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  Peabody Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The awards are named after the banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody who donated the funds to initiate the awards.
The Peabody Awards are generally regarded as the most prestigious awards within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary making, educational programming and children's programming.
Awards are also given in the category of entertainment, but in this case the Peabody Award is probably less significant than the Emmy Award.
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 Peabody Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The George Foster Peabody Awards more commonly known as simply the Awards" are annual awards given for excellence radio and television broadcasting and cable television within the United States.
Founded in 1940 the awards are administered by the W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass at the University of Georgia.
The Peabody Awards are generally regarded as most prestigious awards within the fields of journalism documentary making educational programming and children's programming.
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 Peabody Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly known as simply the "Peabody Awards", are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television.
The Peabody Awards are generally regarded as the most prestigious awards within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary making, educational programming, children's programming, and entertainment, although to many outside the field of communications, the Emmy Award has more resonance.
The Peabodys are also the most difficult of the entertainment awards to win.
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 Orlando Peabody -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peabody was a teacher, writer, and prominent figure in the Transcendental movement, editing The Dial, the chief literary publication of the movement, for two years.
Peabody was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, served in the United States Navy during World War II, and received a BA and a law degree from Harvard University.
Peabody died in 1997 and is buried in Groton, Massachusetts.
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 Peabody Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly known as simply the "Peabody Awards", are annual awards givenfor excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television within the United States.
Founded in 1940, the awards are administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and MassCommunication at the University of Georgia.
The Peabody Awards are generally regarded as the most prestigious awards within the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary making, educational programming and children's programming.Awards are also given in the category of entertainment, but in this case the Peabody Award is probably less significant than the Emmy Award.
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 George Foster Peabody (1852-1938) and Peabody Park at UNCG
The establishment of Peabody Park was part of an extraordinary life of educational philanthropy, particularly in the American South, the influence of which continues to this day in many institutions across the country and around the world.
The internationally known George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting and journalism are given each year by the University of Georgia’s College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
PEABODY, GEORGE FOSTER (July 27, 1852–Mar. 4, 1938), banker, philanthropist, was born in Columbus, Ga., the first of four children of George Henry and Elvira (Canfield) Peabody.
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 Peabody Awards :: 64th Annual Peabody Awards Call For Entries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Peabody Awards, established in 1940 and administered by UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, are the oldest honor in electronic media.
Peabody recipients whose subject matter explores health and medical issues are eligible for the Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming.
The Peabody Award, considered the most selective and prestigious honor for electronic media programming, is unique in that there are no categories for entry or nominations.
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 Peabody Awards for Morning Edition and Lost and Found Sound
National Public Radio® is among the biggest winners of this year's George Foster Peabody Awards, claiming two of the three given to radio.
The Peabody Documentary Prize for Lost & Found Sound was awarded to NPR and The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, and Jay Allison.
The Peabodys differ from other broadcast and cable awards because they are given solely on the basis of merit, rather than within designated categories.
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 Peabody, George on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peabody settled (1837) permanently in London; there he set up a brokerage business that became increasingly prosperous, later taking on as a partner Junius Spencer Morgan.
Peabody used his influence to better Anglo-American relations and financed the exhibition of American products at the Crystal Palace exhibition.
Prominent among Peabody's philanthropies were large funds given for tenement clearance in London and the Peabody Education Fund of more than $2,000,000, to promote education in the South (partly used for the George Peabody College for Teachers, in Nashville, Tenn., which is now part of Vanderbilt Univ.).
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 Encyclopedia: Emmy Award
The best-known of the awards are the Primetime Awards (some of which are classified as "Creative Arts Emmys") and the Daytime Emmy Awards.
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.
These awards are less glamourous and sometimes technical: a 2003 Suncoast Emmy Award, given for productions in Florida and parts of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, was awarded for spot coverage of a dump truck chase.
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 Peabody Award -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Founded in 1940, the awards are administered by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the (additional info and facts about University of Georgia) University of Georgia.
The awards are named after the (Someone who owns or is an executive in a bank) banker- (Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being) philanthropist (additional info and facts about George Foster Peabody) George Foster Peabody who donated the funds to initiate the awards.
In the late (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s additional categories for material distributed via the (Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol) World Wide Web were added.
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 Peabody Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
NPR consequently received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for Totenberg’s excellent coverage of both the original hearings and the inquiry into...
Dean and Linnea Smith both received this year’s Peabody Award, the highest honor bestowed by the UNC School of Education.
Bill Gallagher, a Peabody Award winner, is a former Niagara Falls city councilman who now covers Detroit for Fox2 News.
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 Peabody Board
While the intent of the Peabody Awards is to recognize outstanding achievement in broadcasting and cable, the competition is open to entries produced for alternative distribution, including corporate, educational, home-video release, CD-ROM and World Wide Web.
By 1940 the awards plan had been endorsed by the NAB and the Board of Regents of the University of Georgia.
The awards program was named in honor of George Foster Peabody, a native Georgian, industrialist, financier and major benefactor of the university.
www.peabody.uga.edu /about   (592 words)

