Daily Show Wins Peabody Award

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has won a Peabody Award for its coverage of the election in Indecision 2004.

Other 2004 award winners include:

National Public Radio`s team of foreign correspondents, editors and producers documents the turbulent aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq with insight, rigor, and narrative balance.

BBC journalists, for presention and analysis of the crisis situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. These stories examine more than the humanitarian crisis, exposing as well the killings at the root of the story.

CBS News Dan Rather report - broke the story of the abuses at Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, airing for the first time the photographs of American soldiers and abused Iraqi prisoners that shocked the world.

The Peabody Award committee is chaired by Marlene Sanders, whose career includes working as a correspondant, writer, producer, and news exectutive with ABC and CBS news.

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