Latino USA Wins 2014 Peabody Award

*So happy for our colleagues at Latino USA! We’re proud to call Maria Hinojosa and her team friends. VL

By PR Web

NPR’s Latino USA is a recipient of the 74th Annual Peabody Awards, winning the category in Radio/Podcast for their “Gangs, Murder and Migration in Honduras” episode. There were nearly 1,200 Peabody Award entries this year with only 40 winners representing the best of the best of the media from the 2014 calendar year.

“We’re thrilled and humbled to receive the Peabody Award, especially being among the company of this year’s distinguished broadcast honorees,” says Maria Hinojosa, Executive Producer and Anchor of Latino USA. “The program and our parent company, The Futuro Media Group, have always aimed to define the conversation about our times and society with an authentic voice and to help give a voice to the voiceless. During our on-the-ground reporting in Honduras, we explored the root causes of why so many migrants are leaving Honduras to travel to the U.S., including the extortion business that powers the country’s violent gangs.”

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