  
 Peabody Awards Archives
Established in 1940, the Peabody Award is operated by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, and is considered by many to be the equivalent of the Pulitzer for recognizing excellence in broadcasting.
The Peabody Awards Archives holds most entries in the radio category from 1940 to the present, and for television from 1948 to the present.
The Peabody Awards Archives is housed in the Media Department at the University of Georgia Libraries.
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 58th Annual Peabody Award Winners
Thirty-three awards, chosen from nearly 1,300 entries, were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which has administered the Peabody Awards program since its inception in 1940.
Personal Peabody Awards will be presented this year to Linda Ellerbee for her work on Nickelodeon’s "Nick News," to Jac Venza, the driving force behind the "Great Performances" series from Thirteen/WNET-TV in New York, and to Robert Halmi Sr., chairman of Hallmark Entertainment.
Hunter-Gault won a 1985 Peabody for her series "Apartheid’s People" when she was a correspondent with the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." The other radio award went to WHAS in Louisville, Ky., for a documentary on a local organization that ministers to AIDS and HIV-infected women and their families.
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 Peabody Entry Forms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Peabody Award, considered to be the industry’s most prestigious prize, recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations, and individuals.
On average, only 25 to 30 Peabody Awards are presented each year, making the prize one of the most competitive in broadcasting and cable.
For further information regarding the Peabody Awards, the Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award, or to request an entry form, call (706) 542-3787, e-mail the Peabody office at peabody@arches.uga.edu, or visit the Peabody web site at www.peabody.uga.edu.
www.uga.edu /news/newsbureau/releases/1998releases/Peabody99.html   (441 words)

  
 FOX5 | I-TEAM | Peabody Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The FOX5 I-Team was honored at the 59th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
The George Foster Peabody Awards are considered the highest honor in broadcasting, the equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize for print journalists.
First awarded in 1940, the Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television networks, stations, cable television organizations and individuals.
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 62nd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards To Get First National Berth On The A&E Network, Sunday, May 25 From 4-6 p.m. ...
The Peabody Award is considered the most selective and prestigious of awards in the electronic media industries.
The Peabody Awards are administered by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
For more information about the Peabody Awards, visit http://www.peabody.uga.edu or call Eric Holder at (706) 542-8983 or by e-mail at eholder@uga.edu.
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 Peabody Award - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Celebrating the 145th Birthday Francis Stuyvesant Peabody : An article from: PSA Journal
Early television: Selections from the Peabody Collection on videocassette, 1950-61
John Herron and family: Related families, Abbott, Awards, Babcock, Blackmer, Dake, Felbrigge, Hawkins, Hazard, Kinney, Knapp, Lawton, Lewis, Luther, McCullough,...
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Honoring achievement in the fields of broadcast journalism, documentary filmmaking, and educational and children's programming, the George Foster Peabody Awards, popularly known as the "Peabody Awards," are widely held to be a benchmark for excellence in these fields.
Founded in 1940 by a grant from George Foster Peabody, a Georgia banker and prominent philanthropist, the awards are meted out by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
The award confers a statuette and a $10,000 cash prize to its recipients.Though accorded for a wide array of categories—including, since the 1990s, material appearing on the Internet—it is in the areas of broadcast journalism and documentary films that the Peabody Awards are regarded as conferring a singular prestige.
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 NPR Wins 3 of 4 Peabody Awards Given for Radio
WASHINGTON, DC — National Public Radio® was among the biggest winners of this year's George Foster Peabody Awards, claiming three of the four awards given to radio.
Peabodys were awarded to NPR® for its daily classical music magazine Performance Today®, its news coverage of Africa, and a documentary celebrating the life of Paul Robeson.
The awards committee singled out NPR's Performance Today, public radio's most listened-to classical music program, for "making serious music both contemporary and accessible." Each day, the program features concert performances from around the world, along with in-depth news and commentary about classical music.
www.npr.org /about/press/990331.peabody.html   (261 words)

  
 CBC Arts: CBC's 'Human Cargo' wins Peabody Award
The awards are administered by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The Peabody Awards, considered the oldest honour in electronic media, are judged by a 15-member board comprised of TV critics, broadcast and cable executives and experts in culture and the arts.
The awards do not recognize specific categories and there is no set number of awards presented each year.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2005/04/07/Arts/05peabody050407.html   (419 words)

  
 Southern Regional Council   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
, produced for the Southern Regional Council by George King, is among the 34 recipients of the 57th annual George Foster Peabody Awards announced on Thursday, April 2, 1998 by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The awards were presented at a May 11 ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
The Peabodys differ from other industry awards because they are given solely on the basis of merit, rather than within designated categories.
www.southerncouncil.org /news/archives/circle-peabody.html   (523 words)

  
 MEDIA ADVISORY - 62nd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards to air nationally on the A&E Network, Sunday, May 25
The 62nd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards, hosted by ABC News’ Charles Gibson, were presented on Monday, May 19, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York.
The awards ceremony will be televised nationally for the first time on the A&E Network on Sunday, May 25, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, the Peabody Awards are considered the most prestigious award in electronic media.
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 The Simpsons Folder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
But May 12, when the prestigious Peabody Awards are handed out at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, Gillian Anderson and the cast of Sesame Street may just bond over a bagel.
The X-Files and The Simpsons, both on the Fox network, won George Foster Peabody Awards, which are presented annually for broadcast and cable excellence by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The awards are usually reserved for the socially responsible fare found on PBS, but award sponsors noted that The X-Files has brought new vitality to prime-time television, and that The Simpsons offers biting social satire.
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 Burtons Attend Peabody Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Maxine Hubbard-Burton and her husband, Robert, of Athens were the honored guests of the College of Education at the 62nd Annual George Foster Peabody Awards held May 19, 2003 in New York City.
Burton received her BS in elementary education from the College in 1972 and her MSED in 1978.
Thirty-one awards were given out at this year’s awards luncheon, once again held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
www.coe.uga.edu /coenews/2003/Burtons_Peabodys.html   (210 words)

  
 University of Georgia: News & Information
The winners of the Peabody Awards for original broadcast, cablecast and webcast programs presented in 2004 will be announced April 7 in a ceremony taking place from 8:30 a.m.
The Peabody Awards, considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media, recognize excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals.
The 15-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts.
www.uga.edu /news/artman/publish/050317safer.shtml   (559 words)

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