Three Powerful Stories Make an Urgent Case for Police Reform Story

Welcome to Peabody Finds, the weekly newsletter for the Peabody Awards, offering our recommendations for powerful and thought-provoking media you should consider engaging. The newsletter offers deeper dives into Peabody-recognized programming (and…

Was ’80s TV as Silly as It Seemed? Story

Welcome to Peabody Finds, the weekly newsletter for the Peabody Awards, offering our recommendations for powerful and thought-provoking media you should consider engaging. The newsletter offers deeper dives into Peabody-recognized programming (and…

Quinta Brunson

Quinta Brunson  Peabody Trailblazer Award Winner The broadcast network sitcom is not dead, and we have one person to thank: Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of ABC’s hit Abbott…

What to Watch to Understand Documentary History Story

Welcome to Peabody Finds, the weekly newsletter for the Peabody Awards, offering our recommendations for powerful and thought-provoking media you should consider engaging. The newsletter offers deeper dives into Peabody-recognized programming (and…

Lily Tomlin

Lily Tomlin broke through as a comedic force on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In in the early 1970s, and has remained a vibrant presence in television—not to mention film and theater…

Personal Award: Christiane Amanpour

The true mark of broadcast journalists is not their recognizability and familiarity among the public, or their ability to command seven-figure salaries. The test is whether they are willing to…

Coverage of the Mexican Earthquake

KDTV-TV is a full-time, Spanish-language television station in San Francisco. In September 1985 the disastrous series of earthquakes struck Mexico City and within two hours KDTV-TV was involved in an…