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National Public Radio was a website waiting to happen. With signature programs such as All Things Considered and Fresh Air, it has few equals in all the media when it…
sesamestreet.org
Bright and colorful, with Bird Bird and other animated Muppet characters taking turns cheerfully greeting visitors, www.sesamestreet.org is a beautifully realized extension of the celebrated PBS children’s series into the…
Peabody Awards Welcome Three New Board Members Story
The University of Georgia has approved three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. Joining other distinguished experts who select electronic media’s most coveted prize are Martha Nelson…
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…
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…
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…
The Case for School Desegregation Today
This American Life tapped reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, now at the New York Times, to help tell three radio stories that make an important point: School desegregation, however unpopular politically, can…
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 reminds us of a time before SpaceX when America celebrated scientific accomplishment, when engineers, test pilots, human “computers,” and government agencies collaborated to pull something off that had…
$2 Tests: Bad Arrests
Reporter Randy Travis delves into the reliability of drug-testing kits, known as “$2 Tests,” used by police in metro Atlanta as a quick, cheap way to analyze suspicious substances in…