Peabody Award-winning public media organization PRX announced an expanded partnership with Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, one of today’s most engaging food media producers, including of the popular podcast and radio show Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio.

PRX will now serve as Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio podcast distributor, bringing the show to on-demand audiences free via all major podcast listening platforms. PRX and their advertising sales partner Soundrise will also now serve as Milk Street’s official sales representative for the podcast.

PRX will also continue to serve as Milk Street Radio’s public radio distributor. The weekly program airs on 201 stations nationwide.

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio

“Christopher Kimball and the team at Milk Street are the ultimate companions to audiences hungry to learn more about the world of food, or how to prepare their next meal,” said Stephanie Kuo, Vice President of Content at PRX. “The show has touched countless lives by bringing them closer to food’s rich and complex tapestry of culture and humanity. We’re pleased to expand our partnership and to help bring the podcast to more listeners nationwide.”

“PRX’s roster of podcasts are some of the best in the industry — both editorially and in popularity,” said Annie Sinsabaugh, Executive Producer of Milk Street Radio. “The team is massively smart and supportive. I’m thrilled by this partnership. It feels like we’re coming home.”

Each week, Milk Street Radio travels the world to find the most fascinating stories about food — a detective who tracks down food thieves and a look inside the most famous (and often scandalous) restaurant kitchens — and interviews with culinary icons such as José Andrés, Padma Lakshmi, Jacques Pépin, and Marcus Samuelsson. Milk Street Radio and host Christopher Kimball also brings listeners the unexpected — the comedian who ranks apples using an elaborate 100-point system, the scientists who study if vegetables have souls, and the journalist who reveals the world’s 10 biggest food lies — answers listeners’ cooking questions, finds out how to make the perfect cup of coffee, and shares how to eat your way through Italy.

Best of 2024: Food Lies, Veggie Souls, Restaurant Secrets and Favorite Calls

A 2024 International Association of Culinary Professionals Award finalist for best podcast, Milk Street has received numerous accolades, including three Emmy Awards, the James Beard Award, and the Taste Award for Outstanding Vision.

The weekly public radio broadcast of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio currently airs on stations across the United States, including in Arizona, Florida, Ohio, Connecticut, Texas, Vermont, Alaska, Idaho, New York, and beyond while the podcast is available on-demand everywhere via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and more. Milk Street founder Christopher Kimball is also joined by personalities such as chefs Sara Moulton (Sara’s Weeknight Meals) and celebrated baker Cheryl Day (The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook).

“Milk Street Radio is one of the most-listened-to food podcasts in the U.S.,” says Matt Frampton, Milk Street’s Vice President, Brand Partnerships. “We feel like we’ve found the exact right partners in PRX and Soundrise to grow our work with audio advertisers, not only in host-read and traditional podcast ads but also in developing even more bespoke solutions — including but not limited to branded episodes, social, and custom segments.”

Visit 177milkstreet.com/radio for the latest episodes.

Baking Special: Magic Cakes, Muffin Madness and Computer Cookies

About Christopher Kimball

Host Christopher Kimball is the founder of the food media company Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, which in addition to Milk Street Radio produces the Emmy Award-winning Milk Street Television, the series My Family Recipe, a bi-monthly print magazine, an online retail culinary store which specializes in over 1,500 unique products from around the world, the Milk Street Cooking School, global culinary tours, and numerous award-winning and best-selling cookbooks. Kimball was also the founder, editor and publisher of Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines and the host of the public television shows America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country.

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit PRX.org for more.

Contact information

Deborah Broide / Director of Media Relations, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street / deb@177milkstreet.com

David Cotrone / Director of Public Relations and Communications, PRX / david.cotrone@prx.org

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As we enter a new year, we’re pleased to share “best of 2024” praise of podcasts distributed by PRX or part of PRX’s Radiotopia podcast network.

Shows rendering resonant personal stories, consequential reporting on national issues, and context on meaningful aspects of life were lauded by critics at The Economist, The New York Times, TIME, Mashable, The Atlantic, and beyond.

