List of Peabody Award winners (2010–19)
The following is a list of George Foster Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions during the decade of the 2010s.
2010
| Recipient[1] | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television | Justified |
| Thirteen for WNET.org, Illuminations Television Ltd. | Great Performances: Macbeth |
| CNN | Coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill |
| WNYC | Radiolab |
| Playtone, DreamWorks Productions, HBO | The Pacific |
| Hartswood Films, BBC Cymru Wales, Masterpiece | Sherlock, for the episode "A Study in Pink" |
| WGCU Public Media/Fort Myers, FL | Lucia's Letter, a documentary about young women enslaved as drug smugglers |
| Thirteen's American Masters, "Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, Dakota Group" | LennoNYC |
| Magic Hour Films, WG Film, Mediamente, Kamoli Films, Danish Film Institute, DR TV, HBO | Burma VJ |
| TNT | Men of a Certain Age |
| WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX | "Bitter Lessons", an investigation into government-funded career schools |
| Youth Radio, NPR, Huffington Post | All Things Considered, for "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation" |
| Rezolution Pictures, National Film Board of Canada, CBS News Network, ARTE Germany, Documentary Channel Canada, Radio Canada, ARTV, Knowledge Network, APTN, AVRO, ITVS | Independent Lens, for Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian |
| Launch Minneapolis, American Public Media | The Promised Land with host Majora Carter |
| HBO Sports | Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals |
| NPR | Coverage of military conflict, flooding, and social issues in Pakistan |
| Science Channel, BBC | Wonders of the Solar System with Brian Cox |
| NPR | Investigation into low levels of consequence faced by perpetrators of campus rapes |
| TeenNick, Ncredible productions | Degrassi: The Next Generation, for the episode "My Body Is a Cage" |
| C-SPAN | C-SPAN Video Library |
| American Experience | My Lai |
| The Moth, Public Radio Exchange, Atlantic Public Media | The Moth Radio Hour |
| Mentorn, Antony Thomas Productions, HBO | For Neda |
| NPR | "Behind the Bail Bond System", an investigation airing on All Things Considered and Morning Edition |
| Loki Films, HBO | 12th & Delaware |
| Sikelia Productions, Far Hills Pictures, American Masters | Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia |
| 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, HBO | If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise |
| True Vision | Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children |
| Art21, Inc. | William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible |
| ESPN | 30 for 30 |
| American Documentary, POV, ITVS | The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers |
| Phoenix Satellite Television | "Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China" |
| WTHR/Indianapolis, IN | "Reality Check: Where Are the Jobs?" an investigation into job creation claims by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation |
| Ruby Films, Gerson Saines Productions, HBO Films | Temple Grandin |
| Jay Rosenstein Productions (for WILL-TV/Urbana, IL) | The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today |
| washingtonpost.com | "The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person" |
| KSTP-TV/Saint Paul, MN | "Who Killed Doc?" an investigation into how a Minnesota sailor's death in Iraq was ill-explained |
| Frontline, Mongoose Pictures | The Wounded Platoon |
| Scott Free Productions, King Size Productions, Small Wishes, CBS Productions | The Good Wife |
2011
| Recipient[2] | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| CNN | Coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings |
| TED.com | Award to the website for "[making] creative thinkers and their ideas available everywhere, anytime" |
| American Experience in association with Apograph Productions, Firelight Media and Q-Ball Productions (presented on PBS) | American Experience, for the documentaries "Triangle Fire", "Freedom Riders", and "Stonewall Uprising" |
| NPR | "Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families", a 3-part report on the illegal practice by 33 states of separating Native American children from their families or tribes |
| American Documentary/POV/Red Square Productions, Bungalow Town Productions, ITVS International in association with YLE | POV: My Perestroika |
| Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions, Comedy Central | The Colbert Report, for its segments on Super PAC funding of political campaigns |
