Local media take home Peabody Awards

KSTP and American Public Media among 39 recipients.

March 31, 2011 at 4:48PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced this morning with a record-breaking 39 recipients - including two with local ties.

KSTP was recognized for "Who Killed Doc," an investigation of a Minnesota sailor's accidental electrocution in Iraq.

American Public Media, based in St. Paul, got nods for producing "The Promised Land," a forum for conversation about the environment and justice, hosted by Majora Carter.

Other winners:

"The Pacific,"

"Men of a Certain Age,"

"Reel Injun: On the Trail of the American Indian,"

"The Good Wife"

"Justified"

"The Moth Radio Hour"

"Sherlock: A Study in Pink"

"Temple Grandin"

"Degrassi"

"Lennon/NYC"

"Elia Kazan: A Letter to Elia"

"WIlliam Kentridge: Anything is Possible"

"Macbeth"

"Radiolab"

"Lucia's Letter"

"Trafficked"

"Covering Pakistan: War, Flood and Social Issues"

"Behind the Bail Bond System"

"Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes"

"Reality Check: Where are the Jobs?"

"Bitter Lessons"

"The Lord is not on Trial Here Today"

C-Span's Video Library

CNN's coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill

"If God is WIlling and Da Creek Don't Rise"

"Wonders of the Solar System with Brian Cox"

"Magic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals"

"30 For 30"

"My Lai"

"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

"The Wounded Patrol"

"THe Cost of War" a Washington Post website series

"For Neda"

"12th and Delaware"

"Burma VJ"

"Zimbabwe's Forgotten Children"

"Report on a New Generation of Migrant Workers in China"

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