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The Seventy-Third Annual
George Foster Peabody Awards
Presentation Luncheon
Administered by the University of Georgias
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 19, 2014 The Waldorf Astoria New York
11:00 a.m. Reception The University of Georgia
12:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Mr. Jere Morehead
President, University of Georgia
Luncheon
Welcome on behalf of Mr. Thomas Mattia
The Peabody Awards Chair, Peabody Board
Introduction of Dr. Jeffrey P. Jones
Master of Ceremonies Director, Peabody Awards
Presentation of Winners Ira Glass
Master of Ceremonies
2:45 p.m. Adjournment
5:00 p.m. Winners Tribute The Paley Center for Media
(Invitation Only) New York
Music for The Seventy-Third Annual Peabody Awards:
Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Written by Anthony Gonzalez and Joe Trapanese
Performed by M83
Used by permission.
Special Thanks to Universal Studios and Universal Music Publishing Group
The Peabody
Awards
The 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
awards 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 73rd Annual Awards celebrate programs
produced for original broadcast, cablecast or webcast in 2013.
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 46
Peabody Award winners this year.
The University of Georgia
In January 1785 two years after the Revolutionary
War ended and four years before George Washingtons
rst inauguration the Georgia legislature adopted
the charter that created the University of Georgia. In
founding the nations rst state university, the legislature
also gave birth to the American system of public higher
education. Over the past 229 years, Georgia and its
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 preeminence.
With nearly 35,000 students and an annual budget of
almost $1.5 billion, the University is a driving force in
the states dynamic development. Widely recognized
for excellence in teaching, research, and public service,
the University of Georgia has moved into the ranks of
Americas foremost public universities.
The Grady College of Journalism
and Mass Communication
The 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 100 graduate students. Students in the college receive hands-on, professional
training in a variety of experiential laboratories including Grady Newsource, a 30-minute newscast. 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.
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Ira Glass
Master of Ceremonies
Ira Glass is the host and producer of This American Life, which premiered in 1995 and
today is broadcast on more than 555 public-radio statons and is also one of the most
popular podcasts in America. Over three million people listen to the show every week.

Ira Glass began his career as an intern at Natonal Public Radios network headquarters
in Washington, D.C., in 1978, when he was 19. Over the years, he worked on nearly ev-
ery NPR network news program and held virtually every producton job. He has been a
tape cuter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor and producer. He has flled in as host
of Talk of the Naton and Weekend All Things Considered.

Under Glasss editorial directon, This American Life has won the highest honors for
broadcastng and journalistc excellence, including the Peabody and duPont-Columbia
awards, as well as the Edward R. Murrow and the Overseas Press Club awards. It has
won critcal acclaim and atracted contnuous natonal media atenton over the years.
American Journalism Review declared that the show is at the vanguard of a journalis-
tc revoluton. In 2001, Time named Glass Best Radio Host in America.

Glass creatve talents reach beyond public media. In 2007, Riverhead published The
New Kings of Non-Ficton, a collecton of narratve nonfcton essays that he chose .
The show has put out its own comic book, three greatest hits compilatons, a paint-by-
numbers set, a radio decoder toy, and a DVD, which was created with cartoonist Chris
Ware. Startng in March 2007, the television adaptaton of This American Life aired on
Showtme for two seasons. It garnered critcal acclaim and won three Emmy awards.
A half-dozen stories from This American Life are currently in development to be made
into moton pictures, and one is in development to be a new HBO series.
George Foster Peabody
(18521938)
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 signicant 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. Trasks 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 Awards
The most coveted prize in broadcasting and cable got its start in a small ofce on
the top oor of Atlantas historic Biltmore Hotel in 1938, when a pair of legendary
visionaries were brought together by a University of Georgia graduate. That graduate,
now 103 years old, is still an inuential 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 nations premier radio programs and
performances, as the Pulitzer did for the print press. Kay, then the innovative general
manager of WSB (AM) in Atlanta, summoned his continuity editor, Lessie Smithgall.
Mr. Kay called me into his ofce 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 Universitys 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. Jeffrey P.
Jones, Director of the Peabody Awards program.
Steve Bryant, senior curator of television, British Film Institute,
London, United Kingdom
Eric Deggans, television critic, National Public Radio, Tampa,
Fla.
Eddie Garrett, executive vice president & deputy general
manager, Edelman Company, Chicago, Ill.
Elizabeth Guider, journalist, former editor of The Hollywood
Reporter, Los Angeles, Calif.
John Huey, writer, former editor-in-chief at Time Inc.,
Charleston, S.C.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist, Sarasota, Fla.
Henry Jenkins, professor of communications, journalism,
cinematic arts and education, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Marquita Pool-Eckert, visiting associate professor, CUNY
Graduate School of Journalism, former senior producer of
CBS News Sunday Morning, New York, N.Y.
Doreen Ringer-Ross, vice president of flm and television
relations, BMI, Hollywood, Calif.
N. Bird Runningwater, director, Sundance Institutes program
for Native American Writers, Directors and Producers, Los
Angeles, Calif.
Maureen Ryan, senior television critic, The Hufngton Post,
LaGrange Park, Ill.
Allen Sabinson, dean, Westphal College of Media Arts &
Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Fred Young, retired senior vice president, Hearst-Argyle
Television, Yardley, Pa.
Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of
Communication, Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
The Peabody Awards Collection forms the cornerstone of the Walter J.
Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University
of Georgia Libraries, one of the largest broadcast archives in the
country. The Media Archives holds more than 100,000 television
and radio programs and 5 million feet of newslm; more than 70,000
of those titles are entries to the Peabody Awards submitted since the
Awards began in 1940.
Film, video and audiotape are fragile media and each has a
short life span. All broadcast history is in danger because the
medium they were created on is temporary. Individual archives
do what they can to save broadcast history, but unlike the motion
picture industry, there is no signicant push towards preservation
efforts in the broadcast industry. Television and radio have
changed everything. The University of Georgia Libraries and
the Peabody Awards Program urge everyone associated with the
broadcast media industries to consider the long-term implications
of preserving valuable pieces of history. For more information on
moving image preservation, contact the Association of Moving
Image Archivists at www.amianet.org.
For more information about the Peabody Awards Collection
Archive contact Ruta Abolins, Director at (706) 542-4757 or by
email at [email protected].
The Peabody Board is the distinguished group of media practitioners,
critics, scholars, viewers, and listeners that makes the nal selections
each year of recipients of program and individual awards.
The Peabody Board Chair for 2013-14 is Thomas Mattia. In a global
career, Tom has led communications for two Fortune 100 companies
and a major university. He has directed two Public Affairs networks in
Asia and China. He has directly served four CEOs and a university
president, while supporting four of the worlds most powerful brands.
The retired SVP and Director of Worldwide Public Affairs and
Communications for the Coca-Cola Company, Tom also served as the
Chairman of Edelman China, the Chief Communications Ofcer of
Yale University, and the Corporate VP of Communications for EDS.
In addition, he has held senior international positions at Ford Motor
Company, Hill and Knowlton and IBM.
He serves on the boards of the Institute of Public Relations, the
Peabody Awards and the Girls Education Mission. He is a recipient
of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, IABC Gold Quill and PRSA Bronze
Anvil.
The Archives
Mr. Mattia joins 14 other board members:
The Peabody Board Scandal (ABC)
ABC Studios
Not many people could balance eforts to destroy an ultra-dangerous, super-secret
government organization with running the re-election campaign for the President
of the United States. But Olivia Pope is no ordinary crisis manager. As written by
Scandals creator and chief mastermind, Shonda Rhimes, Pope is a smart, principled,
accomplished and passionate professional woman, who just happens to be in love with
the married President. Star Kerry Washington plays Pope as a wonderful paradox: a
cynical power player in the nations capital who often wears her heart on her sleeve,
especially when regarding Tony Goldwyns earnest-yet-calculating President Fitzgerald
Fitz Tomas Grant III. Te series, based on the exploits of real-life crisis manager
Judy Smith, also features the frst starring role for a black actress in a primetime
network TV drama series since the 1970s. Te shows cast is similarly diverse and
groundbreaking, with Popes crew of gladiator aides including Guillermo Diaz as
hacker expert Huck and Columbus Short as dapper lawyer Harrison Wright. For
breaking ground in the casting and writing of a nighttime melodrama that regularly
pushes storylines to operatic heights, a Peabody Award goes to Scandal.
Executive Producers: Shonda Rhimes, Betsy
Beers, Mark Wilding. Co-Executive Producers:
Jenna Bans, Judy Smith, Tom Verica, Mark Fish, Peter
Nowalk. Producers: Merri D. Howard, Heather
Mitchell, Scott Collins. Consulting Producer: Peter
Noah. Talent: Kerry Washington, Columbus Short,
Darby Stancheld, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Diaz, Jeff
Perry, Joshua Malina, Bellamy Young, Tony Goldwyn,
Dan Bucatinsky, George Newbern, Joe Morton, Scott
Foley, Kate Burton, Paul Adelstein.
One-on-One with Assad (CBS)
CBS This Morning, CBS News
Bashar al-Assad, Syrias president, is arguably the worlds oddest
dictator, a supremely ordinary looking supreme leader whose
milquetoast manner is wildly at odds with the ferocity of his eforts
to hold on to power in the face of a popular uprising. His banality
also makes him an exceedingly tough interview. Just convincing Assad
to sit for questions was a major coup, the biggest get of 2013. CBS
Tis Mornings Charlie Rose conducted the face-to-face session with
exemplary gravitas and journalistic acumen, politely but doggedly
pressing Assad about his one-time reputation as a progressive reformer
and his recent savage military response, including the use of chemical
weapons, against civilians as well as rebel militias. Assad showed
himself a master dissembler, denying charges even when Rose cited
independent confrmations. But the dictators dispassionate defense,
deftly captured by Roses crew, was revealing in and of itself. For its
timely, meaningful look into the face and mind of a tyrant, One-on-
One with Assad receives a Peabody Award.
CBS This Morning/Executive Producer: Chris Licht. Senior Broadcast
Producer: Ryan Kadro. Producer: Paige Kendig. Editors: Joe Bennett, Brian
Cunningham. Anchor/Correspondent: Charlie Rose.
The Charlie Rose Show/Executive Producer: Yvette Vega. Producers:
Adam Waller, Tamara Sepper, Oz Woloshyn, Lara Gungor, Neil Goldman, Cora
Engelbrecht.
60 Minutes/Executive Producer: Jeff Fager. Executive Editor: Bill Owens.
Editor: Richard Koppel. Associate Producer: Paul Needham. Broadcast
Associate: Jennifer Marz.
