The Peabody Awards are officially headed west.
The prestigious honors, recognizing excellence in storytelling across broadcast and digital media, will be celebrated at a Los Angeles event for the first time later this year.
The University of Georgia-based program originally planned to move its prestigious annual awards show to Los Angeles in early 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic meant that the winners for 2020, 2021 and 2022 had to be celebrated virtually.
Now the Peabody Awards are ready to move forward with the L.A. move and Peabody’s first in-person awards ceremony since 2019.
The Peabody Awards have taken place in New York every year except its 50th anniversary, when the ceremony was held in Atlanta.
The awards are presented in the categories of arts, children’s and youth, documentary, entertainment, immersive and interactive media, news, podcast/radio and public service programming. With the in-person event this year, the digital and interactive storytelling category,...
The prestigious honors, recognizing excellence in storytelling across broadcast and digital media, will be celebrated at a Los Angeles event for the first time later this year.
The University of Georgia-based program originally planned to move its prestigious annual awards show to Los Angeles in early 2020. But the Covid-19 pandemic meant that the winners for 2020, 2021 and 2022 had to be celebrated virtually.
Now the Peabody Awards are ready to move forward with the L.A. move and Peabody’s first in-person awards ceremony since 2019.
The Peabody Awards have taken place in New York every year except its 50th anniversary, when the ceremony was held in Atlanta.
The awards are presented in the categories of arts, children’s and youth, documentary, entertainment, immersive and interactive media, news, podcast/radio and public service programming. With the in-person event this year, the digital and interactive storytelling category,...
- 1/26/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Peabody Awards are officially moving their annual awards ceremony to Los Angeles, three years after originally announcing the plan that was eventually sidelined by the Covid pandemic.
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The organization said Thursday it will honor its winners June 11, 2023 at the Beverly Wilshire. It will mark the first time the honors, bestowed annually by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, will be held in L.A.
For the past few events the ceremony was held in person at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. This year will mark the first in-person event since 2019 for the awards, which honor the year’s stories that best “powerfully reflect the pressing social issues and...
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The organization said Thursday it will honor its winners June 11, 2023 at the Beverly Wilshire. It will mark the first time the honors, bestowed annually by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, will be held in L.A.
For the past few events the ceremony was held in person at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. This year will mark the first in-person event since 2019 for the awards, which honor the year’s stories that best “powerfully reflect the pressing social issues and...
- 1/26/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will announce the winners of its 2022 Book and Journalism Awards on Tuesday, May 24. Harry Benson, Dan Blackburn, Doug Brinkley, John Harwood, Rory Kennedy, Michael Lewis, Jane Mayer, Ari Melber, Craig Melvin, Soledad O'Brien and John Seigenthaler are just some of the distinguished special presenters who will be announcing this year’s honorees in the live virtual ceremony that begins at 4 pm Et. Event registration is available here.
Winners of the 2022 Rfk Journalism Awards were selected from over 350 global submissions to the more than 15 print, photo, broadcast, and new media categories, all of which encapsulated some of the most exemplary reporting from the past 12 months. The Rfk Book Award honors authors whose writing focuses on social justice issues of concern to Robert Kennedy.
“The entries this year underscored a press continually under siege, both at home and abroad,” said Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Winners of the 2022 Rfk Journalism Awards were selected from over 350 global submissions to the more than 15 print, photo, broadcast, and new media categories, all of which encapsulated some of the most exemplary reporting from the past 12 months. The Rfk Book Award honors authors whose writing focuses on social justice issues of concern to Robert Kennedy.
“The entries this year underscored a press continually under siege, both at home and abroad,” said Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
- 5/6/2022
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: Deon Taylor is set to direct Freedom Ride, a period drama that will be produced by The Hideaway Entertainment’s Matthew Rhodes (Cherry), Inde Companies’ Kim Leadford (The Butler), Mark R. Harris (Crash) and Hidden Empire Film Group’s Roxanne Avent Taylor (Fatale). Taylor, whose films include Fatale and Black and Blue, has written the script with Steven Vosburgh and Dusdi Fissette based on first-person accounts by a dozen of the original Freedom Riders, including the late civil rights icon and U.S. Congressman John Lewis.
Taylor and his Hidden Empire Film Group partner Robert F. Smith will be exec producers, along with Benjamin Crump and his company Brooklyn Media. Crump is the noted civil rights attorney who represents the family of the late George Floyd and repped the family of Trayvon Martin. The filmmakers will go out quickly to land a distributor for the package, in time for a hoped-for summer start date.
