73rd Annual Peabody Awards

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The Seventy-Third AnnualGeorge Foster Peabody Awards

Presentation LuncheonAdministered by the University of Georgias

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Peabody Awards Presentation Luncheon is made possiblethrough the generous support of

Travel support provided by Delta,a sponsor of the George Foster Peabody Awards.

May 19, 2014 The Waldorf Astoria New York11:00 a.m. Reception The University of Georgia

12:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Mr. Jere MoreheadPresident, University of Georgia

Luncheon

Welcome on behalf of Mr. Thomas MattiaThe Peabody Awards Chair, Peabody Board

Introduction of Dr. Jeffrey P. JonesMaster of Ceremonies Director, Peabody Awards

Presentation of Winners Ira GlassMaster of Ceremonies

2:45 p.m. Adjournment

5:00 p.m. Winners Tribute The Paley Center for Media(Invitation Only) New York

Music for The Seventy-Third Annual Peabody Awards:Oblivion: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Written by Anthony Gonzalez and Joe TrapanesePerformed by M83Used by permission.

Special Thanks to Universal Studios and Universal Music Publishing Group


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The PeabodyAwardsThe George Foster Peabody Awardsrecognize distinguished achievementand meritorious public service byradio and television stations,networks, producing organizationsand individuals. They perpetuate thememory of the banker-philanthropistwhose name they bear. The awardsprogram is administered by the GradyCollege of Journalism and Mass

Communication of the University ofGeorgia, as it has been since theawards inception in 1939. Selections are made by the PeabodyAwards Board, a committee of experts in media, culture, journalism,and the arts, following review by special screening committees of thefaculty, staff and students. The 73rd Annual Awards celebrate programsproduced for original broadcast, cablecast or webcast in 2013.

More than 1,000 entries have been received in each of the past tenyears, from more than 30 countries. The Peabody Board is under norestrictions as to the number of awards it can present. There are 46Peabody Award winners this year.

The University of GeorgiaIn January 1785 two years after the RevolutionaryWar ended and four years before George Washingtonsfirst inauguration the Georgia legislature adoptedthe charter that created the University of Georgia. Infounding the nations first state university, the legislaturealso gave birth to the American system of public highereducation. Over the past 229 years, Georgia and its

flagship university have grown together as partners ina burgeoning prosperity that has made the state aneconomic showplace and the University of Georgiaa fast track contender for educational preeminence.With nearly 35,000 students and an annual budget ofalmost $1.5 billion, the University is a driving force inthe states dynamic development. Widely recognizedfor excellence in teaching, research, and public service,the University of Georgia has moved into the ranks ofAmericas foremost public universities.

The Grady College of Journalismand Mass CommunicationThe Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has risen to national prominence, with highlyranked programs in advertising and public relations, journalism, and telecommunications. The college offersdegrees in telecommunications, broadcast news, print journalism, advertising and public relations. Enrollmentis over 1,500, including 100 graduate students. Students in the college receive hands-on, professionaltraining in a variety of experiential laboratories including Grady Newsource, a 30-minute newscast. Gradyalumni include Tom Johnson, former CEO of CNN/Headline News; award winning journalist CharlayneHunter-Gault; public relations executive C. Richard Yarbrough; ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts;and Betty Hudson, senior vice president for communications, National Geographic Society.

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Ira GlassMaster of CeremoniesIra Glass is the host and producer ofThis American Life,which premiered in 1995 and

today is broadcast on more than 555 public-radio staons and is also one of the most

popular podcasts in America. Over three million people listen to the show every week.

Ira Glass began his career as an intern at Naonal Public Radios network headquarters

in Washington, D.C., in 1978, when he was 19. Over the years, he worked on nearly ev-

ery NPR network news program and held virtually every produco n job. He has been a

tape cuer, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor and producer. He has lled in as host

of Talk of the Naonand Weekend All Things Considered.

Under Glasss editorial direcon, This American Lifehas won the highest honors for

broadcasng and journalisc excellence, including the Peabody and duPont-Columbia

awards, as well as the Edward R. Murrow and the Overseas Press Club awards. It has

won crical acclaim and aracted connuous naonal media aenon over the years.

American Journalism Reviewdeclared that the show is at the vanguard of a journalis-c revoluon. In 2001, Time named Glass Best Radio Host in America.

Glass creave talents reach beyond public media. In 2007, Riverhead published The

NewKings of Non-Ficon, a collecon of narrave noncon essays that he chose .

The show has put out its own comic book, three greatest hits compilaons, a paint-by-

numbers set, a radio decoder toy, and a DVD, which was created with cartoonist Chris

Ware. Starng in March 2007, the television adaptaon of This American Lifeaired on

Showme for two seasons. It garnered crical acclaim and won three Emmy awards.

A half-dozen stories from This American Lifeare currently in development to be made

into moon pictures, and one is in development to be a new HBO series.

George Foster Peabody(18521938)George Foster Peabody, namesake of the awards, was a highly successful invebanker who devoted much of his for tune to education and social enterprise. BColumbus, Georgia, Mr. Peabody was especially interested in the state UniverAthens and made significant contributions to its library, the development of itsof Forestry, and the War Memorial Fund. Along with his business partner, SpeTrask, and Mr. Trasks wife, Katrina, Mr. Peabody helped found Yaddo, the faartists retreat at Saratoga Springs, New York. A friend of Franklin D. RooseveMr. Peabody who suggested that the President establish a residence in WarmGeorgia, as a palliative for his polio. Mr. Peabody was granted honorary degby Harvard University, Washington and Lee University and the University of Gof which he was made a life trustee by special legislative act. While he never television and only rarely listened to radio, the visage of George Foster Peabobecome synonymous with excellence in electronic media.

The Lambdin Kay Chair for thePeabody AwardsThe most coveted prize in broadcasting and cable got its start in a small office onthe top floor of Atlantas historic Biltmore Hotel in 1938, when a pair of legendaryvisionaries were brought together by a University of Georgia graduate. That graduate,now 103 years old, is still an influential voice in the broadcasting industry.

The National Association of Broadcasters had asked its awards chairman, LambdinKay, to create a broadcasting award to honor the nations premier radio programs andperformances, as the Pulitzer did for the print press. Kay, then the innovative generalmanager of WSB (AM) in Atlanta, summoned his continuity editor, Lessie Smithgall.Mr. Kay called me into his office during a coffee break, says Smithgall, and askedif there was a foundation at Georgia, my al ma mater, where we would get help inestablishing these awards. Well, Mr. Drewry was my mentor and a go od friend at theuniversity, and I suggested him to Mr. Kay. John Drewry was the legendary Dean ofthe School of Journalism at UGA, who served in the post for 46 years. Kay called him,and with the support of the Universitys Board of Regents and the NAB, together theyfounded the Peabody Awards.

The Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabodys was established in 1997 through thegenerosity of Lessie and Charles Smithgall. The chair is currently held by Dr. Jeffrey P.Jones, Director of the Peabody Awards program.


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Steve Bryant, senior curator of television, British Film Institute,

London, United Kingdom

Eric Deggans, television critic, National Public Radio, Tampa,

Fla.

Eddie Garrett, executive vice president & deputy general

manager, Edelman Company, Chicago, Ill.

Elizabeth Guider, journalist, former editor of The Hollywood

Reporter, Los Angeles, Calif.

John Huey, writer, former editor-in-chief at Time Inc.,

Charleston, S.C.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist, Sarasota, Fla.

Henry Jenkins, professor of communications, journalism,

cinematic arts and education, University of SouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles, Calif.

Marquita Pool-Eckert, visiting associate professor, CUNY

Graduate School of Journalism, former senior producer ofCBS News Sunday Morning, New York, N.Y.

Doreen Ringer-Ross, vice president of lm and televisionrelations, BMI, Hollywood, Calif.

N. Bird Runningwater, director, Sundance Institutes program

for Native American Writers, Directors and Producers, LosAngeles, Calif.

Maureen Ryan, senior television critic, The Huffington Post,

LaGrange Park, Ill.

Allen Sabinson, dean, Westphal College of Media Arts &

Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa.

Fred Young, retired senior vice president, Hearst-Argyle

Television, Yardley, Pa.

Barbie Zelizer, Raymond Williams Professor of

Communication, Annenberg School for Communication,

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

The Peabody Awards Collection forms the cornerstone of the Walter J.

Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University

of Georgia Libraries, one of the largest broadcast archives in thecountry. The Media Archives holds more than 100,000 television

and radio programs and 5 million feet of newsfilm; more than 70,000of those titles are entries to the Peabody Awards submitted since the

Awards began in 1940.

Film, video and audiotape are fragile media and each has ashort life span. All broadcast history is in danger because the

medium they were created on is temporary. Indivi dual archives

do what they can to save broadcast history, but unlike the motion

picture industry, there is no significant push towards preservation

efforts in the broadcast industr y. Television and radio have

changed everything. The University of Georgia Libraries andthe Peabody Awards Program urge everyone associated with the

broadcast media industries to consider the long-term implicationsof preserving valuable pieces of history. For more information on

moving image preservation, contact the Association of MovingImage Archivists at www.amianet.org.

For more information about the Peabody Awards Collection

Archive contact Ruta Abolins, Director at (706) 542-4757 or by

email at [email protected].

The Peabody Board is the distinguished group of media practitioners,

critics, scholars, viewers, and listeners that makes the final selectionseach year of recipients of program and individual awards.

The Peabody Board Chair for 2013-14 is Thomas Mattia. In a global

career, Tom has led communications for two Fortune 100 companies

and a major university. He has directed two Public Affairs networks inAsia and China. He has directly served four CEOs and a university

president, while supporting four of the worlds most powerful brands.

The retired SVP and Director of Worldwide Public Affairs andCommunications for the Coca-Cola Company, Tom also served as the

Chairman of Edelman China, the Chief Communications Officer of

Yale University, and the Corporate VP of Communications for EDS.In addition, he has held senior international positions at Ford Motor

Company, Hill and Knowlton and IBM.

