| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
IBM Presents Baryshnikov on Broadway |
| Amber Waves |
| BBC Television |
All Creatures Great and Small |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
The Wonderful World of Science |
| Peniel |
| CBS Entertainment |
Gideon's Trumpet |
| Playing for Time |
| CBS News |
Universe |
| Walter Cronkite |
Personal Award for his career in broadcast journalism |
| Phil Donahue |
Personal Award for his interview work on Donahue |
| Elaine Green (WCPO-TV/Cincinnati, OH) |
Personal Award for her interview with a gunman and admitted murderer who instigated a hostage crisis in the WCPO-TV studios |
| KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA, Adrian Malone, and Dr. Carl Sagan |
Cosmos |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here? |
| KTEH-TV/San Jose, CA, Carol Mon Pere, and Sandra Nichols |
The Battle of Westlands, a profile of the conflict between agri-business giants and small farmers in California's Central Valley |
| KUED-TV/Salt Lake City, UT and Thirteen/WNET/New York, NY |
"The MX Debate," an episode of Bill Moyers' Journal |
| Maryland Instructional Television |
Terra: Our World |
| Minnesota Public Radio |
A Prairie Home Companion |
| National Geographic Society and WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
The National Geographic Specials |
| National Public Radio |
Jazz Alive! |
| NBC Radio |
The Hallelujah Caucus, an examination of the influence of conservative religion on American politics and society |
| NBC and Paramount Television |
Shōgun |
| Mary Nissenson (WTVJ-TV/Miami, FL) |
Personal Award for Poland: A Changing Nation |
| Carroll O'Connor |
Personal Award for the "Archie Alone" episode of Archie Bunker's Place, which dealt with Archie's grief over the death of wife Edith |
| Public Broadcasting Service and Robert Geller |
The American Short Story |
| San Francisco Opera |
The San Francisco Opera Radio Broadcasts |
| Sol Taishoff |
Personal Award for his reportage and critiques on events in radio and television |
| Studs Terkel |
Personal Award for his work at WFMT/Chicago, IL |
| WNCN/New York, NY |
Institutional Award for overall performance as exemplified by Conversations with Horowitz |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| Bill Leonard |
Personal Award for Leonard's role "in developing the strong CBS News organization" |
| Danny Kaye |
Personal Award for Kaye's work on An Evening with Danny Kaye and The New York Philharmonic and Skokie |
| WSMV-TV/Nashville, TN |
Institutional Award for WSMV's documentary work, citing "Crime's Children," "Hot Cars, Cold Cash," "Split Second Justice" and "Crime's Carousel" |
| KATU-TV/Portland, OR |
Institutional Award for KATU's documentary work, citing "Ready on the Firing Line," "Out of the Ashes," and "To Begin Again" |
| WJR/Detroit, MI |
"Newsfile: A Bankrupt Court", a series of reports probing the inner workings of the U.S. District Bankruptcy Court |
| National Radio Theatre |
The Odyssey of Homer |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Carl Sandburg at Connemara |
| Timothy and Susan Todd |
The Todds' Teddy Bears Picnic |
| WQDR-FM/Raleigh, NC |
Our Forgotten Warriors: Vietnam Veterans Face the Challenges of the '80s |
| WLS-TV/Chicago, IL |
Award for WLS' Eyewitness News, citing the reports "Traffic Court: Justice or a Joke?" and "So You Need A Driver's License" |
| WDVM-TV/Washington, DC and John Goldsmith |
Now That We've Got Your Interest |
| NBC and MTM Enterprises |
Hill Street Blues |
| Nebraska Educational Television Network and The Great Amwell Company |
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed |
| CBS and Alan Landsburg Productions |
Bill |
| WNET/New York, NY and PBS |
Dance in America: Nureyev and The Joffrey Ballet/In Tribute to Nijinsky |
| KJRH-TV/Tulsa, OK |
Project: China |
| Home Box Office and Ms. Magazine |
She's Nobody's Baby: The History of American Women in the 20th Century (the first Peabody awarded to a cable program) |
| Societe Radio-Canada |
Klimbo: Le Lion et La Souris (The Lion and the Mouse) |
| ABC News |
Award for Viewpoint, Nightline, and America Held Hostage: The Secret Negotiations |
| ABC and T.A.T. Communications |