CBS News Network/CBS News Representative (Beirut): Sami
Aouad. Producer: Randall Joyce. Security: Geoff Mabberley. CBS News
Representative (Damascus): George Baghdadi. Correspondent: Elizabeth
Palmer. Producer: Agnes Reau. Cameraman: Andy Stevenson. Bureau Chief
(London): Andy Clarke. Deputy Bureau Chief: Deb Thomson. Assignment
Editor: Vicky Burston. Producer: Fernando Suarez. Satellite/lines
Bookings Coordinator: Simon Downs.Engineers: Michael Crean, Colin
Richardson, Malcolm Weir.
Hanfords Dirty Secrets (KI NG- TV, Seat t l e)
KING 5 Television
Te Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along a stretch of the Columbia River 200
miles from Seattle, is considered the most dangerous nuclear dump in the United
States. Te government made plutonium for atomic bombs there starting in
1943. Now its home to an underground storage tank farm that holds millions
of gallons of toxic waste. KING-TVs investigation documented how a tank leak,
acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011, went untreated for
nearly a year by the contractor responsible for Hanfords upkeep and security.
Photographs obtained by KINGs Susannah Frame clearly showed the corrosive,
poisonous ooze that could have found its way into the regions major freshwater
resource. KINGs investigation also found that the DOE paid millions in bonus
money to the contractor for its very successful management during that period.
Responses included the governor of Washingtons call for an investigation, the
DOE ordering a complete review of the tank farm operation, and the management
companys initiation of new safety measures. For revelations about a Washington
toxic site that raised broader questions about our societys handling of nuclear
waste, Hanfords Dirty Secrets receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Director: Mark Ginther. Executive
Producer: Russ Walker. Reporter: Susannah
Frame. Photojournalist: Steve Douglas. Graphic
Designer: John Vu.
In Plain Sight: Poverty in America
(NBC & I nPl ai nSi ght .NBCNews.com)
NBC News
With 15 percent of Americans now living below the poverty line, NBC
News recognized the urgency of covering what poverty looks like in the
U.S. Its years worth of reporting on the topic of poverty coincided with
the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnsons declaration of war
on the national scourge. Te stories gathered in this collection show us
that this war is far from won. Some of these stories profle the collapse
of cities like Camden, New Jersey, while other stories follow individuals
who are trying to scrape by despite mounting obstacles. Te series also
looks at larger trends: from how the faces behind the fast food counter
are growing older, to how location afects earning potential. NBC News
managed to reach a massive and diverse audience by making use of
multiple time slots and platforms. Stories aired throughout diferent
parts of the day on NBCs family of news programs: Nightly News, Today,
Rock Center and Dateline. Tey also took over a 100 additional stories
to the web with InPlainSight.NBCNews.com, drawing over 11 million
page views. For this coordinated efort to educate the public about this
increasingly important, underreported topic, In Plain Sight: Poverty in
America receives a Peabody Award.
Series Executive Producer: Mark Lukasiewicz. Series Senior
Producer: Marisa Buchanan, Barbara Raab. Show Executive Producers: Pat
Burkey, Liz Cole, David Corvo, Greg Gittrich, Jamie Kraft, Don Nash, Alex Wallace.
Journalists: Diana Alvear, Rehema Ellis, Erica Hill, Lester Holt, Janet Shamlian,
Harry Smith, Kevin Tibbles, Brian Williams, John Yang, Benita Alexander-Jeune,
Tim Al-Harby, Maria Alcon, Jonel Aleccia, Daniel Arkin, Nona Willis Aronowitz,
Spencer Bakalar, Dick Belsky, Chad Bergacs, Meredith Birkett, John Brecher, Bill
Briggs, Christina Caron, Linda Carroll, Neal Carter, Justin Cece, Geoffrey Cowley,
Tom Curry, Toni Deatzla, Matt DeLuca, Tony Dokoupil, Simon Doolittle, Lou Dubois,
Travis Dove, Jessica Earnshaw, Carol Eggers, Emily Feldman, Elisha Fieldstadt, Rob
Fortunato, Maggie Fox, Hillary Frey, David Friedman, Jeff Fusco, Shoshana Guy,
Izhar Harpaz, Aarne Heikkila, Bob Horner, Sharon Houston, Tracy Jarrett, Leo
Juarez, K-Sise, Josh Kleinbaum, Amelia Krales, Amy Langeld, Scott Lewis, Sandra
Lilley, Charmian Ling, Allison Linn, Charlie Macrone, John Makely, Sal Malguanera,
Allan Maraynes, Russ Marhull, Marjorie McAfee, Erin McClam, Michelle Melnick,
Carla Murphy, Matt Nighswander, Bita Nikravesh, Glenn Oakley, Neil OBrien,
Sean OMurchu, Avni Patel, Katie Primm, Stephanie Psyllos, Andrew Rafferty,
Hannah Rappleye, Katie Reimchen, Pat Rizzo, Jonathan Schuppe, Geraldine
Sealey, Lisa Riordan Seville, Tre Shallowhorn, Julia Sommerfeld, Bob Sullivan, Terrell
Tangonan, Alvaro Trenchi, Herb Weisbaum, Jason White, Martha White, Rich White,
Matt Wittmeyer, Lilly Workneh, Stokes Young, Katie Yu.
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Borgen (DR1, Denmark)
DR Fiktion
In light of the acrimonious state of American politics and the jaundiced TV
dramas to which it has given rise, Borgen could appear almost nave in its
determination to fnd traces of altruism in the exercise of politics. But this
astute, pitch-perfect Danish series earned its occasional optimism at every
realistic turn. Tere are no Machiavellian masters at the center of its plot. Te
intrigue, schemes and actions fow naturally and believably from a story arc
that has comfortably spanned three seasons. Borgen (a Danish colloquialism for
government) weaves insightful views of parliamentary politics and governance
with the daily lives of its exceptional cast of central characters, from politicians
to newscasters. At its heart is Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), arguably
the strongest female lead character in European or American TV drama. Borgen
admirers around the world watched her evolve from ambitious but principled
MP to practical Prime Minister to sophic stateswoman, her personal travails
as compelling and credible as her political challenges. For providing nuanced
political and personal drama thats illuminating, entertaining and universal,
Borgen receives a Peabody Award.
Producer: Camilla Hammerich. Director: Sren Kragh
Jacobsen. Writers: Adam Price, Jeppe Gjervig Gram
and Tobias Lindholm. Actors: Sidse Babett Knudsen,
Birgitte Hjort Srenson, Emil Poulsen, Freja Riemann, Sren
Malling, Thomas Levin.
Tom Brokaw: Personal Award
Notwithstanding his 22 years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News,
tours of duty on Today and Meet the Press and his dozens of prime-time news specials,
including a pair of Peabody Awards winners (A Question of Fairness, 2003, and Vietnam
Ten Years Later, 1985), Tom Brokaw is arguably just as famous for a book he wrote. Te
Greatest Generation (1998), in which he celebrated the courage and resourcefulness of
the men and women who served in World War II and overcame the Great Depression,
was a huge bestseller and spawned a household phrase. Brokaws career in broadcast
news has a classic trajectory, from a local station in Sioux City, Iowa, up through the
ranks (Omaha, Atlanta, Los Angeles) to correspondent and anchor at the network of
the legendary Chet Huntley-David Brinkley team. Strong personal reporting, with a
special focus on politics and American history, was a hallmark of his work while he was
the face of NBC News, and he has not stopped adding to that legacy since he walked
away from the anchor desk in 2004. A Personal Peabody Award goes to Tom Brokaw,
author, journalist and anchor emeritus of NBC Nightly News, for his ongoing history of
thoughtful reporting, enterprise and good humor.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates:
Questions of Influence
(WTVF- TV, Nashvi l l e)
WTVF-TV
Assessing the practical impact of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslams vow to run state
government like a business, WTVF-TVs reporters found that the outsourcing
of government services in practice looked suspiciously like cronyism. Teir
year-long investigation, a series of more than three dozen reports capped by
an hour-long primetime special, turned up ethical quandaries and instances
of no-bid contracts, including a $330 million management fee to Jones Lang
Lasalle, a multinational corporation in which Haslam had been a major
stockholder. WTVFs team also found that Haslam, without making the
relationship public, was purchasing political advice from a prominent lobbyist
whose frm was seeking state permission to mine for coal in a protected wildlife
area. Te ongoing repercussions of WTVFs revelations include hearings in
the Tennessee legislature, a state audit and reassessment of millions of dollars
in state contracts. For its deep, determined exploration of the realities of
what Tennessees governor called a sea change in the way the state was run,
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Questions of Infuence receives a Peabody Award.
Chief Investigative Reporter: Phil Williams.
Investigative Reporter: Ben Hall. Producer:
Kevin Wisniewski. Photojournalists: Bryan Staples,
Iain Montgomery. News Director: Sandy Boonstra.
Assistant News Director: Michelle Bonnett.
House of Cards (Net fl i x)
Donen/Fincher/Roth, Trigger Street Productions, Inc.,
Media Rights Capital, Netix
Te American adaptation of a British miniseries, House of Cards
tells the tale of Frank Underwood, a Southern politician and House
Majority Whip whose thirst for political revenge and machinations
for power are boundless. Kevin Spacey plays the perfect antihero,
ruthless yet charming, amoral yet seemingly in-line with the norms
and practices of cut-throat politics. Robin Wright is beguiling as the
ambitious other half of this Washington power couple. As Underwood
breaks down the fourth wall, directly addressing the camera, he guides
the viewer through a modern-day tutorial of Machiavellian politics.
House of Cards popularized the Netfix model for original content by
releasing all 13 episodes at once, inviting audiences to binge-watch
the story as one cinematic whole. For broaching new possibilities for
television storytelling and investing them with characters and plot
turns at once wildly exaggerated and as unsurprising as the evening
news, House of Cards receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Beau Willimon, Andrew Davies,
Michael Dobbs, John Mel, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti,
Joshua Donen, Eric Roth, David Fincher. Co-Executive
Producers: Rick Cleveland, Sarah Treem, Robert Zotnowski.
