List of Peabody Award winners (2000–2009)

Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.

Contents

2000s

2000

Recipient Area of Excellence
Wall to Wall, Channel 4, in association with WNET/New York (Presented on PBS) The 1900 House
CBS News 48 Hours, for the report "Heroes Under Fire," which examined the cause and aftermath of a warehouse fire in Worcester, MA
CBS News 60 Minutes II, for the report "Death by Denial," which examined the HIV/AIDS outbreak in Africa
HBO Sports Ali-Frazier 1: One Nation… Divisible
KBS Chong-Ju An Eighty-Four Year Old Youngful Man Lives in the Cabin
WGBH-TV, Cinar (presented on PBS) Arthur
WJXT/Jacksonville, FL Behind Closed Doors, a documentary examining treatment of domestic violence victims
WGBH-TV Science Unit, co-produced with Production Group Inc. (presented on PBS) Building Big
Heartlove Productions, Lovett Productions, HBO Cancer: Evolution to Revolution
CNN Productions, Insight News Television, Channel Four International CNN Presents: Cry Freetown
NBC News Dateline NBC, for the report "The Paper Chase," a look at a "paper file review" of one auto accident victim's medical claim
BBC America and WGBH-TV (presented on PBS) ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: David Copperfield
WGBH-TV/Frontline, co-produced with Rain Media Inc. and Cam Bay Productions (presented on PBS) Drug Wars
Idaho Public Television and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Hearts and Minds: Teens and Mental Illness
Tiger Aspect Productions for NVC Arts and Channel 4 Howard Goodall's Big Bangs
Katie Couric and NBC News Personal Award to Couric for the report "Confronting Colon Cancer"
HBO, Whiteford-Hadary, University of Maryland, and Tapestry International King Gimp
FOX, Satin City, and Regency Television Malcolm in the Middle
Marketplace Productions/Minnesota Public Radio, in association with the University of Southern California (presented on Public Radio International) Marketplace
David Grubin Productions Inc. and Devillier Donegan Enterprises, presented on PBS Napoleon
Marty Haag Personal Award for his work as news director at WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX and as Senior Vice-President of Broadcast News Operations for Belo
P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., National Asian American Telecommunications Association, and Sun Fountain Productions Regret to Inform
Learning Matters Inc. and The Merrow Report (presented on PBS) School Sleuth: The Case of an Excellent School
Robert Greenwald Productions Inc. (distributed by Pearson Television International and presented on CBS) Sharing the Secret
True Vision Productions Ltd. for Channel 4 in association with HBO Slavery
Blown Deadline Productions, Knee Deep Productions, and HBO The Corner
A&E Network and Columbia TriStar Television in association with Chris/Rose Productions Inc. The Crossing
Mad Cow Productions Inc. in association with Comedy Central The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000
NPR "The NPR 100," a showcase of "the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century" that aired on Morning Edition and All Things Considered
HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television The Sopranos
NBC, John Wells Productions, in association with Warner Brothers Television The West Wing
KHOU-TV/Houston, TX "Treading on Danger," an investigation of failures of Firestone tires on Ford vehicles
BBC, Discovery Channel, TV Asahi, in association with ProSieben and France 3 Walking with Dinosaurs
Sound Portraits Productions (presented on NPR/All Things Considered) Witness to an Execution