| CNN, Done & Dusted (aka Fun & Trusted) | CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute |
| StoryCorps, NPR, POV, National September 11 Memorial & Museum | StoryCorps recollections of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Morning Edition and YouTube |
| BBC.com | Awarded in recognition of the website's "immediate, evolving coverage of news events great and small" |
| Loud Mouth Films, Limited, Independent Television Service (airing on KBDI/Denver, CO and other NETA stations) | Who Killed Chea Vichea? |
| Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB Jade) | News Magazine, for the reports "People's Republic of Cheating" (probes of academic plagiarism) and "Misjudged Cases" (probes of unjust arrests and prosecutions) |
| Showtime Presents, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21 | Homeland |
| Fuji Television | The Untold Stories of the Tsunami in Japan |
| The New Yorker and Human Rights Watch | Awards for the online reports "Acting Up: Russia's Civil Society" (documenting Russian dissidents) and "Gold's Costly Dividend: The Porgera Joint Venture" (report on abuse by security at a Papua New Guinea mine) |
| Clover and A Bee Films, 33&Out, Inc. in association with HBO Documentary Films | Earth Made of Glass |
| NPR | Reports by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro on the Arab Spring uprisings |
| CNN | Award for work by Fareed Zakaria, citing his GPS analysis on Iran and the special Restoring the American Dream: Fixing Education |
| Independent Lens and Bhutto Film, LLC | Bhutto |
| Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Entertainment | Treme |
| Broadway Video and IFC | Portlandia |
| KING-TV/Seattle, WA | "Their Crime, Your Dime", an investigation of food stamp and welfare scams |
| BBC | Somalia: Land of Anarchy |
| Al Jazeera English | Coverage of "The Arab Awakening" |
| KPHO-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Toxic Secrets", a report on the effects of buried Agent Orange drums at a US Army Base in South Korea |
| Showtime Presents | Rebirth |
| Bighead, Littlehead, 360 Television, Grok and Generator Productions in association with HBO Entertainment | Game of Thrones |
| CBS News | Undercover reports by Clarissa Ward on the uprising within Syria, airing on CBS Evening News |
| Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon | Parks and Recreation |
| KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, NV | "Desert Underwater", a series of reports on the housing crisis in Las Vegas and its effects |
| NHK | Surviving the Tsunami |
| WEWS-TV/Cleveland, OH | "Operation Deep Freeze", a report on United States Navy personnel exposed to radiation at a base in Antarctica |
| Quest Productions, Bread and Butter Films in association with Thirteen's American Masters for WNET/New York, NY | Charles and Ray Eames – The Architect and the Painter |
| Public Television Service | A Year in the Clouds |
| ABC News | 20/20, for the report "Peace Corps – A Trust Betrayed", an expose of a murder and sexual assaults — and related cover-ups — involving the humanitarian program's operations in Africa |
| GlobalPost.com | Award for the website's On Location posts |
| Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa, Curious Pictures Pty Ltd, Ants Multimedia, SABC Education (airing on SABC 1) | Intersexions |
| Austin City Limits (KLRU-TV/Austin, TX and PBS) | Institutional Award for the live music performance program |
| Sony Pictures Television | Jeopardy! |
2012
| Recipient[3] | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| JUF Pictures, Inc. and documentary | Under Fire: Journalists in Combat |
| Steps International and PBS | Why Poverty? |
| 1895 Films for Smithsonian Channel | MLK: The Assassination Tapes |
| GMA Network, Inc. (GMA News TV) | Reel Time: Salat (Bone Dry) |
| Al Jazeera, Just Vision | Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighborhood |
| Augusta Films and HBO Documentary Films, with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities | The Loving Story |
| Show of Force, Mudpuppy Films and HBO Documentary Films | Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present |
| ITN Productions for Channel 4 | Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished |
| ITV Studios (airing on ITV) | Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, researched and presented by Mark Williams-Thomas |
| Hardcash Productions/Fuuse Films (airing on ITV) | Exposure: Banaz: An Honour Killing, researched and presented by Mark Williams-Thomas |
| Brook Lapping Productions, National Geographic Channel (also airing on BBC Two) | Putin, Russia and the West |