The Wave |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and Granada TV |
The Red Army |
| Eighth Decade Consortium (KOMO-TV, Seattle, WA, KSTP-TV/St. Paul, MN, WCVB-TV/Boston, MA, WJLA-TV/Washington, DC, and WRAL-TV/Raleigh, NC) |
Fed Up with Fear |
| KTEH-TV/San Jose, CA |
The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| Alistair Cooke |
Personal Award "for his contributions to broadcasting, both in the United States and in Great Britain" |
| Texaco, Inc., The Texaco Foundation, and Metropolitan Opera Association |
Institutional Award for opera presentations on radio and TV |
| National Public Radio |
The Sunday Show |
| Taylor Made Piano: A Jazz History |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Morningside, for "1905" |
| WMAL/Washington, DC |
"They Served With Honor," recollections of those who served in the Vietnam War |
| NBC Radio News |
Banks on the Brink, a Second Sunday report on the international banking crisis |
| Mutual Broadcasting System |
Larry King Show |
| Radio Foundation |
The Bob and Ray Public Radio Show |
| KOCO-TV/Oklahoma City, OK |
"Oklahoma Shame," an investigation into abuses and deaths in homes for mentally retarded residents run by the state's Department of Health Services |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
Ground Zero: Victory Road |
| KYW-TV/Philadelphia, PA |
Sweet Nothing, a documentary exploring "our society's excessive consumption of sugar" |
| BBC Television, Paramount Television, and Operation Prime Time |
Smiley's People |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA |
The Search for Alexander |
| Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment |
Award for Nickelodeon and the network's programming for children |
| NBC, Margie-Lee Enterprises, and The Blue Marble Company, in association with ITC Productions, Inc. |
Skeezer |
| NBC and Highgate Pictures |
The Electric Grandmother |
| NBC News |
The Man Who Shot the Pope: A Study in Terrorism |
| ABC News |
ABC News Closeup: Vietnam Requiem |
| CBS News |
Juilliard and Beyond: A Life in Music |
| CBS Entertainment and Cinetex International |
The Wall |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
Firebird |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett |
| KGMB-TV/Honolulu, HI and Lee Productions Inc. |
Beyond the Great Wall: Journey to the End of China |
| WAGA-TV/Atlanta, GA |
Paradise Saved? a documentary examining the effect of tourists on Cumberland Island National Seashore |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL |
"Killing Crime: A Police Cop-out," an investigation into the erasure of Chicago crime reports in order to create a decrease in crime statistics |
| WTSP/St Petersburg, FL |
"Prisoners of the Harvest," an investigation into the kidnapping, enslavement, and abuse of migrant farm workers by a farm labor contractor |
| Daniel Wilson Productions and Taurus Films |
Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler |
| Television Corporation of America |
784 Days That Changed America - From Watergate to Resignation |
| Recipient |
Area of excellence |
| Don McGannon |
Personal Award for his work at Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp. |
| CNN |
Institutional Award for the network's "significant news and information programming" |
| The Grand Ole Opry and WSM/Nashville, TN |
Institutional Award for the Opry's "important mark on both music and [through WSM] broadcasting in this country" |
| WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN |
"Debbie Pielow: Waiting for a Heart That Never Came," a series of reports on a Minnesota woman's efforts to receive a heart transplant |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN |
"I-TEAM: Ambulances," a report documenting less‑than‑satisfactory performances by some Twin Cities ambulance services |
| South Carolina Educational Radio Network |
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz |
| WMAL/Washington, DC |
The Jeffersonian World of Dumas Malone |
| KMOX/St. Louis, MO |
Times Beach: Born 1925, Died 1983, a series examining of the effects of dioxin on the Missouri town. |
| Thomas Looker |
New England Almanac: Portraits in Sound of New England Life and Landscape |
| WRAL-FM/Raleigh, NC |
Victims |
