CBS News, Current TV Win DuPont-Columbia Journalism Awards

Reporting on Syria, Mexican drug war among those recognized

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/19/2012 1:41:54 PM

CBS News and Current TV were among the winners of the 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards, announced Wednesday by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was recognized for a series of reports from inside Syria by CBS News foreign correspondent Clarissa Ward on the lives of the rebels fighting in the uprising and the suffering of the people of Idlib.

Current TV's Vanguard series was honored for the hour-long program "Arming the Mexican Cartel," an investigation by correspondent Christof Putzel and his producing partners the Renaud Brothers into the front lines of the Mexican drug war and the flow of guns into Mexico from the United States.

The full list of 2013 winners, which includes several local TV stations, can be found here.