# List of Peabody Award winners (2000–2009)

The following is a list of George Foster Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions during the decade of the 2000s.

## 2000

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Marty Haag | Personal Award for his work as news director at WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX and as senior vice-president of Broadcast News Operations for Belo |
| CBS News | 48 Hours (anchored by Dan Rather), for the report "Heroes Under Fire" by Bill Lagattuta, which examined the cause and aftermath of the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse fire |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes II, for the report "Death by Denial", reported by Ed Bradley, which examined the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in Africa |
| NBC News | Dateline NBC, for the report "The Paper Chase" from correspondent John Larson and reporter Andy Lehren, a look at a "paper file review" of one auto accident victim's medical claim |
| KHOU/Houston, TX | "Treading on Danger," an investigation by KHOU's Investigative Unit, led by David Raziq, and reporter Anna Werner of failures of Firestone tires on Ford vehicles |
| KBS Chong-Ju | An Eighty-Four Year Old Youngful Man Lives in the Cabin, directed by Hyun Jin Hong |
| WJXT/Jacksonville, FL | Behind Closed Doors, a documentary anchored by Deborah Gianoulis examining treatment of domestic violence victims at Hubbard House |
| P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., National Asian American Telecommunications Association, and Sun Fountain Productions | Regret to Inform |
| HBO, Whiteford-Hadary, University of Maryland, and Tapestry International | King Gimp |
| Wall to Wall for Channel 4 in association with WNET/New York, NY | The 1900 House |
| Heartlove Productions, Lovett Productions, HBO | Cancer: Evolution to Revolution, directed by Joseph F. Lovett and narrated by Lilly Tartikoff |
| WGBH-TV (Boston, MA)/Frontline, co-produced with Rain Media Inc. and Cam Bay Productions | Frontline, for Drug Wars, a documentary about the war on drugs, produced by Martin Smith and with contributors including Lowell Bergman, Doug Hamilton, Kenneth Levis, Brooke Runnette, and Oriana Zill |
| HBO Sports | Ali-Frazier 1: One Nation...Divisible, produced by Joseph M. Lavine and Jonathan Crystal |
| CNN Productions, Insight News Television, and Channel Four International | CNN Perspectives: Cry Freetown |
| David Grubin Productions Inc. and Devillier Donegan Enterprises (aired on PBS) | Napoleon, a four-part series on Napoleon directed by David Grubin |
| BBC, Discovery Channel, and TV Asahi, in association with ProSieben and France 3 | Walking with Dinosaurs |
| Marketplace Productions/Minnesota Public Radio, in association with the University of Southern California | Marketplace |
| Sound Portraits Productions | Witness to an Execution, a feature story on NPR's All Things Considered produced by Jim Willett, Stacy Abramson, David Isay, and David Miller profiling capital punishment in Texas |
| National Public Radio | "The NPR 100," a showcase of "the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century", airing on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition and produced by Elizabeth Blair |
| True Vision Productions Ltd. for Channel 4 in association with HBO | Slavery, a film by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods on contemporary slavery on multiple continents |
| Katie Couric and NBC News | Award for Couric's series "Confronting Colon Cancer" |
| Learning Matters Inc. and The Merrow Report (aired on PBS) | School Sleuth: The Case of an Excellent School, produced and presented by John Merrow |
| WGBH-TV/Boston, MA and Cinar | Arthur |
| Idaho Public Television and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare | Hearts and Minds: Teens and Mental Illness, produced by Marcia Franklin |
| WGBH-TV (Boston, MA) Science Unit and Production Group, Inc. | Building Big |
| NBC and John Wells Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television | The West Wing |
| HBO, Chase Films, and Brad Grey Television | The Sopranos |
| Robert Greenwald Productions Inc. and Pearson Television International (distributor) (aired on CBS) | Sharing the Secret |
| BBC America and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, for David Copperfield |
| A&E Networks and Columbia TriStar Television in association with Chris/Rose Productions Inc. | The Crossing |
| Blown Deadline Productions, Knee Deep Productions, and HBO | The Corner |
| Fox, Satin City, and Regency Television | Malcolm in the Middle |
| Mad Cow Productions Inc. in association with Comedy Central | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, for its Indecision 2000 series |
| Tiger Aspect Productions for NVC Arts and Channel 4 | Howard Goodall's Big Bangs |

