(See the other Peabody Award winners here.) According to The New Yorker, Wolson will accept the Peabody Award on behalf of the magazine at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles on June 11. The documentary is part of the Pulitzer Center-supported project Survival in Xinjiang. The film also provides additional context and analysis about China's campaign of persecution in Xinjiang, which is likely the largest mass internment of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II. Based on the testimony of multiple survivors, the project uses hand-drawn animation and immersive video to re-create the conditions and experiences inside the camp. Reeducated, a virtual-reality documentary by grantees Sam Wolson and Ben Mauk, gives viewers a glimpse inside one of Xinjiang’s secret detention camps, where Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities were subjected to brutal repression and indoctrination. The awards honor "excellence in storytelling that reflects the social issues and the emerging voices of our day," according to the Peabody's website. This is the 83rd annual awards. This is the first Peabody for The New Yorker, the magazine said on May 9. The New Yorker documentary Reeducated, a film supported by the Pulitzer Center, has won a Peabody Award.
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