from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, January 12th.

Let's recognize some of the best journalism of the last year. Last night at Columbia University, they handed out this year's

DuPont Columbia Awards for Excellence in Broadcast and Digital Journalism. Winners included ABC News

for its expose of the plastics recycling industry, New Hampshire Public Radio for its

investigation into sexual misconduct at a local

addiction treatment network. The reporter even faced vandalism and other retaliation for her work.

The six-hour Ken Burns-Lin Novick documentary on PBS called The U.S. and the Holocaust

and others that will mention as we go and with us now

is New Yorker magazine contributor in Columbia Journalism School Dean, Jelani Cobb, who presided

over the award ceremony last night for these awards considered the most prestigious in broadcast

and digital journalism. Some people call them the Pulitzer's of broadcast news.

Jelani, always good to have you. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you. How are you, Brian?

I'm doing okay. Thanks. All right, let's play a clip from one of the winners accepting an award last

night. Lauren Chulgin from New Hampshire Public Radio. Got to give props to a public radio station that earned an

award for its investigation and her investigation into sexual misconduct at a local addiction

treatment network. The reporter Lauren Children even faced vandalism and other retaliation

for her work as she references in her acceptance speech here.

A lot has been written about the vandalism we faced, the lawsuit, as you heard,

but how dark of a moment it is for journalism to see that we face such repercussions.

But I'm choosing to see this as a triumph. I'm choosing to remember that women chose journalism when they didn't have an answer to such a big, unsolvable problem.

They chose telling us their stories when they felt they had no answers.

They taught us that recovery is difficult and beautiful and that it obviously should not come, it should not be a time to be

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