## 2001

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News | Separate awards for the networks' coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks |
| National Public Radio | Separate awards for the networks' coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks |
| Tenth Planet Productions and the U.S. broadcast and cable networks | America: A Tribute to Heroes |
| NBC and John Wells Productions | Third Watch, for "In Their Own Words," a stand-alone profile of real-life responders to the 9/11 attack on New York City |
| Hardcash Productions, Channel 4, and CNN Productions | CNN Presents, for the documentaries Beneath the Veil and Unholy War |
| Touchstone Television (aired on ABC) | Anne Frank: The Whole Story |
| WNET/New York, NY | American Masters, for F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams |
| WCPO-TV/Cincinnati | Visions of Vine Street, an "I-Team" documentary profiling the Cincinnati thoroughfare and the adjacent Over-the-Rhine neighborhood (the epicenter of an April 2001 riot) and the issues that affect the area |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | "A Murder in the Neighbourhood," a report airing on Sunday Edition that profiled a murder in Pickering, Ontario and its effects on the victim's neighbors |
| Television Broadcasts Limited | WTO Challenge |
| Brook Lapping Productions for BBC2, in association with WGBH/Boston, MA, RTÉ, La Sept ARTE, SBS, and YLE | Endgame in Ireland |
| 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, Luna Ray Films, Black Starz!, KQED/San Francisco, PBS and Black Heritage Network | A Huey P. Newton Story |
| Carlton Production in association with The Learning Channel for Channel 4 | Hell in the Pacific |
| HBO Films, produced in association with the BBC | Conspiracy |
| Showtime, Echo Lake Productions, and Sidekick Entertainment Productions | Things Behind the Sun |
| Avenue Pictures in association with HBO Films | Wit |
| Wilmore Films, Regency Television, and 20th Century Fox Television | The Bernie Mac Show |
| Peter Rosen Productions Inc., KERA-TV/Dallas, TX, and the Van Cliburn Foundation | The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge |
| Survival Anglia Ltd. (aired on National Geographic EXPLORER/MSNBC) | Mzima – Haunt of the Riverhorse |
| Slow Motion Ltd. (produced for BBC) and WGBH/Boston, MA | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, for Talking Heads II – Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet |
| Ciesla Foundation and Cinemax | The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg |
| Independent Television Service, Paul & Sandra Fierlinger, and AR&T Associates, Inc. (aired on Independent Lens/PBS) | Still Life with Animated Dogs |
| SoundVision Productions (distributed by NPR) | The DNA Files |
| Norman Twain Productions with Shelby Stone Productions in association with HBO Films | Boycott |
| Teachers Documentary Project (aired on PBS) | The First Year |
| National Film Board of Canada (aired on TVOntario's The View from Here) | My Father's Camera |
| Youth Radio | Institutional Award for the media outlet and its training of teenagers in the art of radio production and storytelling |
| Nickelodeon | Little Bill |
| Nickelodeon | Blue's Clues |
| WGBH/Boston, MA | Institutional Award for its overall excellence in public broadcasting |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes II, for "Memories of a Massacre," which recounted the Thanh Phong raid during the Vietnam War |
| Band of Brothers Ltd., on behalf of DreamWorks and Playtone | Band of Brothers |
| Nightline | Institutional Award to the ABC News program |
| National Public Radio | Jazz Profiles |

## 2002

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News | Nightline, for "Heart of Darkness," a series of reports on the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| ABC News | Nightline, for "The Survivors," a profile of 2 burn victims of the 9/11 attack on The Pentagon (parts 1 and 2) |
| ALT Films, in association with Paramount Pictures for WGBH/Boston, MA (presented on PBS) | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collection: Almost a Woman |
| London Weekend Television Production for WGBH/Boston, MA, in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (presented on PBS) | ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre: Othello |
| BBC Radio 4, London, UK | File on 4, for "Export Controls," a report revealing how "rogue nations" procured equipment from British companies for use in their nuclear arms programs |
| Blue Angel Films Ltd., and Tyrone Productions for WNET/New York, NY | Stage on Screen: Beckett on Film |
| CBS | 9/11 |
| CNN | Terror on Tape |
| Court TV, JB Media, and Hearst Entertainment | The Interrogation of Michael Crowe |
| David E. Kelley Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television | Boston Public, for "Chapter Thirty-Seven," an episode that dealt with the use of racial epithets in conversation and its impact |
| ESPN, Bristol, Connecticut, and Lake Champlain Productions | The Complete Angler (featuring James Prosek) |
| Fuji Television Network Inc., Tokyo, Japan | The Hepatitis C Epidemic: A 15-Year Government Cover-up |
| Greenblatt/Janollari Studios and Actual Size Films Inc., in association with HBO Original Programming | Six Feet Under |
| HBO and Simmons/Lathan TV | Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry |
| Kitchen Sisters, Sonic Memorial Collaboration, NPR's Lost & Found Sound, Ben Shapiro Productions, Jamie York Productions, Jay Allison Productions, Radio Diaries, The Public Collaboration, Picture Projects with dotsperinch | The Sonic Memorial Project and SonicMemorial.org, for the aural chronicling of life around the World Trade Center |
| KPRC-TV/Houston, TX | "DNA Protects Men of Dishonor," an investigation into prevention of DNA evidence being used in rape cases in the US Military |
| NBC Studios in association with DreamWorks Television Inc. and Nemo Films | Boomtown |
| Nebraska ETV Network for American Experience, a production of WGBH/Boston (presented on PBS) | American Experience: Monkey Trial |
| Public Television Service Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan | How High is the Mountain |
| WNET/New York, NY | EGG, the Arts Show |
| Quest Productions and Video Line Productions for WNET/New York, NY (presented on PBS) | The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow |
| Scott Free Productions, in association with HBO Films and BBC Films | The Gathering Storm |
| SET Productions and C-Films Productions for WGBH/Boston, in association with France2, Abu Dhabi Television, and Tel-Ad Israel (presented on PBS) | Frontline: Shattered Dreams of Peace, The Road From Oslo |
| Showtime Networks Inc., in association with Viacom Productions Inc., and A Jersey Guys Production | Bang Bang You're Dead |
| Sound Portraits Productions (presented on National Public Radio) | Yiddish Radio Project |
| Talkback Productions for BBC America via BBC Films and Single Drama | Almost Strangers |
| Turner Network Television, Rosemont Productions International Ltd., Angel Brown Productions, in association with Spirit Dance Productions | Door to Door |
| WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Radio | Stories of Home |
| WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX | "Fake Drugs, Real Lives," a series of reports revealing contrived drug cases investigated by Dallas police |
| WISN-TV/Milwaukee, WI | "Sounding the Alarm," a report revealing the lack of effectiveness of smoke alarms on children |
| York Zimmerman Inc., in association with WETA-TV/Washington, D.C. (presented on PBS) | Bringing Down a Dictator |