2001

Recipient Area of Excellence
40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, Luna Ray Films, Black Starz!, KQED, PBS and Black Heritage Network A Huey P. Newton Story
ABC News, New York, New York ABC News Coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks on America
ABC News, New York, NY, Nightline an Institutional Award
Avenue Pictures, in association with HBO Films Wit
Band of Brothers Ltd., on behalf of DreamWorks and Playtone, presented on HBO Band of Brothers
Brook Lapping Productions for BBC2, in association with WGBH/Boston, RTÉ (Ireland), La Sept ARTE (France and Germany), SBS (Australia), and YLE (Finland) Endgame in Ireland
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada A Murder in the Neighbourhood
Carlton Production, in association with The Learning Channel, for Channel 4 Television, London, UK Hell in the Pacific
CBS News, New York, NY 60 Minutes II: Memories of a Massacre
Ciesla Foundation and Cinemax The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Hardcash Productions, Channel 4, London, UK, and CNN Productions, Atlanta, Georgia CNN Presents: Beneath the Veil and Unholy War
HBO Films, produced in association with the BBC, London, UK Conspiracy
Independent Television Service (ITVS), Paul & Sandra Fierlinger, and AR&T Associates, Inc. Still Life with Animated Dogs
John Wells Productions, in association with Warner Brothers Television, presented on NBC Third Watch: In Their Own Words
National Film Board of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada My Father's Camera
National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. Jazz Profiles
National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. National Public Radio Coverage of September 11, 2001 (Presented to Ellen Weiss)
Nickelodeon, New York, NY Blue's Clues
Nickelodeon, New York, NY Little Bill
Norman Twain Productions, with Shelby Stone Productions, in association with HBO films Boycott
Peter Rosen Productions Inc., KERA-TV, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, and the Van Cliburn Foundation, presented on PBS The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge
Showtime, An Echo Lake Productions/Sidekick Entertainment Productions Things Behind the Sun
Slow Motion Ltd. production for the BBC, London, UK, presented on PBS by WGBH/Boston, Massachusetts ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Talking Heads II - Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
SoundVision Productions, presented on National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. The DNA Files
Survival Anglia Ltd., UK Mzima - Haunt of the Riverhorse
Teachers Documentary Project, presented on PBS The First Year
Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China WTO Challenge
Tenth Planet Productions and the U.S. Broadcast and Cable Networks America: A Tribute to Heroes
Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, presented on PBS American Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
Touchstone Television, presented on ABC Anne Frank
WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio Visions of Vine Street
WGBH, Boston, MA an Institutional Award
Wilmore Films, Regency Television, and 20th Century Fox Television The Bernie Mac Show
Youth Radio, Berkeley, California an Institutional Award

2002

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC News, New York, New York Nightline: Heart of Darkness
ABC News, New York, NY Nightline: The Survivors
ALT Films, in association with Paramount Pictures for WGBH, Boston, Massachusetts, presented on PBS ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection: Almost A Woman
BBC Radio 4, London, UK File On 4: Export Controls
Blue Angel Films Ltd., and Tyrone Productions for Thirteen/WNET, New York Stage on Screen: Beckett on Film
CBS 9/11
CNN Terror on Tape
Court TV, JB Media, and Hearst Entertainment The Interrogation of Michael Crowe
David E. Kelley Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television Boston Public: 'Chapter Thirty-Seven'
(National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and John Wells Productions). Third Watch: Episode "In Their Own Words"
ESPN, Bristol, Connecticut, and Lake Champlain Productions The Complete Angler
Fuji Television Network Inc., Tokyo, Japan The Hepatitis C Epidemic: A 15-Year Government Cover-up
Greenblatt/Janollari Studios and Actual Size Films Inc., in association with HBO Original Programming Six Feet Under
HBO and Simmons/Lathan TV Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry
Kitchen Sisters and the Sonic Memorial Collaboration, in collaboration with Picture Projects and dotsperinch, in association with NPR, WNYC, Ben Shapiro Productions, Jamie York Productions, Jay Allison Productions, Radio Diaries and the Public Radio Collaboration The Sonic Memorial Project and SonicMemorial.org
KPRC-TV, Houston, Texas DNA Protects Men of Dishonor
London Weekend Television Production for WGBH/Boston, in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, presented on PBS ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Othello
NBC Studios, in association with DreamWorks Television Inc., and Nemo Films Boomtown
Nebraska ETV Network for American Experience, a production of WGBH/Boston, presented on PBS American Experience: Monkey Trial'
Public Television Service Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan How High is the Mountain
Quest Productions and Video Line Productions for Thirteen/WNET, New York, presented on PBS The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Scott Free Productions, in association with HBO Films and BBC Films The Gathering Storm
SET Productions and C-Films Productions for WGBH/Boston, in association with France2, Abu Dhabi Television, and Tel-Ad Israel, presented on PBS Frontline: Shattered Dreams of Peace, The Road From Oslo
Showtime Networks Inc., in association with Viacom Productions Inc., and A Jersey Guys Production Bang Bang You're Dead
Sound Portraits Productions, presented on National Public Radio Yiddish Radio Project
Talkback Productions for BBC America via BBC Films and Single Drama Almost Strangers
Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, presented on PBS EGG the Arts Show
Turner Network Television, Rosemont Productions International Ltd., Angel Brown Productions, in association with Spirit Dance Productions Door to Door
WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Radio Stories of Home
WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas Fake Drugs, Real Lives
WISN-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Sounding the Alarm
York Zimmerman Inc., in association with WETA-TV, Washington, D.C., presented on PBS Bringing Down a Dictator