He serves on the boards of the Institute of Public Relations, the

Peabody Awards and the Girls Education Mission. He is a recipientof the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, IABC Gold Quill and PRSA Bronze

Anvil.

The Archives

Mr. Mattia joins 14 other board members:

The Peabody Board Scandal(ABC)ABC StudiosNot many people could balance efforts to destroy an ultra-dangerous, super-secretgovernment organization with running the re-election campaign for the Presidentof the United States. But Olivia Pope is no ordinary crisis manager. As written byScandals creator and chief mastermind, Shonda Rhimes, Pope is a smart, principled,accomplished and passionate professional woman, who just happens to be in love withthe married President. Star Kerry Washington plays Pope as a wonderful paradox: acynical power player in the nations capital who often wears her heart on her sleeve,especially when regarding ony Goldwyns earnest-yet-calculating President FitzgeraldFitz Tomas Grant III. Te series, based on the exploits of real-life crisis managerJudy Smith, also features the first starring role for a black actress in a primetimenetwork V drama series since the 1970s. Te shows cast is similarly diverse andgroundbreaking, with Popes crew of gladiator aides including Guillermo Diaz ashacker expert Huck and Columbus Short as dapper lawyer Harrison Wright. Forbreaking ground in the casting and writing of a nighttime melodrama that regularlypushes storylines to operatic heights, a Peabody Award goes to Scandal.

Executive Producers: Sho

Beers, Mark Wilding. Co-Ex

Jenna Bans, Judy Smith, Tom

Nowalk. Producers: Merri D

Mitchell, Scott Collins. Consu

Noah. Talent: Kerry Washin

Darby Stanchfield, Katie Low

Perry, Joshua Malina, Bellamy

Dan Bucatinsky, George New

Foley, Kate Burton, Paul Adel

One-on-One with AssaCBS This Morning, CBS NewsBashar al-Assad, Syrias president, is arguably dictator, a supremely ordinary looking supremmilquetoast manner is wildly at odds with thto hold on to power in the face of a popular ualso makes him an exceedingly tough intervieto sit for questions was a major coup, the biggTis Mornings Charlie Rose conducted the faexemplary gravitas and journalistic acumen, ppressing Assad about his one-time reputationand his recent savage military response, incluweapons, against civilians as well as rebel milhimself a master dissembler, denying charges independent confirmations. But the dictatordeftly captured by Roses crew, was revealing timely, meaningful look into the face and minOne with Assadreceives a Peabody Award.

CBS This Morning/Executive Producer:Chris Licht. Senior Broadcast

Producer:Ryan Kadro. Producer:Paige Kendig. Editors:Joe Bennett, Brian

Cunningham.Anchor/Correspondent:Charlie Rose.

The Charlie Rose Show/Executive Producer:Yvette Vega. Producers:

Adam Waller, Tamara Sepper, Oz Woloshyn, Lara Gungor, Neil Goldman, Cora

Engelbrecht.

60 Minutes/Executive Producer:Jeff Fager. Executive Editor: Bill Owens.

Editor:Richard Koppel.Associate Producer: Paul Needham. Broadcast

Associate:Jennifer Marz.

CBS News Network/CBS News Representative (Beirut):Sami

Aouad. Producer:Randall Joyce. Security:Geoff Mabberley.CBS News

Representative (Damascus):George Baghdadi. Correspondent:Elizabeth

Palmer. Producer:Agnes Reau. Cameraman:Andy Stevenson. Bureau Chief

(London):Andy Clarke. Deputy Bureau Chief:Deb Thomson.Assignment

Editor:Vicky Burston. Producer:Fernando Suarez. Satellite/lines

Bookings Coordinator:Simon Downs.Engineers:Michael Crean, Colin

Richardson, Malcolm Weir.


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Hanfords Dirty Secrets (KING-TV, Seattle)KING 5 TelevisionTe Hanford Nuclear Reservation, along a stretch of the Columbia River 200miles from Seattle, is considered the most dangerous nuclear dump in the UnitedStates. Te government made plutonium for atomic bombs there starting in1943. Now its home to an underground storage tank farm that holds millionsof gallons of toxic waste. KING-Vs investigation documented how a tank leak,acknowledged by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011, went untreated fornearly a year by the contractor responsible for Hanfords upkeep and security.Photographs obtained by KINGs Susannah Frame clearly showed the corrosive,poisonous ooze that could have found its way into the regions major freshwaterresource. KINGs investigation also found that the DOE paid millions in bonusmoney to the contractor for its very successful management during that period.Responses included the governor of Washingtons call for an investigation, theDOE ordering a complete review of the tank farm operation, and the managementcompanys initiation of new safety measures. For revelations about a Washingtontoxic site that raised broader questions about our societys handling of nuclear

waste, Hanfords Dirty Secretsreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Director: Mark Ginther. Executive

Producer: Russ Walker. Reporter: Susannah

Frame. Photojournalist:Steve Douglas. Graphic

Designer:John Vu.

In Plain Sight: Poverty in America

(NBC & InPlainSight.NBCNews.com)NBC News

With 15 percent of Americans now living below the poverty line, NBCNews recognized the urgency of covering what poverty looks like in theU.S. Its years worth of reporting on the topic of poverty coincided withthe 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnsons declaration of waron the national scourge. Te stories gathered in this collection show usthat this war is far from won. Some of these stories profile the collapseof cities like Camden, New Jersey, while other stories follow individuals

who are trying to scrape by despite mounting obstacles. Te series alsolooks at larger trends: from how the faces behind the fast food counterare growing older, to how location affects earning potential. NBC Newsmanaged to reach a massive and diverse audience by making use ofmultiple time slots and platforms. Stories aired throughout differentparts of the day on NBCs family of news programs: Nightly News, oday,Rock Center and Dateline.Tey also took over a 100 additional storiesto the web with InPlainSight.NBCNews.com, drawing over 11 millionpage views. For this coordinated effort to educate the public about thisincreasingly important, underreported topic, In Plain Sight:Poverty in

Americareceives a Peabody Award.

Series Executive Producer:Mark Lukasiewicz. Series Senior

Producer:Marisa Buchanan, Barbara Raab. Show Executive Producers: Pat

Burkey, Liz Cole, David Corvo, Greg Gittrich, Jamie Kraft, Don Nash, Alex Wallace.

Journalists: Diana Alvear, Rehema Ellis, Erica Hill, Lester Holt, Janet Shamlian,

Harry Smith, Kevin Tibbles, Brian Williams, John Yang, Benita Alexander-Jeune,

Tim Al-Harby, Maria Alcon, Jonel Aleccia, Daniel Arkin, Nona Willis Aronowitz,

Spencer Bakalar, Dick Belsky, Chad Bergacs, Meredith Birkett, John Brecher, Bill

Briggs, Christina Caron, Linda Carroll, Neal Carter, Justin Cece, Geoffrey Cowley,

Tom Curry, Toni Deatzla, Matt DeLuca, Tony Dokoupil, Simon Doolittle, Lou Dubois,

Travis Dove, Jessica Earnshaw, Carol Eggers, Emily Feldman, Elisha Fieldstadt, Rob

Fortunato, Maggie Fox, Hillary Frey, David Friedman, Jeff Fusco, Shoshana Guy,

Izhar Harpaz, Aarne Heikkila, Bob Horner, Sharon Houston, Tracy Jarrett, Leo

Juarez, K-Sise, Josh Kleinbaum, Amelia Krales, Amy Langfield, Scott Lewis, Sandra

Lilley, Charmian Ling, Allison Linn, Charlie Macrone, John Makely, Sal Malguanera,

Allan Maraynes, Russ Marhull, Marjorie McAfee, Erin McClam, Michelle Melnick,

Carla Murphy, Matt Nighswander, Bita Nikravesh, Glenn Oakley, Neil OBrien,

Sean OMurchu, Avni Patel, Katie Primm, Stephanie Psyllos, Andrew Rafferty,

Hannah Rappleye, Katie Reimchen, Pat Rizzo, Jonathan Schuppe, Geraldine

Sealey, Lisa Riordan Seville, Tre Shallowhorn, Julia Sommerfeld, Bob Sullivan, Terrell

Tangonan, Alvaro Trenchi, Herb Weisbaum, Jason White, Martha White, Rich White,

Matt Wittmeyer, Lilly Workneh, Stokes Young, Katie Yu.

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Borgen (DR1, Denmark)DR FiktionIn light of the acrimonious state of American politics and the jaundiced Vdramas to which it has given rise, Borgencould appear almost nave in itsdetermination to find traces of altruism in the exercise of politics. But thisastute, pitch-perfect Danish series earned its occasional optimism at everyrealistic turn. Tere are no Machiavellian masters at the center of its plot. Teintrigue, schemes and actions flow naturally and believably from a story arcthat has comfortably spanned three seasons. Borgen (a Danish colloquialism forgovernment) weaves insightful views of parliamentary politics and governance

with the daily lives of its exceptional cast of central characters, from politiciansto newscasters. At its heart is Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), arguablythe strongest female lead character in European or American V drama. Borgenadmirers around the world watched her evolve from ambitious but principledMP to practical Prime Minister to sophic stateswoman, her personal travailsas compelling and credible as her political challenges. For providing nuancedpolitical and personal drama thats illuminating, entertaining and universal,

Borgenreceives a Peabody Award.

Producer:Camilla Hammerich. Director:Sren Kragh

Jacobsen.Writers:Adam Price, Jeppe Gjervig Gram

and Tobias Lindholm.Actors:Sidse Babett Knudsen,

Birgitte Hjort Srenson, Emil Poulsen, Freja Riemann, Sren

Malling, Thomas Levin.