| WNBC-TV/New York, NY |
Asylum in the Streets, which examined the effects of de-institutionalization on mentally ill homeless |
| CBS News |
The Plane That Fell From the Sky, a documentary recounting the near-crash of a TWA jet in April 1979 |
| 60 Minutes, for the report "'Lenell Geter's in Jail," which examined a Texas man's conviction for armed robbery |
| CBS Entertainment and Smith-Hemion Productions |
Romeo and Juliet on Ice |
| CBS Entertainment and Mendelson-Melendez Productions |
What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? |
| Chrysalis-Yellen Productions and NBC |
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number |
| NBC and Motown Productions |
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever |
| NBC and Edgar J. Scherick Associates |
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' |
| WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL |
The Merry Widow |
| WTTW-TV/Chicago, IL and BBC |
The Making of a Continent |
| WTBS-TV/Atlanta, GA |
Portrait of America |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA |
Nova: The Miracle of Life |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA, Central Independent Television, and Antenne 2 |
Vietnam: A Television History |
| Sunbow Productions |
The Great Space Coaster |
| ABC and Dick Clark Productions |
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL |
Studebaker: Less Than They Promised, a documentary profiling the automobile manufacturer and the effects of its business, decline, and closure |
| WBRZ-TV/Baton Rouge, LA |
Give Me That Bigtime Religion, a profile of Jimmy Swaggart |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Climate of Death |
| KCTS/Seattle, WA |
Diagnosis: AIDS |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| ABC |
Heartsounds |
| ABC News |
ABC News Closeup: To Save Our Schools, To Save Our Children |
| Roone Arledge |
Personal Award for Arledge's leadership at ABC News and Sports and for his contributions to and influence on TV in general |
| Ted Koppel |
Personal Award for Koppel's work on ABC News' Nightline |
| KNX/Los Angeles, CA |
Award for KNX's reports on "The Immigration Problem" |
| WAFX/Fort Wayne, IN |
D-Day: 40 Years Later |
| Brigham Young University |
Bradbury 13 |
| WNYC/New York, NY |
Small Things Considered |
| Protestant Radio and Television Center |
The Protestant Hour |
| KDFW-TV/Dallas, TX |
"A Call for Help," a series of reports revealing deficiencies in the handling of EMS emergency calls |
| WMAQ-TV/Chicago, IL |
"Political Parasites," which revealed "deadwood" Illinois State Legislature committees and commissions, their purposes and costs |
| WDVM-TV/Washington, DC |
Award for the station's investigation into malpractice and unsafe abortions at a clinic run by Dr. Milan Vuitch |
| WCAX-TV/Burlington, VT |
"Patterns of Practice," an investigation into varied efficiency levels of Vermont hospitals in regards to surgical procedures and patient stays |
| KGW-TV/Portland, OR |
Award for reports on followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and how their settlement affected life in Central Oregon |
| WNET/New York, NY |
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews |
| The Brain |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, WNET/New York, NY, WETA-TV/Washington, DC, and Gannett Productions |
Award for NewsHour essays by Roger Rosenblatt |
| Corporation for Entertainment and Learning Inc., WNET/New York, NY, and KQED/San Francisco, CA |
A Walk Through the 20th Century With Bill Moyers |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN |
The Hollow Victory: Vietnam Under Communism, a documentary that examined life in the South Asian nation |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA |
Award to Frontline "for its total contribution to the world of exceptional television" |
| CBS Entertainment and The David Gerber Company |
George Washington |
| NBC and MTM Enterprises |
St. Elsewhere |
| Central Independent Television |
Seeds of Despair, a documentary revealing the drought and famine in Ethiopia |
| Turner Broadcasting System |
Cousteau/Amazon |
| Granada Television |
The Jewel in the Crown |
| KFGO/Fargo, ND |
Award for the station's "extraordinary emergency coverage" of a February 4, 1984 blizzard |