2003

Recipient Area of Excellence
Atlantic Public Media Transom.org
A Bachrach/Gottlieb Production, presented on Showtime Soldier's Girl
BBC, presented on BBC America The Office
A BBC Correspondent Production, presented on BBC2 Israel's Secret Weapon
Blown Deadline Productions, in association with HBO Original Programming The Wire
CBS News, New York, New York 60 Minutes: All in the Family
Christian Frei Filmproductions, in association with Swiss National Television and Suissimage, Cinemax, presented on HBO War Photographer
Down to Earth Productions, presented on WEKU, Richmond, Kentucky Sisters in in
A Firelight Media production for American Experience, WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, presented on PBS American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till
A Frontline co-production with The New York Times and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for WGBH-TV, presented on PBS Frontline: A Dangerous Business
The Irish Film Board, produced in association with NPS & COBO, RTÉ, BBC, ZDF/ARTE, and YLE, presented on ARTE Chavez: Inside the Coup
KHOU-TV, Houston, Texas Evidence of Errors
KMGH-TV, Denver, Colorado Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy
A KRON-TV production, Young Broadcasting Co. Students Rising Above
Minnesota Public Radio, in association with the San Francisco Symphony American Mavericks
Moyers, Bill a Personal Award
NBC News, New York, NY A Question of Fairness
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers
NOVA/WGBH, Channel 4, in association with David Hickman Films, Sveriges Television and Norddeutscher Rundfunk, presented on PBS NOVA: The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene
P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., Independent Television Service (ITVS), National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), presented on PBS P.O.V.: Two Towns of Jasper
P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., Independent Television Service (ITVS), Zula Pearl Films, The National Black Programming Consortium (NPBC), presented on PBS P.O.V.: Flag Wars
Thirteen/WNET, New York, co-produced with Idéale Audience, Scorer Associates Ltd., BBC, ARTE France, Opéra National de Paris and NHK, with the participation of Musee d'Orsay, AVRO, SVT, ORF and BR, presented on PBS Great Performances: Degas and the Dance
TV Asahi, Tokyo, Japan Mother Flew Away as a Kite
A TV 2 (Denmark) Production, Cinemax, HBO, BBC, presented on Cinemax To Live is Better Than to Die
The University of Memphis, presented on Arkansas Educational Television Network, and WKNO-TV Memphis, Tennessee Hoxie: The First Stand
Viacom and The Kaiser Family Foundation, MTV: Music Television, Noggin/The N, Dancing Toad Productions Know HIV/AIDS and Fight For Your Rights: Protect Yourself Campaigns
Viacom International, Inc., produced in association with Mango Network, Nickelodeon, and MTV, presented on Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, North Carolina Medicaid Dental Centers Investigation
WESH-TV, Central Florida, and The Orlando Sentinel Building Homes: Building Problems

2004

Recipient Area of Excellence
BBC Television News, London The Darfur Crisis
Bill Brummel Productions for The History Channel Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?
CBS News 60 Minutes II: Abuse at Abu Ghraib
Channel One News Network The Suffering of Sudan
Clinica Estetico and LisaGay Inc. in association with HBO Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
CNBC The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company
Comedy Central The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2004
A Cort/Madden Production in association with HBO Films Something the Lord Made
CultureWorks, presented on WNYC, New York, New York and the WFMT Radio Network, Chicago, Illinois Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
Discovery Channel and Vulcan Productions in association with Gemini Productions and Antenna Films Black Sky: The Race for Space
Endor Production in association with BBC, BBC America State of Play
Filmmakers Collaborative, Blueberry Hill Productions for American Experience, WGBH-TV, Boston, Massachusetts American Experience: Tupperware!
Grant Tinker, former head of MTM Enterprises and NBC chairman in the 1980s a Personal Award
Hat Trick Productions, BBC America The Kumars at No. 42
Howe Sound Films and Force Four Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Human Cargo
Link TV, San Francisco, California Mosaic: World News from the Middle East
National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. The War in Iraq
Nursery Tap, LLC Nursery Tap, Hip to Toe
Red Board Productions and Paramount Television in association with HBO Entertainment Deadwood
Sesame Workshop (USA) and Kwasukasukela (South Africa) Takalani Sesame Presents "talk to me…"
Televiso de Catalunya, Bausan Films in association with Cinemax Reel Life Balseros
The Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Washington, D.C., Public Radio International Let the Good Times Roll
Trio and Post Consumer Media The N-Word
Univision, Miami, Florida Univision Communications, Salud es Vida…Enterate! (Lead a Healthy Life…Get the Facts!)
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Maryland Chesapeake Bay Pollution Investigation.
WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas State of Denial
Wisconsin Public Radio, Public Radio International To the Best of Our Knowledge
WITI-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Bully Project
WNYC Radio, New York, NY, National Public Radio On the Media
WNYC Radio, New York, NY, Public Radio International Studio 360 American Icons: Melville's Moby-Dick
WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tennessee Friends in High Places
Zendo Entertainment in association with Cinemax Reel Life Bus 174