Taylor and his Hidden Empire Film Group partner Robert F. Smith will be exec producers, along with Benjamin Crump and his company Brooklyn Media. Crump is the noted civil rights attorney who represents the family of the late George Floyd and repped the family of Trayvon Martin. The filmmakers will go out quickly to land a distributor for the package, in time for a hoped-for summer start date.
- 2/4/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Leading civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump has set his latest Hollywood project, joining the producing team behind the film “Freedom Ride,” which dramatizes the experiences of the original Freedom Riders, including the late Rep. John Lewis.
Crump’s Brooklyn Media will produce the film with Hideaway Entertainment and Inde Companies. The news comes less than a month after civil rights legend and longtime U.S. congressman Lewis died at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It also comes on the 55th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited discriminatory practices in voting.
“This film is not only timely with the recent passing of Congressman John Lewis, it is timely because it will help to preserve the legacy of John Lewis for younger generations to come,” Crump said in statement. “This story will resonate with the world today because John Lewis was an original voice...
Crump’s Brooklyn Media will produce the film with Hideaway Entertainment and Inde Companies. The news comes less than a month after civil rights legend and longtime U.S. congressman Lewis died at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It also comes on the 55th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited discriminatory practices in voting.
“This film is not only timely with the recent passing of Congressman John Lewis, it is timely because it will help to preserve the legacy of John Lewis for younger generations to come,” Crump said in statement. “This story will resonate with the world today because John Lewis was an original voice...
- 8/6/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
TheWrap’s guide to television coverage of President Barack Obama’s speech, including who’s anchoring the broadcasts and providing analysis
President Barack Obama will give his seventh annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Et, with expected topics including national security, immigration, health care and the environment. Sen. Jon Ernst (R-ia) is expected to provide the Republican response.
After the president’s address, while the Republicans are giving their response and the networks are starting to break down their analyses, Obama will be preparing for something altogether different. His administration has invited three YouTube...
President Barack Obama will give his seventh annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Et, with expected topics including national security, immigration, health care and the environment. Sen. Jon Ernst (R-ia) is expected to provide the Republican response.
After the president’s address, while the Republicans are giving their response and the networks are starting to break down their analyses, Obama will be preparing for something altogether different. His administration has invited three YouTube...
- 1/20/2015
- by Jason Hughes
- The Wrap
During a sit-down interview with Al Jazeera America’s John Seigenthaler, New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson didn’t mince words about her harsh feelings for President Obama, calling his administration the “most secretive White House” that she’d ever covered throughout her journalistic career. Also read: Nyt Editor Jill Abramson Blasts Sexist Politico Piece Again “I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of.
- 1/24/2014
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
Launching Al Jazeera America is “frankly less challenging than people might think” network president Kate O’Brien insisted this afternoon. “The American viewer is looking for a particular set of things they just cannot find in the market place…unbiased news of quality and depth,” the well-respected ABC News veteran told reporters on a phone conference call walking up to Tuesday afternoon’s launch. “We really see that we are going to be fulfilling a need that the American viewer has,” she insisted. The network has opened a dozen domestic bureaus, hired hundreds of staffers, and, begun sending nearly daily announcements of program plans and hires of well-known talent, in the exec suites and on-air, including former CNN star Soledad O’Brien, former CBS News regulars Joie Chen and Sheila MacVicar, and former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler, who will anchor the new network’s evening newscast. O’Brien said...
- 8/15/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Al Jazeera America's primetime block will feature John Seigenthaler's "Nightly News" at 8 p.m., followed by Joie Chen's "America Tonight" at 9 p.m. and "Consider This" at 10 p.m. with Antonio Mora, the upstart news network revealed Wednesday in announcing its programming schedule. Also read: Al Jazeera America Announces 12 New U.S. Bureaus and Correspondents The times and titles of its flagship programs come six days before its August 20 launch. Here's the entire schedule from the press release: Inside Story (Monday - Friday | 5:00 p.m. Et): Inside Story provides analysis, background and context on the top...
- 8/14/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
When Al Jazeera America announced that John Seigenthaler would anchor its flagship primetime news show, it came as a surprise -- he'd been out of the broadcast journalism game since budget cuts at NBC eliminated his weekend anchor position on NBC Nightly News in 2007. After a brief stint at the AP, Seigenthaler left news altogether in 2008 to join his family's public relations firm. But the siren song of journalism proved too hard to resist, so when Al Jazeera America approached Seigenthaler about a position, he readily accepted. He joins several other high-profile...
