The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced winners in New York Thursday of the 64th Annual Peabody Awards.

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The list of winners included Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," for its treatment of the 2004 presidential campaign and HBO's original series "Deadwood."

HBO also won a Peabody for the Emmy-winning original movie "Something the Lord Made," the story of a white surgeon and a black lab technician who defy Jim Crow restrictions in the South in 1944.

National Public Radio won a Peabody for its coverage of the war in Iraq and BBC Television News won for its coverage of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

CBS' "60 Minutes II: Abuse at Abu Ghraib" also picked up a Peabody, as did "Balseros," the Oscar-nominated documentary that examined repression in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

The TRIO cable channel and Post Consumer Media were awarded for the documentary "The N-Word."

Former NBC head and veteran producer Grant Tinker ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show,""Lou Grant") was also awarded a Peabody.

The awards will be presented May 16 in New York.