Knapp Wins Peabody
Congrats to George Knapp! He recently won the distinguished Peabody Award along with photojournalist Matt Adams, for their KLAS-TV investigative report Crossfire: Water, Power and Politics. More at the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Apr. 02, 2009
KLAS-TV gets Peabody Award
'Crossfire' special on water cited
By STEVE BORNFELD
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Quite a feather in their Knapp sack.
Investigative reporter George Knapp and photojournalist Matt Adams have brought home the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for KLAS-TV, Channel 8 for their I-Team special, "Crossfire: Water, Power and Politics," an examination of how Las Vegas growth would impact large portions of the Southwest.
"We're thrilled with it," Knapp said Wednesday. "There is nothing higher than this in broadcast journalism; and we're in pretty elite company, along with '60 Minutes,' HBO's documentary unit, even 'Saturday Night Live' for their political commentary. I really appreciate the support the station has given me."
Among other winners announced Wednesday of the 68th annual Peabody Awards, an international award for excellence in television and radio, were ABC's "Lost," HBO's documentary "The Gates" and miniseries "John Adams," NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympics, PBS' "Washington Week with Gwen Ifill" and CNN's coverage of the presidential primaries.
"There are not many local TV stations that win these, and it validates what we're trying to do with the I-Team," said Channel 8 news director Ron Comings.
"Not many stations maintain an investigative unit and not the size of ours. I've been urging George to enter his work in these national awards, and he finally said he would. The quality of his investigative work is so good that I said, 'You have to go after it.' "
Peabody judges called the "Crossfire" special "network quality" and added that it was "a brave, meticulous examination of a plan to pump massive amounts of water from rural Nevada to booming Sin City and the potential consequences for ranchers, farmers, Native Americans and the environment."
Channel 8 photojournalist Alex Brauer and producer Ian Russell also contributed to the piece, which aired March 22 and April 20 of last year.
The special had been in the works for three years.
"We started working on water issues in the mid-Nineties, during a period of relentless, unprecedented growth. It was go, go, go for 20 years; but when the drought came in, we stayed with it, collecting information," said Knapp, also a columnist for Las Vegas CityLife, a sister publication to the Review-Journal. "There is so much at stake, but no one paid attention because it's so complicated. But it involves primal forces of nature -- growth, quality of life -- not only for people in the valley, but the ranchers and the people who have chosen a different kind of life. Those people don't have a voice in it."
Knapp and Adams will join other Peabody winners at the May 18 awards ceremony, hosted by NBC's Brian Williams in New York City.
Contact reporter Steve Bornfeld at [email protected] or 702-383-0256.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/42315282.html
George Knapp Wins Peabody
Moderator: Super Moderators
-
ArtBellfan
- Pirate
- Posts: 168
- Joined: 03-27-2008 05:29 PM
-
Shirleypal
- Pirate
- Posts: 45448
- Joined: 03-06-2003 03:00 AM
That's the last straw!
I want Noory out of Coast-to-Coast yesterday, and I want George Knapp in his place.
A reporter who wins a Peabody Award is a very special kind of journalist, and the only position worthy of such a gifted person is the moderatorship of a global radio show which exists precisely to redefine the nature of twenty-first century planetary civilization. Anything less is a sign of disrespect for such a gifted individual, and money should be no object, no object whatsoever, to guarantee his full-time commitment to the program.
I'm serious! George Knapp, Peabody-Award-winning investigative journalist as moderator of Coast-to-Coast! Nothing else at this stage of the game is acceptable! Nothing!
I want Noory out of Coast-to-Coast yesterday, and I want George Knapp in his place.
A reporter who wins a Peabody Award is a very special kind of journalist, and the only position worthy of such a gifted person is the moderatorship of a global radio show which exists precisely to redefine the nature of twenty-first century planetary civilization. Anything less is a sign of disrespect for such a gifted individual, and money should be no object, no object whatsoever, to guarantee his full-time commitment to the program.
I'm serious! George Knapp, Peabody-Award-winning investigative journalist as moderator of Coast-to-Coast! Nothing else at this stage of the game is acceptable! Nothing!
Last edited by joequinn on 04-04-2009 11:59 AM, edited 1 time in total.
"Fuggedah about it, Jake --- it's Chinatown!"
SETIsLady wrote: I haven't listened to Ian in a long time, but hearing more and more complaints , whats has changed with him ?
Ian Punnett no longer greets his audience, does not introduce guests, is extremely argumentative and rude to many of them (Steve Quayle being the most egregious but far from unique example), has largely abandoned covering "typical Coast" topics, and seems obsessed with DB Cooper.
racehorse
-
Shirleypal
- Pirate
- Posts: 45448
- Joined: 03-06-2003 03:00 AM
