Jeffrey P. Jones on Why the Peabody Awards are America’s Archive of TV Excellence

05/14/25 • 20 min

The executive director of the Peabody Awards and professor at the communications school at the University of Georgia explains the uniqueness of the Peabody Awards and its process. He also discusses the difficulties of categorizing content these days and how electronic media is meeting the challenge of covering Trump 2.0.

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Strictly Business - Jeffrey P. Jones on Why the Peabody Awards are America’s Archive of TV Excellence

Transcript

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Welcome to Strictly Business, Variety's weekly podcast featuring conversations with industry leaders about the business of media and entertainment. I'm Cynthia Lyttleton, co editor in chief of Variety. Today, my guest is doctor Jeffrey P. Jones. He's the executive director of the Peabody Awards and a professor in the Communications School at the University of Georgia, which has administered the Peabodies since nineteen forty. Jones and I discuss