The Invisible War Wins Peabody Award
The Huffington Post reports:
In the documentary arena, “League of Denial” from Frontline and “NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a Health Crisis” from ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” both won Peabody Awards (as sports fans may know, there’s a complex history involving those documentaries). Other winning documentaries included “The House I Live In,” “The Invisible War,” “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” “The Central Park Five,” “How to Survive a Plague,” “Best Kept Secret” and two “Fault Lines” documentaries by Al Jazeera America.
The Peabody Awards, the oldest award in broadcasting, recognizes excellence in local and national news, radio, documentaries, online endeavors, children’s programming, public service and entertainment offerings, and this is the 73rd roster of winners. Awards are not given out in specific categories: The Peabody board considers each entry on its own merit and seeks to award excellence on its own terms as well as “stories that matter.” The Peabodys have long had international scope, and this year, the winners include news, documentaries and entertainment programs from France, the U.K., Denmark, the Philippines, Israel and Pakistan, in addition to programs that were made or filmed in North America. The 46 winners this year — an uptick from last year’s 39 winners — are an indication of the depth, breadth and quality of storytelling and reporting that can be found all over the world.
