PBS News Nominated for a Peabody Award and Three News & Documentary Emmy Awards 

Arlington, VA (April 7, 2026)—PBS News today received a Peabody Award nomination, as well as three News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations.

PBS News Hour was nominated this afternoon for a Peabody Award for its coverage of the changes to U.S. immigration policy under the second Trump Administration. In the Emmy Awards competition announced this morning, News Hour was nominated for its reporting on the ground at the outbreak of the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, and its coverage of the humanitarian consequences of the Trump Administration's cuts to foreign aid. Washington Week with The Atlantic also received an Emmy Award nomination for its discussion focused on "Signalgate" after moderator Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal group chat where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of future military operation plans.

The George Foster Peabody Awards are administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. The winners of the Peabody Awards will be announced on Thursday, April 23, 2026.

The News & Documentary Emmys Awards are administered by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the news award winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.

About PBS News Hour's Peabody Nominated Coverage:

PBS News Hour presented sustained and multidimensional reporting on one of the most consequential shifts in U.S. immigration policy in decades. Beginning on Day 1 of the second Trump administration, federal policy changed with dizzying speed – from executive orders on birthright citizenship, refugee resettlement, and asylum procedures to the groundwork for mass deportations, military deployments to U.S. cities, and institutional realignments inside immigration enforcement agencies.

News Hour kept pace with calm, detailed, and comprehensible reporting and analysis throughout the year.  Its reporting offered the public not just breaking news coverage, but deep historical context, policy analysis, institutional accountability, and – crucially – the real-world impact of it all by sharing stories of people directly affected by the administration's sweeping executive actions on immigration. The work did more than document change; it traced cause, intent, and consequence over time.

Credits:

Amna Nawaz, Co-Anchor; Geoff Bennett, Co-Anchor; Laura Barrón-López, Correspondent; Marcia Biggs, Special Correspondent; William Brangham, Correspondent; Lisa Desjardins, Correspondent; Liz Landers, Correspondent; Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent; Stephanie Sy, Correspondent; Emily Carpeaux, Senior Producer; Murrey Jacobson, Senior Producer; Matt Loffman, Senior Producer; Beth Summers, Senior Producer; Mike Fritz, Deputy Senior Producer; Courtney Norris, Deputy Senior Producer; Doug Adams, Producer; Jonah Anderson, Producer; Eliot Barnhart, Producer; Ryan Connelly Holmes, Producer; Andrew Corkery, Producer; Karina Cuevas, Producer; Juliet Fuisz, Producer; Jackson Hudgins, Producer; Saher Khan, Producer; Sonia Kopelev, Producer; Simeon Lancaster, Producer; Sam Lane, Producer; Maea Lenei Buhre, Producer; Kyle Midura, Producer; Claire Mufson, Producer; Shrai Popat,Producer; Layla Quran, Producer; Ali Schmitz, Producer; Sam Weber, Producer; Winston Wilde, Producer; Kaisha Young, Producer; Harry Zahn, Producer; Ian Couzens, Associate Producer; Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako, Production Assistant; Tsehai Alfred, Production Assistant; Jenna Bloom, Production Assistant; Taylor Bowie, Production Assistant; Unda Dittaboot, Production Assistant; Jiaya Echevarria, Production Assistant; Amalia Huot-Marchand, Production Assistant; Leila Jackson, Production Assistant; Laken Kincaid, Production Assistant; Zoie Lambert, Production Assistant; Katie Marlow, Production Assistant; Mark Anderson, Editor; David Bentley, Editor; Stuart Cohen, Editor; Jeff Cook, Edito, Matt DeVries, Editor; Gary Ezard, Editor; Guy Federico, Editor; Hamada Hanoura, Editor; Bob Hartman, Editor; Ali Jafaar, Editor; Dan Knapp, Editor; Jon Miles, Editor; John Morgan, Editor; Larry Sindass, Editor; Christie Smith, Editor; Kojo Boateng, Graphics; Bobby Cohen, Graphics; Daniel Davis, Graphics; Mike Harry, Graphics; Christian Parr, Graphics; Wesam Sorour, Graphics; Tyler Bedgood, Camera; Rob Gourley, Camera; Joe Harewicz, Camera; Elie Khadra, Camera; Erik Ljung, Camera; Eric Miller, Camera; Devin Pinckard, Camera; and Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer.