| True-Walker Productions, Independent Television Service (airing on PBS) | Independent Lens: Summer Pasture |
| KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect", an investigation that revealed an acceleration problem in the vehicle in question |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | "Deception at Duke", an investigation into an experimental cancer treatment at Duke University |
| "Joy in the Congo", a profile of Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste | |
| ABC News | Coverage of Hurricane Sandy |
| "Robin's Journey", a public service campaign centered on Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts' bone marrow transplant | |
| WTHR-TV/Indianapolis, IN | "Investigating the IRS", an examination of how illegal immigrants bilked Internal Revenue Service in tax refunds |
| KMGH-TV/Denver, CO | "Investigating the Fire", an examination of a controlled burn by the Colorado State Forest Service and its deadly impact |
| Univision | Award for the network's reports on "Rapido y Furioso" (Operation Fast and Furious) |
| WVIT-TV/New Britain, CT | Award for the station's breaking news coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting |
| NPR | Coverage by reporters Kelly McEvers and Deborah Amos on the crisis in Syria |
| CNN | Coverage of the unrest in Syria and Homs |
| John Wells Productions and Warner Brothers Television | Southland |
| Prodco, Inc. in association with ABC Family | Switched at Birth |
| Comedy Central and Five Timz Productions | D.L. Hughley: The Endangered List |
| HBO | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel |
| Playtone Productions and Everyman Pictures in association with HBO Films | Game Change |
| Pig Newton, Inc., FX Productions | Louie |
| Aptow Prod and I am Jenni Konner Productions in association with HBO Entertainment | Girls |
| Radio Diaries | "Teen Contender", a profile (airing on NPR's All Things Considered) of 16-year-old Claressa Shields and her quest to earn a spot on the 2012 US Olympic Women's boxing team |
| WBEZ/Chicago, IL, Pro Publica, Fundacion MEPI | This American Life, for the documentary "What Happened at Dos Erres", a profile of a child survivor of the 1982 Guatemalan civil war |
| Media Mechanics, The Library of Congress (airing on WNYC/New York, NY and Public Radio International) | Inside the National Recording Registry |
| WNYC/New York, NY | The Leonard Lopate Show |
| SCOTUSblog | Award to the website and its coverage of the United States Supreme Court |
| NYTimes.com | "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek", an online multimedia report on a deadly avalanche |
| NHK Educational Corporation for NHK (airing on NHK Educational Channel) | Design Ah! |
| Lorne Michaels | Individual Award to "the patron saint of satirical television comedy" |
| BBC Cymru Wales | Institutional Award for Doctor Who |
| ITV Studios | Institutional Award for Michael Apted's Up Series |
2013
| Recipient[4] | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| National Black Programming Consortium, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS | 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School |
| WBEZ/Chicago, IL | This American Life, for "Harper High School", which profiled life at a Chicago high school plagued by gun violence |
| Thirteen, Inkwell Films, and Kunhardt McGee Productions in association with Ark Media | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
| Florentine Films and WETA-TV/Washington, DC | The Central Park Five |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC, Latino Public Broadcasting, Bosch & Company, and Independent Television Service | Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Reshaped a Nation |
| CNN and Zero Point Zero Production, Inc. | Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown |
| American Documentary/POV | The Law in These Parts |
| American Documentary/POV and BKS Films, LLC | Best Kept Secret |
| WBZ Radio and WBZ-TV/Boston, MA | Joint honor for the stations' coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent investigation and manhunt |
| GMA Networks, Inc. | Award for coverage of Typhoon Haiyan (aka Typhoon Yolanda) |
| BBC World News America | "Inside Syria’s War" |
| CBS This Morning (CBS News) | Award for Charlie Rose's "polite but persistent" interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad |
| Al Jazeera America | Fault Lines, for "Haiti in a Time of Cholera", which examined the Cholera outbreak in the earthquake-ravaged country and its possible source |