Below is a representation of highlights:

Articles of Interest (Avery Trufelman and Radiotopia)

• Town & Country

Articles of Interest

Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything (Benjamen Walker and Radiotopia)

• The Economist
• The New Yorker

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Critics at Large (The New Yorker)

• The New York Times
• GQ Australia

Critics at Large | The New Yorker

Hang Up (Caitlin Pierce and Radiotopia)

• Vulture

Hang Up

In the Dark (The New Yorker)

• LA Review of Books “Podcast Review”
• The New York Times
• Vulture
• The Atlantic
• KQED
• Lifehacker
• The Conversation

In The Dark

Hyperfixed (Alex Goldman and Radiotopia)

• TIME
• Town & Country
• The Times (UK)

Hyperfixed

Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust (Long Lead, The Trace, Campside Media, and PRX)

• The Atlantic
• The Week
• Mashable

Long Shadow

Normal Gossip (Defector Media and Radiotopia)

• TimeOut
• Vogue
• Esquire
• KPBS San Diego

Normal Gossip

Sea Change (WWNO/WRKF and PRX)

• NPR

Sea Change

Second Sunday (The Qube and PRX)

• The Atlantic

Second Sunday

Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative (Jess Shane and Radiotopia)

• The Guardian
• The New York Times
• Bingeworthy

Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative

Song Exploder (Hrishikesh Hirway and Radiotopia)

• Vogue

Song Exploder

The Recipe with Kenji and Deb (J. Kenji López-Alt, Deb Perelman, and Radiotopia)

• Esquire

The Recipe with Kenji and Deb

Further information on PRX podcasts released in 2024 is available here. We’ll continue to bring listeners new releases from independently bold producers in 2025.

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit PRX.org for more.

About Radiotopia from PRX

Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

Immerse yourself in stories and conversations of all kinds — intellectual and emotional, real and imagined, entertaining and thought-provoking. Be part of a community that values bold authenticity and boundless creativity. Discover award-winning audio with vision at Radiotopia.fm.

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The series launching January 1 will also feature conversations with special friends, including author Gary Shtyengart, podcaster Nora McInerny, comedian Moshe Kasher, and more

The acclaimed public radio variety show Live Wire Radio today announced Damp January with Luke Burbank, a new limited series podcast: launching January 1, 2025. Host Luke Burbank knows his way around a drink. At times, he’s gotten too familiar with the stuff, which is why he’s now trying to fix his relationship with alcohol.

The special podcast series will be distributed by Peabody Award-winning public media organization PRX. PRX is also the distributor of Live Wire Radio:

Introducing "Damp January" from Live Wire

For Damp January, Luke will talk to friends, family, and cultural luminaries living at various points on the booze spectrum — from enthusiastic imbibers to teetotalers and everyone in between. After a booze-heavy pandemic and increased attention to alcohol’s health risks, many have reconsidered their habits. But is mindful consumption actually achievable?

The series will explore these questions with humor, honesty, and (occasionally) a little liquid courage. Notable guests will also include New York Times bestselling author Gary Shtyengart, hit podcaster and writer Nora McInerny (Terrible, Thanks for Asking), comedian Moshe Kasher, journalist and hangover cure-seeker Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, plus Luke’s own mother.

The series will be available free on-demand across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, and Overcast with new episodes available every Wednesday in January.

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit PRX.org for more.

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Below is a reflection from Kerri Hoffman, CEO of PRX:

In a year when trustworthy media has never been more crucial, your support of PRX has helped protect and expand a vital space where authentic storytelling flourishes. Today, I’m excited to share our 2024 Annual Report and audio highlights to celebrate the impact we’ve achieved together:

PRX Annual Report 2024

This year, PRX’s reach extended to virtually every corner of America:

• Our broadcast shows reached 99% of the U.S.
• PRX podcasts were downloaded more than 550 million times.
• The PRX Dovetail publishing platform supports more than 400 shows from 124 organizations and 33 public radio stations.

But numbers tell only part of the story. What matters most is how we’re fulfilling the promise of public media outlined in the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967: encouraging creative risks and serving diverse audiences that commercial media often overlooks.

