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The Seventy-Second Annual George Foster Peabody Awards Presentation LuncheonAdministered by the University of Georgia’s Grady College

of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Peabody Awards Presentation luncheon is made possible through the generous support of

Travel support provided by Delta, a sponsor of the George Foster Peabody Awards.

May 20, 2013 The Waldorf Astoria New York11:00 a.m. Reception The University of Georgia

12:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Dr. Michael F. Adams President, University of Georgia

Luncheon

Welcome on behalf of Mr. Joe Urschel The Peabody Awards Chair, Peabody Board

Introduction of Dr. Horace Newcomb Master of Ceremonies Director, Peabody Awards

Presentation of Winners Scott Pelley Master of Ceremonies

2:30 p.m. Adjournment

5:00 p.m. Winners Tribute The Paley Center for Media (Invitation Only) New York


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The Peabody AwardsThe George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. They perpetuate the memory of the banker-philanthropist whose name they bear. The awards program is administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Georgia, as it has been since the

award’s inception in 1939. Selections are made by the Peabody Awards Board, a committee of experts in media, culture, journalism, and the arts, following review by special screening committees of the faculty, staff and students. The 72nd Annual Awards celebrate programs produced for original broadcast, cablecast or webcast in 2012.

More than 1,000 entries have been received in each of the past ten years, from more than 30 countries. The Peabody Board is under no restrictions as to the number of awards it can present. There are 39 Peabody Award winners this year.

The University of GeorgiaIn January 1785 — two years after the Revolutionary War ended and four years before George Washington’s fi rst inauguration — the Georgia legislature adopted the charter that created the University of Georgia. In founding the nation’s fi rst state university, the legislature also gave birth to the American system of public higher education. Over the past 228 years, Georgia and its fl agship university have grown together as partners in a burgeoning prosperity that has made the state an economic showplace and the University of Georgia a fast track contender for educational pre eminence. With nearly 35,000 students and an annual budget that exceeds $1 billion, the University is a driving force in the state’s dynamic development. Widely recognized for excellence in teaching, research, and public service, the University of Georgia has moved into the ranks of America’s foremost public universities.

The Grady College of Journalism and Mass CommunicationThe Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has risen to national prominence, with highly ranked programs in advertising and public relations, journalism, and telecommunications. The college offers degrees in telecommunications, broadcast news, print journalism, advertising and public relations. Enrollment is over 1,500, including 92 master’s and 35 doctoral students. Students in the college receive hands-on, professional training using industry standard technology. During the spring semester 2013, our students produced UGA NewSource, a 30-minute newscast airing on local cable channels and on WUGA Channel 32, seen throughout Northeast Georgia. Grady alumni include Tom Johnson, former CEO of CNN/Headline News; award-winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; public relations executive C. Richard Yarbrough; ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts; and Betty Hudson, senior vice president for communications, National Geographic Society.



Scott Pelley Master of Ceremonies Scott Pelley, one the most experienced reporters in broadcast journalism, was named anchor and managing editor of CBS’s flagship newscast in May 2011. In its first season, The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was the only network evening news broadcast to grow its audience. Under Pelley’s leadership, The CBS Evening News has also been awarded an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Award, an Emmy Award and a George Polk Award.

Pelley, who is also a correspondent for the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes, started his career with the network in New York in 1989. Since then he has covered breaking national news stories, politics and war. From 1997 to 1999 he served as the network’s chief White House correspondent. In 2001, Pelley reported from the scene of the collapsing World Trade Center towers. In the years following, he reported extensively from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pelley came to 60 Minutes in 2004. Since that time, half of all the major awards won by that broadcast have been won by Pelley’s team of producers, reporters, photographers and editors.

All told, Pelley and his team’s distinguished body of work have received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, three George Foster Peabody awards, 20 national Emmy awards, five Edward R. Murrow awards, a George Polk and a Loeb award, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Writers Guild of America. Twenty-one of those awards have been earned for his work over the past five years on 60 Minutes.

Pelley serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, the refugee relief agency headquartered in New York City. He is co-chair of the IRC’s Board of Overseers. He was inducted into the Texas Tech University alumni Hall of Fame and serves on the board of the university’s School of Mass Communications.

Prior to his time at CBS News, Pelley was a producer/reporter for WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1982-89), KXAS-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1978-81) and KSEL-TV Lubbock, Texas (1975-78). He began his journalism career at the age of 15 as a copyboy at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper.

Scott Pelley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University. He and his wife, Jane Boone Pelley, have a son and a daughter.


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George Foster Peabody (1852–1938)George Foster Peabody, namesake of the awards, was a highly successful investment banker who devoted much of his fortune to education and social enterprise. Born in Columbus, Georgia, Mr. Peabody was especially interested in the state University in Athens and made significant contributions to its library, the development of its School of Forestry, and the War Memorial Fund. Along with his business partner, Spencer Trask, and Mr. Trask’s wife, Katrina, Mr. Peabody helped found Yaddo, the famous artists’ retreat at Saratoga Springs, New York. A friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was Mr. Peabody who suggested that the President establish a residence in Warm Springs, Georgia, as a palliative for his polio. Mr. Peabody was granted honorary degrees by Harvard University, Washington and Lee University and the University of Georgia, of which he was made a life trustee by special legislative act. While he never saw television and only rarely listened to radio, the visage of George Foster Peabody has become synonymous with excellence in electronic media.

The Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody AwardsThe most coveted prize in broadcasting and cable got its start in a small office on the top floor of Atlanta’s historic Biltmore Hotel in 1938, when a pair of legendary visionaries were brought together by a University of Georgia graduate. That graduate, Lessie Smithgall, who is now 102 years old, is still an influential voice in the broadcasting industry.

The National Association of Broadcasters had asked its awards chairman, Lambdin Kay, to create a broadcasting award to honor the nation’s premier radio programs and performances, as the Pulitzer did for the print press. Kay, then the innovative general manger of WSB (AM) in Atlanta, summoned Smithgall, his continuity editor. “Mr. Kay called me into his office during a coffee break,” says Smithgall, “and asked if there was a foundation at Georgia, my alma mater, where we would get help in establishing these awards. Well, Mr. Drewry was my mentor and a good friend at the university, and I suggested him to Mr. Kay.” John Drewry was the legendary Dean of the School of Journalism at UGA, who served in the post for 46 years. Kay called him, and with the support of the University’s Board of Regents and the NAB, together they founded the Peabody Awards.

The Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys was established in 1997 through the generosity of Lessie and Charles Smithgall. The chair is currently held by Dr. Horace Newcomb, Director of the Peabody Awards program.



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LOUIE (FX)Pig Newton, Inc., FX ProductionsOver the past several years, comedian Louis C.K. has gone from being a workaday “comic’s comic” to a household name, guest starring on sitcoms, making myriad late night appearances, and releasing a new hour-long comedy special each year. But with Louie, a semi-autobiographical starring vehicle that effectively juggles tone, genre and style, C.K. has carved out a weekly niche for his talents, both in front of and behind the camera. Acting as star, producer, director, writer, and editor, C.K. has created a series with a true auteur spirit. Louie has no regular cast (except C.K. as a divorced comedian with two daughters, a less successful version of himself ), and its plot structure is subject not to television conventions but to the whims of its creator. While many episodes are comprised of multiple short comedic vignettes, increasingly C.K. has used his platform to tell longer stories, as with this season’s sublime “Late Show” arc, wherein the title character trains for an opportunity to succeed a retiring David Letterman. In either form, C.K. comments smartly on the realities of work, parenthood and relationships in visual language ranging from the visceral to the surreal. Louie receives a Peabody Award for creating a clever, absurd space in which the rules of television are rewritten weekly.

