Best editorial or series which most effectively discloses abuse of human rights abroad and lends support to the principle of human rights
AWARD YEAR: 1980
AWARD NAME: Best Editorial or Series – Human Rights
RECIPIENTS: Chris Wallace, Morton Silverstein
AFFILIATION: NBC Reports
HONORED WORK: “The Migrants 1980”
In “The Migrants 1980,” NBC Reports portrays the miserable living conditions and degrading working conditions of Florida’s migrant farm workers, and aggressively investigates the causes of their plight. In a series of penetrating interviews with landlords, judges, orchard owners, labor foremen, public officials and executives of agricultural corporations, “The Migrants 1980” portrays a pattern that helps explain why the condition of these workers has changed so little since Edward R. Murrow depicted it on television 20 years earlier.
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