Producers: Karyn McCarthy, Keith Huff. Co-Producers:
Peter Mavromates, H.H. Cooper. Directors: David Fincher,
James Foley, Joel Schumacher, Charles McDougall, Carl
Franklin, Allen Coulter. Writers: Beau Willimon, Keith Huff,
Rick Cleveland, Sarah Treem, Sam Forman, Kate Barnow,
Gina Gionfriddo. Talent: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate
Mara, Corey Stoll, Michael Kelly, Sakina Jaffrey, Kristen
Connolly, Sebastian Arcelus, Sandrine Holt, Constance
Zimmer, Mahershala Ali, Nathan Darrow, Michel Gill, Rachel
Brosnahan, Reg E. Cathey, Jayne Atkinson, Gerald McRaney.
Story Editor: Kate Barnow. Editors: Kirk Baxter, Sidney
Wolinsky, Byron Smith, Michelle Tesoro.
Louisiana Purchased (WVUE- TV, New
Orl eans, and NOLA.com)
WVUE-TV & NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune
In their exhaustive investigation of campaign fnance in the Pelican state, WVUE-
TV and NOLA.com revealed illegal activities, dubious practices and feeble ethics
enforcement. Te New Orleans TV station and the website, an arm of the Times-
Picayune newspaper, devoted thousands of employee hours to sifting through
almost a million campaign documents to fgure out who gave how much to whom
and what they got in return. One revelation was that nearly a third of the $209
million pumped into Louisiana campaigns between 2009 and 2012 came from less
than one percent of the donors. What made Louisiana Purchased stand out even
more, however, is the verve with which it was reported. Te graphics, starting with
the series logo, a bar-coded Louisiana map, are imaginative, even amusing, and on
target. So is the writing. If money drives politics, WVUE reporter Lee Zurik says
early on, were about to show you whos riding shotgun. Other news organizations
would do well to emulate the projects methods not just its commitment but
its attitude. For its diligent, unusually accessible expos of a states labyrinthine
campaign-fnance system, Louisiana Purchased receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Mikel Schaefer, Greg
Phillips, Tim Morris. Producer: Tom Wright.
Director: E.Q. Vance. Chief Investigative
Reporter/Producer: Lee Zurik. Reporters:
Manuel Torres, Lauren McGaughy. Photographer/
Editor: Jon Turnipseed. Interactive Manager:
Wes Cook. Photographer: Ted Jackson. Graphic
Artist: Dan Swenson. Content Data Analyst:
Dmitriy Pritykin.
Independent Lens: The House I Live In (PBS)
Charlotte Street Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS), BBC,
ZDF/ARTE, NHK Japan
Tis comprehensive look at Americas war on drugs takes the viewer step by step through
the staggeringly unsuccessful attempts to rid the country of illegal drugs. Te flmmaker
unravels the policies of the drug war that began during Ronald Reagans presidency, while
also showing how drug laws have historically been used to incarcerate unwanted citizens.
Switching between legal, political, sociological and historical analyses of drug laws that
have disproportionately afected those living in poverty, the flm also demonstrates that
the war on drugs is directly tied to the collapse of the manufacturing industry in the U.S.
Interviewing drug dealers, police ofcers, prison guards, judges, physicians, academics,
and journalists, the documentary shows how the so-called drug war is really a war on
the poorest neighborhoods in our society. As David Simon, former journalist and creator
of Te Wire, states in the documentary, the war on drugs is a holocaust in slow motion.
For taking on a complex subject that deeply afects our country, and presenting it in a way
that is thoughtful, calm, and yet devastating, Independent Lens: Te House I Live In wins a
Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Roy Ackerman, David
Alcaro, Joslyn Barnes, Nick Fraser, Danny
Glover, John Legend, Brad Pitt, Russell Simmons,
Sally Jo Fifer. Senior Series Producer: Lois
Vossen. Producers: Eugene Jarecki, Melinda
Shopsin, Sam Cullman, Christopher St. John.
Director: Eugene Jarecki.
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Reveal: The VAs Opiate Overload (Publ i c Radi o)
The Center for Investigative Reporting, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
Tis investigative report discovered that over the course of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there
has been a 270 percent increase in opiate prescriptions at Veterans Administration hospitals, leading
to an overdose rate among VA patients more than twice the national average. Veterans often need
complex psychological treatments, and this report indicates that in order to deal with the increase
in veterans needing help, doctors from the VA prescribed opiates to mask the symptoms rather
than treating the root cause. In many cases overprescribed veterans believed that the dangerous
amounts of opiates they are ingesting were safe since they were prescribed by doctors. In response
to this report from Reveal, the House Committee on Veterans Afairs held a hearing to investigate.
Doctors with the VA claimed that they were pressured to prescribe opiates and were terminated if
they refused. Te VA then promised they would present a plan to Congress that would reduce the
amount of opiates they were prescribing to veterans. For presenting the evidence for this abuse of
power so convincingly that it led to swift Congressional action, Reveal: Te VAs Opiate Overload
receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Ben Adair, Susanne Reber.
Reporter: Aaron Glantz. Producers: Michael
Montgomery, Amy Pyle, Mia Zuckerkandel, Mark
Katches, Robert Rosenthal, Joaquin Alvarado,
Christa Scharfenberg, John Barth, Kerri Hoffman,
Jake Shapiro. Host: Al Letson. Producer/
Camera: Adi Sambamurthy. Video Editor:
Stephanie Mechura. Senior Video Producer:
Stephen Talbot. Senior Web Editor: Sam Ward.
Web Editor: Jaena Cabrera. Senior Data
Reporter: Agustin Armendariz. Senior News
Application Developer: Michael Corey. News
Application Developer: Aaron Williams.
The Central Park Five (PBS)
Florentine Films, WETA
Distinctly diferent in style and tone from Ken Burns stately historical
documentaries, Te Central Park Five has outrage simmering below its surface,
and rightly so. Its a needed continuation of the exoneration of fve black and
Latino teenagers who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a notorious
1989 rape before the real assailant confessed. Using archival video, photographs
and fresh, frst-person interviews, Burns, his daughter, Sarah Burns, and David
McMahon demonstrate how the accused fve, the youngest only 13, were
relentlessly pressured into confession by some of New Yorks fnest interrogators
even as the citys TV stations, tabloid press and public ofcials one-upped each
other with wild accusations. Te flmmakers bring the racially charged fear
and anger enveloping the city in the 1980s back to palpable, paranoid life. Te
documentary doesnt pretend that the fve were angelic kids, but it also makes it
clear thats no prerequisite for injustice. For telling a harrowing, instructive story
of fear, racism and mob mentality, and for exposing the media madness that
fueled the investigation, Te Central Park Five receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Ken Burns. Producers: David McMahon,
Sarah Burns, Ken Burns. Directors: Ken Burns, David McMahon,
Sarah Burns. Writers: Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Ken Burns.
Cinematographers: Buddy Squires, Anthony Savini. Editor:
Michael Levine. Music Composer: Doug Wamble.
The Race Card Project (NPRs Morni ng Edi t i on)
The Race Card Project, NPR News, NPRs Morning Edition
Tis project, headed up by Michele Norris, undercuts the political, pejorative meaning
of the term race card by asking people to use six words to summarize their thoughts
and experiences about race and send them in on postcards, emails, or tweets. Initially
compiled on a website (theracecardproject.com), the descriptions eventually grew into
a regular segment on NPRs Morning Edition. A single six-word description such as Ask
who I am, not what, Mexican white girl doesnt speak Spanish or My mixed kids have
it diferently opened up complicated, vulnerable and insightful discussions about race
that we rarely hear in public spaces. Te segments featured enlightening commentary
from the authors about their own racial experiences. In a succinct 7 minutes, we get a
glimpse into the nuances of personal experience with race ones that we might never hear,
even from somebody we have known for years. For encouraging public discussion about
diversity in ways that cut through obvious diferences to present unique and individual
lived experiences, Te Race Card Project receives a Peabody Award.
Special Correspondent: Michele
Norris. Producer: Walter Ray Watson.
Executive Producer: Tracy Wahl. Host: Steve
Inskeep. TRCP Content Administrator: Melissa
Bear. TRCP Web Designer Adrian Kinloch.
TRCP Web Developer: Dave Patrick.
Lead Editor: Chuck Holmes. Editors: Kitty
Eisele, Arnie Seipel. Interns: Miles Johnson,
Amarra Ghani.
Latino Americans (PBS)
WETA, LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), Bosch &
Company, ITVS
Latino Americans is a groundbreaking three-part, six-hour documentary
series that chronicles Latino history in the United States from the 16
th

century to the present day. Trough its thorough compilation of unwritten
histories and interviews, the series provides perspectives that are often
overlooked or outright discarded in this nations standard history. Te
diferent strands of people, politics and culture involved in the stories of
early settlement, conquest and immigration are untangled and woven
into a fair and more just understanding of the role of Latino Americans
have played in America. Te documentary further contextualizes Latino
Americans in expansionism, Manifest Destiny, nativism, the Wild
West, multiple wars, the rise of organized labor, the Great Depression,
the post WWII boom, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, and
globalization. In the process, it develops a necessary plurality of voices,
histories and memories that reshape and redefne an American identity
that connects and empowers millions of people today. For its well-
researched, engaging storytelling as well as its important contribution to
a truer understanding of American history, Latino Americans receives a
Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Jeff Bieber, Dalton Delan, Sandie
Pedlow, Sally Jo Fifer. Series Producer: Adriana Bosch.
Producers: Adriana Bosch, Nina Alvarez, Dan McCabe,
John Valadez, Ray Telles. Supervising Producer: Salme
Lopez. Coordinating Producers: Jim Corbley, Mary
Sullivan. Re-enactment Producer: Cathleen O-Connell.
Directors for Re-enactments: David Belton, Sonia Fritz.
Narrator: Benjamin Bratt. Actors: Maurice Ripke, Maria
Chavez, Alejandra Corujo, Eduardo Idunate, Flavio Hinojosa,
Jodie Moore, Lydia Blanco. Videographers: Tim Cragg (re-
enactments), Vicente Franco, Elia Lyssy, Edward Marritz, Paul
Mailman, Stephen McCarthy. Editors: Peter Rhodes, David
Espar, Dan McCabe, Manuel Tsingaris, John Neuburger.
Web Designer: Joe Frye.
