A Pulitzer Prize-winning team pushing the boundaries of narrative audio.
“Narrative nonfiction podcasting has amassed an impressive and impactful body of work reporting on exploited, marginalized and misunderstood communities and individuals. However, it is much rarer to find highly produced audio reporting that is led by those from the communities that they are reporting on.”
Chenjerai Kumanyika, New York University
From L to R: Erisa Apantaku, Bill Healy, Sarah Geis, and Yohance Lacour
Somebody documents Shapearl Wells’ quest for justice on behalf of her son Courtney, who was found shot outside a Chicago Police station.
“Somebody offers an example of what podcast series might sound like if they centered the communities they cover rather than trying to shock and surprise their imagined audiences”
Part-memoir, part-investigation, You Didn’t See Nothin is Yohance Lacour’s examination of a 1997 hate crime and its ripple effects.
“You Didn’t See Nothin was utterly fresh. All of it: The sound, writing, voicing, structure, research, interviews, the works. The entire production, and the team, serves as a model.”