NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Public television took four honors and public radio took one, when Columbia University announced this year's Alfred E. DuPont Award winners.
The PBS investigative series "Frontline" won three DuPont honors -- for investigations of industrial accidents, America's child welfare system and the effect on spirituality of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. PBS' "POV" won for a documentary about race relations in America.
National Public Radio won for its coverage of the war in Iraq.
ABC's "Nightline" anchor Ted Koppel won for a report based on his experience as an embedded journalist in Iraq. CBS News defense correspondent David Martin was honored for coverage during the lead-up to the war. HBO won a DuPont award for "LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton," a documentary about the relationship between education and poverty.
The DuPont Awards will be presented on Jan. 21 in New York, in ceremonies to be hosted by Koppel.
