For George Knapp, water is anything but a dry subject. The chief investigative reporter for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas has been covering the complex issues involving water supply for a rapidly growing metropolis for the past 10 years. But with…
While big-name network shows usually grab all the headlines for winning Peabody Awards, the awards board also recognizes excellence on the local news level. This year, Denver’s KMGH-TV won its second Peabody in five years for the story of Chandler…
Richard Engel is one of the rare breed of electronic journalists who has spent nearly his entire career in war zones. His next tour of duty starts shortly in Pakistan, where he already has lined up a place to live…
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…
Since the moment it first splashed into primetime in 2004, ABC’s drama “Lost” has been the epitome of a buzz-worthy, successful TV show. It also has been an award winner, snaring Emmys, Saturns, Golden Globes and now the Peabody. Even…
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…
Not many broadcast networks devote six hours of primetime programming to a documentary series, but for ABC News, the effort has paid off in a Peabody Award for “Hopkins,” a cinéma vérité look inside Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital that aired…
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….