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The Bridge (FX)

Shine America and FX Productions
A murder that leaves a bisected corpse sitting neatly on the border between El
Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, kicks of an inspired drama. Te storylines here
range from the struggles of law enforcement in a Mexico controlled by ruthless
drug cartels to the grief of an American homicide detective with Aspergers
syndrome who lost her sister. Mexican actor Demiar Bechir shines as Marco Ruiz,
a weary detective whose philandering ways eventually cost him his marriage and
much more. German actress Diane Kruger is Sonya Cross, an El Paso detective
with Aspergers who struggles to understand emotions even while working with
Ruiz to solve the murder. Based on a Danish/Swedish series with the same name,
Te Bridge includes extensive scenes in Spanish with subtitles, along with a
storyline that references Te Lost Girls of Juarez a tragedy in which nearly 400
women have been murdered in that Mexican city since the mid-1990s. Tis series
is a powerful translation for American audiences, spotlighting issues along the
border that are rarely seen on mainstream U.S. television. For raising awareness of
border issues while creating a compelling murder mystery, a Peabody award goes
to Te Bridge.
Executive Producers: Meredith Stiehm,
Elwood Reid, Carolyn Bernstein, Lars
Blomgren. Consulting Producers: Chris
Gerolmo, Dario Scardapane. Producer: Patrick
Markey. Co-Producer: Esta Spalding, Erin Mitchell,
Dennis Murphy. Talent: Demian Bichir, Diane
Kruger, Annabeth Gish, Thomas M. Wright, Ted
Levine, Matthew Lillard, Emily Rios.
Great Performances: Broadway Musicals:
A Jewish Legacy (PBS)
BWAY Films LLC, Ghost Light Films, Albert M. Tapper
and THIRTEEN for WNET
Its hardly a secret that Jewish songwriters and composers, from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim,
have played outsized roles in the history of the Broadway musical. Yet this immensely entertaining
documentary, by virtue of its rich, specifc detail, still comes across as a revelation. With vintage
flm clips and fresh, instructive performances, it demonstrates how music of the temple and the
Yiddishkeit, the Yiddish theater of early 20
th
Century New York, was repurposed into both the
melodies and lyrics of songs like It Aint Necessarily So from George Gershwins Porgy and Bess.
Or how Richard Rogers and Lorenz Harts early hit Manhattan abounds with references to New
Yorks predominantly Jewish Lower East Side. And it shows us how these immigrants or children of
immigrants channeled their eagerness for assimilation and acceptance into songs that idealized what
it meant to be an American. For providing a key to our national identity while delighting us with
some of the most tuneful entertainment the world has ever known, Great Performances: Broadway
Musicals: A Jewish Legacy receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Albert M. Tapper,
Barbara Brilliant, David Horn. Producer:
Michael Kantor. Co-Producers: Jan Gura,
Sylvia Cahill. Director: Michael Kantor. Writer:
Michael Kantor. Narrator: Joel Grey. Editor:
Kris Liem. Music Supervisor: Andy Einhorn.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS)
Thirteen, Inkwell Films, Kunhardt McGee Productions in association with Ark
Media
Five years in the making, this extraordinary six-part documentary is the fullest television account
of African Americans history. When in the history of humankind has an enslaved people
revolutionized the way the people who enslaved them ate, drank, believed, the way Africans
did in America? food historian Michael Twitty asks host and co-executive producer Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. Many Rivers to Cross illustrates that phenomenon and much more. Gates, a
distinguished author and Harvard professor, is a thoughtful, personable on-air guide. He is
equally at ease interviewing men in Sierra Leone whose ancestors sold their fellow Africans into
slavery as he with white descendants of slave owners in South Carolina. Gates and his cohorts
sift through fve centuries of artifacts to fnd stories that inspire, unsettle, surprise and illuminate.
Tey revisit racism in colonial America, slave rebellions, the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow,
the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and show us heroics both quiet and thunderous.
For providing a history lesson that is remarkably accessible and intellectually rigorous, Te African
Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Julie Anderson,
Dyllan McGee, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter
Kunhardt. Senior Producer: Rachel Dretzin.
Producers: Phil Bertelsen, Jahmilla Wignot, Sabin
Streeter, Asako Gladsjo. Directors: Phil Bertelsen,
Jahmila Wignot, Sabin Streeter, Asako Gladsjo.
Key & Peele (Comedy Cent ral )
Central Productions
For sketch comics Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both sons of black fathers
and white mothers, biracialism is liberation, a cultural all-access pass, a skeleton key
to any lock they care to try. Te duo impersonates a wide world of black men, from
nerds to thugs, sports icons to buppies. Tey tackle racially charged issues and ideas
like no one else on television. In their best-known recurring bit, Peele addresses
viewers in the guise of a calm, carefully controlled Barack Obama and Key, as his
aggravated id, Luther, barks what the President really thinks and feels. Fearless, they
make a blistering point about the Trayvon Martin tragedy and dare, without being
disrespectful, to get a laugh. Yet they are just as likely to transform themselves into
Italians mobsters, Mexicans, Indians, even various and sundry white guys. Teir
sketches evoke Dave Chappelle one minute, Sid Caesar the next. Tey break new
ground even as they lay claim to all of comedys traditions. For its stars and their
creative teams inspired satirical rifs on our racially divided and racially conjoined
culture, Key & Peele receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan
Peele, Jay Martel, Ian Roberts, Joel Zadak. Co-Executive
Producer: Peter Atencio Producer: Keith Raskin. Director: Peter
Atencio. Writers: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jay Martel,
Ian Roberts, Rebecca Drysdale, Colton Dunn, Alex Rubens, Charlie
Sanders, Rich Talarico. Talent: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael
Key. Director of Photography: Charles Papert. Editors: Rich
LaBrie, Christian Hoffman, Neil Mahoney, Maura Corey.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TCM)
TCM
Mark Cousins history of world cinema, Te Story of Film: An Odyssey, is an event
in itself, a wide-reaching, insightful 15-episode documentary that examines and
contextualizes work by directors from Buster Keaton to Akira Kurosawa, from Jane
Campion to the brothers Coen. Using innovation as his unifying concept, Cousins
paints a glorious and lavish picture of cinemas cumulative development, including
how flmmakers from around the world have not only pioneered but borrowed,
even stolen, to advance the form and language. TCM (Turner Classic Movies) took
Cousins work to another level, turned it into a cineastes dream. Drawing from its
unparalleled library, TCM enriched the American television premiere of the series by
surrounding each installment with full-length showings of some of the feature flms
and short subjects that the series referenced 119 of the former, dozens of the later.
TCM viewers thus had the opportunity to see not just familiar classics such as Singin
in the Rain and A Fistful of Dollars but rarely shown silent and/or foreign flms such
as F.W. Murnaus 1927 Sunrise, the 1958 Egyptian drama Cairo Station and the 1967
Czech comedy Daisies. For its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema
history, TCMs presentation of Te Story of Film: An Odyssey is honored with
a Peabody Award.
Producer: Courtney O-Brien. Directors:
Mark Cousins, Anne Wilson. Narrator: Mark
Cousins. Introduction Co-Hosts: Robert
Osborne, Mark Cousins.
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Sony Pictures Television
When Breaking Bad won its frst Peabody Award in 2008, the winners
citation points to a conficted Walter White, a man facing moral questions
[that] become more and more difcult for himand the audience. How
far weve come since then. In the fnal stretch of eight episodes that aired
in 2013, the time for moral questioning has passed. Walter White has
completely taken on the role of the shows villain as the shows creator, Vince
Gilligan, makes good on his promise to utterly transform Walter White
from Mr. Chips into Scarface. Sticking the landing for a television show is
always difcult, but these fnal episodes of Breaking Bad did so in a way that
felt Shakespearean in scope. A descendant of both King Lear and Macbeth,
Walter White contributes something powerful and uniquely his own to our
collective memory in this 21st century tragedy. For taking us into the darkest
chambers of a human heart in a way never before seen on TV, Breaking Bad
wins the rare honor of a second Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Vince Gilligan, Mark Johnson,
Michelle MacLaren. Co-Executive Producers: Melissa
Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Peter Gould, George Mastras, Tom
Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett. Line Producer: Stewart
A. Lyons. Producers: Diane Mercer, Bryan
Cranston. Directors: Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince
Gilligan, Peter Gould, Rian Johnson, Michelle MacLaren,
Michael Slovis. Writers: Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter
Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas
Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett. Talent: Bryan Cranston,
Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte,
Bob Odenkirk, Laura Fraser, Jesse Plemons. Director of
Cinematography: Michael Slovis, Arthur Albert. Production
Designer: Mark Freeborn. Costume Designer: Jennifer
Bryan. Editors: Kelley Dixon, Skip MacDonald.
A Short History of the Highrise
(www.nyt i mes.com)
The New York Times, The National Film Board of Canada
An ingeniously constructed interactive documentary, A Short History of the Highrise allows
website visitors to tour 2,500 years of vertical living, from the Tower of Babel to turn-
of-the-20
th
Century New York City tenements to luxury skyscrapers in modern Shanghai.
An Op-Docs production of Te New York Times, the website is also part of the Film Board
of Canadas ongoing highrise project. Writer-director Katernia Cizek mined the Times vast
morgue of photographs for images, supplementing those vintage stills with video and original
animation to achieve the website equivalent of a childs pop-up book. Tall buildings sprout like
mushrooms on urban landscapes or collapse like accordions to reveal ancient ruins. Teyre
used in three short, narrated flms, labeled Mud, Concrete and Glass, to track distinct epochs
in construction. Site visitors can opt at any point to stop the action and dig deeper for more
photos, footage and footnotes. A fourth feature, Home, is composed of photos submitted by
the public and grouped by themes fog, children, views, dusk, dawn and annotated with the
photographers commentary. For chronicling the ups and downs of multistory living in clever,
storybook fashion, A Short History of the Highrise receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff.
Executive Producer for the NFB: Silva
Basmajian. Producer: Gerry Flahive. Director: Katerina
Cizek. Writer: Katerina Cizek. Narrators: Feist,
Katerina Cizek, Cold Specks. Animators: Helios
Design Labs. Interactive Art Direction
and Development: Jacky Myint. Coordinating
Producer: Kathleen Lingo. Social Media
Editors: Alexis Mainland, Deborah Acosta. Photo
Archivist: Jeff Roth. Researchers: Lindsay
Crouse, Elizabeth Klink, Jivan Nagra. Music: Jim
Guthrie. Sound Design: Janine White.