Executive Producers: Louis C.K., Dave Becky, M. Blair Breard. Producer: Vernon Chatman. Director: Louis C.K. Writers: Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon. Cast: Louis C.K. Director of Photography: Paul Koestner. Editors: Louis C.K., Susan E. Morse, A.C.E.

SUPERSTORM SANDY (ABC)ABC NewsThe predictions were good. Everyone knew the storm named Sandy would be big even if no one could predict just how big. ABC News prepared well, provided coverage as the storm hit and continued service in the aftermath. All news units played a role. With extraordinary foresight, producers Jim Debreil and Keturah Gray placed themselves in Breezy Point, Queens, before the storm hit. As the flooding began and fires became visible, the families they stayed with and interviewed realized the dangers facing them because they had refused to evacuate. Other journalists in other sites, such as Terry Moran in Seaside Heights, reported as the storm blasted and, with their crews, provided pictures of devastation as it happened. Elizabeth Vargas’ special report on 20/20 gave voice to nurses who had carried 20 babies to safety as NYU Hospital was evacuated. World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, the Good Morning America team and Nightline all continued to report on the aftermath and consequences of the storm. Excellent field reporting and specials were followed with a network-wide effort to solicit much-needed aid, and ABC’s efforts contributed to securing more than $18 million for the Red Cross. For bringing to bear all the massive resources of a major news organization, ABC News’ coverage of Superstorm Sandy receives a Peabody Award.

The staff of ABC News.



INSIDE THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY (WNYC)Media Mechanics, Ben Manilla Productions, Studio 360, The Library of CongressEach year, the Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings to be preserved as part of its National Recording Registry, ranging from obscure cult albums (Love’s psychedelic pop opus Forever Changes), to inescapable musical gems (Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas), to seminal historical artifacts (Éduoard Léon-Scott’s phonautograms from the 1850s). Aired nationally on Studio 360, Inside the National Recording Registry is a series of short documentaries that celebrates these historically significant works through interviews with creators, scholars, and notable fans. Hearing songwriter Giorgio Moroder break down the electronic musical roots of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” or actor Hugh Laurie rhapsodize about the mysterious lyrics of Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina” gives the listener a sense both of what inspired these recordings and what it’s like to be inspired by them. Producer Ben Manilla and his crew create an engaging listening experience that, in each installment, makes a strong case for the importance of the record in question, whether it’s freak folk, college rock, or cowboy music. Inside the National Recording Registry earns a Peabody Award for its commitment to the preservation of American audio culture.

Executive Producer: Ben Manilla. Producers: Devon Strolovitch, Erik Beith. Editor: David Krasnow.

Executive Producers: Jean Garner, Ronit Avni. Producers: Julia Bacha, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi. Co-Producers: Jessica Devaney, Irene Nasser, Rula Salameh, Vicky Wingert. Associate Producers: Jesus Campos-Hernanez, Joseph Dana, Nadav Greenberg. Directors: Julia Bacha, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi. Supervising Editor: Geeta Gandbhir. Editor: Rebekah Wingert-Jabi. Filmed by: Julia Bacha, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi. Original Score: Kareem Roustom.

SHEIKH JARRAH, MY NEIGHBOURHOOD (AL JAZEERA) Al Jazeera, Just VisionMohammad al-Kurd is 13 years old and lives in one of the most contested regions on earth. The Sheikh Jarrah section of East Jerusalem has, for years now, been targeted by the Israeli government as a site for new Jewish settlements meant to forcibly displace the entrenched Palestinian population. So it was only a matter of time before the government came for Mohammad’s home, which had belonged to his family for generations. Directors Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi tell the story of the forced evictions through young Mohammad’s eyes, first through his distrust of the Israeli government and its people, and later through the boy’s smart and insightful recognition of political nuance, as he realizes that a group of Israeli activists who protest the displacement – some of the very Jews from West Jerusalem he grew up hating – really do have his neighborhood’s best interests at heart. As Mohammad learns, Sheikh Jarrah is a paradox, the site of visceral conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and a locus of activist cooperation between the same two peoples. For exploring a broad conflict in microcosm and revealing an ongoing story of struggle and collaboration, Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighbourhood receives a Peabody Award.


FX Proudly Congratulates

LOUIS C.K.M. BLAIR BREARD

DAVE BECKY

2013 Peabody AwardWinner



MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (HBO)Show of Force Productions and HBO Documentary FilmsAt one point, while training young artists who will participate in the Museum of Modern Art retrospective exhibition of her work, Marina Abramović defines the discipline in which she works. “An artist has to be a warrior, has to have this determination and has to have the stamina to conquer not just new territory, but also conquer himself – and his weaknesses.” For nearly 40 years, Abramović has made art within these parameters. As a performance artist she has been determined to use her body as her medium. Moving, waiting, clothed and unclothed, watched, examined, touched, touching – all these and many other modes of interaction have defined her work. That work has led to her recognition as the “grandmother of performance art,” and for those who assumed that performance art ended sometime in the 1960s or ’70s, the 2010 MOMA exhibit finally documented here erased all doubts. In addition to “re-performances” of her earlier work by a group of young artists, Abramović sat in a chair each day for seven-and-a-half hours for three months. “Audience” members sat one at a time opposite her and looked – into her eyes, into their own emotions, into art. For capturing an artist at work, a warrior engaged, a performer who has overcome her weaknesses, Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins (for HBO). Produced by: Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff. Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham (for HBO). Director: Matthew Akers. Director of Photography: Matthew Akers. Editor: E. Donna Shepherd.

Program Manager: Nowell M. Cuanang. Executive Producer: Sharon Rose A. Masula. Field Producer: Ma. Aileen Gutierrez. Director: Aaron Mendoza. Writer: Sharon Rose A. Masula. Videographers: Gonzalo Bawar, Ruel Galero, Corsino Gulane, Roland Elly Jaso, Marvin Reyes. Editors: Emman Payumo, Enrico Salvan.

REEL TIME: SALAT (BONE DRY) (GMA NETWORK) GMA Network, Inc. (GMA News TV)Responding to a Philippines National Nutrition Council’s study that determined that two out of 10 Filipino children are malnourished, GMA’s Reel Time series produced this unflinching documentary that makes the statistics heartbreakingly human. It focuses primarily on Vina Navarro, a widowed mother in Manila who struggles to feed herself and six small children on the pittance – the equivalent of about 48 cents per day – that she makes peeling garlic cloves. The video is remarkably intimate, capturing up-close the Navarros’ subsistence life in their cramped living quarters and the surrounding slums. We see her oldest child, Mary Rose, who’s the size of a 5-year-old at age 10, crying because she doesn’t want to go to school without bathing. Food, not “frivolities” like soap, is Vina’s foremost concern, and we see her pride when, after a good day’s work, she brings home a single pack of instant noodles for her brood to share. For personalizing the problem of hunger in the Philippines and also putting it in a global context, a Peabody Award goes to Reel Time: Salat (Bone Dry).

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GAME CHANGE (HBO)Playtone Productions and Everyman Pictures in association with HBO FilmsFrom the best-selling book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, writer Danny Strong pulled out one of the most intriguing stories from the 2008 Presidential election. This HBO film details Sarah Palin’s run for the vice presidency as viewed from the perspective of political strategists who initially found her a bold choice for a troubled campaign. Subtly portrayed by Julianne Moore, Sarah Palin comes across as complex, determined and real. As the story unfolds, campaign strategists struggle to keep control of what is becoming a cascade of highly visible political mistakes. Through on-the-money writing and a combination of dramatic, humorous and documentary approaches, Game Change paints a vivid picture of rarely seen backstage political machinations and makes it all painfully believable. For telling an American story of the making and unmaking of this century’s most captivating vice-presidential candidate, Game Change receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Jay Roach. Co-Executive Producers: Danny Strong, Steven Shareshian. Produced by: Amy Sayres. Director: Jay Roach. Writer: Danny Strong (based on the book by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann). Cast: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Ron Livingston, Peter MacNicol, Sarah Paulson, Jamey Sheridan, Bruce Altman, Colby French, Spencer Garrett, David Barry Gray, Brian Howe, Austin Pendleton, John Rothman.

Co-Anchor, Good Morning America: Robin Roberts.

ROBIN’S JOURNEY (ABC)ABC NewsRobin Roberts’ decision to reveal her confrontation of a life-threatening disease on June 11, 2012, was a decision to engage and involve her public, her viewers and those of ABC’s Good Morning America in what became a journey of exploration, education and commitment. The disease she was battling was rare: Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). It attacks the blood and bone marrow of its victims. The primary treatment is a bone marrow transplant. From the beginning of her diagnosis, to her consultations with colleagues, to her discovery that her sister provided a perfect match for the transplant, Roberts realized that her situation provided a special teaching opportunity. Annually, more than 10,000 Americans require bone marrow transplants, yet donors are not always available. Roberts partnered with Be The Match Registry, the world’s largest bone marrow donor registry, and with the support of ABC began her campaign. Registration with Be The Match shot upward. On June 26, 2012, ABC News held a donor drive at its headquarters and soon 55 other companies asked to host donor events. For stepping through a door that could have been closed by fear, for recognizing an opportunity rather than focusing on personal danger, and for contributing to the potential for saving thousands of lives, Robin’s Journey receives a Peabody Award.

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WHY POVERTY? (GLOBAL BROADCAST)Steps International, BBC, DR-Danish Broadcast Corp.A collection of eight documentaries televised by networks in 69 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe, Why Poverty? addresses when, where, what and how as well. Each film is distinct in tone and style and examines different facets of the subject. Welcome to the World, for instance, documents the vastly different circumstances under which 130 million babies are born worldwide each year. More a video essay, Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream doesn’t hide its indignation at the extreme disparity of wealth it finds on opposite ends of the fabled Manhattan thoroughfare. Give Us the Money questions whether celebrity-fronted anti-poverty events such as Live Aid have had any meaningful impact while Land Rush examines how rich nations such as Saudi Arabia and China are buying up large acreages in Mali to build agribusiness farms. For the bigger picture, there’s Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty, which cleverly uses glyph-like cartoons to demonstrate how poverty, though always with us, has been redefined over the centuries of human existence. Other illuminating films in the series deal with the continuing poverty in Zambia despite its rich copper deposits, the exploding numbers of educated unemployed in China, and a poor Jordanian woman enrolled in a solar-energy engineering program in India. For providing parallax insights into poverty as it is manifested throughout the world, a Peabody Award goes to Why Poverty?

DESIGN AH! (NHK EDUCATIONAL CHANNEL) NHK Educational Corporation for NHK ( Japan Broadcasting Corporation)Design Ah! is designed to teach children to perceive objects and ideas from different perspectives, thereby inspiring creative thinking. Its short segments are minimalist and often mesmerizing. One is a stop-action parade of household and office chairs. Another segment deconstructs a truck, with each part shown for the unique design it is. In yet another, the images on the pages of a comic book gradually skitter and slink away, leaving the original blank sheet. Most segments are wordless. In one exception, industrial designer Ichiro Iwasaki advises budding designers: “Choose a flower and make it your own.” The wisdom is Zen, the images sensational, the concepts deceptively simple. For articulating fundamentals of design and refreshing viewers’ eyes, Design Ah! receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Don Edkins, Mette Hoffman Meyer, Nick Fraser. Producers: Rachel Tierney, Blair Foster, David Herdies, Femke Wolting, Henrik Veileborg, Don Edkins, Eli Cane, Mette Heide. Directors: Brian Hill, Alex Gibney, Bosse Lindquist, Ben Lewis, Christoffer Guldbrandsen, Weijun Chen, Hugo Berkeley, Osvalde Lewat, Jehane Noujaim, Mona Eldaief.

Executive Producers: Naohiko Kuroda, Satoshi Otani. Producer: Takaharu Hatori. Director: Masakazu Satoh. Cast: Ai Makino. Additional Voices: Waraimeshi. Computer Graphics/Animation: Mizuhiro, Tomohiro Okazaki, Yosuke Abe, Soichiro Hiramoto. Lettering Design: Ken Okamoto. Production Supervisor: Yugo Nakamura. Production Manager: Taku Satoh. Special Thanks: TYO Inc. MONSTER Division.



LORNE MICHAELS ( INDIVIDUAL AWARD)Even without his most revered brainchild, Lorne Michaels has been a valuable contributor to the television landscape, producing significant comedies like 30 Rock, The Kids in the Hall, and NBC’s Late Night as hosted by both Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon. But it is of course Saturday Night Live, and its nearly forty-year run as the vanguard of popular American comedy, that earns Michaels his place in the pantheon. Starting out as a comedian and writer in Toronto’s celebrated comedy scene, Michaels has become one of television’s foremost curators of talent, and a place in Saturday Night Live’s repertory company has for years been one of the most coveted jobs in comedy. The list of success stories under Michaels, from Chevy Chase to Tina Fey, Gilda Radner to Will Ferrell, and everyone in between, is immense. The start of many careers in American comedy can be traced to the moment when, in the tense environment of an SNL audition, the performer first made Lorne laugh. Michaels produces comedy that is often edgy and incisive, often incredibly silly, but always captures the attention of the American public on Saturday night. For his 38 seasons as the patron saint of television comedy, Lorne Michaels receives a rare Individual Peabody Award.

FORD ESCAPE: EXPOSING A DEADLY DEFECT (KNXV-TV)KNXV-TV/ABC15 News, Phoenix, AZ It’s every parent’s nightmare: to see your child in danger, but not be able to help. Saige Bloom was driving her 2002 Ford Escape when the vehicle accelerated, and despite everything she did to stop the car, it kept accelerating. Her mother, following behind in another car, called 911 for help. She watched helplessly as her daughter’s Escape swerved through traffic to avoid other drivers. Finally, Saige’s car clipped a grey sedan and flipped three times. Saige Bloom lost her life as a result of that accident. KNXV-TV reported on that initial accident, but didn’t stop there. The station uncovered information on a known defect in the Escape and Ford’s failure to correctly make repairs to affected vehicles, including Saige’s car. Despite financial pressure from some of its major advertisers, KNXV-TV continued to research hundreds of documents, displaying a persistence and determination to uncover the truth, no matter what the cost. Their investigation led to news reports that exposed a problem and led to government actions that corrected the problem. For its exemplary investigative journalism, KNXV-TV’s Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Aaron Wische, Maria Tomasch. Producer: Lauren Gilger. Writers: Lauren Gilger, Joe Ducey. Reporter: Joe Ducey. Videographer: Gerard Watson. Editor: Scott Sherman.



SCOTUSBLOG (WWW.SCOTUSBLOG.COM)SCOTUSblogIn many respects, SCOTUSblog is to the Supreme Court of the United States what ESPN.com is to the world of sports. It’s the place to go for stats and chat, commentary and analysis. Th ere’s even something resembling play-by-play: Its “live blog” provides real-time coverage of orders and opinions, often ahead of the Court’s own website. But unlike ESPN.com or even cable television’s C-SPAN, SCOTUSblog is equally concerned with continuity and history. Visitors to the site can tap into archives that include case briefs, oral argument transcripts and audio, and the Court’s ultimate decisions. Th e postings can be arcane: Where but on SCOTUSblog is a Supremes groupie likely to encounter punditry about the “all-stars” of “cert.-stage amicus activity”? But the site’s staff also graciously provides a “Plain English” section where legalese is deciphered and cases and procedures are made understandable for average folks. For fi lling a gap in Supreme Court coverage created by traditional media outlets’ staff cutbacks and, in fact, far exceeding it, SCOTUSblog receives a Peabody Award.

