Coverage of Hurricane Katrina, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and Dateline | duPont-Columbia Award Winner 2007

Breaking news and sustained coverage of the causes, results and impact of the storm

“NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline” did a comprehensive job of reporting on all aspects of this enormous story. From the early warnings of the storm’s path to countless stories of dislocated lives and devastation, to investigating what went wrong in flood prevention and recovery efforts, NBC News achieved the highest standards of disaster coverage. The NBC News team left no aspect of the disaster untouched, and the network has used its ongoing coverage of New Orleans to focus on the underlying local and national issues of race, class and government ineptitude.

The entire editorial and production staffs of “NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline.”