Editing Peabody Awards (section)

==Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection==
The Peabody Awards Collection is the flagship of The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection. The archives are housed in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries on the north campus of [[The University of Georgia]]. The mission of the Peabody Archive is to preserve, protect, and provide access to the moving image and sound materials that reflect the collective memory of broadcasting and the history of the state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and its people. The collection contains nearly every entry for the first major broadcast award given in the [[United States]]. Entries began in 1940 for radio and 1948 for television, and at least 1,000 new entries are received every year—programs created by local, national, and international producers. The collection provides a cultural cross-section of television from its infancy to the present day, featuring news, documentary, entertainment, educational, and children's programming. Once judging is complete, all entries are moved to the Main Library for in-depth cataloging, access, and long-term preservation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/about/history.html|title=History :: UGA Libraries Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection|work=uga.edu}}</ref>

In 2017 the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia (BMA) and [[WGBH Educational Foundation|WGBH]], on behalf of the [[American Archive of Public Broadcasting]], were awarded a grant from the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Historical Publications and Records Commission]] to digitize, preserve, and provide access to approximately 4,000 hours of public broadcasting programming nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award between 1941 and 1999. The full collection will eventually comprise 4,000 digitized hours of audio and video recordings from 230 local, state, and regional public broadcasting stations in 46 states as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Peabody Awards Collection|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/peabody|access-date=2021-07-06|website=americanarchive.org}}</ref>