One to One: Mentoring
This year-long public service project designed to communicate the critical importance of mentoring young people was brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed, and most important, ultimately successful. So much so, that what…
Institutional Award: CBS Television and Hallmark Hall of Fame
The name Hallmark Hall of Fame has come to symbolize excellence of the highest order in the presentation of dramatic programs on television—in this case CBS Television. First recognized with…
Twelve documentaries win 2016 Peabody Awards Story
The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors revealed today 12 winners in the Documentary category for programs released in 2016. The honorees, part of the annual Peabody 30, include compelling stories…
4.1 Miles
The harrowing and desperate journeys undertaken by refugees risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean to find safe haven in Europe has been one of the largest and most-documented media…
The Peabody 30 – Complete Winner’s List Story
2015 Peabody Award Winners Beasts of No Nation (Netflix) A superbly acted, strikingly photographed film about an African warlord training an orphan child to join his guerrilla army, it never…
The Peabody 30: Award Winners for 2016 Story
2016 Peabody Award Winners Arrested at School: Criminalizing Classroom Misbehavior (NBC) A rigorous examination into local school districts relying on police as a means of student discipline reveals an alarming…
“The Good Lord Bird” Is a Wild, Unforgettable Ride 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…
Three Powerful Films About America’s Long, Bitter Struggle for Voting Rights 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…
In the Same Breath
For years, if not decades to come, the “COVID documentary” will sustain as a genre as more and more filmmakers from around the world look keenly into the ways this…
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:…