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The Peabody Awards has named 30 programs as the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. The Peabody 30 are the best of nearly 1,300 entries submitted from television, radio/podcasts, and the web across the genres of entertainment, news, documentary, children’s and public service programming.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Peabody Awards Ceremony—originally slated to take place in Los Angeles for the first time on June 18—is canceled. In lieu of the live event, many recipients recorded acceptance speeches. (Note: Almost all were recorded prior to the protests over the George Floyd killing and police brutality.)

See all of the winners here: peabodyawards.com/stories/story/peabody-30-winners

Sarah Timberman - Peabody Award acceptance for Unbelievable from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Drawing from a true story, Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon expertly pen a rape investigation for the #MeToo era, showing not just what police work should look like, but what a mediated account of rape should entail. With standout performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, the series serves as a model for how storytellers can implore society to believe women but also how to shift the ways we talk about rape.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable

Merritt Wever - Peabody Award acceptance for Unbelievable from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Drawing from a true story, Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon expertly pen a rape investigation for the #MeToo era, showing not just what police work should look like, but what a mediated account of rape should entail. With standout performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, the series serves as a model for how storytellers can implore society to believe women but also how to shift the ways we talk about rape.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable

Susannah Grant - Peabody Award acceptance for Unbelievable from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Drawing from a true story, Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon expertly pen a rape investigation for the #MeToo era, showing not just what police work should look like, but what a mediated account of rape should entail. With standout performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, the series serves as a model for how storytellers can implore society to believe women but also how to shift the ways we talk about rape.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable

Kaitlyn Dever - Peabody Award acceptance for Unbelievable from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Drawing from a true story, Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon expertly pen a rape investigation for the #MeToo era, showing not just what police work should look like, but what a mediated account of rape should entail. With standout performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, the series serves as a model for how storytellers can implore society to believe women but also how to shift the ways we talk about rape.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable

Ed Lavandera - Peabody Award acceptance for The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

This revealing look at undocumented workers in the United States takes the focus away from the border and places us instead in the American Midwest to show how vital immigrants have become to the heartland—humanizing them and their contributions to the social, economic, and cultural fabric of the nation.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-hidden-workforce-undocumented-in-america

Ayelet Waldman & Michael Chabon - Peabody Award acceptance for Unbelievable from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Drawing from a true story, Susannah Grant, Ayelet Waldman, and Michael Chabon expertly pen a rape investigation for the #MeToo era, showing not just what police work should look like, but what a mediated account of rape should entail. With standout performances from Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever, the series serves as a model for how storytellers can implore society to believe women but also how to shift the ways we talk about rape.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/unbelievable

Surviving R. Kelly - Peabody Award acceptance from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

This explosive six-part series, based on interviews with women who survived alleged sexual abuse from R&B superstar R. Kelly, chronicles the complicity of a music industry and fans who turned a blind eye to multiple allegations as the singer rose to staggering heights of fame. The result is a powerful exploration of celebrity, the double standard of justice around gender and race, and how speaking truth can effect change.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/surviving-r-kelly

Amy Martin - Peabody Award acceptance for Threshold: The Refuge from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Host Amy Martin reveals the tangle of traditional culture, economic aspirations, spiritual practices, protest movements, and political deal-making that shape current environmental policies in this five-part series on the battle over the future of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A superb account of environmental activism, Alaska Native rights, and the politics of oil and gas exploration features indigenous voices discussing their own futures.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-refuge

Simon Lereng Wilmont - Peabody Award acceptance for The Distant Barking of Dogs from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Simon Lereng Wilmont's beautiful, moving, and nuanced documentary chronicles life in a war zone through the eyes of a child. The story of an Eastern Ukrainian boy and his fiercely devoted grandmother pits the harsh realities of war against the innocence of childhood in a gracefully edited collection of cinéma vérité moments.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/pov-the-distant-barking-of-dogs

Matt & Ross Duffer - Peabody Award acceptance for Stranger Things from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Writer-producers Matt and Ross Duffer perform yet another masterful act of chemistry, mixing homages to a cavalcade of 1980s media to create a show that bubbles over with original fun and inclusiveness in its third season. Part science fiction, part horror, part government conspiracy drama, it fleet-footedly veers between modes and expectations, keeping viewers on their toes and the edge of their seats.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/stranger-things-season-3

Long Island Divided - Peabody Award acceptance from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

This three-year-long investigation of housing discrimination and its impact on Long Island's suburban towns and communities is local investigative journalism at its best. Through compelling documentary, data journalism, and hidden cameras, "Long Island Divided" shows the personal toll and collective impact on individuals and families subjected to the everyday practices of racial discrimination institutionalized by the real estate industry.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/long-island-divided

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar - Peabody Award acceptance for The Silence of Others from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar offer a stunning reflection on fascism, memory and forgetting by documenting the struggle of victims seeking legal redress for torture and other human rights abuses committed during Spain’s General Franco’s dictatorial reign. The film serves as a cautionary tale of fascism, its enduring wounds, and enduring presence.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/pov-the-silence-of-others

Laura Nix - Peabody Award acceptance for Inventing Tomorrow from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

Laura Nix's inspiring profile of six amazing teenage scientists from around the world serves not only as a celebration of science, of knowledge, and of sheer ingenuity, but as a celebration of young people working to solve the problems gifted to them by prior generations.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/pov-inventing-tomorrow

Dorothea Gillim - Peabody Award acceptance for Molly of Denali from Peabody Awards on Vimeo.

While American media depicts indigenous characters almost entirely in historical settings, the charming story of Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl who helps her parents run the Denali Trading Post, represents these traditions as a living culture with much to offer at the current moment—from environmental consciousness to community belonging to creative expression.

Read the full winner's citation: peabodyawards.com/award-profile/molly-of-denali

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