Publisher: Tom Goldstein. Editor: Amy Howe. Reporting and Analysis: Lyle Denniston. Manager: Kali Borkoski. Deputy Manager: Max Mallory. Analysis of Banking and Intellectual Property Cases: Ronald Mann. Law Students Column: Stephen Wermiel. Statistics: Kedar Bhatia. Relist Watch: John Elwood.

Creator/Showrunner: Lena Dunham. Executive Producers: Judd Apatow, Jenni Konner, Lena Dunham. Co-Executive Producers: Ilene S. Landress, Bruce Eric Kaplan. Co-Producer: Peter Phillips. Consulting Producer: Dan Sterling. Directors: Lena Dunham, Jody Lee Lipes, Jesse Peretz, Richard Shepard. Writers: Lena Dunham, Judd Apatow, Jenni Konner, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Dan Sterling. Cast: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, James LeGros, Kathryn Hahn, Peter Scolari, Becky Ann Baker, Christopher Abbott, Alex Karpovsky.

GIRLS (HBO)Apatow Productions and I am Jenni Konner Productions in association with HBO EntertainmentAn edgy coming-of-age comedy-drama about 20-somethings living in Brooklyn, Girls grows out of the experiences of one woman – Lena Dunham, the writer, director and star of this lightning rod of an HBO series. Funny, frustrating, irritating, vulnerable and extreme, Dunham’s lead character, Hannah Horvath, and her group of girlfriends are trying to make it in the big, glorious, intimidating city. Sound like a familiar TV tale? Well, it isn’t. Girls is so personal, idiosyncratic, self-indulgent and naked that it is unlike anything television has ever seen. And yet, in Dunham’s crazy, problematic world, viewers fi nd refl ections of their own lives, ambitions, romances and anxieties. Th e show evokes laughter and tears, often at the same time, and has touched a cultural nerve, particularly among some female viewers who have fi nally found a show to call their own. For its daring, sometimes uncomfortable honesty, Girls receives a Peabody Award.


GroundBreakingUnivision Communications Inc. congratulates our very own Univision News team on winning a 2013 Peabody Award for their exclusive investigation into the controversial “Fast and Furious” undercover operation. This impressive achievement reflects Univision News’ dedication to thorough, balanced reporting and an ongoing commitment to providing vital information to the Hispanic community and the country as a whole. Felicidades.



TEEN CONTENDER: AN AUDIO DIARY OF ONE GIRL’S FIGHT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE RING (NPR, WNYC) Radio DiariesRadio Diaries’ storytelling philosophy that “ordinary life is newsworthy” is beautifully represented in the story of 16-year-old Olympic boxing contender Claressa Shields, who tells her audio diary: “I have this dream. I’m in England, London, and it’s the finals in the Olympics. I can hear the announcer – I mean, they’re going to say, like: ‘And the first woman Olympian at 165 pounds is Claressa Shields.’” Sports as a means of overcoming adversity is a common trope, but what makes Claressa’s story different is the sport she chose: boxing. Powerfully told, Claressa’s tale of triumph is a model for disadvantaged teen-agers who too often lack positive, articulate role models. Claressa and her story of struggle and perseverance come alive on NPR’s Radio Diaries. For its cultural relevance, excellence in audio storytelling, and inspirational quality, Teen Contender: An Audio Diary of One Girl’s Fight Inside and Outside the Ring receives a Peabody Award. Producers: Joe Richman, Sue Jaye Johnson,

Samara Freemark. Contributing Editors: Deborah George, Ben Shapiro. Women Box Series Editor: Marianne McCune.

Executive Producer: Alexander Gardiner. Produced by: Claire Lewis, Michael Apted. Directors: Michael Apted, Paul Almond (Director of 7Up). Director of Photography: George Jesse Turner. Editor: Kim Horton. Sound: Nick Steer. Production Coordinators: Amy Brown, Cort Kristensen. Production Managers: Helen Houston, Laura McCombie. Production Executive: Karen Stockton. Researchers: Michael Apted, Gordon McDougall.

MICHAEL APTED’S “UP” SERIES (GRANADA TELEVISION/BBC/ITV1)ITV StudiosFor nearly half a century, director Michael Apted has followed the life progress of 14 British children in his acclaimed Up series. Just 7 years old when 7Up was filmed in 1964, the subjects now are well into middle age. Eight installments of the series have been produced. The latest, 56Up, debuted in 2012. Interviews with the participants since 7Up have been voluntary, and all but one of the original 14 shared life updates in 56Up. Experiencing Apted’s series is like catching up with old friends as they face life’s challenges and comforts. We feel an intimacy with the subjects; they make us feel good, refreshed or depressed as we watch them age. The original idea behind the series was to examine the realities of the British class system at a time when the culture was experiencing extraordinary upheaval, with the assumption that each child’s social class would predetermine his or her future. While that assumption has been borne out to a great degree, the series has long since become more personal than political. Notable for its creator’s patience and its subjects’ humanity, the Up series, a unique social document, receives an Institutional Peabody Award.


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THE LOVING STORY (HBO)Augusta Films and HBO Documentary Films with the support of the National Endowment for the HumanitiesIn Nancy Buirski’s beautifully spare documentary film, a fundamental truth about the history of segregation is revealed almost in passing – that so much of white Americans’ racial fear was tied to a kind of sexual panic. And amidst the shameful system of anti-miscegenation laws that dotted the southern United States well into the 20th century (the most tangible byproduct of those anxieties) lies the story of Richard Loving, a white Virginian, and his half-black, half-Native American wife, Mildred. Their fight to avoid both prison and exile for their “criminal” marriage is perhaps the most beautiful love story ever written into American case law. Using archival interviews with the couple, current interviews with their children and the ACLU attorneys who took up their cause, as well as original recordings of the oral arguments that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision striking down laws against interracial marriage, the film argues that, then or now, the law should not traffic in matters of love. For its gorgeous and sympathetic telling of a couple’s fight to persevere in the face of injustice, The Loving Story receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins (for HBO), Scott Berrie, Marshall Sonenshine. Produced by: Nancy Buirski, Elisabeth Haviland James. Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham (for HBO). Director: Nancy Buirski. Writers: Nancy Buirski, Susie Ruth Powell. Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James.

CNN’S COVERAGE INSIDE SYRIA AND HOMS (CNN) CNNBy now, scenes of war in Syria are all too familiar. That must not mean, however, that those scenes have become meaningless or that they can be ignored. Despite the possibility of “war fatigue” among viewers, CNN mobilized wide-ranging international resources to provide powerful coverage of the continuing conflict. In the streets of Aleppo, we witness makeshift care for wounded children. We are placed in the midst of crowded funeral processions. We are also offered information that examines issues surrounding the Arab League’s failed attempt to broker a truce, and we are taken to pro-Assad rallies as well as anti-government events. But the heart of the coverage focuses on the struggles of opposition groups, struggles that go far beyond matters of combat. Shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies define daily existence. Snipers prevent street crossings. Random violence punctuates the rhythms of life. CNN’s seasoned journalists risk danger to move among activist demonstrations and bring us this information. From a different perspective, one series of documentary reports comes from an undercover journalist who travels into Homs at the beginning of the uprising. With these reports we come to understand better the disintegration of a society caught in perpetual upheaval. CNN provided continuity, overview analysis and deeply moving intimate stories of what seems to be endless warfare in Syria, and for this receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CNN International: Tony Maddox. Senior Vice President of International Newsgathering, CNN Worldwide: Parisa Khosravi. VP and Managing Editor for CNN International | Europe/Middle East/Africa: Deborah Rayner. The CNN International Newsgathering Team.



