Peabody Award Winners Include ABC News, CNN... And Stephen Colbert?
The Peabody Awards are described by a writer at the Chicago Tribune as doing “a much, much better job of honoring excellence in television than the Emmy organization ever has.”
Which is why it’s newsworthy that among a list of winners that included ABC News (for a Bob Woodruff special), BBC World News America and CNN (for the God’s Warriors series), The Colbert Report received a Peabody Award.
Here’s the Peabody nominating staff’s reasoning for nominating the Colbert Report:
“Let none dare call it “truthiness.”
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in