Vice News won two Peabody Awards, including one for reporter Medyan Dairieh's report on Islamic state fighters, with CNN, NPR and New York public radio station WNYC also winning twice in the annual honors for electronic media.
"Serial," a podcast that studied the evidence of an 18-year-old accused of murder that was downloaded more than 50 million times, was the first podcast to win a Peabody, which are awarded by the University of Georgia. The news Peabody recipients were announced Monday.
Besides Dairieh's reports, Vice won for "Last Chance High," a series on a Chicago school treating troubled youth.
CNN won for reporter Isha Sesay's coverage of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, and for its investigation into caregiving at veterans' hospitals.
National Public Radio won for reporting on the Ebola outbreak and for problems in Honduras that contribute to citizens attempting to migrate to the U.S.
WNYC's "Radiolab" won for a look at the impact of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and the radio station shared an award with New Jersey Public Radio for reports on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration.
The Peabodys also specifically cited NBC News reporter Richard Engel for his reporting on the Islamic state. Engel was in the news last week for saying that some of his and NBC's original reporting about his 2012 kidnapping in Syria had been wrong.
California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction
California will make it illegal for social media platforms to knowingly provide addictive feeds to children without parental consent beginning in 2027 under a new law Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Friday.
California follows New York state, which passed a law earlier this year allowing parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested by a platform's algorithm. Utah has passed laws in recent years aimed at limiting children's access to social media, but they have faced challenges in court.
The California law will take effect in a state home to some of the largest technology companies in the world. Similar proposals have failed to pass in recent years, but Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law in 2022 barring online platforms from using users' personal information in ways that could harm children. It is part of a growing push in states across the country to try to address the impacts of social media on the well-being of children.
"Every parent knows the harm social media addiction can inflict on their children — isolation from human contact, stress and anxiety, and endless hours wasted late into the night," Newsom said in a statement. "With this bill, California is helping protect children and teenagers from purposely designed features that feed these destructive habits."
The law bans platforms from sending notifications without permission from parents to minors between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m., and between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays from September through May, when children are typically in school. The legislation also makes platforms set children's accounts to private by default.
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