Six by Sondheim (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films and Sabella Entertainment
In an ABC News clip included in Six By Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim, the
celebrated Broadway composer and lyricist, tells Diane Sawyer he regrets
never having become a biological father but says that art is the other
way of having children. Six of his ofspring, including Im Still Here
from Follies and Sunday from Sunday in the Park with George, fgure
prominently in this documentary, a marvelous mix of biography, musical
showcase and music appreciation. Sondheim, seen and heard in excerpts
from interviews that span seven decades, makes a candid, insightful guide
to his own life and work. Writer-director James Lapine, his frequent
Broadway collaborator, and editor Miky Wolf deftly use his words to
explain the gestation of the six chosen songs, performances of which range
from archival rarities (Larry Kert, West Side Storys original Tony, singing
Somethings Coming on TV in 1957) to fresh, new stagings (a simple,
deeply poignant Send in the Clowns by Audra MacDonald). For its
musical delights and its revealing glimpse into the process of making art,
Six By Sondheim receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins,
James Lapine, Frank Rich. Producer:
Liz Stanton. Senior Producer: Nancy
Abraham. Director: James Lapine. Editor:
Miky Wolf.
Broadchurch (BBC Ameri ca)
A Kudos and Imaginary Friends Co-Production
Set in an idyllic coastal town in Britain, the eight-episode series Broadchurch
revolves around the shocking murder of an 11-year-old boy, the emotional
carnage that ravages his family, and the unexpected secrets that emerge among
those whose lives he touched. From the fawless, marvelously cinematic
opening sequence to the fnal revelatory climax, the series takes the viewer on
an immersive journey, never overstepping its bounds nor sounding a false note.
A troubled police detective, played to perfection by David Tennant, is brought
in over the top-ranking local female cop (Olivia Colman) to uncover the
perpetrator. Teir prickly interaction as they upturn, then discard, one suspect
after another becomes just one of several multi-dimensional relationships that
deepen the viewers enjoyment of this taut whodunnit. For its pitch-perfect
take on the classic crime drama, its complex characters, razor-sharp writing and
perfect sense of place, Broadchurch receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Chris Chibnall, Jane
Featherstone. Producer: Richard Stokes. Directors: James
Strong , Euros Lyn. Talent: Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Jodie
Whittaker, Vicky McClure, Arthur Darvill, Pauline Quirke, Will
Mellor, Carolyn Pickles, Matthew Gravelle, Simone McAullay,
Jonathan Bailey, Oskar McNamara, Charlotte Beaumont, Susan
Brown, Adam Wilson, Joe Sims, David Bradley, Jacob Anderson.
Independent Lens:
How to Survive a Plague (PBS)
How to Survive a Plague LLC, Public Square Films, Impact Partners,
Little Punk
When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known by its acronym ACT UP,
frst staged protests in New York in 1987, the epidemic was in its sixth year. Most
people who contracted the disease died. Drugs to stop or slow AIDS were nonexistent,
research minimal. Hospitals rejected the dying, funeral homes refused their remains.
Government and religious leaders tended to blame the victims. It was a dark time in
more ways than one. How to Survive a Plague revisits that time, providing a defant,
boisterous, illuminating, and humbling retrospective of how some of the sick and
abandoned took responsibility for their own fates, using whatever means possible
information campaigns, mass protests, guerilla theater to fght the hysteria and
misinformation and push for research. Relying largely on previously unseen video
shot by AIDS activists themselves, David Frances documentary chronicles the
epic campaign against ignorance and homophobia. In the process, he and those
activists provide an adaptable, practical model for pursing social justice. For its
vivid, instructive remembrance of a heroic crusade and the great good it achieved,
Independent Lens: How to Survive a Plague receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Joy Tomchin, Dan Cogan,
Sally Jo Fifer (ITVS). Senior Series Producer:
Lois Vossen (ITVS). Co-Executive Producer: Alan
Getz. Producers: David France, Howard Gertler.
Director: David France. Writers: David France, T.
Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk.
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Life According to Sam (HBO)
HBO Documentary Films and Fine Films LLC
A scrawny boy with wire-rimmed glasses, a bald head and the gaunt face of an
elderly man looks squarely into the camera near the beginning of Life According to
Sam. I put myself in front of you to let know you dont need to feel bad for me, he
says. And you dont. Indeed, for the duration of this superb documentary, you will
mostly likely feel honored to be in the presence of Sam Berns. Sam is 13 when the
flm begins. With the help of his parents and friends, he is coping with Progeria, a
rare disease manifested by accelerated aging. Te flm chronicles Sams everyday life
at home and at school, where he is active and popular, as it highlights his parents
eforts both are doctors to doggedly pursue answers to the Progeria riddle. Sams
is a distinctly individual story, a life in fast-forward mode that speaks to our own
mortality and to what we choose to do with the fnite time we have. For acquainting
viewers with a teenager bearing up to the ravages of an improbable, unforgiving
condition with amazing grace, thoughtfulness and humor, Life According to Sam
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins. Producers:
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine, Miriam Weintraub.
Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham. Director:
Sean Fine. Editor: Jeff Consiglio. Director of
Photography: Sean Fine.
Hollow (www.hol l owdocument ar y.com)
Hollow Interactive, LLC
Even if youve never been within 1,000 miles of McDowell County, West
Virginia, youve driven through it. McDowell is a stand-in for thousands
of American counties, once prosperous communities beat down by
plant closings, natural disasters, technology shifts, or changing times.
Its population, which peaked at 100,000 in the 1950s, is now down to
about 22,000, but its remaining residents hang tough, camoufage aging
storefronts with bright, cheery murals, open new businesses, keep faith,
and savor the surviving pleasures of small-town, slow-lane American life.
Te website Hollow is an ingeniously constructed, interactive collage
of McDowell County, an immersive experience, a digitized diorama.
Visitors can meander at their own pace, track the countys fortunes over
time, see residents photographs and art, hear their stories, remembrances
and hopes, and contribute their own comments and ideas. For combining
imaginative story-telling techniques with web-only capabilities that
allow visitors to experience life itself in both specifc and universal terms,
Hollow is honored with a Peabody Award.
Producer: Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Director: Elaine
McMillion Sheldon. Art Director, Designer and
Architect: Jeff Soyk. Associate Producer: Tricia Fulks.
Technical Director and Senior Developer: Robert
Hall. Interactive Developer: Russell Goldenberg.
Cinematographer: Elaine McMillion Sheldon.
Editors: Sarah Ginsburg, Kerrin Sheldon. Sound
Designer: Billy Wirasnik. Composer: Lee Strauss.
Community Outreach: Michelle Miller. Participatory
Cartographer: Eric Lovell. Writer and Researcher:
Jason Headley. Project Manager: Nathaniel Hansen.
Production Assistant: Rheanna ONeil Bellomo.
A Chefs Life (PBS)
Markay Media in association with South Carolina ETV (SCETV)
A Chef s Life disregards the usual recipes for television shows about restaurants and cooking.
Neither over-seasoned nor overheated, it presents an honest, ongoing look at the ups and
downs of a farm-to-fork restaurant in low country eastern North Carolina that is operated
by chef Vivian Howard and her husband, Ben Knight. Its not without drama a nasty
kitchen fre early in the series run nearly sinks their young enterprise but A Chef s Life is
mainly an afectionate, detailed survey of Southern cuisine, both traditional and nouvelle,
and the folks who provide the ingredients. Apart from its fresh takes on grits and greens, it
serves up a nuanced, non-stereotypical portrait of the rural and small-town American South,
something rarely seen on television. Howard introduces her viewers not only to the local
farmers who know their tomatoes and pole beans (surprise, surprise) but to knowledgeable
hunters, fshermen, hog farmers, whiskey and winemakers. For its refreshingly unsensational
depiction of life and work in a modern restaurant with generous sides of Southern
folkways and food lore A Chef s Life receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Amy Shumaker, Derek
Britt. Director/Producer: Cynthia Hill. Creative
Consultants: Vivian Howard, Ben Knight. Co-
Producers: Rex Miller, Malinda Maynor Lowery.
Associate Producers: Un Kyong Ho, Jennifer
Cromling. Writer: Vivian Howard. Director of
Photography: Rex Miller. 2nd Camera: Josh Woll,
Blaire Johnson. Editor: Tom Vickers. Graphics and
Social Media: Margaret McNealy. Consulting
Producer: Selena Lauterer.
Orange Is the New Black (Net fl i x)
Lionsgate Television, Netix
A prison is a place of confnement and restriction, but Orange
Is the New Black found unexpected laughter, tears, confict and
camaraderie behind those mysterious walls. In its debut season,
the series did an exceptional job of subverting our expectations of
what a womans prison drama might be like. Orange began as the
tale of a white woman whose life went sideways, and viewers may
have assumed that Piper Chapmans (Taylor Schilling) discomfort
at her prison life would be the shows central thread. But creator
Jenji Kohan had some tricks up her sleeve. She and her writers
deftly wove the sagas of incarcerated women of all races, beliefs and
personality types into a rich tapestry of humor, satire, poignant
regret and unexpected heartbreak. Te percolating energy of
these indelible individuals animated Oranges complex, funny and
perceptive exploration of race, class, power and the persistence of
a ragged kind of hope all centered in a failed prison system that
incarcerates more people than at any other time in its history.For
exposing a prison system shrouded in mystery and making it a
place of possibility and connection, Orange Is the New Black wins a
Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Jenji Kohan. Co-Executive Producers: Sara Hess,
Michael Trim, Lisa I. Vinnecour. Producer: Neri Kyle Tannenbaum. Co-Producers:
Tara Herrmann, Jonathan Talbert. Consulting Producer: Mark A. Burley.
Supervising Producer: Gary Lennon. Directors: Michael Trim, Uta Briesewitz,
Jodie Foster, Andrew McCarthy, Matthew Penn, Phil Abraham, Constantine Makris.
Writers: Jenji Kohan, Liz Friedman, Marco Ramirez, Sian Heder, Gary Lennon, Nick
Jones, Lauren Morelli, Sara Hess, Tara Herrmann. Talent: Taylor Schilling, Laura
Prepon, Michael J. Harney, Michelle Hurst, Kate Mulgrew, Jason Biggs, Alysia Reiner,
Constance Shulman, Danielle Brooks, Dascha Polanco, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Laverne
Cox, Lea Delaria, Matt McGorry, Natasha Lyonne, Pablo Schreiber, Samira Wiley,
Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Uzo Aduba, Yael Stone, Abigail Savage, Annie
Golden, Beth Fowler, Catherine Curtin, Diane Guerrero, Emma Myles, Jackie Cruz,
Jessica Pimentel, Joel Marsh Garland, Lolita Foster, Madeline Brewer, Maria Dizzia,
Nick Sandow, Vicky Jeudy. Executive Story Editor: Marco Ramirez. Editors:
William Turro, Tim Boettcher, Michael S. Stern, Shannon Mitchell.
