NPR won a 2025 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for its coverage of the war in Gaza. The prestigious duPont-Columbia Award honors outstanding public service in audio and video reporting.
Daniel Estrin, NPR’s international correspondent in Jerusalem and the diverse NPR Mideast reporting team have let the network’s coverage of the conflict since Hamas launched its surprise attack into southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The duPont-Columbia Award judges stated, “NPR’s coverage of the war in Gaza exhibited ingenuity and sensitivity at great risk, getting behind the politics to show how the conflict has affected the men, women and children on all sides.”
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NPR’s Daniel Estrin accepts the duPont on behalf of a diverse team of journalists telling a story from all sides of the conflict in Gaza:
