Las Vegas Sun wins duPont broadcasting award for multimedia project

A multimedia project from a newspaper has for the first time been recognised with one of the US broadcasting industry's most prestigious awards.

The 13 winners of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards were announced late yesterday by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

The Las Vegas Sun took one of the Silver Baton awards for its multimedia reporting on gambling addiction. Rory Peck Award winner and freelance journalist Najibullah Quraishi was also named as a duPont winner for his documentary "Behind Taliban Lines" for Frontline. Regional TV stations were also honoured with five winning prizes for reports ranging from stories of wasted tax payers' money on a local ferry system to investigations into powerful local authorities.

CBS News, ABC News, NPR and BBC World News America were also named winners.

The winners of the awards, which were established in 1942 to recognise excellence in broadcast journalism, will receive their prizes at a ceremony on 20 January 2011.

The winners

9News/KUSA-TV, Denver "9News at 10, Keys to the Castle"

ABC News, 20/20 Brian Ross Investigates: "The Coach's Secret"

BBC America, BBC World News America: "Haiti's Earthquake"

CBS News: 60 Minutes, "The Blowout"

KCET Los Angeles, "Up In Smoke," "Protected or Neglected?," "Hung Out to Dry?"

KING-TV, Seattle & Susannah Frame "Waste on the Water"

NPR & Laura Sullivan "Bonding for Profit"

POV & Geoffrey Smith "The English Surgeon on PBS"

The Las Vegas Sun, "Bottoming Out: Gambling Addiction in Las Vegas"

West Virginia Public Broadcasting & Trey Kay, "The Great Textbook War"

WGBH, FRONTLINE & Najibullah Quraishi "Behind Taliban Lines"

WKOW-TV, Madison & Dan Cassuto, "Who's Protecting You?"

WTHR-TV, Indianapolis & Bob Segall, "Reality Check: Where Are the Jobs?"

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