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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in Broadcast Journalism . The awards, administered since 1968 by the Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism in New York City , are considered the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize , another program administered by Columbia University. The duPont-Columbia Award was established in 1942 by Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her husband Alfred I. duPont. It is the most prestigious journalism-only award for radio and TV, and along with the Peabodys is among the most prestigious awards programs in all electronic media. The duPont-Columbia jury select the winners from programs that air in the United States between July 1 and June 30 of each year. Award winners receive batons in gold and silver designed by the American architect Louis I. Kahn . In 2003, the first-ever foreign-language program was awarded a duPont-Columbia Award. CNN en Español and reporter Jorge Gestoso won a Silver Baton for investigative reporting on Argentina's ''desaparecidos''. WINNERS
Guided by human rights activist Ansar Burney , a HBO team used a hidden camera to document slavery and torture in secret desert camps where boys under the age of five were trained to race camels, a national sport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This half-hour investigative report exposed a carefully hidden child slavery ring that bought or kidnapped hundreds of young boys in Pakistan and Bangladesh. These boys were then forced to become camel jockeys in the UAE. The report also questioned the sincerity of U.S. diplomacy in pressuring an ally, the UAE, to comply with its own stated policy of banning the use of children under 15 from camel racing. The documentary won the 2006 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for outstanding broadcast journalism. It also brought world attention to the plight of child camel jockeys in the Middle East and helped Ansar Burney Trust to convince the governments of Qatar and the UAE to end the use of children in this sport EXTERNAL LINK
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