## 2003

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes, for the report "All in the Family," (presented by Steve Kroft) which examined political and financial ties between those in the US government and winners of Defense Department contracts |
| NBC News | A Question of Fairness, a Tom Brokaw-led report that profiled the effects of affirmative action on the University of Michigan |
| Firelight Media for American Experience and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA (airing on PBS) | American Experience, for The Murder of Emmett Till |
| Frontline, The New York Times, and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA (airing on PBS) | Frontline, for "A Dangerous Business," which examined deaths and injuries suffered by employees of McWane, a cast-iron pipe maker (Lowell Bergman and David Barstow, correspondents) |
| NOVA/WGBH-TV/Boston, MA, in association with David Hickman Films, Sveriges Television and Norddeutscher Rundfunk (presented on PBS) | NOVA, for "The Elegant Universe with Brian Greene" |
| WNET/New York, NY, co-produced with Idéale Audience, Scorer Associates Ltd., BBC, ARTE France, Opéra National de Paris and NHK, with the participation of Musée d'Orsay, AVRO, and SVT (airing on PBS) | Great Performances, for Degas and the Dance |
| P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., Independent Television Service, and National Black Programming Consortium (presented on PBS) | P.O.V., for Two Towns of Jasper, a film on the Murder of James Byrd Jr. directed by Whitney Dow and Marco Williams |
| P.O.V./American Documentary Inc., Independent Television Service, Zula Pearl Films, and National Black Programming Consortium (presented on PBS) | P.O.V., for Flag Wars |
| Minnesota Public Radio in association with the San Francisco Symphony | American Mavericks, directed by Tom Voegeli and hosted by Suzanne Vega, based on the writings of Kyle Gann |
| WESH/Orlando, FL and The Orlando Sentinel | "Building Homes: Building Problems," a joint investigation into shoddy workmanship in Central Florida's building industry |
| The Irish Film Board, NPS & COBO, RTÉ, BBC, ZDF/ARTE, and YLE (presented on ARTE) | Chavez: Inside the Coup |
| Viacom, Kaiser Family Foundation, MTV, Noggin/The N, Dancing Toad Productions | Award for the Know HIV/AIDS and Fight For Your Rights: Protect Yourself campaigns. The award also cited the MTV documentary The Social History of HIV and Living with HIV/AIDS, an episode of The N's A Walk in Your Shoes |
| Viacom International, Mango Network, Nickelodeon, and MTV (presented on Nickelodeon) | Dora the Explorer |
| KHOU/Houston, TX | "Evidence of Errors," an investigation into mistakes made by the Houston Police Department's DNA crime lab |
| KMGH-TV/Denver, CO | "Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy," a series of reports examining sexual assaults at the United States Air Force Academy |
| The University of Memphis (presented on AETN and WKNO-TV/Memphis, TN) | Hoxie: The First Stand, a documentary by David Appleby about the integration of Arkansas' Hoxie School District |
| BBC (presented on BBC America) | The Office |
| BBC Correspondent Production (presented on BBC2) | Israel's Secret Weapon, a report by Olenka Frenkiel airing on BBC2's Correspondent series examining the secrecy behind Israel's nuclear weapons production |
| The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions | Award for "Jobless Recovery: Non-Working Numbers," Paul Solman's report examining the inadequacy of government unemployment data |
| WCNC-TV/Charlotte, NC | Award for an investigation into dental clinics in North Carolina who sought millions of dollars in Medicaid reimbursement |
| TV Asahi | Mother Flew Away as a Kite |
| Bill Moyers | Personal Award for Moyers' career of "excellence in the use of television to educate, inform, and challenge received ideas" |
| Down to Earth Productions (presented on WEKU/Richmond, KY) | Sisters in Pain |
| Bachrach/Gottlieb Production (presented on Showtime) | Soldier's Girl |
| KRON-TV/San Francisco, CA and Young Broadcasting | Students Rising Above, a series hosted by Wendy Tokuda and reported by Noel Cisneros and Catherine Heenan about at-risk high school students |
| Blown Deadline Productions in association with HBO Original Programming | The Wire |
| TV 2 (Denmark), Cinemax, HBO, and BBC | To Live is Better Than to Die, a film about HIV/AIDS in China directed by Weijun Chen |
| Christian Frei Filmproductions in association with Swiss National Television and Suissimage and Cinemax (presented on HBO) | War Photographer |
| Atlantic Public Media | Award for the Transom.org website and its showcasing of and resource for public radio producers |

