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CNN laid the groundwork for its 2008 election coverage back in 2005 budgeting meetings, when all it really knew was that there would be a wide open two-party race. The planning paid off, with the Peabody judges singling out the…
More than 70 years ago, a small group of Westerners banded together in a foreign country in a time of war and were responsible for saving the lives of thousands of people. Like the story of “Schindler’s List” in Nazi…
Over seven nights, HBO Films and Tom Hanks’ production company Playtone told the story—in rich detail, noted the Peabody judges—of the U.S.’ second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail. Directed by Tom Hooper and based on historian David McCullough’s…
HBO’s “The Gates” began life in 1979 when artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude approached New York City officials with their idea of installing orange fabric gates along 23 miles of Central Park paths. Filmmaker brothers Al and David Maysles were there…
Irene Taylor Brodsky learned just a few weeks beforehand that her parents, in their 60s and both deaf all their lives, had decided to get cochlear implants that had the potential to allow them to hear for the first time….