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The George Foster Peabody Award is considered by many to be the most prestigious honor in electronic media, akin to the Pulitzer Prize for print journalism. For 2008, the Peabody judges have honored a wide variety of entertainment, news and information media. Among this round of Peabody honorees, HBO...
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Anyone who thinks investigative reporting on the local station level is dead need look no further than WWL-TV in New Orleans, which aired more than 50 reports in one month about fraud in a public agency tasked with assisting poor and elderly residents after Hurricane Katrina. Peabody-winning anchor-reporter...
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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 powerful forces at work—including the casino industry, developers...
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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 Grafner, a 7-year-old boy who died of starvation because...
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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 in Islamabad. But for now, the NBC News correspondent is savoring the Peabody Award for...
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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 cable network’s primary campaign and debate coverage for an award. “With...
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In an unprecedented occurrence, CBS News’ Scott Pelley has won a Peabody Award in two consecutive years. Last year, Mr. Pelley, a “60 Minutes” correspondent since 2004, was honored for “The Killings in Haditha,” an interview with Marine Sgt. Frank Woodrich, who lost a comrade to an IED and led his men...
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The question the film “King Corn” wanted to answer was simple: Where does our food come from? The answer was complex and sprawling, but it was made easier to digest by the storytelling, which the Peabody judges said started off “like a post-grad goof.” College buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, the film...
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The PBS documentary film series “P.O.V.” is a Peabody Award winner for Kazuhiro Soda’s “Campaign,” which the awards board called a “revealing, sometimes painfully funny documentary” that “observed the ragged political campaign of a naif handpicked and backed by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
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PBS’ “Depression: Out of the Shadows” began to take root when director Larkin McPhee read a New Yorker article on the topic by Andrew Solomon, which was later turned into the book “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression.” A production of Ms. McPhee’s company, Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH...
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“Ape Genius” started life at National Geographic Television, but when the organization struck its recent deal with PBS’ “Nova” to share editorial content for a series of specials, the program moved to PBS. A look at the latest research involving the creative capacity of great apes, the program was singled...
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Public television’s “Washington Week” has been bringing reporters from the nation’s capital together for conversation for 42 years. This year, the program, whose current full title is “Washington Week With Gwen Ifill and National Journal,” is being honored with its first Peabody Award. The judges called...
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In just four years since its founding, YouTube has grown into the world’s most popular video-sharing site. Its emergence as a valuable communications channel has earned a Peabody Award for what the Peabody board called “embodying and promoting democracy.” True to its scrappy essence, the site on April...
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Among this year’s Peabody Award winners is a broadcast series not seen on television: “The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD” is a series of vividly designed, smartly annotated productions beamed live to movie theaters using state-of-the-art digital technology. “The Met has a long history of being a pioneer...
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And the Emmy Award goes to … Minyanville.com. The profile of the little-known financial infotainment Web site was instantly elevated when staffers picked up their golden trophy at the recent Business and Financial Emmy Awards in New York, in the category of New Approaches to Business and Financial Reporting...