Tom Brokaw:Personal AwardNotwithstanding his 22 years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News,tours of duty on odayandMeet the Pressand his dozens of prime-time news specials,including a pair of Peabody Awards winners (A Question of Fairness, 2003, and Vietnamen Years Later, 1985), om Brokaw is arguably just as famous for a book he wrote. TeGreatest Generation(1998), in which he celebrated the courage and resourcefulness ofthe men and women who served in World War II and overcame the Great Depression,

was a huge bestseller and spawned a household phrase. Brokaws career in broadcastnews has a classic trajectory, from a local station in Sioux City, Iowa, up through theranks (Omaha, Atlanta, Los Angeles) to correspondent and anchor at the network ofthe legendary Chet Huntley-David Brinkley team. Strong personal reporting, with aspecial focus on politics and American history, was a hallmark of his work while he wasthe face of NBC News, and he has not stopped adding to that legacy since he walkedaway from the anchor desk in 2004. A Personal Peabody Award goes to om Brokaw,author, journalist and anchor emeritus of NBC Nightly News, for his ongoing history ofthoughtful reporting, enterprise and good humor.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates:

Questions of Influence

(WTVF-TV, Nashville)WTVF-TVAssessing the practical impact of ennessee Gov. Bill Haslams vow to run stategovernment like a business, WVF-Vs reporters found that the outsourcingof government services in practice looked suspiciously like cronyism. Teiryear-long investigation, a series of more than three dozen reports capped byan hour-long primetime special, turned up ethical quandaries and instancesof no-bid contracts, including a $330 million management fee to Jones LangLasalle, a multinational corporation in which Haslam had been a majorstockholder. WVFs team also found that Haslam, without making therelationship public, was purchasing political advice from a prominent lobbyistwhose firm was seeking state permission to mine for coal in a protected wildlifearea. Te ongoing repercussions of WVFs revelations include hearings inthe ennessee legislature, a state audit and reassessment of millions of dollars

in state contracts. For its deep, determined exploration of the realities ofwhat ennessees governor called a sea change in the way the state was run,NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Questions of Influencereceives a Peabody Award.

Chief Investigative Reporter:Phil W

Investigative Reporter:Ben Hall. Pr

Kevin Wisniewski. Photojournalists:B

Iain Montgomery. News Director:San

Assistant News Director:Michelle B

House of Cards (Netflix)Donen/Fincher/Roth, Trigger Street PMedia Rights Capital, NetflixTe American adaptation of a British miniserietells the tale of Frank Underwood, a Southern pMajority Whip whose thirst for political revengfor power are boundless. Kevin Spacey plays theruthless yet charming, amoral yet seemingly in-and practices of cut-throat politics. Robin Wrigambitious other half of this Washington powerbreaks down the fourth wall, directly addressingthe viewer through a modern-day tutorial of MHouse of Cardspopularized the Netflix model foreleasing all 13 episodes at once, inviting audienthe story as one cinematic whole. For broachintelevision storytelling and investing them with c

turns at once wildly exaggerated and as unsurprnews, House of Cardsreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Beau Willimon, Andrew Davies,

Michael Dobbs, John Melfi, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti,

Joshua Donen, Eric Roth, David Fincher. Co-Executive

Producers: Rick Cleveland, Sarah Treem, Robert Zotnowski.

Producers: Karyn McCarthy, Keith Huff. Co-Producers:

Peter Mavromates, H.H. Cooper.Directors: David Fincher,James Foley, Joel Schumacher, Charles McDougall, Carl

Franklin, Allen Coulter.Writers: Beau Willimon, Keith Huff,Rick Cleveland, Sarah Treem, Sam Forman, Kate Barnow,

Gina Gionfriddo. Talent: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Kate

Mara, Corey Stoll, Michael Kelly, Sakina Jaffrey, Kristen

Connolly, Sebastian Arcelus, Sandrine Holt, Constance

Zimmer, Mahershala Ali, Nathan Darrow, Michel Gill, Rachel

Brosnahan, Reg E. Cathey, Jayne Atkinson, Gerald McRaney.

Story Editor:Kate Barnow. Editors:Kirk Baxter, Sidney

Wolinsky, Byron Smith, Michelle Tesoro.


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Louisiana Purchased (WVUE-TV, New

Orleans, and NOLA.com)WVUE-TV & NOLA.com/The Times-PicayuneIn their exhaustive investigation of campaign finance in the Pelican state, WVUE-V and NOLA.com revealed illegal activities, dubious practices and feeble ethicsenforcement. Te New Orleans V station and the website, an arm of the imes-Picayunenewspaper, devoted thousands of employee hours to sifting throughalmost a million campaign documents to figure out who gave how much to whomand what they got in return. One revelation was that nearly a third of the $209million pumped into Louisiana campaigns between 2009 and 2012 came from lessthan one percent of the donors. What made Louisiana Purchasedstand out evenmore, however, is the verve with which it was reported. Te graphics, starting withthe series logo, a bar-coded Louisiana map, are imaginative, even amusing, and ontarget. So is the writing. If money drives politics, WVUE reporter Lee Zurik saysearly on, were about to show you whos riding shotgun. Other news organizations

would do well to emulate the projects methods not just its commitment butits attitude. For its diligent, unusually accessible expos of a states labyrinthinecampaign-finance system, Louisiana Purchased receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Mikel Schaefer, Greg

Phillips, Tim Morris. Producer: Tom Wright.

Director: E.Q. Vance. Chief Investigative

Reporter/Producer:Lee Zurik. Reporters:

Manuel Torres, L auren McGaughy. Photographer/Editor:Jon Turnipseed. Interactive Manager:

Wes Cook. Photographer: Ted Jackson. Graphic

Artist:Dan Swenson. Content Data Analyst:

Dmitriy Pritykin.

Independent Lens: The House I Live In (PBS)Charlotte Street Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS), BBC,ZDF/ARTE, NHK JapanTis comprehensive look at Americas war on drugs takes the viewer s tep by step throughthe staggeringly unsuccessful attempts to rid the country of illegal drugs. Te filmmakerunravels the policies of the drug war that began during Ronald Reagans presidency, whilealso showing how drug laws have historically been used to incarcerate unwanted citizens.Switching between legal, political, sociological and historical analyses of drug laws thathave disproportionately affected those living in poverty, the film also demonstrates thatthe war on drugs is directly tied to the collapse of the manufacturing industry in the U.S.Interviewing drug dealers, police officers, prison guards, judges, physicians, academics,and journalists, the documentary shows how the so-called drug war is really a war on

the poorest neighborhoods in our society. As David Simon, former journalist and creatorof Te Wire, states in the documentary, the war on drugs is a holocaust in slow motion.For taking on a complex subject that deeply affects our country, and presenting it in a waythat is thoughtful, calm, and yet devastating, Independent Lens:Te House I Live Inwins aPeabody Award.

Executive Producers:Roy Ackerman, DavidAlcaro, Joslyn Barnes, Nick Fraser, Danny

Glover, John Legend, Brad Pitt, Russell Simmons,

Sally Jo Fifer. Senior Series Producer:Lois

Vossen. Producers:Eugene Jarecki, Melinda

Shopsin, Sam Cullman, Christopher St. John.

Director:Eugene Jarecki.

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Reveal: The VAs Opiate Overload (Public Radio)The Center for Investigative Reporting, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)Tis investigative report discovered that over the course of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, therehas been a 270 percent increase in opiate prescriptions at Veterans Administration hospitals, leadingto an overdose rate among VA patients more than twice the national average. Veterans often needcomplex psychological treatments, and this report indicates that in order to deal with the increasein veterans needing help, doctors from the VA prescribed opiates to mask the symptoms ratherthan treating the root cause. In many cases overprescribed veterans believed that the dangerousamounts of opiates they are ingesting were safe since they were prescribed by doctors. In responseto this report from Reveal, the House Committee on Veterans Affairs held a hearing to investigate.Doctors with the VA claimed that they were pressured to prescribe opiates and were terminated ifthey refused. Te VA then promised they would present a plan to Congress that would reduce theamount of opiates they were prescribing to veterans. For presenting the evidence for this abuse ofpower so convincingly that it led to swift Congressional action, Reveal: Te VAs Opiate Overloadreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Ben Adair, Susanne Reber.

Reporter: Aaron Glantz. Producers: Michael

Montgomery, Amy Pyle, Mia Zuckerkandel, Mark

Katches, Robert Rosenthal, Joaquin Alvarado,

Christa Scharfenberg, John Barth, Kerri Hoffman,

Jake Shapiro. Host:Al Letson. Producer/

Camera:Adi Sambamurthy.Video Editor:

Stephanie Mechura. Senior Video Producer:

Stephen Talbot. Senior Web Editor:Sam Ward.

Web Editor:Jaena Cabrera. Senior Data

Reporter:Agustin Armendariz. Senior News

Application Developer: Michael Corey. News

Application Developer:Aaron Williams.

The Central Park Five (PBS)Florentine Films, WETADistinctly different in style and tone from Ken Burns stately historicaldocumentaries, Te Central Park Fivehas outrage simmering below its surface,and rightly so. Its a needed continuation of the exoneration of five black andLatino teenagers who spent more than a dozen years in prison for a notorious1989 rape before the real assailant confessed. Using archival video, photographsand fresh, first-person interviews, Burns, his daughter, Sarah Burns, and DavidMcMahon demonstrate how the accused five, the youngest only 13, wererelentlessly pressured into confession by some of New Yorks finest interrogators

even as the citys V stations, tabloid press and public officials one-upped eachother with wild accusations. Te filmmakers bring the racially charged fearand anger enveloping the city in the 1980s back to palpable, paranoid life. Tedocumentary doesnt pretend that the five were angelic kids, but it also makes itclear thats no prerequisite for injustice. For telling a harrowing, instructive storyof fear, racism and mob mentality, and for exposing the media madness thatfueled the investigation, Te Central Park Fivereceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Ken Burns.Producers: David McMahon,Sarah Burns, Ken Burns. Directors: Ken Burns, David McMahon,

Sarah Burns.Writers: Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Ken Burns.

Cinematographers: Buddy Squires, Anthony Savini. Editor:

Michael Levine. Music Composer:Doug Wamble.