| Showtime |
Faerie Tale Theatre |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
Somerville High |
| WFMT/Chicago, IL and Raymond Nordstrand |
Institutional Award for WFMT's fine arts programming |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| Bob Geldof and Live Aid |
Personal Award for Geldof's efforts to aid famine victims in Ethiopia through the concert event |
| Johnny Carson |
Personal Award for Carson's work on The Tonight Show |
| WBZ-TV/Boston, MA |
Tender Places |
| KDKA-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
Second Chance, a documentary and follow-up public service campaign promoting organ donations and transplants |
| Lawrence Fraiberg |
Personal Award to the head of Westinghouse Broadcasting's stations division for his "mandate to serve the public interest" |
| WBUR-FM/Boston, MA |
Liberation Remembered |
| WGBH-FM/Boston, MA |
Institutional Award for WGBH's "overall programming and its leadership in state-of-the-art broadcasting" |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and The Blackwell Corporation |
Frontline, for "Crisis in Central America" |
| WHAS/Louisville, KY |
Down and Outside: On the Streets of Louisville |
| CBS News |
The Number Man — Bach at Three Hundred |
| Whose America Is It? |
| CBS Entertainment and Dave Bell Productions |
Do You Remember Love |
| Marjorie Van Halteren |
Breakdown and Back, a Van Halteren-produced radio series on mental illness |
| WCCO-TV/Minneapolis, MN |
"I-Team" investigation into abuses and shortcomings in the home health care industry |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
"Apartheid's People," a series examining daily life in South Africa |
| NBC |
An Early Frost |
| NBC News |
Vietnam Ten Years After |
| KGO-TV/San Francisco, CA |
The American West: Steinbeck Country |
| KDTV-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Coverage of the Mexico City earthquake |
| Spinning Reels and HBO |
Braingames |
| WSMV-TV/Nashville, TN |
A Higher Standard, a documentary focusing on the relationship between a Congressman and an influential defense contractor |
| TV Ontario |
The Final Chapter? |
| Harvey Milk Project, Inc. and WNET/New York, NY |
The Times of Harvey Milk |
| Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA, WNET/New York, NY, Bonneville Broadcast Group, and PBS |
Seminars on Media and Society |
| WBBM-TV/Chicago, IL |
"Armed and Dangerous," an investigation exposing armed, unlicensed, and unqualified security guards working in the Chicago area |
| Central Independent Television and WETA-TV/Washington, DC |
The Skin Horse |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
Live from Lincoln Center |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| Jim Henson and The Muppets |
Personal Award for "thirty years of good, clean fun and outstanding entertainment" |
| Dorothy Stimson Bullitt |
Personal Award to the founder of King Broadcasting Company |
| The Fine Arts Society of Indianapolis |
Institutional Award for the Society's funding and production of arts programming on WICR/Indianapolis, IN |
| NBC |
The Cosby Show |
| NBC News |
Award for on-the-scene radio reports by Fred Kennedy and Philip Till on the U.S. bombing raid of Tripoli, Libya |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Paris: From Oscar Wilde to Jim Morrison |
| Connecticut Public Radio |
One On One |
| CBS News |
NEWSMARK: Where in the World Are We? |
| Sunday Morning, for its presentation of Vladimir Horowitz's concert in Moscow |
| CBS Reports: The Vanishing Family - Crisis in Black America |
| CBS Entertainment and Garner-Duchow Productions |
Promise |
| WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, WI |
"Who's Behind the Wheel?" a report that revealed poor safety records among Milwaukee school bus drivers |
| WHAS/Louisville, KY |
A Disaster Called Schizophrenia |
| WFAA/Dallas, TX |
Award for reports uncovering the Southern Methodist University football scandal |
| KPIX-TV/San Francisco, CA |
Award for KPIX's "AIDS Lifeline" project |
| MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and BBC |
The Story of English |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA |
Anne of Green Gables |
