The Peabody Awards have announced the first group of winners in The Peabody 30, honoring programming in news, radio/podcast, web and public service.
The awards, based at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, marks the inaugural winners of The Peabody 30, with winners in the remaining categories (entertainment, children's/youth, documentary and educational) announced over the next week, according to officials. This year, the Peabody Awards' Board of Jurors chose 60 finalists, from which 30 award winners are chosen. The awards' gala will be held on May 21 in New York; a televised special will air on Pivot on Monday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The winners include:
Burning Questions: WTAE Investigates Fire Response Times (WTAE-TV)
WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh
Desperate Journey (PBS/WETA-TV)
PBS NewsHour
Do Not Track (donottrack-doc.com)
Upian, National Film Board of Canada, Arte, Bayerischer Rundfunk, CBC/Radio-Canada
European Migrant Crisis/A New Life in Europe/The Year of Migration (BBC News, BBC World Service, BBC Radio)
BBC
Meet the Composer (WQXR.org)
WQXR’s Q2 Music
911: Lost On The Line (WXIA-TV)
WXIA-TV, NBC, Atlanta
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: The Killing Fields (HBO)
“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”
Secret Mustard Gas Experiments (NPR)
NPR News
The Case for School Desegregation Today (This American Life)
“This American Life”
The LaQuan McDonald Investigation (WMAQ-TV)
WMAQ-TV, NBC, Chicago
