Youth Radio Wins Peabody Award

Congratulations to Youth Radio/Youth Media International for winning this year’s Peabody Award. They were given the award for Trafficked, their two-part investigative series that explores the sex trade of minors in Oakland largely through first-hand accounts of the victims.

The George Foster Peabody Awards recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by TV and radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals, and the World Wide Web. The Awards program, established in 1940, is the oldest and most prestigious honor in electronic media.

The Awards program, established in 1940 and administered by the University of Georgia's Grady college of Journalism and Mass Communication, is the oldest, most prestigious honor in electronic media.

The piece aired on National Public Radio and was featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.