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Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombings
(WBZ-TV, Boston, and WBZ Newsradio 1030)
WBZ-TV, WBZ Newsradio 1030
Out in force to cover the annual marathon, both WBZ-TV and Newsradio
1030 had a journalistic advantage when the bombs detonated. WBZ-TV was
the only local TV station covering the entirety of the race, positioning them
to show the nation the unfolding tragedy from the beginning. Newsradio
1030 was also covering the event and switched to wall-to-wall coverage of
the bombing scene and manhunt shortly after the explosions. Tey worked
seamlessly with sister station WBZ-TV to contact sources in law enforcement
and public safety to piece together what had just happened. Reporters
from both stations spent hour after hour on the air providing wide-ranging,
enterprising coverage of the casualties, the suspects and the intense, nerve-
wracking manhunt.Reporters remained professional throughout and
continued to do their job despite being clearly afected by the devastating
events in their hometown. For becoming crucial go-to sources, not just for
their city but for a stunned nation, WBZ-TV and WBZ Newsradio 1030
receive a Peabody Award.
WBZ-TV:
WBZ-TV Staff members
WBZ Radio:
Director of News and Programming: Peter Casey; Assistant
Program Director: Bill Flaherty; Assistant News Director: Jon
Maclean. Senior Vice President/Market Manager: Mark Hannon.
Editors: Peter Lagace; Kate Gallagher; David Mager; Fausto Menard;
Ed Golden; Suzanne Sausville. Anchors/Reporters/Talent: Joe
Mathieu; Deb Lawler; Laurie Kirby; Rod Fritz; Diane Stern; Anthony Silva;
Don Huff; Mary Blake; Karen Twomey; Carl Stevens; Mark Katic; Kim
Tunnicliffe; Doug Cope; Lana Jones; Bernice Corpuz; Dan Rea; Bradley
Jay; Ben Parker; Jeff Brown; Mike Macklin; Mina Greene; Art Cohen;
Adam Kaufman; Walt Perkins; Tom Cuddy. Writers/Producers: Jay
Borselle; Chris Citorik; Bob Clark; Peter Clarke Drew Moholland; Garo
Hagopian; Reynold Joesph; Mike Epstein; Jay Gates; Josh Comeau; Alex
Mason; Brian Antonelli; Rob Brooks; Casey ODonnell; Mark Lovallo;
Michael Coleman; Victor Ramos.
Best Kept Secret (PBS)
American Documentary / POV, BKS Films, LLC
Staf members at Newarks underfunded John F. Kennedy High School describe
their school as the citys best kept secret, and this documentary makes a compelling
argument for why thats the case. Te schools unexpectedly resourceful program for
students with special needs provides a beacon of hope in a community ravaged by poverty
and crime and with a disproportionately high autism rate. Frank, poignant, and never
simplistic, the flm immersed viewers in the world of teacher Janet Mino as she moved
closer to her class of six young autistic males who were aging out of the program.
When students turn 21, they can no longer attend JFK, and parents and teachers call this
moment falling of the clif because of the lack of continuing adult education programs.
Mino took it upon herself to help bridge this gap in our countrys social services; she
devoted herself to keeping her students from being abandoned into homelessness,
idleness or institutionalization. For a revealing portrait of how America abandons some of
its most vulnerable citizens, balanced by the story of a compassionate community in the
midst of challenging circumstances, Best Kept Secret wins a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Scott Mosier, Daniella Kahane
Levy, Mark Nordlicht, Simon Kilmurry. Co-Executive
Producer: Cynthia Lopez. Producer: Danielle DiGiacomo.
Director: Samantha Buck. Writer: Zeke Farrow, Samantha
Buck, Francisco Bello. Director of Photography: Nara
Garber. Editor: Francisco Bello.
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Inside Syrias War (BBC Worl d News)
BBC World News America
BBC World News provided vivid, on-the-ground coverage of Syrias civil war
that presented viewers with the undeniable and horrifc realities of that confict.
By following both the rebels and government troops, the reporters took you into
the heart of the war-ravaged country. Searing images included fresh blood on the
foor from a recently discovered massacre outside Homs; children hiding out in
a cave, waiting for their mother to return; and civilians screaming and covered
with burns from a recent chemical attack. Tis frank reporting of the unfolding
story helped ground the political coverage of the Syrian confict in the vicious
realities that devastated the country. Despite the dangerous conditions the BBC
journalists found themselves in, they remained professional and calm, delivering
straightforward and sober reporting. For dedicating the necessary resources and
risking their lives to give the world an up-close look at the horrors of the Syrian
confict, Inside Syrias War wins a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Andrew Roy, Paul
Danahar, Kate Farrell. Producers: Sarah
Halfpenny, Richard Colebourn, Rachel Thompson,
Kate Benyon-Tinker, Lana Antaki, Lina Sinjab,
Mughira Al Sharif. Correspondents: Ian
Pannell, Paul Wood, Lyse Doucet, Jeremy
Bowen. Videographers/Editors: Fred Scott,
Darren Conway, Phil Goodwin.
The Law in These Parts (PBS)
American Documentary / POV
Israeli flmmaker Raanan Alexandrowiczs Te Law in Tese Parts examined the
Israeli-Palestinian confict through a new lensthat of the high-ranking military
ofcers who constructed the legal framework for administering Israels 40-year
occupation and rule. Trough intensive interviews with retired military judges,
prosecutors, and legal advisors, Alexandrowicz demonstrates how language and
semantics are as much occupiers as military personnel and guns, and how the
moral implications of such legal renderings may call into question a societys core
democratic values. From the inequality of military courts for Palestinians and
civilian courts for Israelis, to the refusal of prisoner-of-war status for Palestinian
fghters, to the resurrection of old Ottoman law to justify land seizures, the flm
repeatedly demonstrates the power of law to construct troubling outcomes.
Employing a refexive documentary style, with the interviewees forced to bear
cinematic witness to their legal choices and justifcations, the flm interrogates
the central principle of reality that both documentary and the rule of law often
take for granted. For its originality, its unfinching focus, and its central concern
with humanity, Te Law in Tese Parts receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Laura Poitras, Simon
Kilmurry. Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez.
Producer: Liran Atzmor. Director: Raanan
Alexandrowicz. Writer: Raanan Alexandrowicz.
Cinematogrpaher: Shark De Mayo. Editor: Neta
Dvorkis.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN)
CNN, Zero Point Zero Production, Inc.
Tough Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is sometimes referred to as a
culinary travelogue, the shorthand doesnt do the series justice. Bourdain,
who frst made his name as a chef, does seem obsessed with discovering new
taste sensations. But wherever his appetite takes him, its the side-dish stories
that make his visits so memorable and nourishing. Apart from his knowledge
of food and cooking, hes comfortable with himself and with other people,
whether hes surveying Tokyos freaky afterhours scene, meeting whitewater
fshermen on the Congo River, or waltzing into the house behind Greedy
Gregs sidewalk rib stand in Detroit to get a helping of greens straight from
the owners stove. Hes irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending,
never obsequious. People open up to him and, in doing so, often reveal more
about their hometowns or homelands than a traditional reporter could hope
to document. A Peabody Award goes to Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
for expanding our palates and horizons in equal measure.
Executive Producers: Jeff Zucker, Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins,
Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig. Directors: Nick Brigden, Sally Freeman,
Michael Steed, Tom Vitale. Writer: Anthony Bourdain. Talent: Anthony
Bourdain. Directors of Photography: Nick Brigden, Morgan Fallon, Alan
Jacobsen, Jeremy Leach, Todd Liebler, Jerry Risius, Zach Zamboni.
Fault Lines: Made in Bangladesh
(Al Jazeera Ameri ca)
Al Jazeera America
Examining the story behind a factory fre that killed at least 112 people,
Fault Lines takes the viewer to Bangladesh to uncover the production
practices of retail giants like Wal-Mart and GAP, and how they maintain low
prices through human rights abuses. Employing a level of flmmaking that
goes beyond what weve come to expect from American journalism, Made
in Bangladesh gives the viewer a strong sense of what daily life looks like in
and around these factories. In addition to providing this context and texture,
the piece also masterfully investigates the corporate maneuvering that is
known as an open secret in the manufacturing industry, showing how
corporations turn a blind eye to the subcontractors who use child labor and
violate the policies the companies claim to uphold. Te report masterfully
weaves together footage of the working conditions in Bangladesh with a
thorough investigation of corporate misbehavior. Made in Bangladesh wins
a Peabody Award for presenting a holistic picture of exploitation that spans
continents and has implications that indict corporations, contractors, and
consumers alike.
Executive Producer: Mat Skene. Senior Producer: Paul
Sapin. Producer: Laila Al-Arian. Correspondent: Anjali Kamat.
Camera: Tim Grucza, Andy Bowley. Editor: Warwick Meade.
Additional Camera: Joel Van Haren, Omar Mullick, Rana. Plaza
Footage: Laura Gutierrez. Translation: Anuradha Hashemi. Sound
Recordist: Masrur Rahman Masud. Additional production/
research assistance: Nafeesa Syeed, Jonathan Klett, Mark Scialla,
David Michaels, Omar Duwaji, Paul Abowd, Rezaur Rehman, Saydia
Kamal, Drik.
Coverage of
SupertyphoonYolanda
(GMA Network Inc., Philippines)
GMA Networks, Inc.
Typhoons are a fact of life in the Philippines, but
the usual warnings and procedures didnt begin to
prepare citizens for Yolanda (international name
Haiyan). Likely the strongest in history, Yolanda
not only hit the Visayas region with monstrous force
on November 8 but, as if it had a malevolent mind
of its own, the storm feinted and struck again and
again, making landfall a total of six devastating times.
Te destruction was mind-boggling: more than 6,000
lives lost, more than a million houses battered or
destroyed, total damages estimated at $1.6 trillion.
Face with daunting logistical challenges and sharing
in the national shock and grief, GMA reporters and
crews from 24 Oras (24 Hours), Saksi (Eyewitness),
24 Oras Weekend and Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho (One at
Heart, Jessica Soho) provided desperately needed spot
news coverage and information, gaining strength and
perspective as they worked. Tey followed up with
solid reporting and public-service broadcasts about the
aftermath, heroic acts and relief eforts. Te coverage
includes footage of storm-surge rapids ripping through
streets and apocalyptic winds decapitating houses
thats so close-up and intense that its a wonder the
videographers survived. For overcoming the challenges
posed by a historic storm to provide coverage
that was thorough, candid and compassionate, a
Peabody Award goes to GMA Networks coverage of
SuperTyphoon Yolanda.
Executive-in-Charge of Production: Marissa L. Flores. First VP, News Programs: Jessica A.
