this year's judges for the john baran award were not laugh out by the news connection, and a pin for ran award is bill plante of cbs news. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. hi, ladies and gentlemen. good evening. this award, which i'm so proud to be able to present a number of years in a row honors a woman who all of you would love if only she were still here. joan sure seemed started out as a researcher. she climbed to the post of executive producer of face the nation. she has the kind of standards that they say don't exist anymore. but the winners of this tonight have proved positive that such standards do still exist in our business. joan was stuffed and smart. she was someone who enjoyed the world, life and politics, particularly politics. she was the kind of person whom you would want to be sitting with at your table tonight. so it's my great honor now to announce this year's winners of the joan sure and stand around toward. national public radio's, theodore and andrea the drive. [applause] npr's multimedia six part entry about the extraordinary intersection of money