“60 MINUTES” WINS TWO SIGMA DELTA CHI AWARDS FOR BILL WHITAKER STORIES
America’s #1 news program has won two journalism awards. The Society of Professional Journalists announced today that 60 MINUTES stories reported by Bill Whitaker are the winners of Sigma Delta Chi honors.
“The Whistleblower” was named winner of the public service prize; the investigative reporting award goes to “You’re Fired.”
“The Whistleblower,” an October 2017 joint investigation by 60 MINUTES and The Washington Post, uncovered a war within the DEA over whether to hold a powerful drug industry accountable for fueling the opioid epidemic – putting a spotlight on an enforcement slowdown against drug companies at the height of deaths from prescription drug overdoses. It also exposed the quiet passage of a law in Congress that stripped the DEA of its most potent enforcement tools against big pharmaceutical distributors. Days after the report was broadcast, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), withdrew his name as the president’s choice for drug czar.
“You’re Fired,” a March 2017 report, exposed the loopholes in the H-1B visa program that allow firms to fire American workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers. The program was created to give American companies access to the best tech talent in the world.
Both segments were reported by Whitaker and produced by Ira Rosen and Sam Hornblower. Washington Post reporters Scott Higham and Lenny Bernstein contributed to “The Whistleblower;” it was edited by Robert Zimet. Craig Crawford edited “You’re Fired.”
Jeff Fager is the executive producer of 60 MINUTES.
Winners will receive their Sigma Delta Chi awards at a banquet in Washington D.C., on June 8.
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