ATHENS, Ga. --- Stories about wounded Iraq veterans, reported by war-wounded TV journalists, won Peabody Awards on Wednesday.
Peabodys went to "Wounds of War -- The Long Road Home for Our Nation's Veterans," a series of reports by ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, and to "CBS News Sunday Morning: "The Way Home" for Kimberly Dozier's piece about two female veterans who lost limbs in Iraq.
Mr. Woodruff and Ms. Dozier survived near-fatal attacks while on assignment in Iraq.
Another CBS News series, 60 Minutes , won for Scott Pelley's report, "The Killings in Haditha."
Thirty-five recipients of the 67th annual George Foster Peabody awards were announced by the University of Georgia in Athens. The awards for broadcasting excellence in both news and entertainment will be handed out at a ceremony in New York on June 16 hosted by NBC news anchor Brian Williams.
"The range of genres, the variety of topics and the consistently high quality of submissions for Peabody consideration indicated again that amazing work is being done in electronic media," Peabody Awards Director Horace Newcomb said in a statement. "The Peabody Board labored through many hours of discussion and deliberation to select these works from among more than 1,000 outstanding entries."
Awards also went to Discovery's Planet Earth , which used HDTV technology to showcase natural wonders of the world; Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn -- Lush Life , a portrait of Duke Ellington's musical collaborator; NATURE: Silence of the Bees , an inquiry into the decline in the world's honeybee population from Thirteen/WNET; and WGBH-TV Boston's Design Squad , an engineering competition for young people.
Awards for entertainment series went to 30 Rock , NBC; and Project Runway , Bravo's fashion-designer competition.
LIST OF PEABODY AWARD WINNERS
- 30 Rock, Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video Television and Little Stranger Inc.
- Art: 21, Art in the 21st Century, Art: 21 Inc.
- Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, American Public Radio.
- Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War -- The Long Road Home of Our Nation's Veterans, ABC News.
- Money for Nothing, the Buried and the Dead, Television Justice, Kinder Prison, WFAA-TV of Dallas.
- Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation, Vulcan Productions Inc., The Big Table Film Co.
- Whole Lotta Shakin', Texas Heritage Music Foundation.
- White Horse, BBC World News America, BBC America, BBC World.
- Just Words, The Center for Emerging Media.
- CNN Presents: God's Warriors, CNN.
- Dexter, Showtime, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Co., Clyde Phillips Productions.
- Planet Earth, Discovery Channel, BBC.
- CBS News Sunday Morning, "The Way Home," CBS News.
- Fight for Open Records, WTAE-TV of Pittsburgh
- To Die in Jerusalem, HBO Documentary Films in association with Priddy Brothers.
- Design Squad, WGBH Educational Foundation.
- Craft in America: Memory, Landscape and Community, Craft in America Inc.
- Univision's Ya Es Hora, Univision Communications.
- NATURE: Silence of the Bees, Partisan Pictures Inc., Thirteen/WNET New York.
- A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses, Balkan News Corp. -- bTV of Bulgaria.
- The MTT Files, American Public Media, San Francisco Symphony.
- Project Runway, Bravo, The Weinstein Co., The Magical Elves, Full Picture.
- Taxi to the Dark Side, Jigsaw Pictures, Tall Woods, Wider Film, ZDF/ARTE.
- Security Risks at Sky Harbor, KNXV-TV of Phoenix.
- Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!, National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio, Urgent Haircut Productions.
- Independent Lens: Sisters in Law, Vixen Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS).
- Virginia Tech Shooting: The First 48 Hours, WSLS-TV of Roanoke, Va.
- The Brian Lehrer Show: Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides, WNYC Radio of New York.
- Nimrod Nation, Sundance Channel, Public Road Productions, Wieden and Kennedy.
- FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law, FRONTLINE, Kirk Documentary Group Ltd., WGBH-Boston.
- mtvU: Half of Us, mtvU.
- Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn -- Lush Life, Robert Levi Films, Independent Television Service (ITVS).
- 60 Minutes, "The Killings in Haditha", CBS News, 60 Minutes.
- Mad Men, AMC, Lionsgate Pictures Television.
- The Colbert Report, Hello Doggie Inc., Busboy Productions, Spartina Productions.
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