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About PBS News Hour's and Washington Week with The Atlantic's Emmy Nominated Coverage:

Category: Outstanding Extended Breaking News Coverage

"Catastrophic Fires" 

The PBS News Hour was on the ground in Los Angeles within 24 hours of the outbreak of the Palisades and Eaton fires, which killed 30 people and destroyed more than 18,000 structures in Southern California. The News Hour team reported from evacuation centers, hotel rooms, parks, and neighborhoods that were still burning. Correspondent Stephanie Sy spoke to people who had no idea whether they had lost their homes, having barely escaped. Some only left with the clothes on their backs. Others took what they thought were their most important possessions, later realizing their favorite dress or ring was less significant than family photos or old handwritten letters.

Credits:

Stephanie Sy, Correspondent; Marcia Biggs, Correspondent; Emily Carpeaux, Senior Producer; Murrey Jacobson, Senior Producer; Lorna Baldwin, Senior Producer; Lena Jackson, Deputy Senior Producer; Mike Fritz, Deputy Senior Producer; Sam Lane, Producer; Karina Cuevas, Producer; Layla Quran, Producer; Mary Fecteau, Producer; Azhar Merchant, Associate Producer; Sam Weber, Producer; Eliot Barnhart, Associate Producer; Kayan Tara, Associate Producer; Devin Pinckard, Camera; Kojo Boateng, Graphics Director; Jon Miles, Editor; John Morgan, Editor; Hamada Hanoura, Editor; Jeff Cook, Editor; Bob Hartman, Editor; Mark Anderson, Editor; David Bentley, Editor; Dan Knapp, Editor; Jackson Hudgins, Producer; and Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer.

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Category: Outstanding Continuing Coverage: Short Form

"Cuts & Consequences"

Days after the Trump Administration took power, it began a sweeping cull of government, with little apparent attention paid to the consequences of an immediate suspension of aid. Over several months, News Hour correspondent William Brangham and producer Molly Knight-Raskin reported and planned a series titled "Cuts and Consequences." The News Hour returned to Ghana, to its Northern reaches, where Brangham and Knight-Raskin found health clinics short of life-saving drugs and supplies to combat malaria, maternal and infant death. In Kenya, News Hour's reporting exposed the rapid unraveling of HIV services once sustained by PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. From Nairobi to Mombasa, the News Hour team documented overwhelmed clinics, treatment interruptions, and preventable deaths. In Isiolo, they reported on the end of a critical USAID-funded water project. In a community already strained by severe drought, its collapse intensified fears of death and disease and a resurgence of violence.

In Bangladesh, PBS News Hour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro documented how the aid freeze stalled tuberculosis control efforts in a nation with one of the world's highest TB burdens. Health workers warned that decades of progress could unravel, raising the specter of a global resurgence of a highly contagious disease.

Through on-the-ground reporting, firsthand testimonies and whistleblower accounts, this reporting exposed the humanitarian consequences of the foreign aid freeze on some of the world's most vulnerable people.

Credits:

Fred de Sam Lazaro, Correspondent; William Brangham, Correspondent & Editor; Richard Coolidge, Senior Producer; Morgan Till, Senior Producer; Patti Parson, Senior Producer; Simeon Lancaster, Producer & Editor; Molly Knight-Raskin, Producer; Stuart Cohen, Editor; Jon Miles, Editor; Salman Saeed, Camera, Dennis Nipah, Camera; Nick Matthews, Camera; Ian Sbalcio, Camera; Julius Mugambwa, Camera; Moses Thuranira, Camera; Joe Mwihia, Camera; Kojo Boateng, Senior Graphics Producer; Nana Adwoa Antwi-Boasiako, Associate Producer; and Sara Just, Senior  Executive Producer

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Category: Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis

Washington Week with The Atlantic 

Just two months into President Trump's second term, key members of his administration were exposed for their improper handling of classified information after then-National Security Adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added The Atlantic's Editor in Chief and Washington Week with The Atlantic moderator Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat named "Houthi PC small group" where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of future military operation plans.

In the episode on March 28, 2025, Goldberg addressed the extraordinary security breach, which became known as "Signalgate", with transparency, respect and professionalism by taking viewers inside The Atlantic's process for validating the Signal messages, why The Atlantic released them to the public, the potential consequences of such a security breach for military personnel abroad, and why the Trump administration's denials and defense were factually incorrect.

Credits:

Jeffrey Goldberg, Anchor; Satvi Sunkara, Associate Producer; Alexa Gold, Associate Producer; Juliet Fuisz, Editorial Producer; Simon Epstein, Coordinating Producer; Andrew Chambers, Associate Line Producer; Mark Anderson, Editor; Matt Leeke, Editor; Stephanie Kotuby, Executive Producer; and Sara Just, Senior Executive Producer.

 

Media contact: Ella Richardson, Richardson (at) newshour (dot) org