Awards and praise for Long Shadow’s "gripping" third season

2024 was a pivotal year for Long Shadow, with Long Lead releasing its third season of its #1-charting history podcast in the spring. Produced in collaboration with The Trace, Campside Media, and PRX and hosted by Pulitzer-finalist Garrett M. Graff, Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust chronicles how firearms moved from being an ordinary part of the background of rural life to a menacing element of modern American life.

The limited series podcast was named Best Podcast of 2024 by The Atlantic, Mashable, and The Week, and Audible similarly called it a 2024 Top Podcast. At the Signal Awards, Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust won for Best History Podcast; Documentary Podcast; and Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact Podcast. It was also nominated for the highly-coveted Best Audio Documentary Award by the International Documentary Association.

The Spectator calls Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust “a gripping podcast, providing a map for the evolution of a grim status quo.” Maybe so — though difficult to execute, the season’s last episode ended on a hopeful note. Then, just weeks after it was released, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory declaring gun violence "a public health crisis."

Meanwhile, Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right also continues to garner praise. The podcast’s second season — which explores how the modern domestic extremist movement grew from a fatal shootout on a mountain top in Idaho to an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — won a 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award in October. The Society of Professional Journalists also named Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right the Best Narrative Podcast at its Sigma Delta Chi Awards in July.

The fourth season of Long Shadow will return this summer. To hear it as soon as it premieres, subscribe to Long Shadow now, wherever you get your podcasts.

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