| WQED-TV/Pittsburgh, PA and National Geographic Society |
National Geographic Specials |
| Churchill Films and ABC Television Entertainment |
The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
| ABC News |
This Week with David Brinkley |
| Thames Television International and D.L. Taffner, Ltd. |
Unknown Chaplin |
| John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
The 1986 Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts |
| Thames Television and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA |
Paradise Postponed (presented on Masterpiece Theatre) |
| WSB-TV/Atlanta, GA |
The Boy King |
| WCCO-TV and WCCO Radio/Minneapolis, MN |
Project Lifesaver, an initiative to promote safe driving |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
A World of Difference, an initiative to combat prejudice of all kinds |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| WSMV/Nashville, TN |
4 the Family, a series of family-themed specials and PSAs |
| CKVU-TV/Vancouver, BC |
AIDS and You |
| HBO |
America Undercover: Drunk and Deadly |
| Center for New American Media |
American Tongues |
| CNN |
Coverage of the 1987 stock market crash |
| Mutual Broadcasting System |
Charities That Give and Take |
| KQED-TV/San Francisco, CA in Association with El Teatro Campesino |
Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution |
| WRC-TV/Washington, DC |
"Deadly Mistakes," a report exposing inaccurate lab results of cancer patients |
| WCPO-TV/Cincinnati, OH |
Investigation into questionable deaths at Drake Hospital |
| ABC Radio News |
Earnest Will: Americans in the Gulf |
| Blackside, Inc. |
Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame and CBS |
Institutional Award for Hall of Fame, specifically citing Pack of Lies and Foxfire |
| WCVB-TV/Boston, MA |
"Inside Bridgewater," an investigation into occurrences at a state hospital for the criminally insane |
| MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour |
Award for a series of reports on Japan's economy |
| Karl Haas |
Personal Award for his work as a pianist and conductor and for work on Adventures in Good Music |
| Kevin Brownlow, and David Gill |
Personal Awards for their work in the preservation of silent films |
| KPAL Radio/Little Rock, AR |
Organizational Award for its overall programming for children |
| NBC |
L.A. Law |
| NBC and Louis Rudolph Films |
LBJ: The Early Years |
| HBO |
Mandela |
| WNET/New York City |
Nature, for the episode "A Season in the Sun" |
| Shoah |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and KCET-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
NOVA, for the episode "Spy Machines" |
| WSM/Nashville, TN |
Of Violence and Victims, an investigation into the increase in Nashville's crime rate |
| National Public Radio |
A Weekend Edition profile of Ryan Martin, a 13-year-old boy adapting to his paralysis, the result of a shooting incident |
| WXXI-TV/Rochester, NY |
Safe Haven |
| Long Bow Group Inc., New York, New York |
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village |
| KNBC/Los Angeles, CA |
Some Place Like Home, a profile of Providence House, an AIDS hospice in the Los Angeles area |
| Paramount Pictures Corporation |
Star Trek: The Next Generation, for the episode "The Big Goodbye" |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| WTTW-TV/Chicago in association with Chloe Productions, Inc. |
...and the Pursuit of Happiness |
| Children's Television Workshop |
3-2-1 Contact Extra: I Have AIDS, A Teenager's Story |
| CBS News |
48 Hours, for the reports "Abortion Battle" and "On Runaway Street" |
| 60 Minutes, for the report "Mr. Snow Goes to Washington," which highlighted a campaign on the dangers of lawn darts |
| WHAS/Louisville |
A Matter of Time: The Crisis in Kentucky Corrections |
| Public Affairs Television Inc. |
Bill Moyers' World of Ideas |
| WPLG-TV/Miami, FL |
"Caution: Precious Cargo," a report that highlighted low levels of school bus safety, including bus lines that operated unlicensed |
| South Carolina Educational Television and The Mosaic Group, Inc. |
Children's Express NEWSMAGAZINE: Campaign '88 |
| National Public Radio |
Cowboys on Everest |
| HBO |
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam |
