March 31, 2010: PBS and its public media partners received an outstanding 14 George Foster Peabody Awards. The award is the longest running honor in electronic media. The latest winners represent great diversity in genre, sources of origination and content.

PBS proudly accepts six awards - more than any other network, and congratulates our colleagues across the public media spectrum.

FRONTLINE – The Madoff Affair (PBS)
Get an inside look at the first global Ponzi scheme as FRONTLINE investigates how Bernie Madoff got away with it for so long.
Additional production credits: RAINmedia, FRONTLINE, WGBH Boston

Independent Lens – Between the Folds (PBS)
A determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists abandon their conventional careers to forge unlikely new lives as modern paper folders. This film explores the intersection of science and art.
Additional production credits: Green Fuse Films, Independent Television Service

Independent Lens – The Order of Myths (PBS)
In this highly original, moving and insightful documentary, filmmaker Margaret Brown explores two Mardi Gras traditions in Mobile, Ala., one white, one black.
Additional production credits: Folly River, Inc., Netpoint Productions, Lucky Hat Entertainment, Independent Television Service

Inventing LA: The Chandliers and Their Times (PBS)
Filmmaker Peter Jones chronicles the epic saga of the most powerful family in Los Angeles history: the Chandlers. For four generations, they wielded unique influence through their newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
Additional production credits: Peter Jones Productions, KCET Los Angeles

Endgame (PBS)
A nation teeters on the brink of civil war in this real-life political thriller about the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela.
Additional production credits:Daybreak/Channel 4/Target Entertainment, Presented on PBS/MASTERPIECE by WGBH Boston

Up in Smoke (KCET-TV)
Lively, eye-opening coverage by KCET's "SoCal Connected" included a revelation that there are now more legal, medical-marijuana dispensaries in the city than Starbucks franchises, and a rare look at the "Cannabis Cowboys," an elite police team of pot-farm eradicators.

SesameStreet.org" (Sesame Workshop)
Big Bird and company display prodigious adaptability on this delightfully educational, interactive site.

npr.org" (National Public Radio)
A whole lot of things considered, from "South Park" to North Korea, make this one of the great one-stop websites.
And there's music you can dance to.

Diane Rehm Personal Award (NPR)
Now available to National Public Radio listeners after decades on Washington's WAMU-FM, Rehm's talk show is the gold standard for civil, civic discourse.

Hard Times (OPB Radio)
The Main Street repercussions of Wall Street's reckless ways were nowhere in the media more humanly and thoughtfully documented than in this series of radio reports by Oregon Public Broadcasting.

The Great Textbook War (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Production Credits: Trey Kay Productions
This thoughtful, balanced and gripping radio documentary shows how a 1974 battle over textbook content in rural West Virginia foreshadows the "culture wars" still raging.

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Covering Afghanistan (NPR)
No reporter in any medium gives us a better sense of the variety of life inside Afghanistan than the multi-lingual chief of National Public Radio's Kabul bureau.

Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools Are Failing Black Students
Independent producer Solomon exhibited great empathy for the students and teachers at the suburban New Jersey high school she studied, meanwhile asking tough, necessary questions. This program aired on public radio stations nationwide.