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The Race Card Project (NPRs Morning Edition)The Race Card Project, NPR News, NPRs Morning EditionTis project, headed up by Michele Norris, undercuts the political, pejorative meaningof the term race card by asking people to use six words to summarize their thoughtsand experiences about race and send them in on postcards, emails, or tweets. Initiallycompiled on a website (theracecardproject.com), the descriptions eventually grew intoa regular segment on NPRsMorning Edition. A single six-word description such as Ask

who I am, not what, Mexican white girl doesnt speak Spanish or My mixed kids haveit differently opened up complicated, vulnerable and insightful discussions about racethat we rarely hear in public spaces. Te segments featured enlightening commentaryfrom the authors about their own racial experiences. In a succinct 7 minutes, we get aglimpse into the nuances of personal experience with race ones that we might never hear,even from somebody we have known for years. For encouraging public discussion aboutdiversity in ways that cut through obvious differences to present unique and individuallived experiences, Te Race Card Projectreceives a Peabody Award.

Special Correspondent: Michele

Norris.Producer: Walter Ray Watson.

Executive Producer: Tracy Wahl. Host:Steve

Inskeep. TRCP Content Administrator: Melissa

Bear.TRCP Web Designer Adrian Kinloch.

TRCP Web Developer: Dave Patrick.

Lead Editor: Chuck Holmes.Editors: Kitty

Eisele, Arnie Seipel.Interns: Miles Johnson,

Amarra Ghani.

Latino Americans (PBS)WETA, LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), Bosch &Company, ITVSLatino Americans is a groundbreaking three-part, six-hour documentaryseries that chronicles Latino history in the United States from the 16thcentury to the present day. Trough its thorough compilation of unwrittenhistories and interviews, the series provides perspectives that are oftenoverlooked or outright discarded in this nations standard history. Tedifferent strands of people, politics and culture involved in the stories ofearly settlement, conquest and immigration are untangled and woveninto a fair and more just understanding of the role of Latino Americanshave played in America. Te documentary further contextualizes Latino

Americans in expansionism, Manifest Destiny, nativism, the WildWest, multiple wars, the rise of organized labor, the Great Depression,the post WWII boom, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, andglobalization. In the process, it develops a necessary plurality of voices,histories and memories that reshape and redefine an American identitythat connects and empowers millions of people today. For its well-

researched, engaging storytelling as well as its important contribution toa truer understanding of American history, Latino Americans receives aPeabody Award.

Executive Producers:Jeff Bieber, Dalton Delan, Sandie

Pedlow, Sally Jo Fifer. Series Producer:Adriana Bosch.

Producers: Adriana Bosch,Nina Alvarez, Dan McCabe,

John Valadez, Ray Telles.Supervising Producer:Salme

Lopez. Coordinating Producers:Jim Corbley, Mary

Sullivan. Re-enactment Producer:Cathleen O-Connell.Directors for Re-enactments:David Belton, Sonia Fritz.

Narrator: Benjamin Bratt.Actors:Maurice Ripke, Maria

Chavez, Alejandra Corujo, Eduardo Idunate, Flavio Hinojosa,

Jodie Moore, Lydia Blanco.Videographers: Tim Cragg (re-

enactments), Vicente Franco, Elia Lyssy, Edward Marritz, Paul

Mailman, Stephen McCarthy. Editors:Peter Rhodes, David

Espar, Dan McCabe, Manuel Tsingaris, John Neuburger.

Web Designer:Joe Frye.

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The Bridge (FX)Shine America and FX Productions

A murder that leaves a bisected corpse sitting neatly on the border between ElPaso, exas, and Juarez, Mexico, kicks off an inspired drama. Te storylines hererange from the struggles of law enforcement in a Mexico controlled by ruthlessdrug cartels to the grief of an American homicide detective with Aspergerssyndrome who lost her sister. Mexican actor Demiar Bechir shines as Marco Ruiz,a weary detective whose philandering ways eventually cost him his marriage andmuch more. German actress Diane Kruger is Sonya Cross, an El Paso detective

with Aspergers who struggles to understand emotions even while working withRuiz to solve the murder. Based on a Danish/Swedish series with the same name,Te Bridgeincludes extensive scenes in Spanish with subtitles, along with astoryline that references Te Lost Girls of Juarez a tragedy in which nearly 400

women have been murdered in that Mexican city since the mid-1990s. Tis seriesis a powerful translation for American audiences, spotlighting issues along theborder that are rarely seen on mainstream U.S. television. For raising awareness ofborder issues while creating a compelling murder mystery, a Peabody award goes

to Te Bridge.

Executive Producers: Meredith Stiehm,

Elwood Reid, Carolyn Bernstein, Lars

Blomgren.ConsultingProducers: ChrisGerolmo, Dario Scardapane. Producer:Patrick

Markey.Co-Producer: Esta Spalding, Erin Mitchell,Dennis Murphy. Talent: Demian Bichir, Diane

Kruger, Annabeth Gish, Thomas M. Wright, Ted

Levine, Matthew Lillard, Emily Rios.

Great Performances: Broadway Musicals:

A Jewish Lega cy (PBS)BWAY Films LLC, Ghost Light Films, Albert M. Tapperand THIRTEEN for WNETIts hardly a secret that Jewish songwriters and composers, from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim,have played outsized roles in the history of the Broadway musical. Yet this immensely entertainingdocumentary, by virtue of its rich, specific detail, still comes across as a revelation. With vintagefilm clips and fresh, instructive performances, it demonstrates how music of the temple and theYiddishkeit, the Yiddish theater of early 20thCentury New York, was repurposed into both themelodies and lyrics of songs like It Aint Necessarily So from George Gershwins Porgy and Bess.Or how Richard Rogers and Lorenz Harts early hit Manhattan abounds with references to New

Yorks predominantly Jewish Lower East Side. And it shows us how these immigrants or children ofimmigrants channeled their eagerness for assimilation and acceptance into songs that idealized whatit meant to be an American. For providing a key to our national identity while delighting us withsome of the most tuneful entertainment the world has ever known, Great Performances: Broadway

Musicals: A Jewish Legacyreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Albert M. Tapper,

Barbara Brilliant, David Horn. Producer:

Michael Kantor. Co-Producers:Jan Gura,

Sylvia Cahill. Director: Michael Kantor.Writer:Michael Kantor.Narrator:Joel Grey.Editor:

Kris Liem. Music Supervisor:Andy Einhorn.

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Comedy CentrAD

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

wi th Hen ry Loui s Ga tes, Jr. (PBS)Thirteen, Inkwell Films, Kunhardt McGee Productions in association with ArkMediaFive years in the making, this extraordinary six-part documentary is the fullest television accountof African Americans history. When in the history of humankind has an enslaved peoplerevolutionized the way the people who enslaved them ate, drank, believed, the way Africansdid in America? food historian Michael witty asks host and co-executive producer HenryLouis Gates, Jr.ManyRivers to Crossillustrates that phenomenon and much more. Gates, adistinguished author and Harvard professor, is a thoughtful, personable on-air guide. He isequally at ease interviewing men in Sierra Leone whose ancestors sold their fellow Africans intoslavery as he with white descendants of slave owners in South Carolina. Gates and his cohortssift through five centuries of artifacts to find stories that inspire, unsettle, surprise and illuminate.Tey revisit racism in colonial America, slave rebellions, the Civil War, emancipation, Jim Crow,the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and show us heroics both quiet and thunderous.For providing a history lesson that is remarkably accessible and intellectually rigorous, Te African

Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers:Julie Anderson,

Dyllan McGee, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter

Kunhardt.SeniorProducer: Rachel Dretzin.Producers:Phil Bertelsen, Jahmilla Wignot, Sabin

Streeter, Asako Gladsjo. Directors: Phil Bertelsen,

Jahmila Wignot, Sabin Streeter, Asako Gladsjo.

Key & Peele (Comedy Central)Central ProductionsFor sketch comics Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both sons of black fathersand white mothers, biracialism is liberation, a cultural all-access pass, a skeleton keyto any lock they care to try. Te duo impersonates a wide world of black men, fromnerds to thugs, sports icons to buppies. Tey tackle racially charged issues and ideaslike no one else on television. In their best-known recurring bit, Peele addressesviewers in the guise of a calm, carefully controlled Barack Obama and Key, as hisaggravated id, Luther, barks what the President reallythinks and feels. Fearless, theymake a blistering point about the rayvon Martin tragedy and dare, without beingdisrespectful, to get a laugh. Yet they are just as likely to transform themselves intoItalians mobsters, Mexicans, Indians, even various and sundry white guys. Teirsketches evoke Dave Chappelle one minute, Sid Caesar the next. Tey break newground even as they lay claim to all of comedys traditions. For its stars and theircreative teams inspired satirical riffs on our racially divided and racially conjoinedculture, Key & Peelereceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan

Peele, Jay Martel, Ian Roberts, Joel Zadak. Co-Executive

Producer:Peter Atencio Producer: Keith Raskin. Director: Peter

Atencio.Writers: Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jay Martel,

Ian Roberts, Rebecca Drysdale, Colton Dunn, Alex Rubens, Charlie

Sanders, Rich Talarico. Talent: Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael

Key. Director of Photography: Charles Papert. Editors:Rich

LaBrie, Christian Hoffman, Neil Mahoney, Maura Corey.


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The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TCM)TCMMark Cousins history of world cinema, Te Story of Film: An Odyssey, is an eventin itself, a wide-reaching, insightful 15-episode documentary that examines andcontextualizes work by directors from Buster Keaton to Akira Kurosawa, from JaneCampion to the brothers Coen. Using innovation as his unifying concept, Cousinspaints a glorious and lavish picture of cinemas cumulative development, includinghow filmmakers from around the world have not only pioneered but borrowed,even stolen, to advance the form and language. CM (urner Classic Movies) tookCousins work to another level, turned it into a cineastes dream. Drawing from itsunparalleled library, CM enriched the American television premiere of the series bysurrounding each installment with full-length showings of some of the feature filmsand short subjects that the series referenced 119 of the former, dozens of the later.CM viewers thus had the opportunity to see not just familiar classics such as Singinin the RainandA Fistful of Dollarsbut rarely shown silent and/or foreign films suchas F.W. Murnaus 1927 Sunrise,the 1958 Egyptian drama Cairo Stationand the 1967Czech comedy Daisies. For its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema

history, CMs presentation of Te Story of Film: An Odysseyis honored witha Peabody Award.

