History Awards
Leibner Cooper Grant
Danielle Beverly, winner of the Leiber Cooper Grant, is assistant professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Arlington.
The LABF, in association with the Broadcast Education Association and the Leibner Cooper Family Foundation, awards each year the Leibner Cooper Grant ($2,500) for Creative Productions on the History of Media to a faculty member who is producing a documentary, news story, multimedia project or sports production focused on historical issues, figures and/or events related to media.
The 2025 grant was awarded to Danielle Beverly, at the University of Texas at Arlington, for her documentary, Eyes on the Prize Reclaimed. The work explores the significance and legacy of Eyes on the Prize, the landmark 1987 TV history of the civil rights movement. Its first broadcast reached 20 million Americans, and through repeated showings, its audience has grown to 100 million worldwide.
Broadcast Historian
Awards
The 2026 book award winners: Lauren Bratslavsky, assistant professor of communications at Illinois State University (top) and Elizabeth Peterson, digital collections librarian at the University of Oregon.
The LABF, in association with the Broadcast Education Association, presents two Broadcast Historian Awards each year along with a $2,500 prize.
Broadcast Historian Book Award to an educator who has published a book specifically related to broadcast/media history.
Broadcast Historian Creative Award to an educator who has produced a documentary/multimedia project specifically related to broadcast/media history.
The winners of the 2026 Historian Book Award are Lauren Bratslavsky and Elizabeth Peterson for their book, The Archivability of Television: Essays on Preservation and Perseverance.
The 2025 anthology critically evaluates archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material.
There was no winner of the Creative Award in 2026.
About the Broadcast Education Association: BEA is the premiere international academic media organization, driving insights, excellence in media production, and career advancement for educators, students, and professionals. There are currently more than 2,300 individual and institutional members worldwide. Visit www.beaweb.org for more information.
About the Leibner Cooper Family Foundation: The foundation was formed by Carole Cooper and her late husband Richard Leibner. For more than 50 years, their talent agency, N.S. Bienstock, represented leading TV journalists, including Anderson Cooper, Megyn Kelly, Steve Kroft, David Muir, Norah O’Donnell, Robin Roberts and Bill Whitaker.