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On Assignment brings you some of the best conversations from the Columbia Journalism School, produced and hosted by the school's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards.The duPont-Columbia Awards honor the best in audio-visual reporting across platforms including broadcast, documentary, local investigative, radio and interactive journalism. We started the On Assignment Podcast to go behind the scenes and bring you the conversations we were having with the leading journalists in the field, many of whom are also past duPont Award winners.
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Signup to Generate a PitchOn Assignment brings you some of the best conversations from the Columbia Journalism School, produced and hosted by the school's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. The duPont-Columbia Awards honor the best in audio-visual reporting across platforms including broadcast, documentary, local investigative, radio and interactive journalism.
Recent episodes include "#97: Eva Orner on The Making of "Surviving Ohio State"" (28 April 2026, 37 minutes), "#96: Alice Driver on Her Lukas Prize-Winning Book" (7 November 2025, 29 minutes), and "#95: Local Hero Phil Williams" (6 June 2025, 26 minutes).
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards publishes roughly irregularly, with episodes averaging 32 minutes across 97 episodes.
Booking probability for On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards's contact route on record: verified email.
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On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards is a news show with 97 episodes published.
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On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“Surviving Ohio State” is a 2026 duPont-Columbia Award-winning documentary that follows the heartbreaking testimonies of former Ohio State University student athletes who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their team...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
Author and journalist Alice Driver remembers her first time meeting people from other countries as a child in rural Arkansas – they were all workers at meatpacking facilities. Her book, “Life and Death of The American...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
Phil Williams, titan of local journalism, five-time duPont-Columbia Award winner and dubbed “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch” - by satirist John Oliver - talks about his most recent duPont Award-winning investigation, Hate...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“I don't want to have my chain yanked. I do not want to report on things in the news because a bad faith actor is driving me to do that. I do not play requests.’” – Rachel Maddow 2020 duPont-Columbia Award winner and...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“If we're not looking at these issues and understanding them for what they actually are - not just what we hope they are - I don't see much of a bright future, for my kids or anybody else's.” —Evan Simon, ABC News...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“We have all these new media forms. But we haven't really found one that does what the old school news magazine still do well, which is sit across from someone and look them in the eye and turn TV into a lie detector.“...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“These were just ordinary women turned outlaws.” - Director Tia Lessin Directors of the 2023 DuPont award-winning film ‘The Janes’, Emma Pildes and Tia Lessin join journalist and J School Adjunct Professor Jessica...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“The incentive structures in the worlds of politics and news media… are geared towards division and not just division, but demonizing people. And it's very dangerous. It has already resulted in loss of life." -CNN’s...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“I respect the Boy Scouts. I respect what they were founded on. But there was a really dark side and no one was talking about it.” –"Leave No Trace" Director Irene Taylor “Leave No Trace” is a 2023 duPont-Columbia Award...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“We all understand just how easily history is forgotten. And this history is being actively destroyed.” –Podcast Host Connie Walker “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s” is a 2023 duPont-winning series that uncovers the...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“They had told the story of how Tamika died, but not how she lived.” —Podcast Producer Erika Alexander “Finding Tamika” is the 2023 duPont-winning Audible series about Tamika Huston, a Black woman who went missing in...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“People are often surprised when they watch the film and they realize that it's sort of a dark comedy.” “Navalny” follows Alexei Navalny, his team and his family as he investigates his own poisoning, and heads back to...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“I've seen officers lie in reports or stretching the truth -- that's not new - - but to entirely make something up completely and unequivocally, that just was really disturbing." - Dave Biscobing, ABC15 Chief...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“We knew it was important to let the cameras continue to roll live. But I'll be honest, we were nervous about where this was going to go when we saw those armored vehicles show up.” - VP of News Stephanie Adrouny, NBC...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“We understood the magnitude of the event fairly early on and the need to start collecting evidence…That's how we think of this. As evidence, not just cover or B-roll.” — New York Times Visual Investigations Lead...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“A story is an engine for feelings.” - This American Life founder, host and producer Ira Glass In 2019, This American Life founder, host, and producer Ira Glass gave his special brand of insight into how he crafts “This...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“I felt like I don't have to tell you how brutal racial capitalism is in the United States if I am showing you. I wanted capitalism to indict itself in the film.” -- director and producer Loira Limbal In her 2022 duPont...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“Finding people who praise the government is easy. Finding people who are critical of the government is easy. What is the most difficult is convincing some people who are ordinary citizens who have information to come...
On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
“These women who join the military are just the finest…and the fact that they are being harassed and abused and driven from military service is really a national security issue.” --- CBS Managing Editor and Anchor Norah...
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