For two decades, PRX has been at the forefront of change in the audio industry — building the technology and community-centered infrastructure that enables and supports the people making the most engaging, poignant, and innovative audio available. Since our founding, PRX has put more than $140 million directly into the hands of thousands of creators, allowing them to make the audio that drives their passion and never dictating the content they produce.

PRX provides a critical service to local public radio stations around the country, providing high-quality programming at subsidized rates, including intrepid, in-depth journalism through shows like The World, Left, Right & Center, and Reveal. We continue to advance our technology platforms to protect listener privacy, while ensuring creator success. And we champion emerging voices supporting their artistic, technical, and professional success — some of which is reflected in the prodigious awards PRX programming has received this year.

We believe in innovation in service of the public good. In an era where commercial media increasingly chases clicks over substance, your support has allowed PRX to take a different path. We’ve maintained our commitment to supporting creative risks in storytelling, expanding access to diverse voices and perspectives, and developing technology that supports access to public information and podcast innovation.

As we enter 2025, we know the media landscape will continue to face extraordinary challenges. Commercial pressures threaten journalistic independence, while digital giants reshape how stories reach audiences. But with supporters like you, PRX continues to carve out protected space where meaningful storytelling can thrive.

Your continued partnership makes this work possible. Every dollar you invest supports our mission to ensure that public media remains vibrant, diverse, and accessible to all.

With gratitude,

Kerri Hoffman

We invite you to view our full annual report and listen to our 2024 audio highlights. Your support matters more than ever. Consider renewing your commitment to public media with a gift today.

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The Radiotopia from PRX podcast was awarded Best Audio Documentary

The Radiotopia from PRX podcast Ear Hustle won a prestigious 2024 IDA Documentary Award for Best Audio Documentary, the International Documentary Association announced.

The award-winning work from Ear Hustle— a one- hour narrative titled “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?”—is a profound portrait of facing the end of one’s life while in prison:

What's Up, Michael Freeman?

Ear Hustle is co-created and hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods and is made by a collaborative team in and out of San Quentin in California.

The IDA Documentary Awards is the world’s most prestigious event dedicated to the documentary genre, celebrating the best nonfiction films and programs of the year. 2024 winners in other categories also included titles from The New York Times, Greenwich Entertainment, Kino Lorber, and PBS.

PRX led the Best Audio Documentary category in 2024 with two nominees.

About Radiotopia from PRX

Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

Immerse yourself in stories and conversations of all kinds — intellectual and emotional, real and imagined, entertaining and thought-provoking. Be part of a community that values bold authenticity and boundless creativity. Discover award-winning audio with vision at Radiotopia.fm.

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WBEZ Chicago will also air the series. It will feature Terkel’s “Division Street: America” recordings and new interviews with descendants of Chicagoans in the book.

Executive Producer Melissa Harris and Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich announced the Jan. 27, 2025, release of Division Street Revisited, a seven-part podcast series that builds on Studs Terkel’s first book of oral history chronicling life in the 1960s.

Division Street Revisited will launch on all major podcast platforms, distributed by public media organization PRX. PRX also will make episodes available to public radio stations nationwide. In addition, WBEZ Chicago will air the series on Mondays, starting January 27.

This is the first time Terkel’s Division Street book recordings will be broadcast since the Library of Congress digitized them in late 2023.

Division Street Revisited

The book contains interviews with 71 uncelebrated people about their fears and hopes for themselves, their families and the country. Through interviews with their descendants, the podcast will trace the lives of seven people in the book: A Black public school janitor; a Lithuanian tavern owner; an Appalachian mother of 15; a closeted gay actor; a Native American activist; a Black labor leader; and a prominent white woman in Chicago’s high society.

“But what happened to those people? To their descendants? To their dreams?” Schmich said. “We created this podcast because we wanted to find out, and because the stories told by these individuals help us reflect on our own families and histories, our own hopes and fears for the country.”

A new edition of the 1967 book, with a foreword by Schmich, is available now from The New Press, which holds the rights to Terkel’s books. A weekly, seven-part listening club will launch over Zoom Wednesday, February 5 in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, Old Town School of Folk Music, Facing History & Ourselves, and Chicago Public Library.

