WWL: Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Before the 2005 hurricane season began, WWL-TV aired Eye on Hurricanes 2005. As one in a series of yearly specials planned to remind citizens of New Orleans of the dangers…
Salud Es Vida … Enterate! (Lead a Healthy Life … Get the Facts!)
Univision’s television, radio, and on-line health-education initiative is a truly impressive cross-platform public service campaign. Designed to improve the quality of life by promoting healthier lifestyles, the campaign uses an…
ABC News Coverage of September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the news organizations of the American Broadcasting Company—individuals and special units—exhibited the finest aspects of broadcast journalism. Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson displayed an extraordinarily professional…
ESPN SportsCentury
This comprehensive retrospective of the people and events that shaped the face of sport in North America over the past 100 years is the first Peabody Award for ESPN and…
The Simpsons
For eight seasons, The Simpsons has presented biting satire as social commentary, and it still delivers humor and insight, on many levels, for audiences of all ages. While The Simpsons…
Nickelodeon Special Edition: It’s Only Television
In an era marked by the decline of quality television programming for children, Nickelodeon demonstrates its continuing commitment to the younger generation with It’s Only Television, the network’s second Peabody…
People of the Forest: The Chimps of Gombe
This extraordinary documentary, produced by Hugo Van Lawick for The Discovery Channel, follows a family of wild chimpanzees over the course of twenty years in their natural habitat of equatorial…
A World of Difference
Prejudice, be it racial, ethnic, religious, or any other variety, affects us all and hurts us all. WCVB-TV is to be commended for trying to do something about it rather…
Institutional Award: The Grand Ole Opry
If there are such things as American “institutions” the Grand Ole Opry is certainly one. For 58 years the Opry has filled the airwaves with what was once known as…