2011 Peabody Award Winners

The Peabody Awards reward excellence for public service in radio, TV, by individuals, and on the web. The George Foster Peabody Awards were first presented in 1941. Created by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, the Peabody Awards are the oldest in electronic media. Director of the Peabody Awards Horace Newcomb said, “for 70 years the Peabody Award has defined excellence in electronic media.”

The 2011 Peabody Awards were announced Thursday March 31, 2011 but will be presented on May 23 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. TV personality and talk show host Larry King will host the event. This year a record number of 39 recipients will be presented with the prestigious award.

The winners of the seventieth annual Peabody Awards are:
”Justified” on FX
”Macbeth” on PBS
CNN’s coverage of the Oil Spill in the Gulf

“The Pacific” on HBO
”Sherlock: A Study in Pink” on PBS
”LennoNYC” on PBS

“Burma VJ” on HBO

“Men of a Certain Age” on TNT

“Bitter Lessons” on TV station WFAA in Dallas

“Independent Lens: Reel Injun: on the Trail of the Hollywood Indian on PBS

“Magic & Bird: A Courtshop of Rivals” on HBO

“Wonders of the Solar System” with Brian Cox on the Science Channel

“Degrassi: My Body is a Cage” on Teen NICK

“My Lai” from “American Experience” on PBS

“For Neda” on HBO

“12th and Delaware” on HBO

“Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia” on PBS

“If God is Willing and da Creek don’t Rise” on HBO

“Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children” on BBC Four

“William Kentridge: Anything is Possible” on PBS

“30 for 30” on ESPN

“POV: the Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” on PBS

“Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China” on the Phoenix InfoNews Channel

“Reality Check: Where are the Jobs?” on WTHR-TV in Indianapolis

“Temple Grandin” on HBO

“The Lord is not on Trial Here Today” on WILL-TV in Champaign, IL

“Who Killed Doc?” on KTSP-TV in Minneapolis

“Frontline – The Wounded Platoon” on PBS

“The Good Wife” on CBS

“Radiolab” on radio station WNYC-FM

“Lucia’s Letter” on radio station WGCU-FM

“Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation” by NPR and All Things Considered

NPR’s Covering Pakistan: War, Flood and Social Issues

“The Promised Land” hosted by Majora Carter via Public Media Stations

“The Moth Radio Hour” from the Public Radio Stations

“Behind the Bail Bond System” from NPR and All Things Considered

“Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes” on NPR and npr.org

the C-SPAN Video Library on cspan.org/videolibrary

“The Cost of War: Traumatic Brain Injury; Coming Home a Different Person” on www.washingtonpost.com