The venerable, 73-year-old Peabody Awards announced today they have “reimagined” the awards ceremony for 2015 — moving the venue to Cipriani Wall Street, and taking the midday luncheon and transforming it to an evening gala complete with red carpet. The Peabody Awards have also drafted Saturday Night Live veteran and Portlandia star Fred Armisen as host
What WTVF, WBZ, KING and WVUE did to win the coveted broadcasting award.
Network honors go to ABC, PBS, CBS, ESPN, AMC, HBO, BBC America and Al Jazeera America. NBC’s Tom Brokaw receives a personal citation. The awards will be presented on May 19 at a luncheon ceremony in New York.
Local News Peabody Winners Up Close, Pt. 2
This year’s Peabody Award winners included efforts by four stations. This week, the focus is on the comprehensive coverage of the Dec. 14, 2012, massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., by NBC-owned WVIT Hartford, Conn. Last week, we looked at KMGH Denver’s Investigating the Fire and KNXV Phoenix’s Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect.
Local News Peabody Winners Up Close, Pt. 1
This year’s Peabody Award winners included efforts by four stations. This week, we look at two of them: Investigating the Fire, the KMGH Denver report that showed how a controlled burn in Colorado turned deadly, and KNXV Phoenix’s Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect, which led to the recall of 700,000 SUVs.
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The television scholar from Old Dominion University will succeed Horace Newcomb as director of the University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards in July.
