About On Assignment - From the duPont-Columbia Awards
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.
#97: Eva Orner on The Making of "Surviving Ohio State"
“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 doctor Richard Strauss. More than 30 years later, they are bravely sharing their stories as they continue to fight for accountability from Ohio State.
In this episode, Director Eva Orner takes duPont Awards Director Lisa R Cohen and J-School students behind-the-scenes after screening the film, to reveal what doubts she overcame to make the film; how she built trust with the fragile survivors; and practical advice she has for emerging documentary filmmakers.
You can stream “Surviving Ohio State” on HBO Max.
Do you have deeply reported, original audio, or video journalism you’d like to submit? We are now accepting entries for the 2027 awards season. Apply before our deadline of July 1, 2026. For more information and links to submit, go to our website dupont.org.
7 Nov 2025
#96: Alice Driver on Her Lukas Prize-Winning Book
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 Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company,” which won the $25,000 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize, focuses on the struggles those immigrant workers face today – specifically those employed by Tyson, America’s largest meatpacking company.
In this episode, Alice Driver joins the J School Prizes Department’s Abi Wright and Lisa Cohen to talk about her award-winning book, the impact it’s had on migrant workers and the meat industry, and how young journalists can keep their momentum going if they decide to tackle longform projects of their own. She urges
Read more about “Life and Death of The American Worker,” and Driver’s other books, here.
Do you, or someone you know, have a non-fiction work-in-progress that is currently under a book contract? If so, enter to win the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize - or other Lukas Book Prizes - before the Dec. 4, 2025 deadline. Go to https://journalism.columbia.edu/lukas for more information and to enter.
6 Jun 2025
#95: Local Hero Phil Williams
Journalist Phil Williams discusses his duPont-Columbia Award-winning investigation, "Hate Comes to Main Street," which exposes the influence of conspiracy theories on Tennessee politics in this interview.
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