Peabody Awards lift up a wide sample of broadcast excellence

Claressa Shields
Boxer Claressa Shields, whose path to the Olympics was documented in Radio Diaries' "Teen Contender."
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The 2013 Peabody Award winners represent a wide range of electronic media. "Dr. Who" is a winner, as are HBO's "Girls" and an Al Jazeera report on a boy growing up in East Jerusalem, "Sheikh Jarrah, My Neighborhood."

The winners are widely different from each other because the Peabody Awards are determined by only one criterion: excellence.

The Daily Circuit is featuring a selection of this year's radio winners:

Studio 360's series on recordings inducted into the National Recording Registry, including this piece on "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

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Radio Diaries' "Teen Contender," a series that followed a young boxer on her way to the Olympics.

This American Life's "What Happened at Dos Erres?"