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The Peabody Awards
Another Year of War Produces Compelling Reporting, But Comedy Has Its Place at the Table
Peabody Award Winners: Discovery Channel, BBC, ‘Planet Earth’
“Awesome, spectacular, humbling, exhilarating” is how the Peabody Awards committee described “Planet Earth,” a co-production of Discovery Channel and the BBC that could well stand as the last, best record of a disappearing natural world. Produced by Alastair Fothergill, who…
Peabody Award Winners: Univision Communications, ‘Ya Es Hora’ (IT’S TIME)
With the 2008 presidential campaign shaping up a a watershed moment in U.S. politics, Univision Communications is being acknowledged for outstanding public service for the role it is playing with multipronged citizenship and get-out-the-vote efforts in hundreds of Spanish-speaking communities…
Peabody Award Winners: KXNV-TV, Phoenix, ‘Security Risks at Sky Harbor’
When Susan D’Astoli, senior executive producer at KNXV-TV in Phoenix, got a tip that all was not secure at the local airport, she decided to see for herself. “We sat down with some bags, looked like travelers and just observed…
Peabody Award Winners: CNN, ‘CNN Presents: God’s Warriors’
When Christiane Amanpour was asked by her CNN bosses in late 2006 to tackle the tough topic of fundamentalism across three religions, she had a twinge of doubt: “I wasn’t 100% sure people would watch six hours,” she said. But…
Peabody Award Winners: CBS News, ‘CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home’
Kimberly Dozier was about to conduct an interview when she learned she had won a Peabody Award for “The Way Home,” an 11-minute piece that aired on “CBS News Sunday Morning.” She quickly dashed off an e-mail to her producer,…
Peabody Award Winners: ‘Nova,’ Vulcan Productions, Big Table Film Co., ‘Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial’
PBS’ “Nova” tackled the subject of evolution in an eight-part series of the same name that aired in the fall of 2001. But Paula Apsell, “Nova’s” senior executive producer, nonetheless watched closely in September 2005 when the trial of Kitzmiller…
Peabody Award Winners: ABC News, ‘Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War’
For ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, the Peabody Award he is taking home is exceptionally personal, because unlike most of the work that is being honored, his involves his own traumatic personal story. In January 2006, just over a month…