## 2004

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| CBS News | 60 Minutes II, for a report by Dan Rather examining abuse and torture of prisoners by US Army and CIA personnel at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison |
| National Public Radio | Award for the network's reportage of the Iraq War by Anne Garrels, Ivan Watson, Deborah Amos, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Emily Harris, Peter Kenyon, Phillip Reeves, Eric Westervelt, Tom Gjelten, and Mike Shuster |
| WNYC/New York, NY and National Public Radio | On the Media |
| WNYC/New York, NY and Public Radio International | Studio 360 American Icons, for the episode examining Herman Melville's Moby-Dick |
| Wisconsin Public Radio and Public Radio International | To the Best of Our Knowledge |
| Endor Productions in association with BBC and BBC America | State of Play |
| Hat Trick Productions and BBC America | The Kumars at No. 42 |
| BBC Television News | Separate awards for the networks' reports on the civil war and genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Andrew Harding, Ishbel Matheson, Hilary Andersson, Fergal Keane, Nicholas Witchell, Paul Wood, and Bridget Kendall reported for the BBC and Seth Doane reported for Channel One News. |
| Channel One News | Separate awards for the networks' reports on the civil war and genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Andrew Harding, Ishbel Matheson, Hilary Andersson, Fergal Keane, Nicholas Witchell, Paul Wood, and Bridget Kendall reported for the BBC and Seth Doane reported for Channel One News. |
| Comedy Central | The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for Indecision 2004 |
| WBAL-TV/Baltimore, MD | Award for an investigation by John Sherman revealing leaks of untreated sewage from a Centreville, MD treatment plant into the waters feeding Chesapeake Bay and motivations by area political and business officials to cover it up |
| WTVF/Nashville, TN | "Friends in High Places," a multi-year investigation led by Phil Williams, Bryan Staples, and Chris Clark into the awarding of no-bid state contracts to friends of former Tennessee governor Don Sundquist |
| WFAA-TV/Dallas, TX | State of Denial, a multi-part series reported by Brett Shipp investigating questionable practices by state agencies and major insurance companies involved with the Texas workers compensation system |
| Filmmakers Collaborative, Blueberry Hill Productions for American Experience, WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | American Experience, for Tupperware! a film by Laurie Kahn about the namesake product |
| Televisió de Catalunya and Bausan Films in association with Cinemax Reel Life | Balseros |
| Zazen Productions in association with Cinemax Reel Life | Bus 174 |
| Clinica Estetico and LisaGay Inc. in association with HBO | Beah: A Black Woman Speaks |
| Cort/Madden Productions in association with HBO Films | Something the Lord Made |
| Red Board Productions and Paramount Television in association with HBO Entertainment | Deadwood |
| Discovery Channel and Vulcan Productions in association with Gemini Productions and Antenna Film | Black Sky: The Race For Space |
| Howe Sound Films and Force Four Entertainment in association with CBC | Human Cargo |
| CultureWorks and the WFMT Radio Network | Leonard Bernstein: An American Life, hosted by Susan Sarandon and produced by Steve Rowland |
| The Rhythm and Blues Foundation and Public Radio International | Let the Good Times Roll, a series on rhythm and blues hosted by Jerry Butler and produced by Alexis Gillespie |
| Link TV | Mosaic: World News from the Middle East |
| Nursery Tap, LLC | Nursery Tap, Hip to Toe, a children's show about the performing arts created by Juleen Murray Shaw |
| Grant Tinker | Personal Award for his work as CEO of MTM Enterprises and chairman/CEO of NBC |
| Bill Brummel Productions for The History Channel | Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade?, a film about the Rwandan genocide produced by Paul Freedman |
| Univision | Award for "Salud es Vida...Enterate!" ("Lead a Healthy Life...Get the Facts!") the broadcaster's initiative to promote health issues to the Latino community |
| Sesame Workshop, Kwasukasukela, and South African Broadcasting Corporation | Takalani Sesame Presents "talk to me...", a campaign promoting discussions about HIV/AIDS with children |
| CNBC | The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America's Most Powerful Company, reported by David Faber |
| WITI/Milwaukee, WI | "The Bully Project," an "investigation-turned-community-outreach-program" by Bob Segall examining the issue of school bullying |
| Trio and Post Consumer Media | The N-Word |

