Only the sixth person to receive this award, Jim Lehrer, who has stepped down as lead anchor of PBS NewsHour after 36 years, was honored for his commitment to responsible public media journalism and his leadership in delivering serious, fair-minded, and balanced daily reporting on issues of national and global importance. The author of 20 novels, two memoirs, and three plays, Lehrer has been honored with numerous awards for journalism, including the Chairman’s Award at the 2010 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences News & Documentary Emmy Awards and the 1999 National Humanities Medal, presented by President Bill Clinton. In October 2011, the National Press Club presented him with its top honor, the Fourth Estate Award. He has also won two Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Broadcast Award, and the University of Missouri School of Journalism’s Medal of Honor.
2011 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement Award
2011 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement Award
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63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards
2010 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ralph Lowell Medal
2011 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Edward R. Murrow Award
2011 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement Award
32nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards
69th Annual Golden Globe Awards
70th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards
2011 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards
72nd Annual Overseas Press Club Awards
15th Annual Webby Awards
Online News Association’s 2011 Online Journalism Awards
2011 National Radio Television Digital News Association’s Unity Award
Radio Television Digital News Association’s 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award
16th Annual 2011 Editor & Publisher’s Espy Awards
White House News Photographers Association’s The Eyes of History 2011
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“Afghanistan’s Other War”
“An Appreciation for the Cluster Fly”
Independent Lens "Art & Copy"
Art in the 21st Century “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”
Avec Eric
“Beep Baseball”
Frontline “Behind Taliban Lines”
Behind the Bail Bond System
“Bernier Doctors on Healthcare Curran”
US Rep Earl Blumenauer, Oregon 3rd Congressional District
Bonding for Profit
“Brain Wars: How the Military Is Failing Its Wounded”
“Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future”
Great Performances “Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway”
“Creating Art From Haiti’s Rubble”
Great Performances at the Met "Don Pasquale"
Masterpiece “Downton Abbey” (Part 1)
The Electric Company
POV “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
POV “The English Surgeon on PBS”
The Takeaway “Fluid Identities”
POV “Food Inc.”
“The Foreclosure Nightmare”
American Experience “Freedom Riders”
Frontline Fall Image Campaign “Times Like These”
NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes “Lulu” Garcia-Navarro
David Gilkey, NPR/Washington
“Black Hearts”
“Haiti, A Year in the Shadow of Destruction”
“Knife”
“Looter Watch”
“Shotgun Watch”
POV "Good Fortune"
The Great Textbook War
“Home or Nursing Home: America’s Empty Promise to Give the Elderly and Disabled a Choice”
“Robert Kyr’s ‘Songs’ From a Desert Monastery”
Veteran PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer
American Masters “LENNONYC”
American Masters “A Letter to Elia”
This American Life “Long Shot—Hasta La Vista, Maybe”
“Look Up! The Billion-Dollar Bug Highway You Can’t See”
The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today
Lucia’s Letter (La Carta de Lucia)
Great Performances “Macbeth”
Covering Pakistan: War, Flood and Social Issues
Minnesota Public Radio News
PBS NewsHour “Mississippi: One Battle in the War Against Obesity”
"Moby"
"Moby Performance"
Monkey See
The Moth Radio Hour Part I
American Masters “John Muir in the New World”
“Muslims in Michigan”
American Experience “My Lai”
“NASA End of the Space Shuttle”
New Orleans: Getting Back to Normal
“Night Patrol”
NPR Mobile Home
NPR Music
NPR.org
PBS for iPad
PBS “The Buddha”
“Planet Money‘s Toxic Assets”
“Policing the Mentally Ill”
POV "Presumed Guilty"
NPR Music’s Project Song “Moby: One Song, Two Days, Three Versions”
The Promised Land
Radiolab
Independent Lens “Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian”
“Residents, Church Vie for History—Rich Russian Isles”
“Sarah Hoskins’ ‘Homeplace’ ”
SciGirls
“Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes”
“Sergeant Lynch’s War”
Sesame Street
Masterpiece “Sherlock—A Study in Pink”
“A Snow Storm Hits New York and WNYC Listeners Map the Cleanup”
Great Performances “Sondheim! The Birthday Concert”
This American Life for iPhone
“Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation”
“Training for War”
“With Traumatic Brain Injuries, Soldiers Face Battle for Care”
Travelscope
Up in Smoke, Protected or Neglected? and Hung Out to Dry?
“Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun”
WBUR.org
PRI’s The World “Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?”
Frontline “The Wounded Platoon”