2005

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC Boston Legal
BBC Bleak House
BBC BBC DoNation Season: Life on the List
BBC America Viva Blackpool
BBC Two The Queen of Trees
BBC Two This World BBC: Bad Medicine
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music
CBC/Radio-Canada What If Winter Never Comes? (Et si l'hiver ne venait plus?)
Comedy Central South Park
CNN Coverage of Hurricane Katrina and Aftermath
FOX House
FX The Shield
HBO Classical Baby
HBO Yesterday
HBO Children of Beslan
KCET, Los Angeles, California A Place of Our Own (Los Ninon en Su Casa)
KCNC-TV, Denver, Colorado How Far Will the Army Go?
KMEX-TV Univision 34, Los Angeles, CA 15% of the United States
KNBC, Los Angeles, CA Burning Questions
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams After the Storm: The Long Road Back
TVE, Madrid, Spain China: A Million Steps Ahead
PBS P.O.V.: Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
PBS American Masters: No Direction Home -- Bob Dylan
PBS A Room Nearby
PBS American Experience: Two Days in October
Public Radio International "Studio 360 American Icons: Melville's Moby Dick".

Co-produced by WNYC Radio, New York, Public Radio International, Minneapolis

PRI "To the Best of Our Knowledge".

Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, distribution partner: Public Radio International

PRI "Let the Good Times Roll". Producer: The Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Washington, D.C., distribution partner: Public Radio International, Minneapolis.
Sci-Fi Channel Battlestar Galactica
Showtime Edge of America
Sundance Channel The Staircase
The History Channel Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights
WLOX-TV, Biloxi, Mississippi Hurricane Katrina
WNYC Radio, New York Radio Rookies Project
WWL-TV, New Orleans, Louisiana Preparation and Coverage of Hurricane Katrina

2006

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC Ugly Betty
ABC News Brian Ross Investigates: Conduct Unbecoming
ABC News Out of Control: AIDS in Black America
Arizona Public Radio Crossing Borders
BBC America Gideon's Daughter
BBC Two Galapagos: Born of Fire
Cartoon Network The Boondocks: "Return of the King"
CBC Braindamadj'd...Take II
CBC Why We Fight
CBS News 60 Minutes: The Duke Rape Case
channel4.com/fourdocs (Channel 4) FourDocs
Chocolate Moose Media "The Three Amigos" HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme
Dateline NBC The Education of Ms. Groves
Food Network Good Eats
HBO Baghdad ER
HBO Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer
HBO Elizabeth I
HBO The Music in Me
HBO, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Independent Film Channel Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet
KMOV-TV Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools
mun2 For My Country? Latinos in the Military
NBC Friday Night Lights
NBC The Office
NBC Scrubs
NPR Mental Anguish and the Military
NPR StoryCorps
PBS American Masters: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
PRI Crossing East: Our History, Our Stories, Our America
Showtime Brotherhood
WashingtonPost.com (The Washington Post) Being a Black Man
WBEZ This American Life: "Habeas Schmabeas"
WISH-TV Command Mistake
WTHR-TV Prescription Privacy/Cause for Alarm
WTNH-TV Defective Parts on Blackhawk Helicopters (Investigation)

