WSJ receives first Peabody Award nomination

The Wall Street Journal received its first Peabody Award nomination for its video documentary, “Shadow Men: Inside Wagner, Russia’s Secret War Company.”

The 40-minute documentary goes deep inside the lethal global expansion of the Russian private military company Wagner—tracing the group’s evolution from a small, guns-for-hire operation into a sprawling network of businesses that has been active on four continents. The film also focuses on Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and onetime associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has since rebelled against Putin and died in a plane crash.

The team includes: Robert Libetti, Chris Stewart, Denise Blostein, Jane Lytvynenko, Frank Matt, Emma Scott, Rob Barry, Benoit Faucon, James V. Grimaldi, James Marson, Ben Weltman, Till Daldrup, and Lisa Schwartz.

The Peabody Awards honor excellence in broadcast media. The winners will be announced on June 9.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.