THIS AMERICAN LIFE: WHAT HAPPENED AT DOS ERRES (PRI) WBEZ’s This American Life, ProPublica, Fundación MEPIThis spellbinding documentary scrutinizes a Guatemalan civil-war atrocity and contextualizes its place in the long history of bloody conflict and political chaos in that country and the region. What makes the story especially powerful is how it’s personalized. At its center is the remarkable story of Oscar Ramirez. He was living in a Boston suburb in 2011 when he received a phone call from a prosecutor in Guatemala who had been investigating war crimes, including the 1982 Dos Erres slaughter. He had no memory of the village, let alone that he was one of the few survivors. But he was, and it turned out that the man who had raised him was actually a commander of the army unit that perpetrated the massacre. And as if one amazing twist weren’t enough, investigators subsequently discovered that Ramirez’ real father was still alive. The documentary was a massive undertaking, six months in the reporting. It interweaves the vivid, you-are-there remembrances of soldiers and survivors with historical references and statistics that broaden and deepen the listener’s knowledge of war crimes in countries such as Guatemala and how those horrific events are being addressed today. For finding and masterfully telling a war story at once unique and emblematic, This American Life: What Happened at Dos Erres receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Ira Glass. Producer: Brian Reed. Reporters: Habiba Nosheen, Brian Reed, Sebastian Rotella, Ana Arana. Editors: Ira Glass, Julie Snyder, Nancy Updike.

DECEPTION AT DUKE (CBS)CBS News 60 Minutes In 2007, Duke University trumpeted its discovery of the “holy grail” of cancer research: a technique for matching chemotherapy with each patient’s unique genetic makeup. The treatment turned out to be not only a failure but also, as a seven-month 60 Minutes investigation found, one of the biggest medical-research frauds ever perpetrated. Duke was so certain of Dr. Anil Potti’s research, the university featured him in TV commercials touting his breakthrough (“Genomics will revolutionize cancer therapy”). But as other scientists studying his data came to suspect – and 60 Minutes subsequently documented – results of the clinical trials were falsified when they didn’t jibe with Potti’s theories. The report is particularly wrenching because more than 100 cancer patients volunteered for the trials, putting their fates in the hands of a prestigious university and one of its rising-star researchers. Scott Pelley interviews one patient’s widower. “We felt that he was going to give us a chance,” says Walter Jacobs, now part of a law suit on behalf of his wife, who died three months after entering the trial. For confirming and clarifying an outrageous, tragic medical-research fraud, Deception at Duke receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Jeff Fager. Executive Editor: Bill Owens. Senior Producer: Michael Radutzky. Correspondent: Scott Pelley. Producer: Kyra Darnton. Editor: Matt Richman. Associate Producer: Sam Hornblower.


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BREAKING NEWS: TRAGEDY AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (WVIT-TV)WVIT-TV, West Hartford, CTThis is the kind of story no news organization wishes to encounter. It is also the kind of story that must be told and told in a manner that provides accurate reporting, important and useful information, and expanded analysis. These matters are especially important for those organizations closest to the story, organizations that are already a part of the community under duress. WVIT-TV in West Hartford, Connecticut, was that organization on December 14, 2012. Just before 10:00 a.m. that day, a fragmentary police scanner report indicated a shooting at a school. By 10:04 the station had confirmed, then reported, that the school was Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty minutes later the station began coverage that lasted until midnight. Initially, it concentrated on providing details as they unfolded. When the full story emerged, the terrible details were announced in a stunned, yet compassionate, professional manner. WVIT continued, folding the NBC Nightly News and a special Dateline report into its coverage. Interviews with mental health professionals provided instruction and guidance on how the community might seek comfort, inform children and deal collectively with shock and grief. Throughout this day and days that followed, WVIT-TV’s coverage of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School embodied the meaning and significance of local broadcast news and for this receives a Peabody Award.

President and General Manager: David Doebler. Vice President of News: Mike St. Peter. Executive Producers: Sharon Butterworth, Ben Dobson, Darwin Guggenbiller, Katy Camp, Bob Connors, Phil Speliopoulos. Producers: Scott Beaulieu, Melanie Diaz, Katie Harris, Kristie Borges, Deanna Fry, Jennifer Sposato, Brooke Rakowski, LeAnne Gendreau. Assignment Editors: Danielle Poulin, Stephanie O’Connell, Amanda Beaulieu, Jennifer Pineiro, Alyssa Zauderer. Anchors: Brad Drazen, Shirley Chan, Lisa Carberg, Keisha Grant, Gerry Brooks.And the entire NBC Connecticut newsgathering team.

Executive Producer: Melissa Eagan. Producers: Blakeney Schick, Steven Valentino, Julia Corcoran. Contributing Producer: Barbara Cahn. Vice President, Content Development and Production: Chris Bannon. Host: Leonard Lopate.

THE LEONARD LOPATE SHOW (WNYC)WNYC RadioFor more than two decades, Leonard Lopate has quizzed and bantered live on the radio with architects and assemblymen, chefs and climatologists. With his guests he has knowledgeably and enthusiastically monitored the vital signs of New York City’s cultural and civic life. But the thing that truly sets his daily shows apart is Lopate and his producers’ knack for recognizing and explicating issues and activities that are being neglected by other media outlets despite their potential impact on the residents’ lives. In 2012, he engaged in spirited conversations about what a proposed multi-million dollar renovation and reorganization at the main branch of the New York Public Library would truly mean to its users. He analyzed the potential impact on Greenwich Village of New York University’s plans for a two-and-a-half million square foot expansion. And no one, before or after Hurricane Sandy swamped the city, did a more thorough, creative job of brainstorming how to waterproof Gotham. For considering all things New York in lively broadcasts that, like the host, value light more than heat, The Leonard Lopate Show receives a Peabody Award.



SOUTHLAND (TNT)John Wells Production in association with Warner Bros TelevisionSouthland is grounded in one of television’s most familiar and traditional forms, yet in each episode it shatters the traditions and startles with the unfamiliar. It’s not enough to say we’ve seen other police procedurals, seen tough officers in gritty Los Angeles neighborhoods. It’s not enough to say we’ve seen cops bend the rules or take heroic chances. Nor is it enough to say we know personal lives intersect with the professional in these settings and circumstances. The point is that we have so rarely seen these things done so well. Routine traffic stops erupt into major events. Violent confrontations occur, yet the day concludes in mundane fashion. Personal and private matters hover at the fringes of dramatic moments. Threaded through these familiar story lines are richly defined character developments. Noble acts devolve into celebrity arrogance. Good intentions are sidetracked by expediency. As in every great police drama, daily work offers versions of what it means to be human and humane, violent and compassionate, cynical and committed. Cop shows are television staples because they provide a crucible in which to test such matters week after week. This series never turns down the heat. Southland burns through these familiar struggles with an intensity rarely matched in television history and for that receives a Peabody Award.

Created By: Ann Biderman. Executive Producers: Andrew Stearn, Jonathan Lisco, Christopher Chulack, John Wells. Producer: Jon Paré. Directors: Christopher Chulack, Nelson McCormick, Felix Alcala, Allison Anders, Guy Norman Bee. Writers: Jonathan Lisco, Cheo Hodari Coker, Jason Horwitch, Sara Gran, Heather Zuhlke, Etan Frankel. Cast: Michael Cudlitz, Shawn Hatosy, Regina King, Ben McKenzie. Special Guest Stars: Lucy Liu, C. Thomas Howell. Directors of Photography: J. Michael Muro, Cameron Duncan, Dana Gonzalez. Editor: Russell Denove, Milkos Wright.