Producer:Courtney O-Brien. Directors:

Mark Cousins, Anne Wilson. Narrator:Mark

Cousins. Introduction Co-Hosts:Robert

Osborne, Mark Cousins.

Breaking Bad(AMC)Sony Pictures Television

When Breaking Badwon its first Peabody Award in 2008, the winnerscitation points to a conflicted Walter White, a man facing moral questions[that] become more and more difficult for himand the audience. Howfar weve come since then. In the final stretch of eight episodes that airedin 2013, the time for moral questioning has passed. Walter White hascompletely taken on the role of the shows villain as the shows creator, VinceGilligan, makes good on his promise to utterly transform Walter Whitefrom Mr. Chips into Scarface. Sticking the landing for a television show isalways difficult, but these final episodes of Breaking Baddid so in a way thatfelt Shakespearean in scope. A descendant of both King Lear and Macbeth,

Walter White contributes something powerful and uniquely his own to ourcollective memory in this 21st century tragedy. For taking us into the darkestchambers of a human heart in a way never before seen on V, Breaking Bad

wins the rare honor of a second Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Vince Gilligan, Mark Johnson,

Michelle MacLaren. Co-Executive Producers:Melissa

Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Peter Gould, George Mastras, Tom

Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett. Line Producer:Stewart

A. Lyons. Producers:Diane Mercer, Bryan

Cranston. Directors: Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, VinceGilligan, Peter Gould, Rian Johnson, Michelle MacLaren,

Michael Slovis.Writers: Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter

Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas

Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett. Talent: Bryan Cranston,

Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte,

Bob Odenkirk, Laura Fraser, Jesse Plemons. Director of

Cinematography:Michael Slovis, Arthur Albert. Production

Designer:Mark Freeborn. Costume Designer:Jennifer

Bryan. Editors: Kelley Dixon, Skip MacDonald.

A Sh or t His to ry of the Highri se

(www.nytimes.com)The New York Times, The National Film Board o f CanadaAn ingeniously constructed interactive documentary,A Short History of the Highrise allowswebsite visitors to tour 2,500 years of vertical living, from the ower of Babel to turn-of-the-20thCentury New York City tenements to luxury skyscrapers in modern Shanghai.An Op-Docsproduction of Te New York imes, the website is also part of the Film Boardof Canadas ongoing highrise project. Writer-director Katernia Cizek mined theimesvastmorgue of photographs for images, supplementing those vintage stills with video and originalanimation to achieve the website equivalent of a childs pop-up book. all buildings sprout likemushrooms on urban landscapes or collapse like accordions to reveal ancient ruins. Teyreused in three short, narrated films, labeled Mud, Concreteand Glass, to track distinct epochsin construction. Site visitors can opt at any point to stop the action and dig deeper for morephotos, footage and footnotes. A fourth feature, Home,is composed of photos submitted bythe public and grouped by themes fog, children, views, dusk, dawn and annotated with thephotographers commentary. For chronicling the ups and downs of multistory living in clever,storybook fashion,A Short History of the Highrisereceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer:Jason Sp

Executive Producer for the N

Basmajian.Producer: Gerry Fla

Cizek.Writer: Katerina Cizek.Katerina Cizek, Cold Specks.AnDesign Labs. Interactive Art D

andDevelopment:Jacky Myin

Producer:Kathleen Lingo. Soci

Editors:Alexis Mainland, Debo

Archivist:Jeff Roth. Researche

Crouse, Elizabeth Klink, Jivan Na

Guthrie. Sound Design:Janine

Six by Sondheim (HBO)HBO Documentary Films and Sabella EnIn an ABC News clip included in Six By Sondheim, celebrated Broadway composer and lyricist, tells Dianever having become a biological father but says tha

way of having children. Six of his offspring, includifromFollies and Sunday from Sunday in the Park wprominently in this documentary, a marvelous mix oshowcase and music appreciation.Sondheim, seen afrom interviews that span seven decades, makes a cato his own life and work. Writer-director James LapBroadway collaborator, and editor Miky Wolf deftly

explain the gestation of the six chosen songs, performfrom archival rarities (Larry Kert, West Side Storys oSomethings Coming on V in 1957) to fresh, newdeeply poignant Send in the Clowns by Audra Mamusical delights and its revealing glimpse into the pSix By Sondheimreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Sheila Nevins,

James Lapine, Frank Rich. Producer:

Liz Stanton. Senior Producer:Nancy

Abraham. Director:James Lapine. Editor:

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Broadchurch (BBC America)A Kudos and Imaginary Friends Co-ProductionSet in an idyllic coastal town in Britain, the eight-episode series Broadchurchrevolves around the shocking murder of an 11-year-old boy, the emotionalcarnage that ravages his family, and the unexpected secrets that emerge amongthose whose lives he touched. From the flawless, marvelously cinematicopening sequence to the final revelatory climax, the series takes the viewer onan immersive journey, never overstepping its bounds nor sounding a false note.

A troubled police detective, played to perfection by David ennant, is broughtin over the top-ranking local female cop (Olivia Colman) to uncover theperpetrator. Teir prickly interaction as they upturn, then discard, one suspectafter another becomes just one of several multi-dimensional relationships thatdeepen the viewers enjoyment of this taut whodunnit. For its pitch-perfecttake on the classic crime drama, its complex characters, razor-sharp writing andperfect sense of place, Broadchurchreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Chris Chibnall, Jane

Featherstone.Producer: Richard Stokes.Directors:JamesStrong , Euros Lyn. Talent: Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Jodie

Whittaker, Vicky McClure, Arthur Darvill, Pauline Quirke, Will

Mellor, Carolyn Pickles, Matthew Gravelle, Simone McAullay,Jonathan Bailey, Oskar McNamara, Charlotte Beaumont, Susan

Brown, Adam Wilson, Joe Sims, David Bradley, Jacob Anderson.

Independent Lens:

How to Survive a Plague (PBS)How to Survive a Plague LLC, Public Square Films, Impact Partners,Little Punk

When the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known by its acronym AC UP,first staged protests in New York in 1987, the epidemic was in its sixth year. Mostpeople who contracted the disease died. Drugs to stop or slow AIDS were nonexistent,research minimal. Hospitals rejected the dying, funeral homes refused their remains.Government and religious leaders tended to blame the victims. It was a dark time inmore ways than one. How to Survive a Plaguerevisits that time, providing a defiant,boisterous, illuminating, and humbling retrospective of how some of the sick andabandoned took responsibility for their own fates, using whatever means possible information campaigns, mass protests, guerilla theater to fight the hysteria andmisinformation and push for research. Relying largely on previously unseen videoshot by AIDS activists themselves, David Frances documentary chronicles theepic campaign against ignorance and homophobia. In the process, he and those

activists provide an adaptable, practical model for pursing social justice. For itsvivid, instructive remembrance of a heroic crusade and the great good it achieved,Independent Lens: How to Survive a Plague receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers:Joy Tomchin, Dan Cogan,

Sally Jo Fifer (ITVS). Senior Series Producer:

Lois Vossen (ITVS). Co-Executive Producer:Alan

Getz. Producers:David France, Howard Gertler.

Director:David France.Writers:David France, T.

Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk.

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Life According to Sam (HBO)HBO Documentary Films and Fine Films LLC

A scrawny boy with wire-rimmed glasses, a bald head and the gaunt face of anelderly man looks squarely into the camera near the beginning of Life According toSam. I put myself in front of you to let know you dont need to feel bad for me, hesays. And you dont. Indeed, for the duration of this superb documentary, you willmostly likely feel honored to be in the presence of Sam Berns. Sam is 13 when thefilm begins. With the help of his parents and friends, he is coping with Progeria, arare disease manifested by accelerated aging. Te film chronicles Sams everyday lifeat home and at school, where he is active and popular, as it highlights his parentsefforts both are doctors to doggedly pursue answers to the Progeria riddle. Samsis a distinctly individual story, a life in fast-forward mode that speaks to our ownmortality and to what we choose to do with the finite time we have. For acquaintingviewers with a teenager bearing up to the ravages of an improbable, unforgivingcondition with amazing grace, thoughtfulness and humor, Life According to Samreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins.Producers:Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine, Miriam Weintraub.

Senior Producer:Nancy Abraham. Director:

Sean Fine. Editor:Jeff Consiglio. Director of

Photography:Sean Fine.

Hollow(ww w.hollowdocumentary.com)Hollow Interactive, LLCEven if youve never been within 1,000 miles of McDowell County, WestVirginia, youve driven through it. McDowell is a stand-in for thousandsof American counties, once prosperous communities beat down byplant closings, natural disasters, technology shifts, or changing times.Its population, which peaked at 100,000 in the 1950s, is now down toabout 22,000, but its remaining residents hang tough, camouflage agingstorefronts with bright, cheery murals, open new businesses, keep faith,and savor the surviving pleasures of small-town, slow-lane American life.Te website Hollow is an ingeniously constructed, interactive collageof McDowell County, an immersive experience, a digitized diorama.Visitors can meander at their own pace, track the countys fortunes overtime, see residents photographs and art, hear their stories, remembrancesand hopes, and contribute their own comments and ideas. For combiningimaginative story-telling techniques with web-only capabilities thatallow visitors to experience life itself in both specific and universal terms,Hollowis honored with a Peabody Award.

Producer: Elaine McMillion Sheldon.Director: ElaineMcMillion Sheldon.Art Director, Designer and

Architect:Jeff Soyk.Associate Producer:Tricia Fulks.

Technical Director and Senior Developer:Robert

Hall. Interactive Developer:Russell Goldenberg.

Cinematographer:Elaine McMillion Sheldon.

Editors:Sarah Ginsburg, Kerrin Sheldon. Sound

Designer:Billy Wirasnik. Composer:Lee Strauss.

Community Outreach:Michelle Miller. Participatory

Cartographer:Eric Lovell.Writer and Researcher:

Jason Headley. Project Manager:Nathaniel Hansen.

Production Assistant:Rheanna ONeil Bellomo.

A Chef s L if e (PBS)Markay Media in association with South Carolina ETV (SCETV)

A Chefs Lifedisregards the usual recipes for television shows about restaurants and cooking.Neither over-seasoned nor overheated, it presents an honest, ongoing look at the ups anddowns of a farm-to-fork restaurant in low country eastern North Carolina that is operatedby chef Vivian Howard and her husband, Ben Knight. Its not without drama a nastykitchen fire early in the series run nearly sinks their young enterprise butA Chefs Lifeismainly an affectionate, detailed survey of Southern cuisine, both traditional and nouvelle,and the folks who provide the ingredients. Apart from its fresh takes on grits and greens, itserves up a nuanced, non-stereotypical portrait of the rural and small-town American South,something rarely seen on television. Howard introduces her viewers not only to the localfarmers who know their tomatoes and pole beans (surprise, surprise) but to knowledgeablehunters, fishermen, hog farmers, whiskey and winemakers. For its refreshingly unsensationaldepiction of life and work in a modern restaurant with generous sides of Southernfolkways and food lore A Chefs Lifereceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers:Amy Sh

Britt.Director/Producer:CynConsultants:Vivian Howard, B

Producers:Rex Miller, Malinda

Associate Producers:Un KyoCromling.Writer:Vivian Howa

Photography:Rex Miller.2nd

Blaire Johnson. Editor:Tom Vick

Social Media:Margaret McNe

Producer:Selena Lauterer.

Orange Is the New BlLionsgate Television, NetflixA prison is a place of confinement and restriIs the New Blackfound unexpected laughter,camaraderie behind those mysterious walls. Ithe series did an exceptional job of subvertinwhat a womans prison drama might be like.tale of a white woman whose life went sidewhave assumed that Piper Chapmans ( aylor at her prison life would be the shows centralJenji Kohan had some tricks up her sleeve. Sdeftly wove the sagas of incarcerated womenpersonality types into a rich tapestry of humregret and unexpected heartbreak. Te percothese indelible individuals animated Orangeperceptive exploration of race, class, power aa ragged kind of hope all centered in a faileincarcerates more people than at any other tiexposing a prison system shrouded in mysterplace of possibility and connection,Orange IPeabody Award.

Executive Producer:Jenji Kohan. Co-Executive Producers:Sara Hess,

Michael Trim, Lisa I. Vinnecour. Producer: Neri Kyle Tannenbaum. Co-Producers:

Tara Herrmann, Jonathan Talbert. Consulting Producer:Mark A. Burley.

Supervising Producer:Gary Lennon. Directors: Michael Trim, Uta Briesewitz,

Jodie Foster, Andrew McCarthy, Matthew Penn, Phil Abraham, Constantine Makris.

Writers:Jenji Kohan, Liz Friedman, Marco Ramirez, Sian Heder, Gary Lennon, NickJones, Lauren Morelli, Sara Hess, Tara Herrmann. Talent: Taylor Schilling, Laura

Prepon, Michael J. Harney, Michelle Hurst, Kate Mulgrew, Jason Biggs, Alysia Reiner,

Constance Shulman, Danielle Brooks, Dascha Polanco, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Laverne

Cox, Lea Delaria, Matt McGorry, Natasha Lyonne, Pablo Schreiber, Samira Wiley,

Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Uzo Aduba, Yael Stone, Abigail Savage, Annie

Golden, Beth Fowler, Catherine Curtin, Diane Guerrero, Emma Myles, Jackie Cruz,

Jessica Pimentel, Joel Marsh Garland, Lolita Foster, Madeline Brewer, Maria Dizzia,

Nick Sandow, Vicky Jeudy.Executive Story Editor:Marco Ramirez. Editors:

William Turro, Tim Boettcher, Michael S. Stern, Shannon Mitchell.


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Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombings

(WBZ-TV, Boston, and WBZ Newsradio 1030)WBZ-TV, WBZ Newsradio 1030Out in force to cover the annual marathon, both WBZ-V and Newsradio1030 had a journalistic advantage when the bombs detonated. WBZ-V wasthe only local V station covering the entirety of the race, positioning themto show the nation the unfolding tragedy from the beginning. Newsradio1030 was also covering the event and switched to wall-to-wall coverage ofthe bombing scene and manhunt shortly after the explosions. Tey workedseamlessly with sister station WBZ-V to contact sources in law enforcementand public safety to piece together what had just happened. Reportersfrom both stations spent hour after hour on the air providing wide-ranging,enterprising coverage of the casualties, the suspects and the intense, nerve-

wracking manhunt. Reporters remained professional throughout andcontinued to do their job despite being clearly affected by the devastatingevents in their hometown. For becoming crucial go-to sources, not just for

their city but for a stunned nation, WBZ-V and WBZ Newsradio 1030receive a Peabody Award.

WBZ-TV:

WBZ-TV Staff members

WBZ Radio:

Director of News and Programming:Peter Casey;Assistant

ProgramDirector:Bill Flaherty;Assistant News Director:Jon

Maclean. Senior Vice President/Market Manager:Mark Hannon.

Editors:Peter Lagace; Kate Gallagher; David Mager; Fausto Menard;

Ed Golden; Suzanne Sausville.Anchors/Reporters/Talent:Joe

Mathieu; Deb Lawler; Laurie Kirby; Rod Fritz; Diane Stern; Anthony Silva;

Don Huff; Mary Blake; Karen Twomey; Carl Stevens; Mark Katic; Kim

Tunnicliffe; Doug Cope; Lana Jones; Bernice Corpuz; Dan Rea; Bradley

Jay; Ben Parker; Jeff Brown; Mike Macklin; Mina Greene; Art Cohen;

Adam Kaufman; Walt Perkins; Tom Cuddy.Writers/Producers:Jay

Borselle; Chris Citorik; Bob Clark; Peter Clarke Drew Moholland; Garo

Hagopian; Reynold Joesph; Mike Epstein; Jay Gates; Josh Comeau; Alex

Mason; Brian Antonelli; Rob Brooks; Casey ODonnell; Mark Lovallo;

Michael Coleman; Victor Ramos.

Best Kept Secret (PBS)American Documentary / POV, BKS Films, LLCStaff members at Newarks underfunded John F. Kennedy High School describetheir school as the citys best kept secret, and this documentary makes a compelling

argument for why thats the case. Te schools unexpectedly resourceful program forstudents with special needs provides a beacon of hope in a community ravaged by povertyand crime and with a disproportionately high autism rate. Frank, poignant, and neversimplistic, the film immersed viewers in the world of teacher Janet Mino as she movedcloser to her class of six young autistic males who were aging out of the program.

When students turn 21, they can no longer attend JFK, and parents and teachers call thismoment falling of the cliff because of the lack of continuing adult education programs.Mino took it upon herself to help bridge this gap in our countrys social services; shedevoted herself to keeping her students from being abandoned into homelessness,idleness or institutionalization. For a revealing portrait of how America abandons some ofits most vulnerable citizens, balanced by the story of a compassionate community in themidst of challenging circumstances,Best Kept Secretwins a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Scott Mosier, Daniella Kahane

Levy, Mark Nordlicht, Simon Kilmurry. Co-Executive

Producer: Cynthia Lopez. Producer: Danielle DiGiacomo.

Director: Samantha Buck.Writer: Zeke Farrow, Samantha

Buck, Francisco Bello. Director of Photography: Nara

Garber. Editor:Francisco Bello.

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Inside Syrias War (BBC World News)BBC World News AmericaBBC World News provided vivid, on-the-ground coverage of Syrias civil warthat presented viewers with the undeniable and horrific realities of that conflict.By following both the rebels and government troops, the reporters took you intothe heart of the war-ravaged country. Searing images included fresh blood on thefloor from a recently discovered massacre outside Homs; children hiding out ina cave, waiting for their mother to return; and civilians screaming and covered

with burns from a recent chemical attack. Tis frank reporting of the unfoldingstory helped ground the political coverage of the Syrian conflict in the viciousrealities that devastated the country. Despite the dangerous conditions the BBC

journalists found themselves in, they remained professional and calm, deliveringstraightforward and sober reporting. For dedicating the necessary resources andrisking their lives to give the world an up-close look at the horrors of the Syrianconflict, Inside Syrias Warwins a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Andrew Roy,Paul

Danahar, Kate Farrell. Producers: Sarah

Halfpenny, Richard Colebourn, Rachel Thompson,

Kate Benyon-Tinker, Lana Antaki, Lina Sinjab,

Mughira Al Sharif. Correspondents: IanPannell, Paul Wood, Lyse Doucet, Jeremy

Bowen.Videographers/Editors:Fred Scott,

Darren Conway, Phil Goodwin.

The Law in These Parts (PBS)American Documentary / POVIsraeli filmmaker Raanan Alexandrowiczs Te Law in Tese Partsexamined theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict through a new lensthat of the high-ranking militaryofficers who constructed the legal framework for administering Israels 40-yearoccupation and rule. Trough intensive interviews with retired military judges,prosecutors, and legal advisors, Alexandrowicz demonstrates how language andsemantics are as much occupiers as military personnel and guns, and how themoral implications of such legal renderings may call into question a societys coredemocratic values. From the inequality of military courts for Palestinians andcivilian courts for Israelis, to the refusal of prisoner-of-war status for Palestinianfighters, to the resurrection of old Ottoman law to justify land seizures, the filmrepeatedly demonstrates the power of law to construct troubling outcomes.

Employing a reflexive documentary style, with the interviewees forced to bearcinematic witness to their legal choices and justifications, the film interrogatesthe central principle of reality that both documentary and the rule of law oftentake for granted. For its originality, its unflinching focus, and its central concern

with humanity, Te Law in Tese Partsreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Laura Poitras, Simon

Kilmurry. Co-Executive Producer: Cynthia Lopez.

Producer: Liran Atzmor. Director: Raanan

Alexandrowicz.Writer: Raanan Alexandrowicz.

