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The 67th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards were announced today in Athens, Ga. and 35 were honored, signifying they represent the best in electronic media for 2007. The Peabody is one of the most prestigious honors in entertainment. The awards ceremony will be held June 16 in New York.

Comedy did well this year ("Colbert Report" and "30 Rock"), and for the first time ever, a reality show ("Project Runway") came home with an award.

A series that redeems the reality-contest genre, this face-off competition among upstart fashion designers demands, displays and ultimately rewards creativity that can`t be bluffed.

The winners are:

• 30 Rock, Universal Media Studios
• Art:21, Art in the 21st Century, Art:21 Inc.
• Speaking of Faith: The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, American Public Radio
• Bob Woodruff Reporting: Wounds of War—The Long Road Home of Our Nation’s Veterans, ABC News
• Money for Nothing, The Buried and the Dead, Television Justice, Kinder Prison, WFAA-TV of Dallas
• Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, NOVA/WGBH Educational Foundation
• Whole Lotta Shakin’, Texas Heritage Music Foundation
• White Horse, BBC World News America
• Just Words, The Center for Emerging Media
• CNN Presents: God’s Warriors, CNN
• Dexter, Showtime
• Planet Earth, Discovery Channel, BBC
• CBS News Sunday Morning: The Way Home, CBS News
• Fight for Open Records, WTAE-TV of Pittsburgh
• To Die in Jerusalem, HBO Documentary Films
• Design Squad, WGBH Educational Foundation
• Craft in America: Memory, Landscape and Community, Craft in America Inc.
• Univision’s Ya Es Hora, Univision
• Nature: Silence of the Bees, Thirteen/WNET New York
• A Journey Across Afghanistan: Opium and Roses, Balkan News Corp
• The MTT Files, American Public Media, San Francisco Symphony
• Project Runway, Bravo
• Taxi to the Dark Side, Jigsaw Pictures
• Security Risks at Sky Harbor, KNXV-TV of Phoenix
• Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
• Independent Lens: Sisters in Law, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
• Virginia Tech Shooting: The First 48 Hours, WSLS-TV of Roanoke
• The Brian Lehrer Show: Radio That Builds Community Rather Than Divides, WNYC Radio of New York
• Nimrod Nation, Sundance Channel
• Frontline: Cheney’s Law, WGBH-Boston
• mtvU: Half of Us, mtvU
• Independent Lens: Billy Strayhorn—Lush Life, Independent Television Service (ITVS)
• CBS News 60 Minutes: The Killings in Haditha, CBS News
• Mad Men, AMC
• The Colbert Report, Busboy Productions

You can read more about why these winners were chosen from the Peabody website here.

Image credit: Peabody, University of Georgia

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