On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards

Oct 03 2024 95 ep. 33 mins 444
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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 field, many of whom are also past duPont Award winners.

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#94: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow & Dean Jelani Cobb on Covering American Politics

Oct 03 2024 51 mins  
“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 do not play requests.’” – Rachel Maddow 2020 duPont-Columbia Award winner and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow talks to Dean Jelani Cobb about the urgency of reporting on the 2024 Presidential election. She also shares advice to young journalis

#93 Correspondent Matt Gutman and His ABC News Producing Team on Tracking Trash

May 24 2024 33 mins  
“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 Producer Ever wonder if your plastic really gets recycled when you throw it in that bin? Lisa Cohen and Abi Wright speak to ABC News’ Chief National Corresponden

#92 Revisiting HBO Real Sports’ David Scott as an Era Comes to an End

Dec 01 2023 37 mins  
“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 Director Abi Wright and duPont

#91 “The Janes” Doc Directors on Its Relevance Today

Nov 03 2023 35 mins  
“These were just ordinary women turned outlaws.” - Director Tia Lessin Directors 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, illegal abortions, in

#90 CNN's Jake Tapper with Dean Jelani Cobb

Oct 06 2023 47 mins  
“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 Tapper Jake Tapper is the CNN Chief Washington Correspondent, anchor of The Lead with Jake Tapper, and co-host of the Sunday morning public affairs program

#89: The New Yorker's Masha Gessen with Dean Jelani Cobb

Sep 01 2023 44 mins  
#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

Jul 07 2023 31 mins  
“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 The Boy Scouts of Am

#87: "Stolen's" Connie Walker on Her Personal Story with a Nationwide Reach

Jun 01 2023 28 mins  
“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 investigative jo

#86: Erika Alexander on Finding Tamika

May 05 2023 22 mins  
“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 tragedy? Podcast pr

#85: “Navalny”: Daniel Roher’s Real Life Political Thriller

Mar 09 2023 39 mins  
“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.