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Peabody Winners Urge Filmmakers to ‘Fight for Truth’ as Kudos Honor Programs That Tackle Global Conflicts and Social Ills
Filmmakers urged content creators to 'fight for truth' at the 84th annual Peabody Awards ceremony, held Sunday on the West Coast for the first time.
The respected awards, adminstered by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, were held at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, marking the first time the Peabodys were handed out on the West Coast after decades in New York. The high volume of conflict in the world and in the U.S. — from school shootings to hate crimes to the spike in political extremism — was reflected in the programs selected for this year’s honors and in the comments on stage fromwinners. Phil Williams, a news anchor at NBCUniversal-owned WTVF-TV Nashville, echoed Chernov’s sentiment, urging the crowd to remember that local broadcast journalists are in a daily fight to establish the facts of any given situation.
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