Best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues
AWARD YEAR: 2008
AWARD NAME: The Whitman Bassow Award 2008
RECIPIENTS: Martin Smith, Chris Durrance for Rain Media, Michael Sullivan, David Fanning for Frontline
AFFILIATION: Rain Media for Frontline
HONORED WORK: “Heat”
Martin Smith and his colleagues impressed the jury with the breadth and quality of their reporting and the insight that they brought to the issues through their research and an impressive range of interviews. Their visually powerful documentary is a persuasive portrait of how little industry and governments have done — and how much remains to be done — to address the impact of climate change. This is public television at its best — educational, committed and purposeful.
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