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1998
Peabody Award Winners
Written
By Rick Ellis
This year's
Peabody Awards for Excellence were given out on Wednesday, and
the big winner was PBS. One-third of the 33 awards went to programs
that aired on PBS stations or to a PBS executive. The big winner
for the other networks was producer David E. Kelley, who won for
both The Practice and Ally McBeal.
Linda Ellerbee
won a Peabody, for her "Nick News" program which attempted
to explain Presidnet Clinton's impeachment to children. The head
of Peabody's national advisory board, Neil Aronstam, said the
committee consciously made Ellerbee the only winner for coverage
of the Monica Lewinsky scandal during a year the story dominated
the news. "Ellerbee's straightforward explanations to her young
audience proved to be the most insightful telling of the story
to children and adults alike," he said.
Other winners
included CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour for her international
reporting on CNN and CBS's 60 Minutes; HBO's The Larry
Sanders Show won its second Peabody award for "Flip," the series'
final episode. Two network newsmagazines won: CBS's now-defunct
Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel, for a report by Carol Marin,
and Dateline NBC, for a report by Maria Shriver.
Here
are the Winners of the 1998 George Foster Peabody Awards:
"Coverage
of Africa," National Public Radio and correspondent Charlayne
Hunter-Gault.
"Sisterhood
of Hope," a portrait of an organization that treats HIV-infected
women, by WHAS Radio in Louisville, Ky.
"I Must Keep
Fightin': The Art of Paul Robeson," by National Public Radio.
"Performance
Today," by National Public Radio.
"The Reckoning,"
a story about a burn victim by correspondent Carol Marin and producer
Don Moseley on CBS's "Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel."
Christiane
Amanpour, for international reporting on CNN and CBS's "60 Minutes."
"The Olympic
Bribery Scandal," an investigation by reporter Chris Vanocur and
KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City.
"Frontline:
Washington's Other Scandal," a report on campaign fund raising
by Bill Moyers and WGBH/Frontline, Washington Media Associates
and Public Affairs Television.
"About Race,"
on KRON-TV in San Francisco.
"The Human
Body," a series produced by BBC and The Learning Channel.
"Africans
in America: America's Journey Through Slavery," a documentary
produced by WGBH-TV in Boston.
"Travis,"
a film about an AIDS-infected boy, produced by Richard Kotuk for
ITVS and City People Productions.
"Frank Lloyd
Wright," a portrait of the architect by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
for Florentine Films and WETA-TV in Washington.
"When Good
Men Do Nothing," a documentary on the Rwandan genocide produced
by the BBC and WGBH-TV in Boston.
"American
Masters: Alexander Calder," a portrait of the artist produced
by Thirteen/WNET in New York and Florentine Films/Sherman Pictures.
"Cold War,"
CNN's documentary series, together with CD-ROM and Internet materials,
by Jeremy Isaacs Productions and CNN Productions.
"The American
Experience: Riding the Rails," about teen-age hobos during the
Depression, produced by The American Experience, The American
History Project, Out of the Blue Productions and WGBH Educational
Foundation.
"Dateline
NBC: Checks and Balances," a newsmagazine story on the transition
from welfare to work.
"The American
Experience: America 1900," a documentary produced by The American
Experience, David Grubin Productions and WGBH Educational Foundation.
"Christopher,"
a story about organ donation on WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Ind.
"The Bear,"
a children's program on TVC and Channel 4 in London.
HBO Sports
Documentaries, HBO's series of programs on Sugar Ray Robinson,
Joe DiMaggio and the American Basketball Association.
"Dr. Katz:
Professional Therapist," the Comedy Central cartoon made by Comedy
Central, Tom Snyder Productions and Popular Arts Entertainment
in association with HBO Downtown Productions.
"Mobil Masterpiece
Theatre: King Lear," Shakespeare's story told by Chestermead Production
for the BBC in London and WGBH-TV in Boston.
"Shot Through
the Heart," an HBO documentary on Yugoslavia by director David
Attwood.
"The Baby
Dance," a movie on open adoption by Showtime Network, Egg Pictures
and Pacific Motion Pictures.
"The Practice,"
the ABC courtroom drama by David E. Kelley Productions.
"NYPD Blue:
Raging Bulls," an episode about racial intolerance on the ABC
series, by David Bochco Productions.
"Ally McBeal,"
the Fox comedy by David E. Kelley Productions.
"The Larry
Sanders Show: Flip," the final episode of the HBO comedy series,
produced by HBO and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment.
Linda Ellerbee,
host of Nickelodeon's "Nick News," for her coverage of the Clinton
impeachment scandal.
Jac Venza,
for presenting arts programming like "Great Performances" and
"American Masters."
Robert Halmi
Sr., for his television dramas.
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