- 8/8/2013
- by Sara Morrison
- The Wrap
Al Jazeera America finally announced an anchor for its evening newscast, which is scheduled to launch in just two weeks. Former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler will anchor the flagship show when the network launches on August 20, it announced this morning. Seigenthaler, who spent more than 11 years at NBC News, anchored the weekend edition of its Nightly News for about nine of them. Seigenthaler was reported to have been one of the victims of NBCU 2.0 slash-and-burn policy announced in fall of ’06 by then NBCUniversal television group CEO Jeff Zucker – now running things over at CNN. That plan involved the cutting of about 700 jobs. In April of ’07 Seigenthaler announced on the air that it was his last time at the anchor desk and he was out. Since ’08, Seigenthaler’s been the CEO of Seigenthaler Public Relations-ny. Aja has been unveiling its staff and operations in dribs and drabs in the days...
- 8/8/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Truman in his slippers, the Kennedy grandchildren shivering through the speeches, the Kennedy siblings' impromptu lunch of soup and sandwiches-jfk intimates tell Eleanor Clift what they remember most from that snowy January day a half-century ago.
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy's inauguration, but the snow fell heavy and steady, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an 8-inch white blanket and forcing the Army Corps of Engineers' snow-removal force to work through the night to clear the parade route. January 20, 1961, dawned sunny and cold, with gusty winds that made the 22 degrees registered at noon for the swearing-in feel like 7 degrees.
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It had just begun to snow when press aide Sue Vogelsinger made her way to the Mayflower Hotel to give Harry Truman an advance copy of the inaugural speech.
She found...
- 1/20/2011
- by Eleanor Clift
- The Daily Beast
NEW YORK - "Before Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, newspapers gave us gangsters and bimbos," said Don Hewitt, creator of "60 Minutes" at a luncheon panel on Thursday. "There's nothing new about it, there always has been and there always will be an appetite for celebrity journalism."
Hewitt's comment came as part of a panel hosted by USA Today at the Mandarin Oriental here as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.
The question posed to the panelists was whether or not celebrity journalism, or "trivia," is replacing substantial and serious news.
In addition to Hewitt, panelists included USA Today's founder Al Neuharth, former president and CEO of the Associated Press Louis Boccardi and John Seigenthaler, founder of Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center. USA Today's entertainment reporter Ann Oldenburg moderated the event to get the panelists' take on celebrity news.
Not all of the panelist's shared Hewitt's viewpoint on the current reliance on celebrity news to reach younger demographics. "I wish it would stop but I don't know it ever will," Seigenthaler said after pointing out that the first newspaper in the U.S.
Hewitt's comment came as part of a panel hosted by USA Today at the Mandarin Oriental here as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.
The question posed to the panelists was whether or not celebrity journalism, or "trivia," is replacing substantial and serious news.
In addition to Hewitt, panelists included USA Today's founder Al Neuharth, former president and CEO of the Associated Press Louis Boccardi and John Seigenthaler, founder of Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center. USA Today's entertainment reporter Ann Oldenburg moderated the event to get the panelists' take on celebrity news.
Not all of the panelist's shared Hewitt's viewpoint on the current reliance on celebrity news to reach younger demographics. "I wish it would stop but I don't know it ever will," Seigenthaler said after pointing out that the first newspaper in the U.S.
- 11/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Cuts at NBC News reached to another on-air talent with the impending departure of Dateline co-anchor Stone Phillips.
Phillips' contract will not be renewed, leaving Today co-host Ann Curry as the sole anchor of the NBC newsmagazine that recently was renewed for Saturdays in the fall and Sundays after football. Phillips had been with Dateline for 15 years.
"I'm profoundly appreciative of the many friends and colleagues, past and present, who have been a part of the 'Dateline' family," Phillips said. "This is a great news division with a bright future. I wish the people of NBC News all the best."
Phillips' departure is one of several cuts mandated by corporate that have hit NBC News, most recently the departure of John Siegenthaler from the anchor chair of the weekend NBC Nightly News. NBC decided that in the new TV environment it couldn't justify keeping someone whose primary job was anchoring the weekend news.
NBC said this month that Today co-host Lester Holt would stay longer and anchor the weekend news (HR 5/10).
Phillips' contract will not be renewed, leaving Today co-host Ann Curry as the sole anchor of the NBC newsmagazine that recently was renewed for Saturdays in the fall and Sundays after football. Phillips had been with Dateline for 15 years.
