Quest Productions, Bread and Butter Films in association with Thirteen's American Masters for WNET/New York, NY
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Charles and Ray Eames – The Architect and the Painter
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| Public Television Service
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A Year in the Clouds
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| ABC News
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20/20, for the report "Peace Corps – A Trust Betrayed", an expose of a murder and sexual assaults — and related cover-ups — involving the humanitarian program's operations in Africa
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| GlobalPost.com
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Award for the website's On Location posts
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| Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa, Curious Pictures Pty Ltd, Ants Multimedia, SABC Education (airing on SABC 1)
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Intersexions
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| Austin City Limits (KLRU-TV/Austin, TX and PBS)
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Institutional Award for the live music performance program
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| Sony Pictures Television
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Jeopardy!
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