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EXPOSURE: BANAZ: AN HONOUR KILLING ( ITV)Hardcash Productions/Fuuse FilmsPresented by ITV’s documentary anthology Exposure, these films exhibited both sensitivity and unblinking honesty in examining two different cultural horrors in Great Britain. Banaz: An Honour Killing chronicled a young Kurdish-British woman’s brutal murder – punishment ordered by members of her own family for shaming them. She had dared to leave her abusive husband and date another man. The crushing centerpiece is a video, recorded at one of her several visits to the police, in which she predicts her demise and the likely perpetrators. Almost as powerful are candid interviews with Banaz’s sister, who is in hiding, fearing for her own life, and with police and prosecutors who convicted her killers but remain deeply attached to her and bereft that their system failed her. The subject of The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, meanwhile, evokes no sympathy. A beloved comic icon, Savile had hobnobbed with the Rolling Stones and Margaret Thatcher and had been knighted for his work on TV shows like Top of the Pops and for his prolific charity fundraising. Producer Lesley Gardiner, working with child-protection officer Mark Williams-Thomas, broke the story posthumously that Sir Jimmy was also a voracious sexual predator who preyed on underage girls and that BBC colleagues had known of his perversity and said nothing. The telecast’s revelations generated an avalanche of media coverage and led to a nationwide police investigation that has so far turned up more than 450 victims. For dissecting two criminal grotesqueries, steadfastly putting context above sensationalism, a Peabody Award goes to Exposure’s Banaz: An Honour Killing and The Other Side of Jimmy Savile. Banaz: An Honour Killing

Executive Producer: David Henshaw. Producers: Andrew Smith, Lesley Bonner, Darin Prindle. Director/Reporter: Deeyah Khan. Cinematographer: Jeremiah Chapman.

The Other Side of Jimmy SavileExecutive Producer: Alexander Gardiner. Producer/Director: Lesley Gardiner. Investigator: Mark Williams-Thomas.



SRI LANKA’S KILLING FIELDS: WAR CRIMES UNPUNISHED (CHANNEL 4, UK)ITN Productions for Channel 4 Television, UKA disturbing fact of today’s media culture is that despite hundreds of channels and thousands of reporters and reporting teams, significant events continue to go unreported, overlooked, unnoticed. One of these events was the Sri Lankan Civil War, a war that led to the deaths of an estimated 40,000 Tamil fighters and civilians. ITN/Channel 4 news reported on these events, but the first film it produced was deemed “fraudulent” by the Sri Lankan government, which mounted an extensive public relations campaign to discredit the work. This, the second film, was produced to demonstrate the truth of the first. New witnesses, new self-shot amateur film, “trophy videos” shot by government officials, and extensive forensic investigation all confirm that the events described did occur in all their horror. Moreover, this new work confirms that the killings were not the result of “rogue” soldiers but were sanctioned at high government levels. The film had enormous political impact. It led to increased international pressure on the Sri Lankan government, which angrily denied all charges. The Indian government altered policies toward Sri Lanka and joined a UN motion condemning Sri Lanka’s human rights record. For refusing to ignore what other organizations had overlooked and for encouraging governments to condemn sanctioned atrocities, a Peabody Award goes to Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished.

Executive Producer: Chris Shaw. Producer/Director: Callum Macrae. Reporter: Jon Snow.

INVESTIGATING THE IRS (WTHR-TV)WTHR-TV, IndianapolisIn an extensive series of reports, Bob Segall and the WTHR investigative news team uncovered massive fraud costing American taxpayers billions of dollars. They also uncovered mismanagement and lack of oversight inside the Internal Revenue Service that allowed the fraudulent practices to go on. Acting on a tip from a tax preparer, WTHR found that large numbers of undocumented workers without Social Security numbers were filing tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers. ITIN numbers allowed them to claim additional Child Tax Credits of $1,000 per child with no limit to the number of credits so long as the children live in the United States with the taxpayer for at least six months a year. WTHR learned, however, that the children rarely lived with the taxpayers. The investigation then expanded to other states where those using the loophole confirmed the practice. Moreover, tax preparers inside the IRS reported that the problem was widely known. It was allowed to continue in order to assure that a required number of tax returns could be quickly processed. These reports led to dramatic and immediate results. After first denying any ability to correct the problems, the IRS soon announced extensive, permanent changes in agency practices and policies, changes that may save billions of dollars. For identifying and confirming both fraud and mismanagement, Investigating the IRS receives a Peabody Award.

Producer: Cyndee Hebert. Reporter: Bob Segall. Videographers: Bill Ditton, Steve Rhodes, Jacob Jennings. Editor: Bill Ditton. Writer: Bob Segall. Graphic Design and Production: Kris Burke, Steve Wolfe, Amy Ramirez.



DL HUGHLEY: THE ENDANGERED LIST (COMEDY CENTRAL)Comedy Central, Five Timz ProductionsWhen this comedy special opens with its fake auditions for a Public Service Announcement viewers must wonder: What do these celebrities with their serious demeanor and their heartfelt tones mean when they soberly inform us that “Extinction Isn’t An Option”? What do they want us to do when they ask us to be “BroLife”? Soon enough, we learn. Comedian DL Hughley wants to have “the black man” put on the Endangered Species List. What seems at first a preposterous notion becomes less so when the comedy is supported with numbers and interviews. One in three black men will go to prison during their lifetime. Black families lost 53% of their net wealth during the Great Recession. Young black men are murdered at 46 times the rate of young white men. On the other end of what is at times a hilarious spectrum, we learn that disturbing the habitat of the California Salamander makes one subject to a $50,000 fine and a year in jail. Punctuated with stand-up routines and filled with irony and exaggeration, Hughley’s special makes us think hard about his premise and the problems that truly concern him. With satire worthy of Jonathan Swift he convinces us that his cause may not be so outrageous as it first seemed, and for that DL Hughley: The Endangered List receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: DL Hughley, Timothy Greenberg, Miles Kahn, Stuart Miller, Michael Rotenberg, Dave Becky. Cast: DL Hughley.

Reporters: Deborah Amos, Kelly McEvers. Senior Editor: Doug Roberts.

SYRIA 2012 (NPR)NPRAs the uprising of Syrian dissidents expanded throughout 2012 into full-fledged civil war, NPR correspondents Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers provided a steady flow of information for their listeners. Their reports began with opportunities afforded by official visas. Focused on Damascus, they were able at times to travel outside the capital. Soon, however, McEvers was denied official entry by the government, and Amos found it increasingly difficult to obtain permission to enter Syria. Both correspondents continued to report, however, often from the Turkish border or following clandestine entry to conflict zones. Using Skype and YouTube, they provided detailed information on a fluid situation. McEvers’ interviews with rebel commanders examined atrocities and pointed to the implications of sectarian violence in the future. Amos also contacted rebel leaders who, toward the end of the year, claimed control of regions and plans for further successes. Topics in these vital accounts range from descriptions of refugee camps to the state of the Syrian economy. Throughout their reports, Amos and McEvers provided crucial information, precise analysis and ground level details that enabled listeners to understand a conflict fraught with complication and confusion. For this, their reports receive a Peabody Award.



Directors: Daniel Coronell, Gerardo Reyes, Jairo Marin. Senior Producer: Margarita Rabin. Managers: Maria Martinez Henao, Keith Summa, Jeannette Casal Miranda, Porfi rio Patiño. Talent: Jorge Ramos, Gerardo Reyes, Maria Antonieta Collins, Tifani Roberts, Mariana Atencio. Producers: Tomas Ocana, Casto Ocando, Vytenis Didziulis. Associate Producers: Wilnelia Thompson, Guadalupe Alvarez. Photographers: Luis Donadio, Scott Monaghan, Jorge Alvarez, Jorge Vasquez, Miguel Carrillo, Juan Carlos Guzman, Hugo Ballesteros. Editors: Maria Piñon, Gisela Saez, Hector Gómez Lopez, Roberto Couto, Guillermo Florez, Lazaro Blanco, Hugo Ballesteros.

