The Peabody Board of Jurors has revealed its 2019 winners in the News and Radio/Podcast categories, rounding out the Peabody 30 for programs released in 2018.
Honorees represent investigative reporting with far-reaching impact, from local news reports on faulty drug tests to international reporting using innovative forensic technology to solve the murders of women and children; podcasts grappling with the South’s complicated racial history and current redlining policies designed to keep people of color out of neighborhoods, and reports on how rape culture works systemically that also give voice and agency to women survivors of sexual abuse.
The jurors also unanimously chose to highlight ProPublica for the first-ever Peabody Catalyst Award for a story that brought immediate change to a controversial government practice of family separation at the border. The independent, nonprofit newsroom made headlines in June 2018 for…
