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💥Unveiling the Top Nominees for the 84th Annual Peabody Awards

💥Unveiling the Top Nominees for the 84th Annual Peabody Awards

April 25, 2024

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The Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced the 41 Documentary, News, Public Service, and Radio/Podcast nominees for 2023's most compelling and empowering stories in broadcasting and streaming media. From over 1,100 entries from television, podcasts/radio, and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, arts, children's/youth, public service, and multimedia programming, 32 jurors unanimously selected the nominees.The remaining Arts, Children's/Youth, Entertainment, and Interactive & Immersive nominees will be announced on Thursday, April 25. On May 9, the 84th annual Peabody Awards will be announced, and on June 9, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles will host the ceremony. The Awards will be held in Los Angeles for the first time and Peabody's first in-person ceremony since 2019. Award show will be produced by Bob Bain. Delta sponsors the 84th Peabody Awards, and Variety is the media partner.“From exposing injustice to capturing the struggles and triumphs of inspirational figures across the world, these extraordinary nominees demonstrate the power and beauty of compelling storytelling,” said Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones. “In an increasingly diverse and constantly evolving media ecosystem, Peabody believes these nominees deserve special recognition for crafting bold stories that inspire and challenge us to do better.”“We look forward to honouring the winners in Los Angeles, a first in Peabody’s storied history,” Jones said.The University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication houses Peabody.The Peabody Award nominees for Radio/Podcast, listed by category and in alphabetical order (network/platform in parentheses) are:RADIO/PODCAST

“The Big Dig” (GBH-News)

Boston Public Radio station GBH takes on the humdrum subject of infrastructure and makes it riveting by going deep on Boston’s large-scale “Big Dig” project, a highway tunneling effort that became infamous for its ballooning price and ever-lengthening timeline, though in the end delivering on its promises.

GBH-News and PRX

“Borrowed and Banned” (Brooklyn Public Library)

Over a ten-episode podcast series, the Brooklyn Public Library traces the war against books in America by talking to those who are most affected by it—students, librarians, and teachers whose livelihoods are threatened when they resist, and writers whose books are embattled.

Brooklyn Public Library

“How the Far Right is Making Voting Fraud Easier” (NPR)

The ERIC system is one of the best tools states have to catch voter fraud. In a months-long reporting project, NPR uncovered the conservative movement working to sabotage the system, despite the Republican Party’s claims that it is dedicated to catching and rooting out voting improprieties.

NPR

“The COVID Tracking Project” (PRX)

The COVID Tracking Project, a massive volunteer effort to document tests, hospitalizations, and deaths in an effort to show where the virus was, and who was dying, became a de facto source of data amid the chaos of COVID-19. The series addresses the crucial concerns the United States faces about why the nation had to rely on volunteerism, rather than federal and state public health institutions, to receive critical COVID data during the worst public health crisis in a century.

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, and ACKO Productions

“The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop” (Podcast platforms)

A two-year investigation by The Washington Post uncovers new details in a long-running international mystery: When Maurice Bishop, the revolutionary leader of Grenada, was executed in 1983 alongside seven others, where did their remains go? Through more than 100 interviews and archival research, this podcast examines the evidence, including the role played by the U.S. government.

The Washington Post

“Post Reports: Surviving to graduation” (Podcast platforms)

Post Reports’ three-part series chronicles a year inside Huguenot High School in Richmond, Virginia, a school that experienced several shootings and deaths to learn how the fallout is affecting students and teachers and what educators are doing to prevent future tragedies. But while the reporters were embedded at the school, a student was shot and killed behind the baseball fields, making this a real-time look at the ripple effects of gun violence.

The Washington Post

“Prison Town” (Spotify)

In the midst of a federal investigation into civil rights violations in Georgia’s prisons, this podcast uses one prison in South Georgia as a case study, tracing murders on the outside back to inmates on the inside. With hitmen for hire, prison riots, a multimillion-dollar contraband circle, and a warden that has been charged with corruption, the episodes illuminate many of the complex problems that plague our criminal justice system.

The Macon Newsroom and The Georgia Virtue

“The Retrievals” (Serial Productions and The New York Times)

Serial Productions and The New York Times tell the story of how dozens of women seeking to get pregnant at a Yale fertility clinic endured excruciating—and, it turns out, unnecessary—pain during the egg retrieval process. The real story behind their pain touches on the intersection of the fentanyl epidemic in America, women’s health issues, and the ways female patients are routinely gaslit.

Serial Productions and The New York Times

“The Uncertain Hour: Season 6 (The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex)” (Marketplace/American Public Media)

Many Americans have long believed that welfare recipients must get a job—or be preparing for one—to receive government assistance. This Marketplace production delves into the lucrative business that surrounds welfare-to-work policies, and the ways those businesses work to keep recipients dependent on their services.

Marketplace

“Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children” (iHeart Podcasts)

Unreformed tells the story of how the state-run Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children derailed the lives of thousands of Black children in the mid-20th century and what happened when five girls escaped in 1968. Listeners hear of physical and sexual abuse, unlivable facilities and grueling labor in the fields surrounding the school, which led many former students to call it a “slave camp.”

School of Humans

“You Didn’t See Nothin” (Podcast platforms)

Formerly incarcerated journalist Yohance Lacour revisits the 1997 hate crime on the South Side of Chicago that inspired him to enter the world of investigative journalism before his own ten-year prison sentence. He looks at the ways the crime shaped his own life and reinterprets its implications through a current-day lens.

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