## 2005

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| WLOX/Biloxi, MS | Separate awards for the news outlets' coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA | Separate awards for the news outlets' coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath |
| NBC News | Separate awards for the news outlets' coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath |
| CNN | Separate awards for the news outlets' coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath |
| TVE | China: A Million Steps Ahead |
| Robert Kenner Films, WGBH Educational Foundation, Wisconsin Public Television, Playtone, and BBC | American Experience, for Two Days in October |
| BBC | This World, for Bad Medicine |
| BBC and BBC America | Viva Blackpool |
| BBC, BBC Factual and Learning, and BBC Drama | BBC DoNation Season, a programming initiative to promote awareness of organ donations |
| BBC, in association with HBO Documentary Films, Evanston Township (IL) High School, and La Camioneta | Children of Beslan, about the Beslan school hostage crisis |
| BBC and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA (co-production) in association with Deep Indigo | Bleak House |
| WNET/New York, NY, Grey Water Park Productions, Spitfire Pictures, and Cappa/DeFina Productions, in co-production with Vulcan Productions, BBC/Arena, and NHK | American Masters, for No Direction Home — Bob Dylan |
| Deeble and Stone Productions, NHK, WNET/New York, NY, Granada International, BBC and ZDF | The Queen of Trees |
| P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc., Independent Television Service, and Realside Productions | P.O.V., for Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed |
| Independent Television Service | A Room Nearby, directed by Paul Fierlinger |
| David E. Kelley Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television | Boston Legal |
| Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions, and Bad Hat Harry Productions, in association with NBC Universal Television Studios | House |
| Red House Entertainment for Showtime Original Pictures | Edge of America, directed by Chris Eyre |
| Comedy Central | South Park |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music |
| CBC/Radio-Canada La Première Chaîne | What If Winter Never Comes? (Et si l'hiver ne venait plus?) |
| HBO Family | Classical Baby |
| KNBC/Los Angeles, CA | "Burning Questions," a report exposing environmental concerns at a large commercial/residential building project |
| KCNC-TV/Denver, CO | "How Far Will the Army Go?" a report revealing how U.S. Army recruitment officers instruct potential recruits on how to falsify school grades, diplomas, and drug tests |
| KCET/Los Angeles, CA in association with Sesame Workshop and 44 Blue Productions, Inc. | 'A Place of Our Own (Los Ninos en Su Casa) |
| WNYC/New York, NY | Award for the Radio Rookies Project |
| KMEX-DT/Los Angeles, CA | 15% of the United States, a series of reports dealing with issues of the Latino community |
| Documania Films, Sierra Tango Productions, and The History Channel | Save Our History: Voices of Civil Rights |
| Maha Films (aired on Sundance Channel) | The Staircase |
| Distant Horizon/Videovision Entertainment, Anant Singh, Nelson Mandela Foundation, M-Net Exciting Film, and National Film and Video Foundation of South Africa, in association with HBO Films | Yesterday |
| Fox Television Studios in association with Sony Pictures Television | The Shield |
| R&D TV in association with NBC Universal Television Studios | Battlestar Galactica |

