"CNN: ISIS in Syria & Iraq, Battle for Mosul, Undercover in Syria"   In its ongoing commitment to coverage of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, CNN offered in-depth reporting that demonstrated considerably the bravery and dedication of correspondents willing to risk their lives to tell stories in tenuous and uncertain situations. From #NimaElbagir's team reporting from Ramadi just days after Iraqi forces took back the town to Arwa Damon (@arwacnn) and Nick Paton Walsh's (@npwcnn) gripping accounts during the Battle for Mosul, the network relayed the toll of both physical and human destruction. Damon and cameraman Brice Laine recorded a harrowing 28 hours of being trapped in a house surrounded by ISIS fire with calm, clarity, and razor-sharp photography. Clarissa Ward (@ClarissaWardCNN) went undercover with forces in #Syria to document #Russian influence on the fighting and to navigate the ongoing devastation.   Read the full #Peabody Award citation: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/cnn-coverage-battle-for-mosul-undercover-in-syria-isis-in-iraq-and-syria

FRONTLINE: CONFRONTING ISIS

Winner 2016 | FRONTLINE

Veteran correspondent Martin Smith’s deliberate reporting provides context to America’s ongoing war against Islamist extremists in this essential primer on the origins and timeline of the conflict. “Confronting ISIS” clearly articulates the political complexities behind the rise of the terrorist group, their strategies in recruitment and tactics, and America’s diplomatic missteps and heightened challenges.

Since the uprising of anti-government forces in #Syria six years ago, the Peabody Awards has recognized 10 programs for outstanding coverage of the conflict and its impact on the global community. We salute CBS, CNN, NPR, BBC News/World Service/Radio, Channel 4, NBC/MSNBC, VICE News and the PBS NewsHour for staying with the story.

Charlie Rose Accepting the 2013 Peabody Award for “One-on-One with Assad”

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, is arguably the world’s oddest dictator, a supremely ordinary looking supreme leader whose milquetoast manner is wildly at odds with the ferocity of his efforts to hold on to power in the face of a popular uprising. His banality also makes him an exceedingly tough interview. Just convincing Assad to sit for questions was a major coup, the biggest “get” of 2013. CBS This Morning’s Charlie Rose conducted the face-to-face session with exemplary gravitas and journalistic acumen, politely but doggedly pressing Assad about his one-time reputation as a progressive reformer and his recent savage military response, including the use of chemical weapons, against civilians as well as rebel militias.

Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/one-on-one-with-assad-cbs

Children on the Frontline

Peabody Winner 2014 | ITN Productions

In the battered, bombed out Syrian city of Aleppo, thousands of families have fled, persuaded that nothing in a refugee camp could be as terrible as wondering if a rocket will hit your house or a sniper will take you out as you hang laundry to dry. Photojournalist/director Marcel Mettelsiefen focuses on one anti-regime family who have stayed in their home and especially on the children – young sisters Helen, Farah and Sara, their brother Mohammad, and their friend Aboude. Their daily lives are an absurd, heartbreaking co-mingling of the mundane and the terrifying. Hala, the mother, recalls giving the kids “a lot of cough syrup” during the worst shelling. Farah, wearing a T-shirt embossed with a cartoon character’s face, squirms on an easy chair like the antsy eight-year-old she is as she explains how her favorite past time is helping her father, Abu Ali, make bombs. Later we see her pout because dad won’t let her keep stuffed animals she finds in an abandoned apartment. Mettelsiefen films the ruins all around them with the eye of a theatrical cinematographer, but it’s the intimacy of the interviews, some punctuated by the sound of explosions, that give the documentary its greatest power. For capturing snapshots of family life in a war zone and giving us inklings of the psychological damage visited on the young, Children on the Frontline receives a Peabody Award.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBpob4GdkLw)

The #BBC reminded us why it's the gold standard of electronic-media news with its wide-ranging, richly detailed, deeply humane television and radio reporting on the European Migrant Crisis @bbcworldservice @bbcnews #bbcradio #bbcnews #syria

BBC World News 2013 Peabody Award citation for 'Inside Syria's War'

Peabody Winner's citation: One-on-One with Assad