Showtime's HOMELAND Among Winners of 71st Annual Peabody Awards

Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus.

"The range of the Peabody Awards' search for excellence has never been wider or deeper than this year," said Horace Newcomb, Director of the Peabody Awards. "Local news organizations covered stories with international import as well as those significant within their communities. Documentaries and news reports on issues missed or overlooked by big organizations were available on websites. Comedians engaged in political actions. Radio proved again the power of the individual human voice. Drama took on issues of power and control. Images of disaster appeared alongside images of hope and freedom."

The latest Peabody recipients reflect variety in content, genre and sources of origination.

The winners included Homeland, Showtime's psychologically intense anti-terrorist drama; the classic game show Jeopardy!; TED.com, a website devoted to making creative thinkers' ideas available to one and all; remembrances of 9/11 collected by StoryCorps and broadcast on National Public Radio; and Toxic Secrets, a powerful series of reports by Phoenix's KPHO-TV about American soldiers and South Korean children exposed to Agent Orange three decades ago.

COMPLETE LIST OF RECIPIENTS OF THE 71st ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS:

CNN's Reporting of the Arab Spring including Worldwide Coverage: Egypt –Wave of Discontent and Uprising in Libya (CNN)

(CNN)

With seasoned correspondents already stationed throughout the Middle East, CNN was prepared when revolution began to leap like wildfire across the region.

TED.com

TED

An outgrowth of a 1984 conference that brought together leaders in technology, entertainment and design (TED), the site makes creative thinkers and their ideas available everywhere, anytime.

American Experience (PBS)

American Experience in association with Apograph Productions, Firelight Media and Q-Ball Productions

Three exceptional documentaries – Triangle Fire, Freedom Riders and Stonewall Uprising – are recognized this year under the banner of this grand American history anthology.

Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families (NPR member stations)

National Public Radio

This three-part report detailed how cultural bias and possible financial gain led North Dakota and 32 other states to ignore federal law barring the separation of Native American children from their families or tribes.

POV: My Perestroika (PBS)

American Documentary/POV/Red Square Productions, Bungalow Town Productions, ITVS International in association with YLE

Russia's past, present and possible future are revealed in nuanced detail by this beautifully constructed film about five schoolmates, now adults, who lived through that country's difficult transition from communism.

The Colbert Report – Super PAC Segments (Comedy Central)

Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions, Comedy Central

Launching his own Super PAC as a satirical protest against megabucks politics, Colbert mixed cerebral comedy with inspired sight gags, interviews and preposterously funny monologues.

CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute (CNN, CNN International, CNN Espanol)

CNN, Done & Dusted (aka Fun & Trusted)

The star-studded, televised tribute is the culmination of a year-long effort to identify and reward 10 people from around the world who've made truly significant differences in the lives of others.

StoryCorps 9/11 (NPR Morning Edition)

StoryCorps, NPR, POV, National September 11 Memorial & Museum

The oral history project's powerful response to the 9/11 anniversary presented authorized excerpts from interviews with survivors and victims' relatives as well as YouTube postings of short animated features inspired by their remembrances.

BBC.com (BBC.com)

BBC

With access to more than 2,000 journalists and the BBC's 72 overseas news bureaus, the site is uniquely situated to provide immediate, evolving coverage of news events great and small.

Who Killed Chea Vichea? (KBDI Denver and other NETA stations)

Loud Mouth Films, Limited, Independent Television Service (ITVS)

This investigative documentary, produced on a shoestring budget, covers the 2004 assassination of a Cambodian trade union leader and exposes corruption in one of the world's top exporters of low-cost clothing.

News Magazine: People's Republic of Cheating and

Misjudged Cases (TVB Jade Channel)

Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-based magazine series excelled on two reports, one dealing with the spurious and plagiarized academic publications and dissertations, the other with unjust arrests and prosecutions.

Homeland (Showtime)

Showtime Presents, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21

This serial drama from Showtime is a game of cat and mouse, a psychological thriller and a Rorschach test of post-9/11 doubts, fears and suspicions rolled into one.
The Untold Stories of the Tsunami in Japan (Fuji Television)

Fuji Television Network, Inc.

Detailed, thorough and heart-stopping, this reliving of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster painstakingly combines familiar and unseen video, expert commentary and interviews with survivors.

Human Rights Watch:

Acting Up: Russia's Civil Society (www.newyorker.com) and

Gold's Costly Dividend: The Porgera Joint Venture (www.hrw.org)

The New Yorker, Human Rights Watch

These arresting, detailed online reports combine photography, video, interviews and written analysis. One documents Russian dissidents, the other the abuse of inhabitants of a remote part of Papua New Guinea by mine security personnel.

Earth Made of Glass (HBO)

Clover and A Bee Films, 33&Out, Inc. in association with HBO Documentary Films

This moving documentary explores how Rwanda is dealing with its horrific legacy of genocide. Both the country's president and an ordinary survivor offer personal perspectives.

Arab Spring from Egypt to Libya (NPR member stations)

National Public Radio

Eloquently describing events or passing her microphone to everyday protesters or regime supporters, NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro provided exemplary coverage throughout the Middle East.

Restoring the American Dream: Fixing Education and

CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: Interpretation and Commentary on Iran (CNN)

CNN

Zakaria applies his interviewing and analytical skills to impressive effect in his prime-time special devoted to America's education quandary and in his measured, insightful ruminations on Iran.

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