NEW YORK, April 7, 2005 Peabody Award Winners Announced
CBS Wins For Abu Ghraib Story; Jon Stewart, HBO Also Win
By Bootie Cosgrove-Mather
(AP) Winners of the George Foster Peabody Awards, announced Thursday by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication:
"On the Media," WNYC Radio, New York, National Public Radio; reports, commentary and satire about the media.
"Studio 360 American Icons: Melville's Moby Dick," WNYC Radio, New York, Public Radio International; part of the "American Icons" series, it reports on Herman Melville's classic tale.
"The War in Iraq," National Public Radio, Washington; coverage by NPR's team of foreign correspondents on the war.
"Leonard Bernstein: An American Life," CultureWorks, presented on WNYC, New York, and the WFMT Radio Network, Chicago; an 11-part radio documentary anchored by Susan Sarandon that looks on Bernstein's life, career and music.
"Let the Good Times Roll," The Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Washington, Public Radio International; a 13-part radio series on jazz, gospel and blues in the post-World War II era.
"To the Best of our Knowledge," Wisconsin Public Radio, Public Radio International; a radio magazine about arts and culture.
"The Darfur Crisis," BBC Television News, London; series of reports on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
"Mosaic: World News from the Middle East," Link TV, San Francisco; a collection of unedited daily newscasts from the Middle East.
"State of Denial," WFAA-TV, Dallas, Tex.; a 19-part series on questionable practices by state agencies and insurance companies involved with Texas' workers compensation system.
"Friends in High Places," WTVF-TV, Nashville, Tenn.; a three-year investigation into the awarding of state contracts to friends of the Tennessee governor.
"Chesapeake Bay Pollution Investigation," WBAL-TV, Baltimore; Investigative reports on rapid development and pollution in a small eastern Maryland town.
"60 Minutes II: Abuse at Abu Ghraib," CBS News; Dan Rather report detailing abuses at the Iraqi prison, showing for the first time pictures of the prisoners.
"Black Sky: The Race for Space," Discovery Channel and Vulcan Productions in association with Gemini Productions and Antenna Films; a documentary about the reinvention of space travel by the privately funded aircraft SpaceShipOne.
"Bus 174," Zendo Entertainment in association with Cinemax Reel Life; Cinemax documentary about the disintegration of a violent hostage situation in Brazil that was covered live on television.
"Balseros," Televiso de Catalunya, Bausan Films in association with Cinemax Reel Life; Cinemax documentary examines the lives of seven Cuban refugees who arrived in the United States on rafts.
"Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," Clinica Estetico and LisaGay Inc. in association with HBO; biography on actress, poet and teacher Beah Richards.
"Something the Lord Made," a Cort/Madden Production in association with HBO Films, a documentary on white surgeon Dr. Alfred Blalock and black lab technician Vivien Thomas, who do pioneering work in heart surgery in the face of racial prejudice in the south in 1944.
"Deadwood," Red Board Productions and Paramount Television in association with HBO Entertainment; HBO's profane and violent Western drama about men and women in the Deadwood mining camp.
"The N-Word," Trio and Post Consumer Media; the Trio documentary tracing the history of racial dialogue through the use of one inflammatory word.
By David Bauder
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