RAPIDO Y FURIOSO (FAST AND FURIOUS) (UNIVISION)Univision NetworkTh e Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ covert scheme to sell guns to Mexican drug traffi ckers and monitor their whereabouts came to light in the United States and sparked outrage after a Border Patrol agent was killed by smugglers with one of the weapons. Univision News’ graphic report, taking its title from the “gun-walking” program’s nickname, explores the bloody impact of the ill-conceived ATF program inside Mexico, including a cartel-ordered massacre using “Fast and Furious” weapons that left 14 teenagers dead at a birthday party. Univision’s investigative team also documented 57 previously unreported ATF weapons that turned up at crime scenes and exposed similarly problematic ATF programs in Colombia, Honduras and Puerto Rico. For enlarging public knowledge of the ATF’s program and adding the perspective of the country most tragically aff ected, Rapido y Furioso (Fast and Furious) receives a Peabody Award.

SNOW FALL: THE AVALANCHE AT TUNNEL CREEK (WWW.NYTIMES.COM) The New York TimesA spectacular realization of the potential of digital-age storytelling, Snow Fall: Th e Avalanche at Tunnel Creek illustrates and enriches superb, traditional feature writing by John Branch. Using still-photo slide shows, animated simulations and stunning aerial video, it documents and analyzes the causes and deadly impact of a monster avalanche in Washington’s Cascade Mountains that was triggered by one or more of 16 professional free-skiers and ski-journalists invited to a “back country” run by a resort’s marketing manager. Five were swept away by the rampaging tidal wave of snow. Th ree of them died. Branch’s prose, enough for a long magazine article or a short book, is poetic and richly detailed, evidence of his painstaking legwork. But what the website’s visitors come away raving about most are the visual components. We fl y high above the Cascades to locate Tunnel Creek. From higher still, we see how the weather took shape that fateful day. We take a white-knuckle run down a similarly challenging slope by way of a camera on a skier’s head. We meet the ill-fated ski-partiers and hear from the survivors. At once beautiful and scarifying, Snow Fall: Th e Avalanche at Tunnel Creek is a lucid, enveloping multi-media experience, and for this it receives a Peabody Award.

Development: Josh Williams, Jon Huang, Alan McLean, Jacky Myint. Art Directors: Steve Duenes, Andrew Kueneman. Reporter: John Branch. Editors: Jason Stallman, Joe Sexton, Becky Lebowitz, Jacky Myint, Steve Duenes, Andrew Kueneman, Hannah Fairfi eld. Video: Catherine Spangler. Photography: Ruth Fremson. Graphics: Hannah Fairfi eld, Graham Roberts, Xaquín G.V., Jeremy White, Joe Ward.


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SWITCHED AT BIRTH (ABC FAMILY)Prodco, Inc. in Association with ABC FamilySwitched at Birth could have been a thoroughly conventional teen melodrama. Two families belatedly learn that their baby daughters were, in fact, switched. One family, the more affl uent, is suing the hospital. Th e other, a working, single mother and her daughter, try to make the best of things. Th e girls know each other. Th e families interact. Th ough caught in these awkward circumstances, they somehow still seem to be teens, worrying over love lives, sports, school confl icts, everything we would expect. Except that one of the girls, Daphne, is deaf. She attends a school for the deaf and the hearing impaired, and through her and her school friends we are introduced to deaf culture. Th is series is truly remarkable in depicting this world, but is equally important because it makes deaf culture “normal,” another part of the communities surrounding it. Th roughout the series scenes are frequently presented completely in American Sign Language. In this powerful manner, the expression of teenage feelings, the frustrations of trying to play sports, the fear that comes from being arrested by police who shout unheard commands, all become very real, almost taken for granted, by the audience. For deepening the world of family drama in a way that also truly enlarges the worlds of its viewers, Switched At Birth receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Lizzy Weiss, Paul Stupin, Becky Hartman Edwards. Producer: Shawn Wilt. Directors: Steve Miner, Chris Grismer. Writers: Lizzy Weiss, Becky Hartman Edwards, Henry Robles. Cast: Sean Berdy, Lucas Grabeel, Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.W. Moffett, Lea Thompson, Gilles Marini, Marlee Matlin.

INVESTIGATING THE FIRE (KMGH-TV)KMGH-TV, DenverOn March 24, 2012, the Colorado State Forest Service set a controlled fi re, also known as a prescribed burn, on Denver Water Department lands. Th e fi re expanded into an out-of-control forest fi re dubbed the Lower North Fork Fire. Th e fi re burned 4,140 acres, destroyed 22 homes and killed three people. KMGH-TV assigned two reporters, Amanda Kost and Marshall Zellinger, to full-time coverage of the fi re, its causes, its casualties and its aftermath. Th e station produced more than two dozen reports over 40 days. A 30-minute special report followed. Th is work discovered that the Forest Service neglected to monitor the prescribed burn on required days, that 911 callers were instructed not to evacuate their homes, that reverse 911 calls were based on inaccurate maps and that seven of the 22 destroyed homes received no notifi cation of any problems. Coverage of the fi re did not end, however, with determining causes and issues. Th e KMGH team reported severe limits set by the state for victim compensation. Following the KMGH reports, state lawmakers quickly revised the law to raise the compensation cap. KMGH also hosted two town hall meetings to aff ord victims opportunities to voice their concerns. Coverage of the issues continues. For its detailed, ac-curate investigative reporting of a terrible event in the heart of its community, Investigating the Fire receives a Peabody Award.

Investigative Reporters/Producers: Amanda Kost, Marshall Zelinger. Photojournalists/Editors: Jennifer R. Castor, Doug Schepman. Executive Producer: Jonathan Stone. News Director: Jeff Harris. Vice President/General Manager: Byron Grandy. Editor: Jason Foster. Photojournalists: Brad Bogott, James Dougherty. Art Director: Mark Montour-Larson. Graphic Artist: Katie Strickland. Hosts: Anne Trujillo, Mike Landess.



PUTIN, RUSSIA & THE WEST (BBC2)Brook Lapping Productions, BBC, National Geographic ChannelIn a remarkable four-hour documentary, key portions of the history of the early 21st Century are presented as a fine-grained tapestry. That history could have been told through the intimate personality profiles that emerge here. It could have been examined in the detailed explorations of how these personalities engaged one another across borders, over issues, and in tense negotiations. It could have chronicled major conflicts, defined in part by the events of September 11, 2001. What makes the series most powerful, however, is the constant reminder that none of these things can be best understood without the others, without context, comparison, without the full “back story,” or better yet, the “back stage story.” With footage from every major news organization that covered those years, the series involves all the major “players.” From Yeltsin to Putin to Saakashvili to Medvedev, from Bush to Rice to Powell to Obama, all are present. So too are the oligarchs and the demonstrators, the soldiers and the civilians. With the drive of historical narrative and the pull of international intrigue, we observe constant jockeying for power and influence, for political control and financial gain, for personal power and national pride. Putin, Russia & The West exposes and explains history as process, as something made with choices rather than something to be recalled and described. For this it receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Brian Lapping. Producers: Paul Mitchell, Norma Percy. Directors: David Alter, Wanda Koscia, Paul Mitchell. Writers: Brian Lapping, Paul Mitchell, Norma Percy.

