Long Shadow's fourth season wins three 2025 Signal Awards

In September, the Signal Awards announced Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet was a finalist in three categories: Best History, Best Documentary, and Best Technology podcast. Today the Signal Awards academy named the Long Lead-produced show a winner in all three!

Through the prior three seasons of Long Shadow, the Garrett M. Graff-helmed podcast had won five Signal Awards. Now with honors given to Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet, it has been cited for excellence eight times by Signal judges.

To date, Long Shadow has won Signal Awards for Best History Podcast three times, Best Documentary Podcast twice, Best Editing, Best Public Service Podcast, and now with Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet, Best Technology Podcast.

Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet retraces 30 years of web history — a tangle of GIFs, blogs, apps, and hashtags — to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: "How did we get here?" It's the story of mankind's greatest invention, a tool that gave everyone access to all the world's information and unlocked democracy across the globe. But it's also about the biggest crisis facing society today: how the web's unlimited feed of data morphed into a firehose of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and lies that divided Americans over things we once agreed on, like science, diversity, and even democracy itself.

In addition to winning eight Signal Awards, the Peabody Award-nominated show has also won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award and been honored by RFK Human Rights for public service and the Society of Professional Journalists for best narrative podcast. It has also been included in the curriculum at Harvard Law and the University of Houston.