40 awards were presented at the 2015 Peabody Awards on Sunday, May 31 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, New York. The Peabody Awards recognize excellent public work by American radio, television, networks, online media, producing organizations, and individuals. It is presented by the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia. The 74th Annual awards show was hosted by actor Fred Armisen.
The show will air on Pivot on June 21, 2015 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The awards collection are stored at Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. More formerly called the George Foster Peabody Awards, the ceremony was established in 1940. The awards are named after the late philanthropist George Foster Peabody who devoted his life and fortune to works of public service.
List of Peabody Award Winners:
1) 60 Words - WNYC Radio
2) "Adventure Time' - Cartoon Network
3) "American Experience: Freedom Summer' - PBS
4) "Betrayed By Silence' - MPR News
5) Black Mirror
6) "Children on the Frontline' - Channel 4
7) "Chris Christie, White House Ambitions and the Abuse of Power' - www.WNYC.org
8) CNN Investigative Reports: Crisis at the VA - CNN
9) CNN's Coverage of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls - CNN
10) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
11) "Doc McStuffins' - Disney Junior
12) Ebola - BBC World Service
13) Entre El Abandono Y El Rechazo (Between Abandonment and Rejections) - Univision
14) Fargo
15) Frontline: United States of Secrets
16) Human Harvest: China's Illegal Organ Trade - International Syndication
17) Independent Lens: Brakeless
18) Inside Amy Schumer
19) Institutional Award: Afropop Worldwide
20) Isis - Continuing Covering - NBC, MSNBC
21) "Jane the Virgin'
22) Last Chance High - Vice News
23) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
24) Latina USA: Gangs, Murder, and Migration In Honduras - NPR
25) Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
26) Personal Award: Sir David Attenborough
27) POV: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
28) Rectify
29) Reporting from the Frontlines: The Ebola Outbreak - NPR
30) Serial - www.SerialPodcast.org
31) Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa
32) State of the Re:Union - NPR and PRX
33) The Americans
34) The Cost of Troubled Minds - KVUE-TV
35) The Honorable Woman
36) The Islamic State - Vice News
37) The Knick
38) The Newburgh Sling - HBO
39) Under the Radar - Scripps Washington Bureau
40) Virguna
