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Peabody Awards Are (Finally) Ready for Their L.A. Debut
The Peabody Awards will return to in-person and take place for the first time in the Los Angeles area this Sunday after going virtual for four years.
But speaking to Variety just weeks before the event, he was optimistic that this year’s Peabody Awards, held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and hosted by Oscar- and Emmy-nominated comedian-actor-writer Kumail Nanjiani, would be worth the wait. Jones has been eager to expand the awareness of Peabody (which is based at University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication) and share its mission with creative talent on the West Coast. Jones says that’s because of Peabody’s mission of recognizing storytelling that tackles important social and political issues, like women’s health, the justice system, LGBTQ equality and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
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