"I'm profoundly appreciative of the many friends and colleagues, past and present, who have been a part of the 'Dateline' family," Phillips said. "This is a great news division with a bright future. I wish the people of NBC News all the best."
Phillips' departure is one of several cuts mandated by corporate that have hit NBC News, most recently the departure of John Siegenthaler from the anchor chair of the weekend NBC Nightly News. NBC decided that in the new TV environment it couldn't justify keeping someone whose primary job was anchoring the weekend news.
NBC said this month that Today co-host Lester Holt would stay longer and anchor the weekend news (HR 5/10).
- 5/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LAS VEGAS -- Google president and CEO Eric Schmidt defended his company against antitrust allegations leveled by rivals about its proposed acquisition of DoubleClick in his address Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters convention.
Schmidt addressed a variety of issues affecting Google, including the imminent introduction of a long-awaited filtering system on YouTube and the company's potential impact on the radio and television advertising businesses.
Days after Google disclosed Friday that it was planning to pony up $3.1 billion for online advertising firm DoubleClick, execs at Microsoft Corp. and AT&T urged regulators to scrutinize the combination of the companies.
But in an interview at NAB with former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler, Schmidt refuted the notion that Google-DoubleClick amounted to unfair competition.
"The specific complaints Microsoft has made are clearly false," Schmidt said.
Alluding to Microsoft, he added: "Maybe they are well-practiced in their previous experience making these arguments, but it just doesn't make sense. A more likely scenario is they were unhappy because they were competitors of ours."
Brad Smith, senior vp and general counsel at Microsoft, said in a statement issued Sunday that the Google deal raises competition and privacy concerns.
Schmidt addressed a variety of issues affecting Google, including the imminent introduction of a long-awaited filtering system on YouTube and the company's potential impact on the radio and television advertising businesses.
Days after Google disclosed Friday that it was planning to pony up $3.1 billion for online advertising firm DoubleClick, execs at Microsoft Corp. and AT&T urged regulators to scrutinize the combination of the companies.
But in an interview at NAB with former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler, Schmidt refuted the notion that Google-DoubleClick amounted to unfair competition.
"The specific complaints Microsoft has made are clearly false," Schmidt said.
Alluding to Microsoft, he added: "Maybe they are well-practiced in their previous experience making these arguments, but it just doesn't make sense. A more likely scenario is they were unhappy because they were competitors of ours."
Brad Smith, senior vp and general counsel at Microsoft, said in a statement issued Sunday that the Google deal raises competition and privacy concerns.
- 4/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LAS VEGAS -- Google president and CEO Eric Schmidt defended his company against antitrust allegations leveled by rivals about its proposed acquisition of DoubleClick in his address Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters convention.
Schmidt addressed a variety of issues affecting Google, including the imminent introduction of a long-awaited filtering system on YouTube and the company's potential impact on the radio and television advertising businesses.
Days after Google disclosed Friday that it was planning to pony up $3.1 billion for online advertising firm DoubleClick, execs at Microsoft Corp. and AT&T urged regulators to scrutinize the combination of the companies.
But in an interview at NAB with former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler, Schmidt refuted the notion that Google-DoubleClick amounted to unfair competition.
"The specific complaints Microsoft has made are clearly false," Schmidt said.
Alluding to Microsoft, he added: "Maybe they are well-practiced in their previous experience making these arguments, but it just doesn't make sense. A more likely scenario is they were unhappy because they were competitors of ours."
Brad Smith, senior vp and general counsel at Microsoft, said in a statement issued Sunday that the Google deal raises competition and privacy concerns.
Schmidt addressed a variety of issues affecting Google, including the imminent introduction of a long-awaited filtering system on YouTube and the company's potential impact on the radio and television advertising businesses.
Days after Google disclosed Friday that it was planning to pony up $3.1 billion for online advertising firm DoubleClick, execs at Microsoft Corp. and AT&T urged regulators to scrutinize the combination of the companies.
But in an interview at NAB with former NBC News anchor John Seigenthaler, Schmidt refuted the notion that Google-DoubleClick amounted to unfair competition.
"The specific complaints Microsoft has made are clearly false," Schmidt said.
Alluding to Microsoft, he added: "Maybe they are well-practiced in their previous experience making these arguments, but it just doesn't make sense. A more likely scenario is they were unhappy because they were competitors of ours."
Brad Smith, senior vp and general counsel at Microsoft, said in a statement issued Sunday that the Google deal raises competition and privacy concerns.
- 4/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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