PRONE
Two years before the murder of George Floyd, a man named David Baker was killed while being restrained by seven police officers in Colorado. Reporter Chris Vanderveen’s investigation into the…
Finn and the Bell
Finn and the Bell assembles a quiet portrait of a small Vermont community grappling with a young man’s suicide, and the beauty of its method lies in how the piece…
Southlake
In September 2020, Houston-based NBC reporter Mike Hixenbaugh was working on a story about friction the upcoming presidential election was causing in suburbia. He was referred to Southlake, a northwest…
Throughline: Afghanistan: The Center of the World
History is, and has always been, a wildly contested space. This is a fact that Throughline places at the very center of its intellectual universe, alongside an equally crucial idea:…
Dan Rather
Dan Rather Dan Rather, winner of this year’s Peabody Career Achievement Award, served as one of the Big Three national evening news anchors from the 1980s to the 2000s,…
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Institutional Award Fresh Air with Terry Gross Originating from WHYY in Philadelphia, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been the mainstay cultural interview program in the National Public Radio…
NBC Bay Area: “The Moms of Magnolia Street” & “No Man’s Land: Fighting for Fatherhood in a Broken System”
When local news takes on seemingly entrenched and intractable social challenges facing some of the most precarious and vulnerable members of our communities, as NBC Bay Area News shows, the…
Aftershock
Aftershock holds a mirror up to the country’s maternal-mortality crisis, presenting a sobering look at the deadly consequences of a medical system that routinely disregards Black women’s health. In the…
Batata
Noura Kevorkian’s Batata is an astonishing document of time, change, and humanity. Shot over the span of a decade, starting in 2009, Kevorkian follows a Syrian family on a Lebanese…