Each of the episodes and corresponding listening club will have a focus: civil rights, immigration, work, poverty, LGBTQ+ rights, and the evolving lives of women. All of the stories, in different ways, explore the complexities of family.

“Studs Terkel is a critical figure in understanding the history of audio storytelling,” said Jason Saldanha, Chief Operating Officer at PRX. “We’re proud to help bring his work to more listeners. Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich are not only thoughtful stewards of Terkel’s contributions, but exceptional storytellers delivering new insights.”

Schmich, who writes and narrates the series, was a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992 to 2021 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2012. Harris was a business columnist at the Tribune from 2009 to 2015 and previously worked at The Baltimore Sun and Orlando Sentinel.

Joining Schmich and Harris on the Division Street Revisited production team is Bill Healy, part of a team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting and Peabody Award; former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor for metro news Mark Jacob, who has authored nine books on history; former WBEZ editor Cate Cahan; music director and composer Chris Walz; associate producer and dialogue editor Chijioke Williams; and sound designer Libby Lussenhop.

Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, M. Harris & Co., the Field Foundation of Illinois, the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the Susan H. Schwartz Charitable Trust, and Debra D. Schwartz. Both the Chicago History Museum and the Studs Terkel Radio Archive at WFMT have licensed historical audio for the production. Production support provided by WBEZ and Chicago Public Media.

“Our search for descendants has sent us around the country — and that’s part of the story: Americans move a lot,” Harris said. “We’ve gone to Denver, Phoenix, New York City, Kentucky, and the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska. These stories offer listeners a chance to meet Americans they might not otherwise meet, learn about places they wouldn’t otherwise know.”

Division Street Revisited

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Visit PRX.org for more.

About Mary Schmich

Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich spent 36 years at the Chicago Tribune, chronicling the city as a columnist from 1992 to 2021. Her columns were syndicated nationally and compiled into a book, celebrating her 2012 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Schmich won the Studs Terkel Award for her columns about the Cabrini-Green public housing complex. She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter for the last 25 of its 60 years. In 1997, she wrote a column loosely called “Wear Sunscreen” that was turned into a spoken word song by moviemaker Baz Luhrmann. It reached №1 on the radio charts in the UK.

About Melissa Harris

Melissa Harris is the founder and CEO of M. Harris & Co., a Chicago-based marketing agency. Harris has led the agency to win numerous marketing awards, including a Silver Anvil Award, an Anthem Award, a Viddy Award, and a Golden Trumpet Award. A former journalist with 15 years at the Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, and Chicago Tribune, Harris spent her media career as a metro reporter and business columnist. She was twice a finalist for the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Harris is the coauthor of Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing, a witty and practical guide to transforming everyday communication.

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The International Documentary Association today announced audio documentary finalists for the 40th IDA Documentary Awards.

PRX leads the category with two nominees.

Ear Hustle — part of PRX’s Radiotopia podcast network — is a finalist for its standalone episode released in 2024. “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?” is a one-hour audio documentary illuminating the experiences of incarcerated men who are facing the end of their lives in a prison hospice:

What's Up, Michael Freeman?

Co-created and hosted by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, Ear Hustle is a collaboration between incarcerated people and those on the outside, bringing listeners stories of the realities of life inside San Quentin State Prison in California and beyond. The “What’s Up, Michael Freeman?” production team also includes Amy Standen, Bruce Wallace, and Rahsaan Thomas. Additional information regarding the audio documentary is here.

Also an audio documentary finalist: Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust, distributed by PRX. The podcast from Long Lead is also a partnership with The Trace and Campside Media. Reported and narrated by Pulitzer-finalist journalist Garrett M. Graff, the series recounts how firearms went from being an ordinary part of rural American life to a menacing element of modern society:

Long Shadow

Since 1984, the IDA Documentary Awards have recognized a diverse range of emerging and established filmmakers, and expanded to include recognition of artistic direction, audio documentaries, documentary journalism, and music documentaries.

Finalists across categories in the 2024 IDA Documentary Awards also includes documentaries from The New York Times Op-Docs, Magnolia Pictures, NEON, Netflix, and PBS.

Winners will be announced on December 5.