## 2006

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Charlotte Street Films, CBC, BBC, ARTE GEIE TV, TV 2, Yle TV2, WDR TV, VRT TV, SVT, VPRO, NRK, ETV, TVE, and European Union Media Plus Program | Why We Fight |
| mun2 | For My Country? Latinos in the Military, produced and directed by Alison Fast and Moises Velez |
| WTNH/New Haven, CT | Award for an investigative report by Alan Cohn revealing defective parts on UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters |
| NPR | "Mental Anguish and the Military," an All Things Considered report by Daniel Zwerdling revealing harassment and ostracizing of Iraqi War veterans at Fort Collins, Colorado who sought out treatment for mental health problems |
| WISH-TV/Indianapolis, IN | "Command Mistake," a report produced by Karen Hensel examining an improvised explosive device's effect on an Iraqi War veteran as well as lack of protective padding in soldiers' helmets |
| HBO Documentary Films in association with Feury/Grant Productions and Downtown Community Television Center | Baghdad ER |
| HBO Documentary Films in association with 40 Acres | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts |
| HBO Family | The Music in Me, a documentary on young musicians directed by Amy Schatz, Mark Mannucci, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Diane Kolyer, and Mark Benjamin |
| HBO Sports | Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer, produced by Margaret Grossi |
| Company Pictures and Channel 4 in association with HBO Films | Elizabeth I |
| BBC, BBC Two, BBC Worldwide, and National Geographic | Galápagos, for the episode "Born of Fire" |
| BBC, BBC America, and Talkback Thames | Gideon's Daughter |
| Listen Up! Youth Media Network, Polimorfo, iEarn Sierra Leone, La Camioneta, Sawtona, Frame by Frame Fierce, Light House, Spy Hop Productions, Our Voice, and Evanston Township High School | Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet, directed by Austin Haeberle (airing on IFC) |
| WTHR/Indianapolis, IN | Award for the investigative reports by Bob Segall "Prescription Privacy" (inadequate disposal of customer prescription records by pharmacies) and "Cause for Alarm" (condition of tornado sirens in central Indiana) |
| MediaRites Productions (airing on Public Radio International) | Crossing East: Our History, Our Stories, Our America, a radio documentary directed by Dmae Roberts and hosted by George Takei and Margaret Cho |
| ABC News (World News Tonight, Nightline, and ABCNews.com/Blotter) | "Conduct Unbecoming," an investigation headed by Brian Ross that verified sexually inappropriate messages sent to congressional pages by Florida Representative Mark Foley |
| PJ Productions for ABC News | Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, reported by Peter Jennings and Terry Moran |
| Chocolate Moose Media, Inc. and Quintet Productions | Award for The Three Amigos Campaign, a program to build awareness of condom use to prevent HIV/AIDS |
| HearingVoices.com (aired on KUNM-FM) | Award for Crossing Borders, a radio documentary hosted by Marcos Martinez and reported by Luis Alberto Urrea, Scott Carrier, Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Siamack Sioshansi, and Bronwyn Ximm chronicling stories and the impact of illegal immigrants from Mexico to the United States |
| Touchstone Television (aired on NBC) | Scrubs, for the episode "My Way Home" |
| Touchstone Television (aired on ABC) | Ugly Betty |
| Be Square Productions, Inc. | Good Eats (airing on Food Network) |
| Apartment 11 Productions, CBC Newsworld, RDI, Knowledge Network, and Canadian Television Fund | Braindamadj'd...Take II, a documentary directed by Paul Nadler about his recovery from a car crash |
| Showtime and Mandalay Television | Brotherhood |
| KMOV/St Louis, MO | "Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools", reported by Craig Cheatham |
| Dateline NBC (NBC News) | "The Education of Ms. Groves" (Hoda Kotb, correspondent) which profiled the struggles of a Teach for America volunteer and her Atlanta middle school class |
| WBEZ/Chicago, IL | This American Life, for "Habeas Schmabeas," (reported by Joseph Margulies, Jack Hitt, and Jon Ronson) which examined abuses of Habeas corpus rights |
| Magic Lantern Productions and Channel 4 | Award for the FourDocs website |
| The Washington Post and WashingtonPost.com | Award for "Being a Black Man," a print and online series reported by Ben de la Cruz and Hamil Harris profiling the lives of contemporary black males |
| StoryCorps | Award to the organization for its "preservation of ideas and emotions, events and experiences" |
| Steeplechase Films, Inc., High Line Productions, Daniel Wolf, Inc., and WNET/New York, NY | American Masters, for Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | Award for a report by Ed Bradley revealing conflicting testimony and botched and/or unethical police and legal procedures surrounding the Duke University rape scandal |
| Rebel Base and Sony Pictures Television | The Boondocks, for the episode "Return of the King" |
| NBC Universal Television in association with Imagine Entertainment and Film 44 | Friday Night Lights |
| Reveille Productions in association with NBC Universal Television | The Office |