| Don Hewitt |
Personal Award for his work at CBS News |
| The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (WNET/New York & WETA-TV/Washington) |
Coverage of the 1988 election campaign |
| Frontline and Time Inc. |
Frontline: The Choice |
| KMOX/St. Louis |
Hate Crimes: America's Cancer |
| Christian Science Monitor Reports |
Islam in Turmoil |
| Jim McKay |
Personal Award for his work at ABC Sports |
| KCBS-TV/Los Angeles, CA |
"MCA and the Mob," a series of reports revealing organized crime connections to the media conglomerate |
| BBC World Service for Africa |
Nothing Political/Mandela at 70 |
| WBUR-FM/Boston, MA |
Speaking for Everyman: Ian McKellen Celebrates Shakespeare's Birthday |
| HBO and Pro Image Productions/Sydney, Australia |
Suzi's Story |
| CBS Entertainment and Telecom Entertainment, in association with Yorkshire Television |
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank |
| WBRZ-TV/Baton Rouge, LA |
"The Best Insurance Commissioner Money Can Buy," an investigation of alleged improprieties on the part of the Insurance Commissioner of the State of Louisiana |
| KTAR/Phoenix |
Coverage of the impeachment of Arizona governor Evan Mecham |
| TNT |
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind |
| NBC |
The Murder of Mary Phagan |
| WJLA-TV/Washington, D.C. |
"The Radon Watch Campaign," a series of reports and PSAs |
| BBC and WNET/New York |
The Singing Detective |
| ABC and The Bedford Falls Company in association with MGM/UA Television |
thirtysomething |
| Ambassador Walter Annenberg |
Personal Award for his work in public broadcasting |
| Recipient |
Area of Excellence |
| David Brinkley |
Personal Award for Brinkley's "lifetime of service to the American people" at NBC News and ABC News |
| J. Leonard Reinsch |
Personal Award for Reinsch's work at COX Communications and in political communication |
| KCBS/San Francisco, CA |
Separate awards for the stations' coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake and its aftermath |
| KGO-TV/San Francisco, CA |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA |
I Want to Go Home, an account of the plight of homeless children in the San Francisco area |
| D. Roberts |
Award to the independent producer for "Mei Mei: A Daughter's Song," which aired on American Public Radio's Soundprint and told of the personal and cultural boundaries between a Taiwanese mother and her American daughter |
| WCSC-TV/Charleston, SC |
Award for the station's coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo |
| MTV Networks |
Decade |
| KING-TV/Seattle, WA |
Project Home Team, a series of reports and programs spotlighting the plight of the working poor |
| CBS and Motown-Pangaea Productions in association with Quintex Entertainment |
Lonesome Dove |
| KCNC-TV/Denver, CO |
Yellowstone: Four Seasons After Fire |
| Texaco |
Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts |
| ABC and Black/Marlens Company in association with New World Television |
The Wonder Years |
| ABC and Sacret Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television |
China Beach, for the episode "Vets" |
| ABC, Lou Rudolph Films, Motown Productions, Allarcom Ltd., and Fries Entertainment |
Small Sacrifices |
| Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc. and Public Affairs Television, Inc. |
The Public Mind |
| CBS Radio News |
Separate awards for the networks' coverage of the protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and related background and perspective reportage |
| CNN |
| NBC News |
To Be an American |
| Central Independent Television |
Cambodia Year Ten |
| Beyond International Group |
The Great Wall of Iron |
| HBO |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
| Children's Television Workshop |
Sesame Street |
| Film News Now and WTVS/Detroit, MI in association with P.O.V. |
Who Killed Vincent Chin? |
| National Public Radio |
Award for Scott Simon's essays on Weekend Edition |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
Lost Innocence: The Children of World War II |
| WLOX-TV/Biloxi, MS |
"Did They Die in Vain?" which explored the lingering effects of the 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi 25 years after the tragedy |