Soho. First VP, News and Public Affairs: Nessa S. Valdellon. VP, News Operations: Grace
Dela Pea-Reyes. Senior AVP, Public Affairs: Leogarda S. Matias. AVP, News Programs
and Specials: Michelle S. Seva. AVP, News Production: John Oliver T. Manalastas. AVP,
Public Affairs: Arlene U. Carnay. Senior Program Managers: John Ray Arrabe, Lee Joseph
Castel. Program Managers: Kathrina Ann dela Cruz, Antonio Magsumbol, Ahd Marco-Bautista,
Christina Pascual. Executive Producers: Cyrian Agujo, Jeconiah Placio, Maria Teresa Ranoco, Myla
Torres. Associate Producers: Remanuel Bandiola, Darvin de Mesa, Ana Marie Fuderanan, Sarah
Gulle, Tina Panganiban-Perez, Romabell Yumol. Anchors: Jessica Soho, Mike Enriquez, Mel Tiangco,
Vicky Morales, Arnold Clavio, Jiggy Manicad, Pia Arcangel. Reporters: Susan Enriquez, Maki Pulido,
Raffy Tima, Jiggy Manicad, Ivan Mayrina, Jun Veneracion, Chino Gaston, Ian Cruz, Steve Dailisan, Julius
Segovia, Cedric Castillo, Victoria Tulad, Micaela Papa, Rida Reyes, Katrina Son, Bam Alegre, Fabienne
Paderes, Love Aover. Head for News Desk Operations: Tex Jimenez. Senior Desk Editors: Malou
Talosig, Marvin Candelaria, Miguel Aguana, Ian Aguilar, Rhowena Parungao-Sarmenta, Vic Baldoz, Tom
Perdigon, Michael Sadim, Jenalyn Balaoro, Hannah Petrache, Louie Laresma. Videographers: Ace
Adriano, Rico Banua, Virgilio Barte, Rudy Cabungcal, Ronwaldo Capistrano, Ramil Gonzales, Ronald
Herrera, Joemil Jaspe, Ding Lagoyo, Xandrix Manalili, Leo Marzan, Freddie Olayra, Vergel Olunan, Jojo
Quibral, Joseph Salazar, Art Serrano, Gemmo Soho, Ederick Villegas. Producers: Lian Buan, Ramona
Dela Paz, Alex Francisco, Carlo Hernandez, Allan Lazaro, Czarina Magtangob, Tristan Nodalo, Andy
Penafuerte, Edmalynne Remillano, Joselito Tan, Lea Paz Torre, Val Veneracion, Mai Ventura, Frauleine
Villanueva. Directors: Lirio Dayao, Joel San Luis, Mimi Yapchiongco. Assistant Directors: Yen Bringas,
Mike Domingo, Ricky Patrimonio. Head Writer: Don Dave Ventura.
Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera
(Al Jazeera America)
Al Jazeera America
Following Haitis 2010 earthquake, a widespread cholera epidemic devastated
an already shattered island nation, claiming nearly 8,000 lives and infecting
more than half a million others. Al Jazeera Americas Fault Lines investigative
team, led by reporter Sebastian Walker, cameraman Singeli Agnew and editor
Warwick Meade, traveled to Haiti to follow the unfolding tragedy of this fatal
illness. Teir pursuit of accountability starts on the island but leads them to the
United Nations headquarters in New York. Trough relentless inquiry and a
growing body of scientifc evidence, they determined that the UN Stabilizing
Mission peacekeepers almost certainly brought the disease into the country.
Fault Lines chronicles the death and ongoing misery of cholera victims through
its search for answers, while the people allegedly to blame for this outbreak are
unwilling to acknowledge their responsibility. In the process, this investigative
report provides victims with leverage in their fght for justice and opens avenues
of redress for them. For its courageous investigation into an international health
scandal, a Peabody Award goes to Fault Lines: Haiti in a time of Cholera.
Executive Producer: Mat Skene. Senior Producer: Carrie
Lozano. Producers: Sebastian Walker, Singeli Agnew, Jeremy
Dupin. Correspondent: Sebastian Walker. Camera: Signeli
Agnew. Editor: Warwick Meade.
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Independent Lens: The Invisible War (PBS)
Chain Camera Productions, Independent Television Service (ITVS),
Girls Club Entertainment, RISE lms, Fork Films, Cuomo Cole
Productions, Canal Plus
Sexual assault is epidemic in the U.S. military. A female soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan
is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fre. Its estimated
that 26,000 soldiers were assaulted in 2012 alone. Statistics like these have never
been documented more personally or powerfully than they are in Te Invisible War.
Te documentary catalogues rules and conditions that perpetuate rape and protect
perpetrators. But the flms real power comes from a series of wrenching interviews
with veterans still coping with the aftermath of vicious, shameful assaults. From the
Department of Defense down through all branches of the military, the impact of these
courageous, ferce testimonials continues to be felt, manifested in actions as diverse as
banning sexist material from computers to providing legal representation to victims.
For its powerful indictment of criminal behavior in our armed forces, Te Invisible War
Executive Producers: Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel
Newsom, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Maria Cuomo Cole,
Abigail Disney, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Teddy Leifer, Nicole
Boxer-Keegan, Sally Jo Fifer. Senior Series Producer: Lois
Vossen. Producers: Amy Ziering, Tanner King Barklow.
Director: Kirby Dick.
Burka Avenger (Geo Tez)
Unicorn Black
In the Pakistani childrens series Burka Avenger, a symbol of womens
subjugation becomes a super-heroines mask. At the center of the action
is a teacher, Jiya, who dons a magical cape at night to right the wrongs
around her, from the ban on girls going to school, to child labor abuses,
to environmental degradation. Taught by a spiritual master to rely on
her own wits and to fght with a pen not a sword, Jiya is part Catwoman,
part Muslim ideal. Never heavy-handed or forced, the storytelling unfolds
with efortless charm as each episode amusingly turns stereotypes on
their heads. Te take-charge actions of Jiya and the children she defends
are animated with imaginative verve, the comeuppance of the villains
in each segment is celebratory, and the messages embedded are clear
and aspirational. For its deft handling of a deadly serious theme the
empowerment of women in a part of the world where it has particular
and timely resonance, Burka Avenger receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Aaron Haroon
Rashid. Producer: Aaron Haroon
Rashid. Director: Aaron Haroon Rashid. Writers: Aaron
Haroon Rashid, Adi Abdurab, Arslan Naseer &
Ghaniah Ejaz. Production Head: Uzair Z. Khan. Art
Director: Ejaz Ahmed. Animation Head: Taha Iqbal.
Post Production Head: Rizwan Ahmed. 2d Art
Lead: Muffadal Iqbal. Sound Design/Score: Jonathan
Nawaz, Ahmed Ali & Aaron Haroon Rashid. Voice Over
Artist Talent: Ainy Jaffri, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Amjad
Chaudhary, Anum Zaidi & Sara Rubab.
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A Needed Response
(YouTube/Samant ha St endal )
Samantha Stendal, Aaron Blanton
Te frst viral video to be honored with a Peabody Award, A
Needed Response grew out of two University of Oregon students
outrage upon watching news coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio,
rape sentencing that bemoaned the perpetrators loss of their
promising athletic careers while ignoring the 16-year-old girl they
had drugged and assaulted. Samantha Stendal and Aaron Blanton
conceived, staged and shot a 26-second video that emphatically
rejects the idea that rape is ever excusable. Short, simple and spot-
on, its an ingenious public-service message targeting college age
viewers. Stendal and Blanton shared their video on Upworthys
Facebook page. Within 48 hours, the video surpassed 1 million
views, an astonishing fgure that doubled, tripled and continued
to grow as more and more people shared it and debated its take on
masculinity and morality. For making a unforgettable, undeniable
statement about rape culture and sharing it with the world via
social media, A Needed Response receives a Peabody Award.
Producers: Samantha Stendal, Aaron Blanton. Writer:
Samantha Stendal. Talent: Kelsey Jones, Justin Rabier-Gotchall.
Outside the Lines: NFL at a Crossroads:
Investigating a Health Crisis (ESPN)
ESPN
Despite its afliation with the National Football League and a controversial split with public
televisions FRONTLINE over editorial control of a joint investigation of the NFLs concussion
crisis, ESPN televised and posted blistering reports about the league and CTE, or chronic
traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by head injuries. Te concise,
blunt coverage on the sports channels Outside the Lines series included a segment about the
NFLs eforts to infuence the analysis of star linebacker Junior Seaus brain after his shocking
suicide a lobbying efort his widow charitably describes on-camera as surreal. Another
poignant series of interviews examined how battered, retired players dealt with insomnia,
depression, anxiety, anger and suicidal urges. Te most devastating segment questioned the
leagues reliance on the New York Jets team doctor, rheumatologist Elliot J. Pellman, to
chair its Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. Film clips from NFL games underscore
theres nothing mild about the crash-test hits players take, and Pellman comes across as a
professional apologist, as quick to discredit CTE studies as he is to send concussed players
back into action. For candid, independent reporting about professional footballs self-serving
response to play-related brain injuries, Outside the Lines: NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a
Health Crisis wins a Peabody Award.
Director of News: Vince Doria. Senior Coordinating
Producer: Dwayne Bray. Deputy Editor: Chris
Buckle. Coordinating Producers: Carolyn Hong,
Tim Hays. Producers: Dave Lubbers, Greg Amante,
William Weinbaum, Simon Baumgart. Reporters: Steve
Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-Wada, John Barr, Steve
Delsohn. Editors: Susan Ansman, Katelin Collard, Melissa
Horton, Scott OLeary, Jason Sharkey. Photographer: Bill
Roach. Animator: Nick Waligorski. Production
Assistants: John Crisafulli, Thom Grifn.
FRONTLINE: League of Denial:
The NFLs Concussion Crisis (PBS)
FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group
Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment
of the National Football Leagues decades-long concealment of the link between football related
head injuries and brain disorders. FRONTLINE writer, producer, and director Michael Kirk
meticulously charts the uncovering of scientifc evidence of the chronic brain disease, chronic
traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and its relationship to football concussions. Te documentary
demonstrates not just a pattern of denial by the NFL, but also intentional eforts to repress scientifc
fndings, discredit researchers, and create its own scientifc research suggesting football is safe. Brain
examinations of deceased college and high school players with CTE also suggest that such injuries can
occur at much earlier ages than was previously thought. Te result is that viewers may feel a bit uneasy
with the implications of their own fandom for what is increasingly understood as a very unsafe sport.
