Peabody Awards | SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog is among the winners of the 72nd-annual Peabody Awards, announced Wednesday. It's the first blog to receive a Peabody, Amy Howe writes in an announcement on the site. "[T]he website provides everything you ever wanted to know about the U.S. Supreme Court and its cases but didn’t know where to look," the awards announcement reads. SCOTUSblog joins ABC's Hurricane Sandy coverage, WVIT-TV's coverage of the Sandy Hook massacre and Kelly McEvers and Deborah Amos' coverage of Syria on NPR in the winner's circle.

We’re deeply humbled to be named a winner of the Peabody Award. Many thanks for the good wishes and congratulations.

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) March 27, 2013

Local TV stations picked up a good amount of hardware: WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, KMGH-TV in Denver and KNXV-TV in Phoenix all received Peabodys. The awards are scheduled to be presented on May 20. Here's a list of all the winners. Previously: SCOTUSblog tries again to get credentialed to cover the Supreme Court | Why it’s so hard for SCOTUSblog to get Supreme Court press credentials | SCOTUSblog details in 7,000 words how CNN, Fox got Health Care ruling wrong | Who was first with healthcare ruling depends on where you were looking

SCOTUSblog has again applied for press credentials to the U.S. Senate's Daily Press Gallery, the first step for the blog gaining its own press credentials to cover the U.S. Supreme Court. "We are just beginning on it, and it will take a while for us to vet it," Press Gallery director Joe Keenan tells Poynter in an email.

SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein previously told Poynter's Mallary Tenore "his understanding from staff conversations with the Senate Press Gallery was that SCOTUSblog wouldn’t qualify because it doesn’t have broad-based advertising."

Linda Greenhouse wrote Wednesday night that the blog's sponsorship by Bloomberg might get it through the gate: “We’d look at them all over again,” she reports Keenan told her, "noting that the gallery has changed substantially since my own brief stint covering Congress in the mid-1980’s." (more...)