## 2007

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| ABC News | Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War – The Long Road Home of Our Nation's Veterans |
| Partisan Pictures, Inc. and WNET/New York, NY | Nature, for Silence of the Bees |
| mtvU | Award for Half of Us, an initiative to promote awareness of depression among college students |
| BBC World, BBC America, and BBC World News America | "White Horse Village," which profiled a "verdant, sleepy, near-feudal" hamlet in the Chinese interior and its dealings with modernity's encroachment |
| WNYC/New York, NY | The Brian Lehrer Show |
| HBO Documentary Films in association with Priddy Brothers | To Die in Jerusalem |
| KNXV-TV/Phoenix, AZ | "Security Risks at Sky Harbor," a report revealing TSA lapses at the Phoenix airport |
| Robert Levi Films, Independent Television Service, and Washington Square Films | Independent Lens, for Billy Strayhorn – Lush Life |
| Vixen Films and Independent Television Service | Sisters in Law (airing on Independent Lens) |
| WSLS-TV/Roanoke, VA | Award for the station's breaking news coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech and its immediate aftermath |
| Univision Communications | Award for Ya Es Hora ("It's Time"), a public service initiative encouraging citizenship applications and voter registration by legal US immigrants |
| Texas Heritage Music Foundation | Whole Lotta Shakin` |
| American Public Media | Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi |
| American Public Media and San Francisco Symphony | The MTT Files |
| Bravo, The Weinstein Company, The Magical Elves, and Full Picture Entertainment | Project Runway |
| Craft in America, Inc. | Craft in America (airing on PBS) |
| NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation, Vulcan Productions, Inc., and The Big Table Film Company | Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial |
| CBS News | Sunday Morning, for "The Way Home," in which Kimberly Dozier interviewed two US servicewomen who lost limbs while in combat action in Iraq |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | "The Killings in Haditha," which investigated the 2005 massacre at the hands of a U.S. Marine squad in the western Iraqi city |
| Discovery Channel and BBC | Planet Earth |
| Hello Doggie, Inc, Busboy Productions, and Spartina Productions | The Colbert Report |
| National Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio, and Urgent Haircut Productions | Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! |
| AMC and Lionsgate Television | Mad Men |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Design Squad |
| WFAA/Dallas, TX | Award for the investigative reports "Money for Nothing" (probe of fraudulent loans made by the Export-Import Bank of the United States), "The Buried and the Dead" (health and safety hazards of underground gas couplings), "Television Justice" (how the Murphy Police Dept. accommodated NBC's To Catch a Predator stings), and "Kinder Prison" (treatment of women and children detained at a federal immigration facility) |
| Jigsaw Pictures, Tall Woods, Wider Film, and ZDF/Arte | Taxi to the Dark Side |
| Center for Emerging Media | Just Words |
| WTAE-TV/Pittsburgh, PA | "Fight for Open Records," a series of reports revealing mismanagement and fund misappropriation within the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Association; the reports occurred only after a lengthy battle to have PHEAA financial records opened |
| bTV | A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses |
| Frontline, Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd., and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Frontline, for Cheney's Law |
| Showtime, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, and Clyde Phillips Productions | Dexter |
| CNN | CNN Presents: God's Warriors |
| Art 21, Inc. | Art 21 – Art in the 21st Century (airing on PBS) |
| Public Road Productions and Wieden & Kennedy(aired on Sundance Channel) | Nimrod Nation |
| Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video Television and Little Stranger, Inc. | 30 Rock |

## 2008

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Sichuan Television | Award for coverage of the Sichuan earthquake |
| NPR | Award for on-scene coverage by Melissa Block and Robert Siegel from Chengdu, China during and after the Sichuan earthquake |
| NPR | "36 Years in Solitary: Murder, Death and Justice on Angola," a report by Laura Sullivan which questioned the role of two prisoners in a guard's 1972 murder at Louisiana State Penitentiary |
| Chicago Public Radio and the news division of NPR | This American Life, for "The Giant Pool of Money," which looked at the early stages of the subprime mortgage crisis |
| Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment | Entourage |
| HBO Documentary Films in association with Vermillion Films, Inc. | Hear and Now |
| Maysles Films in association with HBO Documentary Films and CVJ | The Gates |
| Ted Leonsis Productions in association with HBO Documentary Films | Nanking |
| Playtone in association with HBO Films | John Adams |
| WWL-TV/New Orleans, LA | Award for a series of reports by Lee Zurik exposing questionable financial practices by the New Orleans Affordable Homeownership program |
| The New York Times | Award for the newspaper's website (NYTimes.com) and its innovations in online journalism, highlighting "Choosing a President" and the reporting of Lizette Alvarez, Shayla Harris, Rob Harris, Katharine Q. Seelye, and Ben Werschkul |
| Kartemquin Educational Films and Independent Television Service | Independent Lens, for Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita |
| Mosaic Films, Independent Television Service, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting | Independent Lens, for King Corn |
| Laboratory X, Inc., American Documentary, Inc., P.O.V., Center for Asian American Media, and PBS | POV, for Campaign, a documentary by Kazuhiro Soda about a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for a city council seat in a suburb of Tokyo |
| SNL Studios in association with Broadway Video | Saturday Night Live, for its 2008 political satire |
| ABC News | Hopkins |
| ABC Studios | Lost |
| WETA-TV/Washington, DC and PBS | Washington Week with Gwen Ifill & National Journal |
| The Metropolitan Opera Association in association with PBS and WNET/New York, NY | The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Series |
| NBC Nightly News | "Tip of the Spear," a series of reports with Richard Engel following a military unit in Afghanistan |
| YouTube | Award to the Google independent subsidiary and its "promoting a free exchange of ideas... around the world" |
| NDR Fernsehen and Shanghai Media Group | The Red Race, about the training of gymnasts in China |
| Korean Broadcasting System | Jungle Fish |
| Hearst-Argyle Television | Institutional Award for "Commitment 2008," in which Hearst-Argyle stations devoted at least 10 minutes per day to candidate and issues coverage in the 30 days leading to the 2008 elections |
| Turner Classic Movies | Institutional Award to the classic film network and its commitment to "the place of film in social and cultural experience" |
| The Onion | Award for Onion News Network |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | "Lifeline," a report by Scott Pelley profiling operations of Remote Area Medical in the United States |
| WGBH-TV (Boston, MA)/NOVA, National Geographic Television, and John Rubin Productions, Inc. | Ape Genius |
| Sony Pictures Television, High Bridge Productions, and Gran Via Productions | Breaking Bad |
| ESPN Films and Shoot the Moon Productions | Black Magic |
| NBC and Zhang Yimou | Award for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics |
| KMGH-TV/Denver, CO | "Failing the Children: Deadly Mistakes," which uncovered systemic inadequacies (and tragic results) in the Denver area foster care system |
| KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, NV | Crossfire: Water, Power and Politics, a documentary that examined the effect of plans to pump water from rural Nevada to the Las Vegas area |
| Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH-TV/Boston, MA | Depression: Out of the Shadows |
| Nickelodeon | Avatar: The Last Airbender |
| CNN | Award for the network's coverage of the 2008 Presidential primary campaigns and debates |

