SPJ names Long Shadow 2023's best narrative podcast
The award honors "Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right" as among the year's best journalism.
Today, the Society of Professional Journalists has named Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right the Best Narrative Podcast at its 2023 Sigma Delta Chi Awards. The annual honors, which have been around for 85 years, acknowledge the best in journalism to promote “the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry.”
Long Shadow “does what podcasts are uniquely situated to do,” said the SPJ in its awards announcement. "[It] allows the creators to take a long look at events and pick out pathways and threads that may otherwise be lost in the moment, but with the perspective of time glow brightly when studied.”
Hosted by Pulitzer-finalist historian and author Garrett Graff and produced by Long Lead, Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right explores how, over decades, the U.S. government failed to confront the threat of domestic terror, leading to a modern extremist movement that ultimately rioted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The SPJ prize is the second Sigma Delta Chi award in as many years for Long Lead, which last year won for The People vs. Rubber Bullets, a multi-part, multimedia explainer on the deadly effects of less-lethal projectiles.
For more of Long Lead's award-winning journalism, visit www.longlead.com.