For its dogged pursuit of evidence, meticulous argumentation, and willingness to take on the most
powerful organization in professional sports, FRONTLINE: League of Denial: Te NFLs Concussion
Crisis receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: David Fanning, Raney Aronson-
Rath. Producers: Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Michael
Wiser. Director: Michael Kirk. Writers: Michael
Kirk, Michael Wiser, Steve Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-
Wada. Reporters: Jim Gilmore, Steve Fainaru,
Mark Fainaru-Wada. Managing Editor: Philip
Bennett. Editor: Steve Audette. Coordinating Producer:
Colette Neirouz Hanna. Director of Photography: Ben
McCoy. Associate Producer: Lauren Ezell. Narrator: Will
Lyman. Production Assistant/Assistant Editor: Caitlin
Rotman. Production Assistant: Elliza Hamilton.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the
House of God (HBO)
Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, Wider Film
Projects and Below the Radar Films
Mea Maxima Culpa investigates and exposes the atrocious crimes of a
Milwaukee priest who sexually abused more than 200 deaf children in a school
under his control. Trough this disquieting story and others, Alex Gibneys
documentary explores the secret cover-up and the procedures enacted by the
Catholic Church in light of thousands of sexual abuse accusations all around
the world. Te accounts and facts incriminate prominent and powerful fgures
within the Church, including Marcial Maciel Degollado and His Holiness,
Benedict the 16
th
. Using photos, video and frst-person interviews, the flm
pieces together past events to empower four courageous deaf men Terry
Kohut, Gary Smith, Arthur Budzinski and Bob Bolger in their quest to
denounce the actions of their abuser and protect other children from harm.
Teir stories, the frst known public protest against clerical sexual abuse in
the United States, are vividly told through sign language and voice-over. For
providing a harrowing story of clerical sexual abuse, empowering long-silenced
victims and unveiling clandestine Church practices, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence
in the House of God receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins, Lori Singer, Jessica
Kingdon. Producers: Alex Gibney, Alexandra Johnes,
Kristen Vaurio, Jedd Wider, Todd Wider. Supervising
Producer: Sara Bernstein. Director: Alex Gibney. Writer:
Alex Gibney. Director of Photography: Lisa Rinzler.
Editor: Sloane Klevin.
The Returned (Les Revenants) (SundanceTV)
Haut et Court TV, Canal +, Jimmy, Cine +, Backup Films
Te Returned is exquisitely photographed and sensitively acted drama, but
what really makes this French miniseries so indelible is that its creators take
a supernatural premise and explore it with keen, objective intelligence and in
meticulous detail. What would happen if one day the casualties of a horrible bus
accident began to reappear, un-aged, to the families and friends who are still
mourning them, still arguing over how to memorialize them? What would it be
like to be one of the resurrected, discovering that your girlfriend has moved on
or your younger sibling is now older than you are? Why is this happening? How?
Te result of this painstaking act of imagination is a subtly spooky psychological
thriller that ponders loss, grief, memory and guilt, to say nothing of our notions
of the afterlife. Te idyllic setting, a picturesque mountain town, only accentuates
the eeriness. For its intricate storytelling, its visual elegance and its rumination on
life, death and what might lie between, Te Returned receives a Peabody Award.
Producers: Caroline Benjo, Jimmy Desmarais, Barbara Letellier.
Associate Producers: Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal. Directors:
Fabrice Gobert, Frdric Mermoud. Writers: Fabrice Gobert,
Emmanuel Carrre , Fabien Adda, Camille Fontaine , Nathalie
Saugeon. Talent: Anne Cosigny, Frdric Pierrot, Clotilde
Hesme, Cline Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Grgory Gadebois, Guil-
laume Gouix, Pierre Perrier, Jean Francois Sivadier, Alix Poisson,
Yara Pilzartz, Jenna Thiam, Swann Nambotin, Ana Girardot.
Cinematographer: Patrick Blossier. Editors: Peggy Koretzky,
Bertrand Nail, Mike Fromentin, Laurence Bawedin.
Orphan Black (BBC Ameri ca)
Temple Street Productions in association with BBC America
and SPACE
Orphan Black is a clone cyclone, a whirling dervish of a series that ponders
identity, humanity, nature-versus-nurture, bioethics and genetic research
when it occasionally pauses for breath. Tatania Maslany is a wonder in
multiple roles, starting with that of Sarah Manning, a Toronto street punk
who tries to shed a nasty boyfriend and a lifetime of bad choices by assuming a
look-alikes identity only to fnd herself caught up in a wild, noir-ish plot that
involves a growing number of doppelgangers. Its a sci-f/mystery/clifhanger
serial, consistently surprising, with action so fast it can make your head spin.
Yet it can also be deeply humane, thanks to a poignant subplot about Sarahs
eforts to regain custody of her child. Humor also plays a part: Maslany has
great comic moments with Jordan Gavaris, who plays her acerbic adopted
brother, and with her alter egos, who include a soccer mom and a religious
fanatic. For its singular take on cloning, splendid performances and thrill-ride
turns and twists, Orphan Black receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producers: Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, John
Fawcett, Graeme Manson. Co-Executive Producer: Kerry
Appleyard, Karen Walton. Producer: Claire Welland. Co-
Producers: Alex Levine, Will Pascoe. Directors: John Fawcett,
David Frazee, TJ Scott, Brett Sullivan, Grant Harvey, Ken Girotti.
Writers: Graeme Manson, Karen Walton, Alex Levine, Will
Pascoe, Tony Elliott. Director of Photography: Aaron Morton.
Talent: Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce, Maria
Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando.
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180 Days:
A Year Inside an American High School
(PBS)
National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, PBS
Washington Metropolitan, aka DC Met, has all the problems a modern American
high school can have: truancy, teen pregnancy, homelessness, violent crime.
Getting in the front door is like going through airport security. Ninety-seven
percent of the kids are classifed as economically disadvantaged. Fewer than
half are reading or doing math at grade level. Yet 180 Days, chronicling a year
in the life of this inner-city school, is actually an encouraging documentary. Its
optimism, far from blind, starts with DC Mets savvy, upbeat principal, Tanishia
Williams Minor, and extends through her faculty, both pragmatic veterans and
anxious upstarts, and some representative students who truly want a better future.
Filmmaker Jacquie Jones and her cohorts not only show us the personal challenges
at DC Met, they document the real, serious efort being made. And they put it
all into the context of funding uncertainties, the expectations of the DC school
system, and the rigorous standards imposed by the Obama administrations Race
to the Top reforms. For its intimate, hopeful portrait of an inner-city school
under the gun in more ways than one, 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High
School receives a Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Jacquie Jones. Producers: Garland
McLaurin, Lesley Norman. Field Producer: Breht
Gardner. Coordinating Producer: Alexis
Aggrey. Associate Producers: Brittany Clemons,
Wilbert McKinley. Directors: Jacquie Jones, Garland
McLaurin. Editors: Adam Lingo, Carol Slatkin. Assistant
Editor: Alyssa Taylor. Camera: Breht Gardner,
Wilbert McKinley, Garland McLaurin. Additional
Cinematography: Derek Allen, Uliana Bazar, Cliff
Charles, Brittany Clemons, Andrew Geraci, Emre
Tufekcioglu. Composer: Christopher Paultre. Music
Supervisor: Eric Rigaud.

Harper High School (WBEZ Chi cago 91.5)
WBEZ Chicagos This American Life
At Harper High School in Chicago, 29 current or recent students were shot in
the span of a single year. Learning of this staggering statistic, Tis American Life
embedded three reporters at the school for fve months. Teir in-depth reporting,
with surprising access to staf and students, resulted in two radio episodes. Te
frst focused on how the faculty and staf do their jobs in this setting, the second
on how such a high incidence of gun violence afects the lives of the students
who are regularly forced to grieve the loss of their peers, often tempted to seek
revenge. Viewers get a sense of what life is like in West Englewood, where young
males do not even get to choose to be in gangs, but fnd themselves members
simply by virtue of where they live. Te stories featured in these episodes had a
strong impact on listeners, who donated more than $250,000 to Harper High
School. First Lady Michelle Obama was also moved to visit Harper High to meet
with students, and in June, she and President Obama hosted a group of students
and staf at the White House. For masterfully localizing a national crisis in a vivid,
unblinking, poignant, and sometimes gut-wrenching manner, Harper High School
wins Tis American Life its ffth Peabody Award.
Executive Producer: Ira Glass. Producer: Julie
Snyder. Reporters: Ben Calhoun, Alex Kotlowitz, Linda
Lutton. Co-Producer: Robyn Semien.
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Your attendance at this luncheon and the entry fees submitted with your programs support our ongoing effort to
recognize, celebrate and preserve outstanding achievement in broadcasting and cable. The Peabody Awards
gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations and individuals.
Peabody Sponsors
The following organizations deserve special mention as Ofcial Sponsors of the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards.
Platinum Tables
Honoring the legacy of George
Foster Peabody
BBC America
CBS News
CNN
Comedy Central
ESPN
Public Broadcasting Service
Turner Broadcasting
Bronze Tables
Honoring the coveted
Peabody Medallion
Al Jazeera America
Broadcasting & Cable Magazine
Cynopsis Media
Delta Air Lines
Home Box Offce
Netfix
Pivot TV/Participant Media
PR Newswire
The Coca-Cola Company
Red & Black Tables
In recognition of the University
of Georgia, home of the
Peabody Awards
AMC
CBS Bostons WBZ-TV
and WBZ NewsRadio
FX Networks
Gannett Broadcasting
Hearst Television Inc.
NOLA Media Group/
Times-Picayune
Sundance TV
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The 74th Annual Peabody Awards Call For Entries
The ofcial entry forms for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Peabody Awards will be available in 2014.
Information can be found on our website: www.peabodyawards.com.
Soundtrack:
Waking Up from Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Performed by M83
Courtesy of Universal Studios
Tech 49 from Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Performed by M83
Star Waves from Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Earth 2077 from Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Raven Rock from Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Peabody Staff
Dr. Jeffrey P. Jones, Director
Dr. Nate Kohn, Associate Director
Thomas A. Hoover, Program Coordinator
Danna L. Williams, Senior Administrative Associate
Noel W. Holston, Public Relations Coordinator
Matthew Shedd, Social Media Specialist
To Contact Us
Peabody Awards
UGA College of Journalism/Room 320
120 Hooper Street
Athens, GA 30602-3018
Tel.: 706-542-3787
Fax: 706-542-9273
[email protected]
www.peabodyawards.com
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