The 85th Annual Peabody Awards is set to return to Los Angeles. The ceremony will take place on June 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel after the winners are announced in May.
The ceremony will honor award winners in entertainment, documentary,
news, podcast and radio, art, children and youth, immersive and interactive media and public service programs. The Peabody Board of Jurors serves for six years and is made up of media industry professionals in addition to journalists, critics and scholars. All award-winning programs must receive a unanimous vote by the jury.
“Our LA 2024 debut was a huge success, and we look forward to continuing to introduce the broader Hollywood creative community to what makes the Peabody the premier award for media that matters,” said Jeffrey Jones, executive director of the Peabody , in a statement to press. “In such polarized times, the stories Peabody honors unite in their clarion call to address injustice and see humanity in all its beauty and messiness. Honoring such programs remains our goal.”
This year, the new board chair is Dr. Dana Heller, who is the dean of the College of Arts at Eastern Michigan University. She has written several books and articles about gender and sexuality, TV and pop culture. She will be joined by several new jurors, including Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Cynthia McFadden, Variety chief correspondent Daniel D’Addario, Vulture and New York Magazine TV critic Roxana Hadadi and Michael X. Delli Carpini, Oscar H. Gandy Professor Emeritus in Communication and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia serves as the home of the Peabody program.
Nominations for this year’s Peabody Awards are announced in April and winners are announced in May. Bob Bain Productions will produce the ceremony.
