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Peabody Award

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Also known as: George Foster Peabody Award
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John M. Cunningham
John M. Cunningham graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000 with a B.A. in English. He worked at Britannica from 2004 to 2018. A student of pop culture and the arts, he wrote about popular (and semipopular)...
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George Foster Peabody Award
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Peabody Award, any of the awards administered annually by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in recognition of outstanding public service and achievement in electronic media. Recipients are organizations and individuals involved in the production or distribution of content for such outlets as radio, broadcast and cable television, and the Internet. Because of their academic affiliation and reputation for discernment, the awards are held in high esteem within the media industry. Each year the Peabody Board—a select panel of scholars, critics, and media professionals—collects submissions of content aired or otherwise distributed during the previous calendar ...(100 of 294 words)

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