PBS NewsHour Named Recipient of Two Peabody Awards Nominations

Arlington, VA (April 13, 2022)–PBS NewsHour today received two Peabody nominations for its series “Inside Yemen,” which provided a rare insight into the Yemeni war, as well as for its extensive coverage on the day of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and of the fallout in the following months.

PBS NewsHour’s “Inside Yemen”
With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, PBS NewsHour special correspondent Jane Ferguson returned to Yemen last year after her reporting in 2018 from rebel-controlled areas exposed the devastating humanitarian impact of the war. The NewsHour team risked their lives to deliver viewers crucial and subjective perspectives on the war that could not be found on any other American network. Ferguson’s reporting in 2021 delved into the implications of Yemen’s war, including food insecurity harming Yemen’s children, whether it can survive as a unified state after the seven-year-long war, and the country’s division.

Credits: Special Correspondent Jane Ferguson; Senior Foreign Affairs Editor Morgan Till; Field Producer Ahmed Baider; Field Producer Mohammed Baza; Cameraman Mohammed Makhlafi; Cameraman Mohammed Al Mahfadi; producer Layla Quran; and Executive Producer Sara Just.

PBS NewsHour’s Special Coverage of January 6th
As the world was witnessing the attacks on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, PBS NewsHour Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins was the only journalist outside of lockdown and reporting from the halls of Congress. Desjardins relayed the news as insurrectionists stormed into the building and interviewed one of them live during NewsHour’s special on PBS (Video Link 1 and Video Link 2). Several months later, Desjardins sat down for an exclusive interview with Capitol Police Officer James Blassingame, one of two officers who filed a civil suit against Trump for the injury inflicted on that day, to share and discuss his thoughts.

PBS NewsHour’s anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff anchored special coverage of the electoral college count for over eleven hours on January 6th. During that time, she interviewed several members of Congress to get their reactions to the day’s events in real-time, including Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), and Rep. Mike DeSaulnier (D-CA). PBS NewsHour continued to cover the fallout of January 6th in the following months including interviews with Sen. Patty Murray about her experiences that day, Sen. Amy Klobuchar about the security failures in the Capitol and chair of the select committee investigating January 6th, Rep. Bennie Thompson, about the ongoing investigation.

Credits: Anchor & Managing Editor, Judy Woodruff;Senior Producers, Mike Melia, Elizabeth Summers, Stephanie Kotuby, Emily Carpeaux; Deputy Senior Producer, Matt Loffman;Producers, Sam Lane, Alexis Cox, Jaywon Choe, Frank N. Carlson, Mike Fritz, Rachel Wellford, Meredith Lee, Kate Grumke, Geoffrey Guray; Associate Producers, Tess Conciatori, Saher Khan, Alex D’Elia, Patty Gorena Morales, Ryan Connelly Holmes, Vika Aronson; Production Assistants, Rebecca Newman, Harry Zahn, Ian Couzens; Editors, Dan Knapp, John Morgan, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux; Correspondent, Yamiche Alcindor, Lisa Desjardins, Amna Nawaz, John Yang; Executive Producer, Sara Just.

Press Contact: Publicist, Courtney Haywood, Chaywood@newshour.org chaywood (at) newshour (dot) org