ATHENS, Ga., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sir Patrick Stewart, Peabody Award-winning star of stage and screen, Shakespeare plays and science-fiction blockbusters, will be

ATHENS, Ga., Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Georgia has approved three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board.

DALLAS, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), one of the nation's largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies, announced today that WFAA-TV, its ABC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, has been selected as a 2010 George Foster Peabody Award winner.

ATHENS, Ga., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Peabody Awards will present its third Peabody-Smithgall Lecture on the theme "The Media and Public Life" at 4 p.m. on April 11, in Room 101 of the University of Georgia's Miller Learning Center.

ATHENS, Ga., March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Larry King, the long-time host of CNN's Larry King Live and a two-time Peabody Award winner, will be the host of the 70th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony on May 23, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. "Larry King has greeted figures of social and cultural significance throughout his career, and the roster of his guests reads as a chronicle of our times," said Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia.