#personal award

Newton N. Minow - Personal Peabody Award Winner 1961

As the most courageous, responsible, and energetic Federal Communications Commissioner in years, Newton N. Minow has done much to rescue the wasteland from the cowboys and private eyes.

Daniel Schorr Accepts the Personal Peabody Award in 1992

One of the principle members of a generation of broadcast journalists identified with the highest ideals and integrity in the field, Daniel Schorr is an unmatched radio commentator. Mr. Schorr began his career as a foreign correspondent in 1946. In the early 1950s, he caught the attention of Edward R. Murrow, which led to his work for the CBS news team through much of the next two decades. In 1980, Mr. Schorr helped Ted Turner launch Cable News Network and served as its senior correspondent until 1985. Since then, his lucid commentaries and insightful analyses have been heard regularly on National Public Radio.

Sheila Nivens accepts 1999 Personal Peabody Award

Robert Halmi Sr. accepting his Personal Peabody Award in 1998

Producer Robert Halmi Sr. is a dreamer and more important, a doer, in times when network television sorely needs both. In the past several seasons, Mr. Halmi has stood virtually alone as a true impresario of the small screen. His 1996 adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels for NBC was considered a giant gamble by both the network and assorted naysayers. But the four-hour production’s critical and commercial success instead spurred equally ambitious Halmi productions, such as The Odyssey, Merlin, Moby Dick and Alice in Wonderland. “I’m filling a void more than anything else,” Mr. Halmi has said. “Nobody else is doing these things—and these things should be done. Television is made for telling big stories, not for doing shallow stuff and satisfying the lowest common denominator.”