| Fault Lines, for "Made in Bangladesh", which probed the Rana Plaza collapse and how American retailers turned a blind eye toward dangerous practices by clothing subcontractors | |
| Frontline and Kirk Documentary Group | Frontline, for League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis |
| ESPN | Outside the Lines, for "NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a Health Crisis" |
| KING-TV/Seattle, WA | "Hanford's Dirty Secrets", which revealed nuclear waste leaks and mismanagement at the Hanford Site |
| WTVF/Nashville, TN | "Questions of Influence," a series of reports and a primetime special revealing Tennessee state officials’ involvement in shady business deals |
| WVUE-DT/New Orleans, LA and The Times-Picayune (NOLA.com) | "Louisiana Purchased", an investigation into campaign financing in Louisiana |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting and Public Radio Exchange | Reveal, for "The VA's Opiate Overload", which examined overdoses from prescription opiates at Veterans Administration hospitals |
| NBC News | "In Plain Sight: Poverty in America", an on-air and online assessment of the faces and forms of poverty |
| Hollow Interactive, LLC | Hollow |
| How to Survive a Plague LLC, Public Square Films, Impact Partners, and Little Punk | Independent Lens for How to Survive a Plague |
| Charlotte Street Films, Independent Television Service, BBC, ZDF/Arte, and NHK | Independent Lens, for The House I Live In |
| Chain Camera Productions, Independent Television Service, Girls Club Entertainment, RISE films, Fork Films, Cuomo Cole Productions, and Canal+ | Independent Lens, for The Invisible War |
| DR | Borgen |
| Sony Pictures Television | Breaking Bad |
| Shine America and FX Productions | The Bridge |
| Kudos and Imaginary Friends (co-production) | Broadchurch |
| Unicorn Black | Burka Avenger |
| ABC Studios | Scandal |
| Donen/Fincher/Roth, Trigger Street Productions, Inc., Media Rights Capital, and Netflix | House of Cards |
| Lionsgate Television and Netflix | Orange Is the New Black |
| Markay Media in association with South Carolina ETV | A Chef's Life |
| Comedy Central Productions | Key & Peele |
| Temple Street Productions in association with BBC America and Space | Orphan Black |
| Haut et Court TV, Canal+, Jimmy, Ciné+, and Backup Films | The Returned (Les Revenants) |
| HBO Documentary Films and Fine Films LLC | Life According to Sam |
| HBO Documentary Films and Sabella Entertainment | Six by Sondheim |
| Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, Wider Film Projects, and Below the Radar Films | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God |
| Samantha Stendal and Aaron Blanton | "A Needed Response," a viral video (the first to earn a Peabody) produced by the University of Oregon students challenging the culture of rape and sexual assault on college campuses[5] |
| The Race Card Project (NPR News and Morning Edition) | Award for the Michele Norris-led project that examines listeners' ideas and experiences on race, pride, prejudice and identity |
| The New York Times and National Film Board of Canada | A Short History of the Highrise, an online "visual tour of 'vertical living'" |
| B'way Films LLC, Ghost Light Films, Albert M. Tapper and WNET/New York, NY | Great Performances, for Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy |
| TCM | The Story of Film: An Odyssey |
| Tom Brokaw | Personal award to the longtime NBC News personality and former Nightly News anchor for his various projects and books (e.g. The Greatest Generation) |
2014
| Recipient[6] | Area of Excellence |
|---|---|
| Personal and institutional honorees | |
| Afropop Worldwide | Institutional Award to the PRI radio series for its celebration of African and Afro-inspired music |
| David Attenborough | Personal Award for Attenborough's work as host and producer of nature-history programs |
| Entertainment honorees | |
| Zeppotron and Channel 4 | Black Mirror |
| MGM Television and FX Productions | Fargo |
| Fox Television Studios and FX Productions | The Americans |
| Jax Media LLC | Inside Amy Schumer |
| Eye Productions, CBS Television Studios, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Electus, RCTV, and Poppy Productions | Jane the Virgin |
| HBO Entertainment in association with Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon Television | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver |
| Gran Via Productions and Zip Works | Rectify |
| SundanceTV, BBC Worldwide, Drama Republic, and Eight Rooks Productions | The Honorable Woman |
| Cinemax Entertainment in association with Ambeg Productions, Anonymous Content and Extension 765 | The Knick |
