ATHENS, Ga. - The winners of the 2010 Peabody Awards announcedThursday include some of the biggest names in television, but theage-old medium of radio shined in this year's competition with eightawards.
Winners announced by the University of Georgia include "The MothRadio Hour," which celebrates storytelling in a weekly series, andWNYC's series "Radiolab," a scientific exploration show. Othersinclude "Trafficked," a Youth Radio investigation into child sex-trafficking with vivid first-person accounts.
National Public Radio garnered three awards with coverage ofPakistan, the bail bond system in the U.S. and rapes on collegecampuses.
The awards, the oldest in broadcasting, recognize achievement andpublic service by TV and radio stations, networks, producingorganizations, individuals and the Internet. UGA's Grady College ofJournalism and Mass Communication has administered the Peabodys inAthens since the program's inception in 1940.
UGA handed out a record 39 Peabodys this year.
"The Peabody Awards were established with deep respect for thecritical role played by electronic media in contemporary society andculture," said Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabodys. "The annualannouncement of the recipients continues in that spirit to recognizework that sets the highest standards for the media industries."
TV winners include HBO's "The Pacific," TNT's mid-life comedy-drama "Men of a Certain Age," and FX's "Justified." Award-winningHBO movie "Temple Grandin," starring Claire Danes, also got a nod,as did CBS'"The Good Wife."
News station winners include: WTHR-TV in Indiana for aninvestigation into inflated job-creation statistics by stateofficials; KSTP-TV's investigation into the accidental electrocutionof a Minnesota sailor in Iraq; and WFAA-TV in Dallas for a probeinto government-funded "career" schools that don't pass muster. WILL-TV in Champaign, Ill., got an award for a documentary on thelandmark court case establishing the separation of church and statein public schools.
C-Span's Video Library, a free website with every program thechannel has aired since 1987, was honored, as was CNN for itscoverage of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
International award winners include Hong Kong's Phoenix InfoNewsChannel for a report on challenges facing workers from rural Chinamoving to the city and a BBC Four secretly-filmed documentary aboutthe horrible living conditions for Zimbabwe's children.
Two American Masters documentaries snagged awards: LennonNYC, adocumentary about John Lennon's life and work in his adopted homecity, and a Martin Scorsese homage to theater and film director EliaKazan. Spike Lee's "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," adocumentary about New Orleans' ongoing recovery from 2005'sHurricane Katrina, also won an award.
The winners are chosen by the 16-member Peabody Board, composedof TV critics, industry professionals and experts in culture and thearts. All entries are made a permanent part of UGA's PeabodyArchive, the nation's oldest and largest moving-image archive.
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