Peabody Winners Include ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Scandal,’ ‘House of Cards,’ ‘Key & Peele’

“Orange Is the New Black,” “Orphan Black” also win

“Breaking Bad,” “Scandal,” “House of Cards,” “Key & Peele” and “Orange Is the New Black” are among the latest Peabody Award winners.

The winners were announced Wednesday on “CBS This Morning.” The Peabodies will be awarded on May 19, 2014, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York in a ceremony hosted by “This American Life” creator Ira Glass. The ceremony will be televised on Pivot.

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The awards, now in their 74th year, are handed out by the University of Georgia and celebrate the best of TV, radio, and web storytelling.

This year’s 43 recipients also include FX’s “The Bridge,” PBS’s Ken Burns film “The Central Park Five,” PBS’s “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and Glass’ own “This American Life” two-part episode “Harper High School.”

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Here is the full list of winners:

180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School (PBS)
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (PBS)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN)
Best Kept Secret (PBS)
Borgen (DR1, Denmark)
Breaking Bad (AMC)
The Bridge (FX)
Broadchurch (BBC America)
Burka Avenger (Geo Tez)
The Central Park Five (PBS)
A Chef’s Life (PBS)
Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombings (WBZ)
Coverage of Supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
Fault Lines: Haiti in a Time of Cholera (Al Jazeera America)
Fault Lines: Made in Bangladesh (Al Jazeera America)
FRONTLINE: League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis (PBS)
Great Performances: Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (PBS)
Hanford’s Dirty Secrets (KING-TV, Seattle)
Harper High School (WBEZ Chicago 91.5)
Hollow (www.hollowdocumentary.com)
House of Cards (Netflix)
In Plain Sight: Poverty in America (NBC & plainsight.nbcnews.com)
Independent Lens: How to Survive a Plague (PBS)
Independent Lens: The House I Live In (PBS)
Independent Lens: The Invisible War (PBS)
Inside Syria’s War (BBC World News)
Key & Peele (Comedy Central)
Latino Americans (PBS)
The Law in These Parts (PBS)
Life According to Sam (HBO)
Louisiana Purchased (WVUE-TV, New Orleans, and NOLA.com)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (HBO)
A Needed Response (YouTube/Samantha Stendal)
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Questions of Influence (WTVF-TV, Nashville)
One-on-One with Assad (CBS)
Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)
Orphan Black (BBC America)
Outside the Lines: NFL at a Crossroads: Investigating a Health Crisis (ESPN)
The Race Card Project (NPR’s Morning Edition)
Reveal: The VA’s Opiate Overload (Public Radio)
The Returned (Les Revenants) (Sundance Channel)
Scandal (ABC)
A Short History of the Highrise (www.nytimes.com)

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