Cinematogrpaher: Shark De Mayo. Editor:Neta

Dvorkis.

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown(CNN)CNN, Zero Point Zero Production, Inc.ToughAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknownis sometimes referred to as aculinary travelogue, the shorthand doesnt do the series justice. Bourdain,who first made his name as a chef, does seem obsessed with discovering newtaste sensations. But wherever his appetite takes him, its the side-dish storiesthat make his visits so memorable and nourishing. Apart from his knowledgeof food and cooking, hes comfortable with himself and with other people,whether hes surveying okyos freaky afterhours scene, meeting whitewaterfishermen on the Congo River, or waltzing into the house behind GreedyGregs sidewalk rib stand in Detroit to get a helping of greens straight fromthe owners stove. Hes irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending,never obsequious. People open up to him and, in doing so, often reveal more

about their hometowns or homelands than a traditional reporter could hopeto document. A Peabody Award goes toAnthony Bourdain: Parts Unknownfor expanding our palates and horizons in equal measure.

Executive Producers:Jeff Zucker, Anthony Bourd

Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig. Directors: Nick Brig

Michael Steed, Tom Vitale.Writer:Anthony Bourda

Bourdain. Directors of Photography: Nick Brigd

Jacobsen, Jeremy Leach, Todd Liebler, Jerry Risius, Z

Fault Lines: Made in Bang

(Al Jazeera America)Al Jazeera AmericaExamining the story behind a factory fire that killedFault Linestakes the viewer to Bangladesh to uncovpractices of retail giants like Wal-Mart and GAP, andprices through human rights abuses. Employing a lgoes beyond what weve come to expect from AmeriinBangladeshgives the viewer a strong sense of whaand around these factories. In addition to providingthe piece also masterfully investigates the corporate known as an open secret in the manufacturing indcorporations turn a blind eye to the subcontractors violate the policies the companies claim to uphold.

weaves together footage of the working conditions ithorough investigation of corporate misbehavior.M

a Peabody Award for presenting a holistic picture ofcontinents and has implications that indict corporatconsumers alike.

Executive Producer: Mat Skene.Senior Producer:Paul

Sapin. Producer:Laila Al-Arian.Correspondent:Anjali Kamat.

Camera:Tim Grucza, Andy Bowley. Editor:Warwick Meade.

Additional Camera:Joel Van Haren, Omar Mullick, Rana. Plaza

Footage: Laura Gutierrez. Translation:Anuradha Hashemi. SoundRecordist:Masrur Rahman Masud.Additional production/

research assistance:Nafeesa Syeed, Jonathan Klett, Mark Scialla,

David Michaels, Omar Duwaji, Paul Abowd, Rezaur Rehman, Saydia

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Coverage of

SupertyphoonYolanda

(GMA Network Inc., Philippines)GMA Networks, Inc.yphoons are a fact of life in the Philippines, butthe usual warnings and procedures didnt begin toprepare citizens for Yolanda (international nameHaiyan). Likely the strongest in history, Yolandanot only hit the Visayas region with monstrous forceon November 8 but, as if it had a malevolent mindof its own, the storm feinted and struck again andagain, making landfall a total of six devastating times.Te destruction was mind-boggling: more than 6,000lives lost, more than a million houses battered ordestroyed, total damages estimated at $1.6 trillion.Face with daunting logistical challenges and sharingin the national shock and grief, GMA reporters andcrews from24 Oras(24 Hours), Saksi (Eyewitness),24 Oras Weekendand Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho(One atHeart, Jessica Soho) provided desperately needed spotnews coverage and information, gaining strength andperspective as they worked. Tey followed up withsolid reporting and public-service broadcasts about theaftermath, heroic acts and relief efforts. Te coverageincludes footage of storm-surge rapids ripping throughstreets and apocalyptic winds decapitating housesthats so close-up and intense that its a wonder thevideographers survived. For overcoming the challengesposed by a historic storm to provide coveragethat was thorough, candid and compassionate, aPeabody Award goes to GMA Networks coverage ofSuperyphoon Yolanda.

Executive-in-Charge of Production: Marissa L. Flores. First VP, News Programs:Jessica A.

Soho. First VP, News and Public Affairs: Nessa S. Valdellon.VP, News Operations: Grace

Dela Pea-Reyes. Senior AVP, Public Affairs:Leogarda S. Matias.AVP, News Programs

and Specials: Michelle S. Seva.AVP, News Production:John Oliver T. Manalastas.AVP,

Public Affairs: Arlene U. Carnay. Senior Program Managers:John Ray Arrabe, Lee JosephCastel. Program Managers: Kathrina Ann dela Cruz, Antonio Magsumbol, Ahd Marco-Bautista,

Christina Pascual. Executive Producers: Cyrian Agujo, Jeconiah Placio, Maria Teresa Ranoco, Myla

Torres.Associate Producers: Remanuel Bandiola, Darvin de Mesa, Ana Marie Fuderanan, Sarah

Gulle, Tina Panganiban-Perez, Romabell Yumol.Anchors:Jessica Soho, Mike Enriquez, Mel Tiangco,

Vicky Morales, Arnold Clavio, Jiggy Manicad, Pia Arcangel. Reporters: Susan Enriquez, Maki Pulido,

Raffy Tima, Jiggy Manicad, Ivan Mayrina, Jun Veneracion, Chino Gaston, Ian Cruz, Steve Dailisan, Julius

Segovia, Cedric Castillo, Victoria Tulad, Micaela Papa, Rida Reyes, Katrina Son, Bam Alegre, Fabienne

Paderes, Love Aover. Head for News Desk Operations: Tex Jimenez. Senior Desk Editors: Malou

Talosig, Marvin Candelaria, Miguel Aguana, Ian Aguilar, Rhowena Parungao-Sarmenta, Vic Baldoz, Tom

Perdigon, Michael Sadim, Jenalyn Balaoro, Hannah Petrache, Louie Laresma.Videographers: Ace

Adriano, Rico Banua, Virgilio Barte, Rudy Cabungcal, Ronwaldo Capistrano, Ramil Gonzales, Ronald

Herrera, Joemil Jaspe, Ding Lagoyo, Xandrix Manalili, Leo Marzan, Freddie Olayra, Vergel Olunan, Jojo

Quibral, Joseph Salazar, Art Serrano, Gemmo Soho, Ederick Villegas. Producers: Lian Buan, Ramona

Dela Paz, Alex Francisco, Carlo Hernandez, Allan Lazaro, Czarina Magtangob, Tristan Nodalo, Andy

Penafuerte, Edmalynne Remillano, Joselito Tan, Lea Paz Torre, Val Veneracion, Mai Ventura, Frauleine

Villanueva. Directors: Lirio Dayao, Joel San Luis, Mimi Yapchiongco.Assistant Directors: Yen Bringas,

Mike Domingo, Ricky Patrimonio. Head Writer: Don Dave Ventura.

Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera(Al Jazeera America)Al Jazeera AmericaFollowing Haitis 2010 earthquake, a widespread cholera epidemic devastatedan already shattered island nation, claiming nearly 8,000 lives and infectingmore than half a million others. Al Jazeera Americas Fault Lines investigativeteam, led by reporter Sebastian Walker, cameraman Singeli Agnew and editor

Warwick Meade, traveled to Haiti to follow the unfolding tragedy of this fatalillness. Teir pursuit of accountability starts on the island but leads them to theUnited Nations headquarters in New York. Trough relentless inquiry and agrowing body of scientific evidence, they determined that the UN StabilizingMission peacekeepers almost certainly brought the disease into the country.Fault Lineschronicles the death and ongoing misery of cholera victims throughits search for answers, while the people allegedly to blame for this outbreak areunwilling to acknowledge their responsibility. In the process, this investigativereport provides victims with leverage in their fight for justice and opens avenuesof redress for them. For its courageous investigation into an international healthscandal, a Peabody Award goes to Fault Lines: Haiti in a time of Cholera.

Executive Producer: Mat Skene.Senior Producer: CarrieLozano. Producers:Sebastian Walker, Singeli Agnew, Jeremy

Dupin. Correspondent:Sebastian Walker.Camera:Signeli

Agnew. Editor:Warwick Meade.

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Independent Lens: The Invisible War (PBS)Chain Camera Productions, Independent Television Service (ITVS),Girls Club Entertainment, RISE films, Fork Films, Cuomo ColeProductions, Canal PlusSexual assault is epidemic i n the U.S. military. A female s oldier in Iraq or Afghanistanis more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Its estimatedthat 26,000 soldiers were assaulted in 2012 alone. Statistics like these have neverbeen documented more personally or powerfully than they are in Te Invisible War.Te documentary catalogues rules and conditions that perpetuate rape and protectperpetrators. But the films real power comes from a series of wrenching interviews

with veterans still coping with the aftermath of vicious, shameful assaults. From the

Department of Defense down through all branches of the military, the impact of thesecourageous, fierce testimonials continues to be felt, manifested in actions as diverse asbanning sexist material from computers to providing legal representation to victims.For its powerful indictment of criminal behavior in our armed forces, Te Invisible Warreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers:Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel

Newsom, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Maria Cuomo Cole,

Abigail Disney, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Teddy Leifer, Nicole

Boxer-Keegan, Sally Jo Fifer. Senior Series Producer:Lois

Vossen. Producers: Amy Ziering, Tanner King Barklow.

Director: Kirby Dick.

Burka Avenger (Geo Tez)Unicorn BlackIn the Pakistani childrens series Burka Avenger, a symbol of womenssubjugation becomes a super-heroines mask. At the center of the actionis a teacher, Jiya, who dons a magical cape at night to right the wrongsaround her, from the ban on girls going to school, to child labor abuses,to environmental degradation. aught by a spiritual master to rely onher own wits and to fight with a pen not a sword, Jiya is part Catwoman,part Muslim ideal. Never heavy-handed or forced, the storytelling unfolds

with effortless charm as each episode amusingly turns stereotypes ontheir heads. Te take-charge actions of Jiya and the children she defendsare animated with imaginative verve, the comeuppance of the villainsin each segment is celebratory, and the messages embedded are clearand aspirational. For its deft handling of a deadly serious theme theempowerment of women in a part of the world where it has particularand timely resonance, Burka Avengerreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producer: Aaron Haroon

Rashid. Producer: Aaron Haroon

Rashid. Director: Aaron Haroon Rashid.Writers: Aaron

Haroon Rashid, Adi Abdurab, Arslan Naseer &

Ghaniah Ejaz.Production Head:Uzair Z. Khan.ArtDirector:Ejaz Ahmed.Animation Head:Taha Iqbal.