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The Anthem Awards today announced the winners of their annual accolades in celebration of today’s brightest purpose and mission-driven work. Launched in 2021, the awards celebrate the purpose and mission-driven work of the individuals, companies, and organizations making a difference worldwide.

Among the winners is the PRX Big Questions Project, an assembly of podcasts providing deeper understanding of daily life. The project is a winner in the category of Education, Art & Culture for audio.

Additional winners across Education, Art & Culture include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, and Sesame Workshop.

The PRX Big Questions Project was launched with support of the John Templeton Foundation. The podcasts include the following:

• Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech
• Mother is a Question
• Rock That Doesn't Roll: The Story of Christian Music
• Second Sunday

“Their vital pursuit of a stronger, more equitable, and just tomorrow is incredible,” said Anthem Awards General Manager Patricia McLoughlin of the winners. “We are grateful for the opportunity to support and uplift their efforts.”

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

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A message from Audrey Mardavich, executive producer of the Radiotopia podcast network:

The first draft of this message started out very differently — a straightforward launch of our fall fundraiser for Radiotopia.

But given the U.S. elections, diving in full steam didn’t feel quite right.

There’s a lot of recent talk about the role podcasts played. To me, at the heart of that conversation is a recognition of podcasting as a powerful medium. It can change minds, hearts, the course of people’s lives…

The power of audio storytelling changed the course of my life. I came into this industry quite young and I’ve since dedicated my career to supporting independent audio producers. While going the independent route isn’t easy, it’s where I believe creators can do their best work for our collective benefit.

Others have also noticed the power of podcasting —

Every year, as listenership grows, more monied players from the larger media world (and beyond) enter the fold, buying and selling each other up left and right.

But Radiotopia has a different vision for the future, and who media should and can serve.

When we started the podcast network 10 years ago, we wanted to create a vibrant, diverse ecosystem respecting creators and listeners alike. We had this simple but powerful idea: independent audio makers could go further together than they could on their own. By joining forces, we could help each other reach more listeners, and we would partner with those passionate listeners to make it all happen.

Thanks to your donations along the way, we’ve done just that. Radiotopia is a place where creators own their work, set their own terms, and tell stories that captivate them — stories you love to listen to.

It’s a microcosm of the world I want to live in, a beautiful reminder of what we can accomplish together when we decide something creative and innovative should exist in the world. But this only happens when you stand by us.

Your donation to Radiotopia is much more than just financial support. It’s a vote for a fundamentally democratic approach to audio.

It’s you saying, “I love [insert your favorite Radiotopia podcast] and I want it to continue to exist.”

If our shows have helped you think about the world differently, learn something new, or feel comforted during difficult times — then will you donate or renew your support today?

Thanks for listening,

Audrey Mardavich, executive producer of Radiotopia

About Radiotopia from PRX

Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

Immerse yourself in stories and conversations of all kinds — intellectual and emotional, real and imagined, entertaining and thought-provoking. Be part of a community that values bold authenticity and boundless creativity. Discover award-winning audio with vision at Radiotopia.fm.

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“Reveal” and “This American Life” are among the nominees for outstanding public service through audio reporting

Columbia Journalism School today announced finalists in the 2025 duPont-Columbia Awards for outstanding public service in audio or video reporting.

Public media’s investigative public radio program and podcast Reveal—distributed by PRX — is twice-nominated. The show is nominated for a police accountability episode “We Regret to Inform You” as well as a multi-part series “40 Acres and a Lie.”

“40 Acres and a Lie” from Reveal, Mother Jones, the Center for Public Integrity, and PRX uncovers a reparation that wasn’t and the wealth gap that remains. Nearly 160 years after the federal government created what became the nation’s first and most famous attempt to provide reparations by giving “40 acres and a mule” to formerly enslaved people in the South, this major investigation identified more than 1,200 people who received and then lost their land under the program after the Civil War.

This American Life is also a finalist for audio providing perspective on the war in Gaza. The public radio program is also distributed by PRX.

Additional 2025 duPont-Columbia Award finalists include PBS, HBO, NPR, Netflix, and Telemundo.

About PRX

Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.

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