## 2009

| Recipient | Area of Excellence |
| Diane Rehm | Personal Award for her work on her eponymous talk show |
| Twentieth Century Fox Television | Glee |
| Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions | Modern Family |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | "Sabotaging the System," a report examining the dangers of cyber terrorism |
| 60 Minutes (CBS News) | "The Co$t of Dying," a report examining the financial costs of end-of-life care |
| Sesame Workshop | Award for the SesameStreet.org website |
| KHOU/Houston, TX and Belo, Inc. | "Under Fire," a report revealing gender discrimination and corruption within the Texas National Guard |
| Folly River Inc. and ITVS | Independent Lens, for "The Order of Myths" |
| Green Fuse Films and ITVS | Independent Lens, for "Between the Folds" |
| National Public Radio | Award for Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson's reports from Afghanistan |
| National Public Radio | Award for the NPR.org website |
| Daybreak, Channel 4, and Target Entertainment (presented on PBS' Masterpiece by WGBH-TV/Boston, MA) | Endgame |
| Brook Lapping Productions | Iran & The West |
| Frontline and Rain Media | The Madoff Affair |
| GMA Network | I-Witness, for "Ambulansiyang De Paa" ("Ambulance on Foot"), which highlighted low-level health care in the Philippine village of Bansud |
| Nancy Solomon | Award to the independent producer for the public radio documentary Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students, distributed on Public Radio Exchange |
| Korean Broadcasting System | Noodle Road: Connecting Asia’s Kitchens |
| WFLD-TV/Chicago, IL (Fox Chicago News and MyFoxChicago.com) | Award for the station's coverage of the fatal beating of Derrion Albert and its website's complementary content |
| Peter Jones Productions (aired on PBS) | Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times |
| Trey Kay Productions (presented on West Virginia Public Broadcasting) | The Great Textbook War |
| ABC News | A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains |
| A Goldhawk Essential Production and BBC World Service | The Day That Lehman Died |
| BBC America | BBC World News America |
| BBC America, BBC World News, and BBC World News America | "Where Giving Life is a Death Sentence," a report on the maternal mortality rate in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan |
| Mirage Enterprises and Cinechicks, in association with The Weinstein Company, BBC, and HBO Entertainment | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
| Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, and Sheleg, in association with HBO Entertainment | In Treatment |
| Darlow Smithson Productions, HBO Sports, and HBO Documentary Films | Thrilla in Manila |
| Worldwide Pants, Inc. | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, for the episode featuring Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| KTVU/Oakland, CA | Award for the station's coverage of the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, its aftermath and investigation |
| KCET/Los Angeles, CA | Up In Smoke, a series of reports on SoCal Connected concerning issues of marijuana in California |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | Hard Times, a series of OPB Radio reports on the effects of unemployment in Oregon |
| WYFF/Greenville, SC | Chronicle, for "Paul’s Gift," which examined the process of organ donation after a donor's death |
| Vanguard (Current TV) | The OxyContin Express, which examined Oxycodone prescriptions by Florida doctors and its wide-ranging effects |
| NOW-TV News | Sichuan earthquake: One Year On |
| Sundance Channel and Brick City TV, LLC | Brick City |
| WNET/New York, NY | American Masters, for Jerome Robbins - Something to Dance About |