HBO's 'Insecure,' 'S-Town' Podcast Among Peabody Winners

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Hasan Minhaj will host the 77th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony on May 19.

Every year, the George Foster Peabody Awards honor “stories that matter.” Founded and archived at the University of Georgia, the awards are often called the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast.

Between several categories — individual/institutional, documentary, entertainment, news, radio/podcast and public service — 60 finalists are chosen. From those 60, the Peabody Awards board of jurors selects 30 winners. The board's decisions must be unanimous.

This year's winners include HBO's "Insecure," Netflix's "Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King," Vice News's coverage of the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the "S-Town podcast" from This American Life and Serial.

On Second Thought host Adam Ragusea speaks with Jeffrey P. Jones, Peabody Awards director and University of Georgia professor.

We spoke with Peabody Awards executive director and UGA professor Jeffrey P. Jones about what makes the winners Peabody-worthy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdKqUMZi5-I

Peabody Award Winners

Entertainment

• American Vandal (Netflix)
• Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (Netflix) 
• Insecure (HBO)
• Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
• Saturday Night Live: Political Satire 2017 (NBC) 
• The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)

Children's/Youth Entertainment 

• A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) 

Documentary

• America ReFramed: Deej (WORLD Channel) 
• Chasing Coral (Netflix)
• Indivisible (Fuse/Linear Broadcast)
• Last Men in Aleppo (PBS)
• Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (PBS/WNET/TV)
• Newtown (PBS)
• Oklahoma City (PBS/WGBH Education Foundation)
• The Islands and the Whales (PBS)
• TIME: The Kalief Browder Story (Spike)

News

• "Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride" (NBC5/KXAS)
• "Charlottesville: Race & Terror" (HBO)
• "Fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria" (CNN)
• "Inside Putin's Russia” (PBS/WETA)
• "Plight of Rohingya Refugees" (BBC World News) 
• "The Whistleblower" (CBS)

Radio/Podcast

• Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S. (NPR, ProPublica) 
• 74 Seconds (Minnesota Public Radio, American Public Media)            
• S-Town (Serial, This American Life)                  
• The Pope's Long Con (Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, Louisville Public Media) 
• Uncivil: The Raid (Gimlet Media)         

Public Service

• The Cut: Exploring FGM (Al Jazeera)         

Peabody Career Achievement Award

• Carol Burnett

Institutional Award

• 60 Minutes (CBS)