KING, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Seattle, earned a 2020 Peabody Award in the Public Service category for Facing Race, a 13-week original series that tackled the difficult topic of systemic racism in the Pacific Northwest.
KING, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Seattle, earned a 2020 Peabody Award in the Public Service category for Facing Race, a 13-week original series that tackled the difficult topic of systemic racism in the Pacific Northwest.
Facing Race is one of 30 award winners, selected from a pool of 60 nominees, from nearly 1,300 entries from around the world.
Overseen by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Peabody Awards annually honor the most powerful, enlightening and invigorating stories in television, radio and digital media. The Peabody Award is a mark of excellence, cited by many recipients as the ultimate recognition of their work. This is the fourth Peabody Award for KING in recent years, previously recognized for reporting in 2011, 2013 and 2018.
“Our goal when starting the series was to have no holds barred discussions about race and racial issues — and our team did just that in a groundbreaking way,” says Laura Evans, KING’s interim news director.
Facing Race was a weekly broadcast that tackled issues of race, social injustice and racial inequality in the Pacific Northwest. The half-hour episodes aired every Sunday over 13 weeks, covering a wide range of subjects — from racial disparities in education, health and policing to environmental racism, land inequity and immigration.
Here’s what The Peabody Awards had to say about KING’s Facing Race:
Facing Race is an audacious series that tackles the deep-rooted subject of racial inequality, racism, racial privilege, and especially the systematic ways that race structures and impacts the public and personal life of residents in Seattle and surrounding communities. The KING5 investigation examines policing and criminal justice, health disparities and environmental racism, and policy histories regarding land and treaties with their ramifications for Native American communities. And the series is attentive as well to the powerful emotional and psychological impact of racism and racial trauma, looking at the complex feelings of belonging and identity among parents, trans-racial adoptees, and multiracial youth. With a generous commitment of time and resources, the reporting team gives us a complex but easily understandable framework, and covers the magnitude and depth of the story sensitively yet critically, structurally yet personally.
Reporters skillfully use local authorities and national experts to help guide the reports, provide perspective, and understand how social dynamics of race and racism, power and inequality play out at the level of public policy, institutions, and culture. The remarkable personal stories show viewers how individuals, families, neighbors, and elected officials respond to the challenges of confronting structural racism and its impact on the community. Most importantly, the series showcases resources and organizations to help address the public and personal issues raised in the report. For its bold and bell-weather reporting, its outstanding service, its seminal insights, and its absorbing storytelling, the Board of Jurors honors Facing Race with a Peabody Award.
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