2007

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC News Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War – The Long Road Home of Our Nation's Veterans
AMC Mad Men
BBC World News America, BBC America, BBC World White Horse
Bravo Project Runway
bTV A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses
CBS News CBS News 60 Minutes: The Killings in Haditha
CBS News CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home
CNN CNN Presents: God's Warriors
Comedy Central The Colbert Report
Discovery Channel, BBC Planet Earth
HBO To Die in Jerusalem
KNXV-TV Security Risks at Sky Harbor
mtvU mtvU: Half of Us
National Public Radio The MTT Files
National Public Radio Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi
National Public Radio Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me!
NBC 30 Rock
PBS Art:21 – Art in the 21st Century
PBS Craft in America: Memory, Landscape and Community
PBS FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law
PBS Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn – Lush Life
PBS NATURE: Silence of the Bees
PBS NOVA: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Public Radio International Whole Lotta Shakin`
Showtime Dexter
Sundance Channel Nimrod Nation
Univision Ya Es Hora
WFAA-TV Money for Nothing, The Buried and the Dead, Television Justice, Kinder Prison
WGBH-TV Design Squad
WTAE-TV Fight for Open Records
WYPR-FM Just Words
ZDF/ARTE Taxi to the Dark Side
IPBS Independent Lens: Sisters in Law
WSLS-TV Virginia Tech Shooting: The First 48 Hours
WNYC Radio The Brian Lehrer Show: Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides

2008

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC Lost
ABC News Hopkins
AMC Breaking Bad
CBS 60 Minutes: Lifeline
CNN Coverage of 2008 Presidential Primary Campaigns and Debates
ESPN Black Magic
KMGH-TV Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes
HBO Entourage
HBO The Gates
HBO John Adams
HBO Hear and Now
HBO Nanking
Hearst-Argyle Television Hearst-Argyle Television: Commitment 2008
KLAS-TV Crossfire: Water, Power and Politics
Korean Broadcasting System Jungle Fish
National Public Radio 36 Years in Solitary: Murder, Death and Justice on Angola
National Public Radio China: The Earthquake of Chengdu
NBC 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony
NBC Saturday Night Live Political Satire, 2008
NBC Nightly News Richard Engel Reports: Tip of the Spear
The New York Times The New York Times website (www.nytimes.com)
Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Onion The Onion News Network (theonion.com)
PBS Depression: Out of the Shadows
PBS Ape Genius
PBS Independent Lens: King Corn
PBS POV: Campaign
Shanghai TV Station The Red Race
Sichuan TV Sichuan Earthquake Coverage
Turner Broadcasting System Turner Classic Movies channel
WETA-TV

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill (PBS & pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek)

WTAE-TV Fight for Open Records
WWL-TV NOAH Housing Program Investigation
YouTube LLC YouTube (youtube.com)

2009

Recipient Area of Excellence
ABC Modern Family
ABC News A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
BBC America BBC World News America: Unique Broadcast, Unique Perspective
BBC America Where Giving Life Is a Death Sentence
BBC Two Iran and the West
BBC World Service The Day That Lehman Died
CBS News 60 Minutes: The Cost of Dying
CBS News 60 Minutes: Sabotaging the System
CBS The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: An Evening with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Current TV Vanguard: The OxyContin Express
FOX Glee
GMA Network, Philippines i-Witness: Ambulansyang de Paa (lit: Ambulance thru feet; meaning: Walking Ambulance)
HBO In Treatment
HBO The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
HBO Thrilla in Manila
KBS 1TV Noodle Road: Connecting Asia's Kitchens
KCET Up in Smoke
KHOU Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard
KLCC Radio Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools Are Failing Black Students
KTVU BART Shooting
National Public Radio NPR.org
National Public Radio Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Covering Afghanistan
Now-Broadband TV News Channel Sichuan Earthquake: One Year On
OPB Radio Hard Times
PBS American Masters: Jerome Robbins – Something to Dance About
PBS Endgame
PBS Frontline: The Madoff Affair
PBS Independent Lens: Between the Folds
PBS Independent Lens: The Order of Myths
PBS Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times
Diane Rehm A personal award
Sesame Workshop SesameStreet.org
Sundance Channel Brick City
West Virginia Public Broadcasting The Great Textbook War
WFLD Derrion Albert Beating
WYFF Chronicle: Paul's Gift