HBO In Production On NXIVM Sex Cult Documentary Series
April 18th, 2019 by Will ThornePeabodys To Honor Eight Documentaries
April 16th, 2019 by Erik Pedersen
The first Peabody Awards of 2019 were announced today, with eight documentaries being honored and Kartemquin Films (Minding the Gap, Hoops Dreams) set for an Institutional Award for its “commitment to unflinching documentary filmmaking and telling an American history rooted in social justice and the stories of the marginalized.”
Ken Burns Prize To Honor Documentaries
March 5th, 2019 by AP StaffWPIX’s Marketing Team Creates Documentary Series
February 28th, 2019 by Paul GreeleyPioneer Documentarian Perry Wolff Dies At 97
February 26th, 2019 by Sam Roberts
Perry Wolff, a groundbreaking television producer whose documentaries took viewers on a tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy and awakened them to widespread hunger in America, died on Feb. 17 in Portland, Ore. Wolff was credited as a writer, director or producer of some 600 hours of broadcasts over more than five decades, mostly for CBS News. His broadcasts won 17 Emmy Awards, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in broadcast journalism and an Academy Award nomination for best documentary short film, for writing and directing An Essay on Matisse in 1996 for PBS.
WFOR Earns DuPont Award For Everglades Doc
December 14th, 2018 by Paul GreeleyExclusives
BBC Orders Documentary Series On Rupert Murdoch’s Print Empire
December 12th, 2018 by Stewart ClarkeWRAL Doc Explores Robots Replacing Workers
September 6th, 2018 by Mark MillerInvestigateTV Releases ‘Licensed To Pill’ Doc
August 2nd, 2018 by Mark K. MillerLicensed to Pill is a one-hour special that exposes doctors betraying patients by prescribing addictive opioids to line their own pockets. It follows up on extensive investigations aired over the past year, during which time a federal raid, charges against doctors and action by Congress were all realized.
Nine Documentaries Selected For Peabody 30
April 16th, 2018 by StaffCompelling stories address issues of the day, including gun violence, climate change and immigration.