| News, radio, and podcast honorees | |
| CNN | "Crisis at the VA," an investigation into delays in care at US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals |
| Award for coverage of the kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Boko Haram terrorist organization in Chibok, Nigeria | |
| NBC News and MSNBC | Award for coverage on the rise of the Islamic State, in particular reports by correspondent Richard Engel |
| Vice News | Award for reports by Medyan Dairieh inside the caliphate of the Islamic State |
| Last Chance High, a series of web reports and podcasts profiling troubled students at Chicago's Montefiore Therapeutic Day School | |
| NPR | Award for on-scene reports from the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa |
| Futuro Media Group, Round Earth Media, Radio Progreso, and Freelance Producers (airing on NPR) |
Latino USA, for "Gangs, Murder, and Migration in Honduras," which examined the motivations behind the exodus of Hondurans to the United States |
| State of the Re:Union and WJCT-FM/Jacksonville, FL (distributed by NPR and PRX) |
State of the Re:Union |
| Minnesota Public Radio News | Betrayed by Silence, a documentary examining the child sex-abuse scandal involving the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis |
| WNYC/New York, NY | Radiolab, for "60 Words," a collaboration with BuzzFeed examining the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists and its serving as the legal foundation for the War on Terror |
| WNYC/New York, NY and New Jersey Public Radio | "Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power," a series of reports linking bridge closures on the George Washington Bridge to operations within the administration of the New Jersey governor |
| KVUE/Austin, TX | "The Cost of Troubled Minds," an investigation examining the monetary and psychological effects of cutbacks in Texas mental health care programs |
| Serial, This American Life, and Chicago Public Media | Serial, for its investigation of the murder of Hae Min Lee |
| E. W. Scripps Company Washington, DC bureau | "Under the Radar," a series of reports investigating loopholes that allow sex offenders convicted in the US Military to go unidentified and unmonitored when returning to civilian life |
| Documentary, public service, educational, and children’s programming honorees | |
| American Experience Films, WGBH Educational Foundation, and Firelight Films | American Experience, for "Freedom Summer" |
| ITN Productions | Children on the Frontline, a documentary airing on Channel 4's Dispatches profiling 5 children impacted by the Syrian Civil War |
| Flying Cloud Productions, Inc. | Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade |
| Brakeless LTD, Bungalow Town Productions, BBC, NHK, IKON, DR, and Independent Television Service (airing on PBS) |
Independent Lens, for "Brakeless" |
| Jigsaw Productions, Jagged Films, and Inaudible Films in association with HBO Documentary Films | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown |
| Covert Productions in association with HBO Documentary Films and Impact Partners | The Newburgh Sting |
| American Documentary/POV | POV, for American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs |
| Ginzberg Productions (airing on SABC 2, DStv, and GOtv) |
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa |
| FRONTLINE in association with Kirk Documentary Group and Rain Media | United States of Secrets, a documentary airing on PBS' Frontline examining the growth of US Government surveillance efforts post-9/11 |
| Grain Media (broadcast through Netflix) |
Virunga |
| BBC World Service | Award for the service's public service efforts to inform about the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa |
| Noticias Univision | Entre el Abandono y el Rechazo (Between Abandonment and Rejection), which dealt with unaccompanied Latin American children seeking asylum in the United States |
| Fuzzy Door Productions and Cosmos Studios, Inc. in association with Fox and National Geographic Channel | Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey |
| Cartoon Network Studios | Adventure Time |
| Brown Bag Films and Disney Junior | Doc McStuffins |
References
- ↑ 2010 Peabody Awards
- ↑ 2011 Peabody Awards
- ↑ 2012 Peabody Awards
- ↑ "2013 Peabody Awards". Peabody Award. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
- ↑ "A Needed Response" on the Peabody Awards website
- ↑ "2014 Peabody Awards". Peabody Award. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
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