KMGH-Channel 7 investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski has won a 2010 duPont-Columbia Award for his story on long delays in getting emergency vehicles to Denver International Airport.
The award, a top honor in broadcast journalism, cited his half-hour documentary, “33 Minutes to 3-4 Right,” praising his work: “through inside sources and open records requests to city agencies, KMGH was able to piece together data of ambulance response times showing system-wide problems in Denver’s emergency ambulance service including the routine manipulation of emergency call data and the lack of a full-time ambulance at the airport.”
Kovaleski, Arthur Kane and Tom Burke collaborated on Channel 7’s report, which resulted in changes by Denver city officials and Denver Health Medical Center administrators.
KHOU-TV in Houston won for an expose on discrimination and corruption in the Texas National Guard; WCAX-TV in Burlington, VT, won for a series on immigrant farm workers; WSVN in Miami won for a series on prescription drug abuse, along with such national efforts as Katie Couric’s series of Sarah Palin interviews on CBS and NPR’s series on race and its role in the 2008 election.
Read the full list of winners here:
Joanne Ostrow: 303-954-1830 or jostrow@denverpost.com