Post Production Head:Rizwan Ahmed. 2d Art

Lead:Muffadal Iqbal. Sound Design/Score:Jonathan

Nawaz, Ahmed Ali & Aaron Haroon Rashid.Voice Over

Artist Talent: Ainy Jaffri, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Amjad

Chaudhary, Anum Zaidi & Sara Rubab. ESPN

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A Nee ded Re sp ons e

(YouTube/Samantha Stendal)Samantha Stendal, Aaron BlantonTe first viral video to be honored with a Peabody Award,ANeeded Responsegrew out of two University of Oregon studentsoutrage upon watching news coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio,rape sentencing that bemoaned the perpetrators loss of theirpromising athletic careers while ignoring the 16-year-old girl theyhad drugged and assaulted. Samantha Stendal and Aaron Blantonconceived, staged and shot a 26-second video that emphaticallyrejects the idea that rape is ever excusable. Short, simple and spot-on, its an ingenious public-service message targeting college ageviewers. Stendal and Blanton shared their video on UpworthysFacebook page. Within 48 hours, the video surpassed 1 millionviews, an astonishing figure that doubled, tripled and continuedto grow as more and more people shared it and debated its take on

masculinity and morality. For making a unforgettable, undeniablestatement about rape culture and sharing it with the world viasocial media,A Needed Responsereceives a Peabody Award.

Producers: Samantha Stendal, Aaron Blanton.Writer:

Samantha Stendal. Talent: Kelsey Jones, Justin Rabier-Gotchall.

Outside the Lines: NFL at a Crossroads:

Investigating a Health Crisis (ESPN)ESPNDespite its affiliation with the National Football League and a controversial split with publictelevisions FRONLINEover editorial control of a joint investigation of the NFLs concussioncrisis, ESPN televised and posted blistering reports about the league and CE, or chronictraumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by head injuries. Te concise,blunt coverage on the sports channels Outside the Linesseries included a segment about theNFLs efforts to influence the analysis of star linebacker Junior Seaus brain after his shockingsuicide a lobbying effort his widow charitably describes on-camera as surreal. Anotherpoignant series of interviews examined how battered, retired players dealt with insomnia,depression, anxiety, anger and suicidal urges. Te most devastating segment questioned theleagues reliance on the New York Jets team doctor, rheumatologist Elliot J. Pellman, to

chair its Mild raumatic Brain Injury Committee. Film clips from NFL games underscoretheres nothing mild about the crash-test hits players take, and Pellman comes across as aprofessional apologist, as quick to discredit CE studies as he is to send concussed playersback into action. For candid, independent reporting about professional footballs self-servingresponse to play-related brain injuries, Outside the Lines:NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating aHealth Crisiswins a Peabody Award.

Director of News:Vince Doria. Senior Coordinating

Producer:Dwayne Bray. Deputy Editor:Chris

Buckle. Coordinating Producers: Carolyn Hong,

Tim Hays. Producers:Dave Lubbers, Greg Amante,

William Weinbaum, Simon Baumgart. Reporters:Steve

Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-Wada, John Barr, Steve

Delsohn. Editors: Susan Ansman, Katelin Collard, Melissa

Horton, Scott OLeary, Jason Sharkey. Photographer:Bill

Roach.Animator: Nick Waligorski. Production

Assistants:John Crisafulli, Thom Griffin.

FRONTLINE: League of Denial:

The NFLs Concussion Crisis (PBS)FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary GroupDrawing on the book of the same name, League of Denialcrafts a searing twoof the National Football Leagues decades-long concealment of the link betwehead injuries and brain dis orders. FRONLINEwriter, producer, and directometiculously charts the uncovering of scientific evidence of the chronic braintraumatic encephalopathy (CE), and its relationship to football concussiondemonstrates not just a pattern of denial by the NFL, but also intentional efffindings, discredit researchers, and create its own scientific research suggestexaminations of deceased college and high school players with CE also suggoccur at much earlier ages than was previously thought. Te result is that view

with the implications of their own fandom for what is increasingly understooFor its dogged pursuit of evidence, meticulous argumentation, and willingnepowerful organization in professional sports, FRONLINE: League of DenialCrisisreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: David Fanning, Raney Aronson-

Rath. Producers: Michael Kirk, Jim Gilmore, Michael

Wiser.Director: Michael Kirk.Writers: MichaelKirk, Michael Wiser, Steve Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-

Wada. Reporters:Jim Gilmore, Steve Fainaru,Mark Fainaru-Wada. Managing Editor:Philip

Bennett. Editor: Steve Audette. Coordinating Producer:

Colette Neirouz Hanna. Director of Photography: Ben

McCoy.Associate Producer:Lauren Ezell. Narrator:Will

Lyman. Production Assistant/Assistant Editor:Caitlin

Rotman. Production Assistant:Elliza Hamilton.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the

House of God (HBO)Jigsaw Productions, HBO Documentary Films, Wider FilmProjects and Below the Radar Films

Mea Maxima Culpainvestigates and exposes the atrocious crimes of aMilwaukee priest who sexually abused more than 200 deaf children in a schoolunder his control. Trough this disquieting story and others, Alex Gibneysdocumentary explores the secret cover-up and the procedures enacted by theCatholic Church in light of thousands of sexual abuse accusations all aroundthe world. Te accounts and facts incriminate prominent and powerful figureswithin the Church, including Marcial Maciel Degollado and His Holiness,Benedict the 16th. Using photos, video and first-person interviews, the filmpieces together past events to empower four courageous deaf men erry

Kohut, Gary Smith, Arthur Budzinski and Bob Bolger in their quest todenounce the actions of their abuser and protect other children from harm.Teir stories, the first known public protest against clerical sexual abuse inthe United States, are vividly told through sign language and voice-over. Forproviding a harrowing story of clerical sexual abuse, empowering long-silencedvictims and unveiling clandestine Church practices,Mea Maxima Culpa: Silencein the House of God receives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Sheila Nev

Kingdon. Producers: Alex Gibney

Kristen Vaurio, Jedd Wider, Todd W

Producer:Sara Bernstein. Directo

Alex Gibney.Director of Photog

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The Returned (Les Revenants) (SundanceTV)Haut et Court TV, Canal +, Jimmy, Cine +, Backup FilmsTe Returnedis exquisitely photographed and sensitively acted drama, but

what really makes this French miniseries so indelible is that its creators takea supernatural premise and explore it with keen, objective intelligence and inmeticulous detail. What wouldhappen if one day the casualties of a horrible busaccident began to reappear, un-aged, to the families and friends who are stillmourning them, still arguing over how to memorialize them? What wouldit belike to be one of the resurrected, discovering that your girlfriend has moved onor your younger sibling is now older than you are? Why is this happening? How?Te result of this painstaking act of imagination is a subtly spooky psychologicalthriller that ponders loss, grief, memory and gui lt, to say nothing of our notionsof the afterlife. Te idyllic setting, a picturesque mountain town, only accentuatesthe eeriness. For its intricate storytelling, its visual elegance and its rumination on

life, death and what might lie between, Te Returnedreceives a Peabody Award.

Producers: Caroline Benjo, Jimmy Desmarais, Barbara Letellier.

Associate Producers: Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal. Directors:

Fabrice Gobert, Frdric Mermoud.Writers: Fabrice Gobert,

Emmanuel Carrre , Fabien Adda, Camille Fontaine , Nathalie

Saugeon. Talent: Anne Cosigny, Frdric Pierrot, Clotilde

Hesme, Cline Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Grgory Gadebois, Guil-

laume Gouix, Pierre Perrier, Jean Francois Sivadier, Alix Poisson,

Yara Pilzartz, Jenna Thiam, Swann Nambotin, Ana Girardot.

Cinematographer:Patrick Blossier. Editors:Peggy Koretzky,

Bertrand Nail, Mike Fromentin, Laurence Bawedin.

Orphan Black(BBC America)Temple Street Productions in association with BBC Americaand SPACEOrphan Blackis a clone cyclone, a whirling dervish of a series that pondersidentity, humanity, nature-versus-nurture, bioethics and genetic research when it occasionally pauses for breath. atania Maslany is a wonder inmultiple roles, starting with that of Sarah Manning, a oronto street punk

who tries to shed a nasty boyfriend and a lifetime of bad choices by assuming alook-alikes identity only to find herself caught up in a wild, noir-ish plot thatinvolves a growing number of doppelgangers. Its a sci-fi/mystery/cliffhangerserial, consistently surprising, with action so fast it can make your head spin.

Yet it can also be deeply humane, thanks to a poignant subplot about Sarahsefforts to regain custody of her child. Humor also plays a part: Maslany hasgreat comic moments with Jordan Gavaris, who plays her acerbic adoptedbrother, and with her alter egos, who include a soccer mom and a religiousfanatic. For its singular take on cloning, splendid performances and thrill-rideturns and twists, Orphan Blackreceives a Peabody Award.

Executive Producers: Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, John

Fawcett, Graeme Manson. Co-Executive Producer:Kerry

Appleyard,Karen Walton. Producer:Claire Welland. Co-

Producers: Alex Levine, Will Pascoe. Directors:John Fawcett,

David Frazee, TJ Scott, Brett Sullivan, Grant Harvey, Ken Girotti.Writers: Graeme Manson, Karen Walton, Alex Levine, Will

Pascoe, Tony Elliott. Director of Photography:Aaron Morton.

Talent:Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Dylan Bruce, Maria

Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, Michael Mando.

BBC

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