{"id":11160,"date":"2016-04-22T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2016-04-22T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:00:33","slug":"nbc-5-wins-peabody-award-for-laquan-mcdonald-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/04\/22\/nbc-5-wins-peabody-award-for-laquan-mcdonald-story\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 wins Peabody Award for Laquan McDonald investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Laquan<\/a>

<\/a> Laquan McDonald video<\/p><\/div>\n

NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> this week was named winner of a George Foster Peabody Award <\/a>for its investigative reporting on the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWMAQ\u2019s relentless, unrivaled reporting brought to light a host of police procedural infractions, official disinformation and outright lies, and contributed to a police department shakeup,\u201d the judging committee said in announcing the award.<\/p>\n

Considered among the highest honors in broadcast journalism and administered by the University of Georgia\u2019s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the 75th annual Peabody Awards will be presented May 21 in New York.<\/p>\n

All owe a debt to the seminal work of independent journalist Jamie Kalven in bringing the McDonald story to light and independent journalist Brandon Smith in fighting for release of the police dashcam video showing McDonald being fatally shot in October 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Carol<\/a>

Carol Marin<\/p><\/div>\n

But six months before the video was released and Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder, NBC 5 had launched its own investigation<\/a> into the case, uncovering several significant aspects of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we always knew that this had the potential to be a huge investigation and a national story,\u201d said NBC 5 political editor and investigative reporter Carol Marin. \u201cAnytime you\u2019ve got a young African American man on camera being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer as he moves away from \u2014 not towards \u2014 the officer, there is a serious issue. And this nation was already confronting plenty of these kinds of stories in Ferguson, Missouri, and other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank Whittaker, vice president of news and station manager at NBC 5, cited the lead reporting of Marin, Don Moseley and Rich Moy on the story. \u201cTheir work and our team\u2019s ongoing commitment to investigative journalism will continue to report the most important stories in our community,\u201d Whittaker said. \u201cOn behalf of the entire station, we are honored and grateful for this prestigious recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s honor marks the third time Marin has won a Peabody Award. In 1997 she was cited for her body of work, and in 1998 she and Moseley were recognized for their documentary on the facially disfigured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 this week was named winner of a George Foster Peabody Award for its investigative reporting on the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer. \u201cWMAQ\u2019s relentless, unrivaled reporting brought to light a host of police procedural infractions, official disinformation and outright lies, and contributed to a police department shakeup,\u201d... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}