72nd Peabody Winners - Syria 2012 from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.
As the uprising of Syrian dissidents expanded throughout 2012 into full-fledged civil war, NPR correspondents Deborah Amos and Kelly McEvers provided a steady flow of information for their listeners. Their reports began with opportunities afforded by official visas. Throughout their reports, Amos and McEvers provided crucial information, precise analysis and ground level details that enabled listeners to understand a conflict fraught with complication and confusion. Read the full awards citation here: j.mp/nprsyria.
Today is the anniversary of the Trinity Test, July 16, 1945. The documentary “The Day After Trinity” won a Peabody Award in 1981, for “the story of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a student of poetry, a linguist of six tongues, a searcher for spiritual ideals, and father of the atomic bomb."
Read the full citation: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-day-after-trinity-j.-robert-oppenheimer-and-the-atomic-bomb
Like all success stories after they’re complete, Hollow‘s Peabody win and screening at the capitol now seems inevitable. At least, that’s the case from an outside perspective. Sheldon has a different narrative. “When I applied for the Peabody Award I thought, ‘You know what, this is probably a total waste of time, but I gotta try.’” Two-and-a-half months later, she was out getting a bagel when she checked her phone and saw Hollow next to House of Cards. “The Peabody Award, more so than any other award or any other funding that we’ve gotten, has really gained the respect from people that we needed to, including Senator Joe Manchin.”
FLASHBACK: #PeabodyWinner Cosmos: A Personal Voyage from 1980 (official citation: http://j.mp/1980cosmos #StoriesThatMatter)