Congrats, Kimberly!

By: Christine Lagorio
Topics: All About Us

(CBS)

Heartfelt congratulations go out to our Kimberly Dozier, who was awarded a Peabody Award for her reporting on two amputees – who are both Iraq war veterans … and who are both women.

Receiving a Peabody award is a big accomplishment – it was modeled after the Pulitzer Prize, only 35 people took the honor this year, including CBS News' Scott Pelley, for a 60 Minutes piece, and ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who, like Kimberly, survived a near-fatal attack while reporting in Iraq.

A bit of interesting television history courtesy of the Peabody Awards Web site:

The first awards, for radio programs broadcast in 1940, were presented at a banquet at the Commodore Hotel in New York on March 29, 1941. The ceremony was broadcast live nationwide on CBS and included addresses by CBS founder and board chairman William S. Paley.

Television programs first received awards in 1948. Early television winners include Howdy Doody, The Ed Sullivan Show and Edward R. Murrow's See It Now series. Recent winners include The Wire, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Dora the Explorer…

To learn more abou this year's recipients, you can read the AP story about the award over at The Showbuzz.

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by thy1138 April 3, 2008 11:35 PM EDT: Congratulations! I thought I''d just offer some information about journalism, not that well known perhaps, since 9/11/01 it''s been closed up, and recently opened again. I''m talking about City Hall Park in NYC, where City Hall is and I worked in archaeology around the "Search for the Almshouse Cemetery" within for a number of firms, eventually found, and perhaps under, the large bronze statue of Horace Greeley, whose sitting on a sofa. He coined the term often mis-quoted, "Go west young man and grow up with the country". Nearby is a small monument to Joseph Pulitzer, a simple stone block and bronze plaque. "Newspaper Row" used to be across the street where the press was that covered the city. They''ve since moved the statue of Nathan Hale, whose burial location is still unknown, a patriot from Connecticut, once also held perhaps in the fort in the cemetery "Fort Golgotha" in Huntington, Long Island, by the British Army, who regretted he had but one life to lose for his country, (sometimes changed to "give") before he was hung in Manhattan. Nearby Greeley and Pulitzer, if you will, was a prison the NY Times in 1903 described as "blacker than any Black hole of Calcutta". Nearby on Governors Island is a small swivel gun monument to John Peter Zenger, who owned the second printing press in New York city, an opinion published on it leading, after incarceration and trial, established the "freedom of the press".
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