MLK: THE ASSASSINATION TAPES (SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL) 1895 Films for Smithsonian ChannelThis illuminating documentary was made possible by the foresight of some University of Memphis faculty members. Sensing that a strike by the city’s black sanitation workers in February 1968 was going to be a crucial event in the Civil Rights Movement, they began collecting media coverage – local TV, radio and print – for their school’s archives. They continued as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came from Atlanta to speak, march, show solidarity, and eventually meet a martyr’s death. From this trove of material, much of it never seen outside Memphis, Tom Jennings and his colleagues painstakingly cobbled together a succinct summary of King’s murder and the roiling events before and after. It’s so vivid and immersive that it seems at times to be live on television right now. For the sense of immediacy it creates even as it provides a fresh historical perspective, MLK: The Assassination Tapes receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: David Royle, Charles Poe, Tom Jennings. Producers: Tom Jennings, Jonny Filsinger, Ron Frank. Director: Tom Jennings. Writer: Tom Jennings. Editors: Ron Frank, David Tillman. Music: Mac Squier. Research: Woody Farmer, Ellen Farmer, Phil Prazen.


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UNDER FIRE: JOURNALISTS IN COMBAT (DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL, CANADA) JUF Pictures, Inc., documentary channel, CanadaTwo reporters died covering World War I battles. In World War II, the toll climbed to 63. But in the world’s various invasions, rebellions and conflicts of the past two decades, more than 900 journalists have died, indicative of both the demand for more and more vivid coverage and the growing tendency of warring factions to treat reporters as enemies. If it accomplishes nothing else, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat makes the indelible point that every richly detailed dispatch we read and every kinetic, up-close video or photograph that we see is the product of a journalist’s incredible bravery – or craziness, or both. But Under Fire accomplishes more. We hear from reporters and photographers who’ve spent years bounding from one hotspot to another: Afghanistan, Somalia, El Salvador. In forthright, sometimes emotional interviews, they give us insight into what keeps them going despite the death and destruction they witness, the wounds and traumatic stress they experience. “There is some terrible love of it which pulls you back to revisit again and again,” admits Anthony Loyd of the Times of London. Another reporter, Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times UK, speaks of cell-phoning home from warzones to a 6-year-old daughter. For its frank consideration of how we get the news of war and what getting it does to the reporters, Under Fire: Journalists in Combat receives a Peabody Award.

SUMMER PASTURE (PBS)True-Walker Productions, Independent Television ServiceA rare glimpse inside Chinese-occupied Tibet, Summer Pasture closely chronicles a year in the lives of Locho and Yama, a yak-herding nomadic couple, and their infant daughter on the remote, windswept grasslands of Dzachukha. It’s an existence dominated by near-endless chores, especially for the women: cooking, milking, cheese-making, gathering and drying yak dung for fires, a crucial task in this cold, treeless environment. Yet there is rarely a sense of desperation. Locho and Yama’s love for their lifestyle is unmistakable. So is their love for each other, though they bicker at times like Tibetan Honeymooners. And though they cannot read, much to their expressed regret, they’re smart, philosophical and self-aware, already thinking ahead to their daughter’s future as modernity inexorably encroaches on their wide open space. With photography and editing worthy of a John Ford western, this documentary is an artful, dramatic, comedic, intimate portrait of a culture both unique and universal, and for this Summer Pasture receives a Peabody Award.

Producer/Director: Martyn Burke. Producer: Anthony Feinstein. Executive Producer: Laura Morton. Reporters: Finbarr O’Reilly, Paul Watson, Jon Steele, Christina Lamb, Ian Stewart, Anthony Loyd, Jeremy Bowen, Chris Hedges, Susan Ormiston. Director of Photography: Donald Purser. Additional Photography: Jeremy Benning CSC, Kirk Tougas CSC, Frank Vilaca CSC, Andre Holland, Paul Watson, Finbarr O’Reilly. Editor: Christopher McEnroe. Music: Mark Korven. Line Producer: Keith Toms. Film Research: Elspeth Domville.Writer: Martyn Burke.

Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer (for ITVS). Producers: Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Tsering Perlo. Senior Series Producer: Lois Vossen. Directors: Lynn True , Nelson Walker, Tsering Perlo. Editor: Lynn True. Cinematographer: Nelson Walker.


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Executive Producer: Jeff Fager. Executive Editor: Bill Owens. Correspondent: Bob Simon. Producers: Clem Taylor, Magalie LaGuerre-Wilkinson. Editor: Warren Lustig.

JOY IN THE CONGO (CBS) CBS News 60 MinutesThis ebullient 60 Minutes segment is an ode to joy in an African republic known mainly for its catastrophic civil war and entrenched poverty. It’s also an ode to ingenuity, perseverance and the power of music. At its center is Armand Diangienda, a Congolese man who taught himself to read music and play piano, trombone and cello while recruiting potential oboists and trumpeters with even less experience than he had. Now encompassing 200 musicians and singers, his Kinshasa-based Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste was founded with battered basses rescued from trash heaps and brass a half-step from the smelter. Diangienda tells correspondent Bob Simon how one enterprising member used brake wire from a bicycle to restring an old violin. We see ongoing evidence of that determination: Some orchestra members trek 90-minutes each way, six days a week, to the city to rehearse compositions by Orff and Beethoven. And we hear their music, thrilling to the heart as well as the ear. For celebrating the human spirit and a dialect of the universal language of music, a Peabody Award goes to Joy in the Congo.

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL (HBO)HBOBryant Gumbel’s long-running series could just as easily be titled Real Life. Sports is its springboard, but from its inception it has been more concerned with culture, ethics and human striving than with winning streaks or batting averages. Standout 2012 segments include The Band Played On, a query into the tragic death of a Florida A&M drum major during a hazing ritual that the university had tolerated for years. Your Brain on Football was one of several candid reports on the neurological damage to which players are allowed to expose themselves and how concussions impact their lives and ability to learn. The Last Closet profiled professional athletes who’ve boldly chosen to come out as gay while Hockey’s Darkest Day laid bare the shocking negligence that led to a 2011 plane crash that killed 40 members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, one of Russia’s top squads. Uninhibited by league affiliations, sponsors or the blinders of fandom, unafraid to be irreverent or aggressive, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is what sports journalism – for that matter, journalism, period – should be. For this it receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Rick Bernstein. Senior Producers: Kirby Bradley, Joe Perskie. Senior Coordinating Producer: Nick Dolin. Coordinating Producer: Tim Walker. Segment Producers: Chapman Downes, Maggie Burbank, Josh Fine, Lisa Bennett, Michael Tolajian. Associate Producers: Beret Remak, Jake Rosenwasser, Nisreen Habbal, Spencer Wilking. Production Associates: Max Gershberg, Naimah Jabali-Nash, Brett Teal. Correspondents: Bryant Gumbel, Bernard Goldberg, Frank Deford, Jon Frankel, Andrea Kremer, Mary Carillo, Armen Keteyian.



DOCTOR WHO (BBC)A BBC Cymru Wales production for the BBCMuch like its eponymous character, Doctor Who has gone through numerous iterations since its creation in 1963. Including its original run of 26 seasons, various specials and television films, and the past seven years in its current incarnation, Doctor Who has been not just a standard-bearer for long-form science fiction on TV, but it also has served as a cultural ambassador for British television the world over. From its iconic contributions to the pop culture lexicon (like the TARDIS, perhaps the most innovative time machine since H.G. Wells’) to the debates it has inspired among its ardent fan base (who’s your favorite Doctor?), the past 50 years have revealed Doctor Who as the very definition of a television institution. And the series’ adaptability ensures that the Doctor and his companions will be fighting Daleks, and thrilling audiences, for years to come. For fearlessly exploring space, time, and the television world for half a century, Doctor Who receives a rare Institutional Peabody Award.

Creators: Syndey Newman, C.E. Webber, Donald Wilson. First Producer: Verity Lambert. Current Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, Caroline Skinner, Faith Penhale. Current Series Producer: Marcus Wilson. The Doctors (in chronological order): William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith.

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