20 Best Pulitzer Prize Podcasts

1. This American Life

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Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it's like to be alive right now. It's the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.more Host Ira Glass
Producer/Network This American Life
Email ****@thisamericanlife.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1M+
Recent Guests Andy Bloch, Jack Hitt +32 more
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 111.1KFacebook 1.1MTwitter 374.6KInstagram 168.8K Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. In The Dark

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In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and in 2024, it released 'The Runaway Princesses,' a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai's royal family keep trying to run away...more Host Madeleine Baran
Producer/Network The New Yorker
Email ****@apmreports.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1M+
Recent Guest Sam Wolson
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 35.4KFacebook 22.6KTwitter 26.4K Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Suave

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Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio ReportingThe U.S is the only country in the world that allows minors to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Approximately 2,500 juveniles have been effectively sentenced to die in prison — considered 'irredeemable' by the state for crimes committed when they were just teenagers. One of them was David Luis 'Suave' Gonzalez, who entered prison at 17 expecting to leave in a coffin. Suave tells the story of what happens when your whole world is a prison cell, and you suddenly get a second chance at life...more Hosts Maggie Freleng, Maria Hinojosa
Producer/Network Futuro Media
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Frank Ross, Suave
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.8KTwitter 3.5KInstagram 6.3K Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. You Didn't See Nothin

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The Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning 'You Didn't See Nothin' follows Yohance Lacour as he revisits the story that introduced him to the world of investigative journalism. Part investigation and part memoir, Yohance examines how its ripple effects have shaped his life over the past quarter-century.In 1997, Lenard Clark was beaten into a coma by a gang of older white teens simply for being Black in a white neighborhood. One of Lenard's attackers was from a powerful Chicago family...more Host Yohance Lacour
Producer/Network USG Audio
Email ****@yjlacour.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guest Johnnie Veal
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.3K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Hearing The Pulitzers

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Hearing the Pulitzers: A piece-by-piece, episode-by-episode exploration of the winners of the Pulitzer Prize in Music with hosts Andrew Granade and David Thurmaier.
Hosts Andrew Granade, David Thurmaier
Producer/Network hearingthepulitzers
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 32 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Pulitzer on the Road

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What makes a Pulitzer Prize winner? The Pulitzer on the Road podcast travels across the country to meet with authors and journalists to share the stories behind their prize-winning work.
Producer/Network The Pulitzer Prizes
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 36 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Bone Valley

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Behind every Bone Valley season is a conviction: the right story, told with purpose, humanity, and craft, can have an enormous impact. Award-winning investigative documentaries from the fault lines of America's justice system. Bone Valley Season 6 | The Devil's Quarry II is a ghost story. More than 30 years after 17-year-old Robin Murphy vanished from Carmel, New York, investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff and reporter Kathleen Horan plunge into the cold case that has haunted the community for decades...more Host Gilbert King
Producer/Network Lava for Good+
Email ****@mac.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 250k-1M
Recent Guests Beth Shelburne, Andrew Jarecki +8 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 6.4K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Buried Truths

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'Buried Truths' acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can't change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.more Host Hank Klibanoff
Producer/Network WABE
Email ****@emory.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 2.5K Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. The Outlaw Ocean

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The high seas are beyond the reach of international law and beyond the beat of most reporters. But Pulitzer-Prize-winner and former New York Times journalist, Ian Urbina, has sailed into uncharted territories. Urbina sets out on a years-long quest to investigate murder at sea, modern slave labour, environmental crimes and quixotic adventurers. Part travelog, part true-crime thriller, this 7-part series takes listeners to places where the laws of the land no longer exist. The Outlaw Ocean is brought to you by CBC Podcasts and the LA Times and produced by The Outlaw Ocean Project.more Host Ian Urbina
Producer/Network CBC
Email ****@cbc.ca
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.7K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

10. Wrongful Conviction

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Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they maintain they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others continue to languish, with some even facing execution on death row...more Hosts Maggie Freleng, Lauren Bright Pacheco, Jason Flom
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 250k-1M
Recent Guests Patrick Brown, Leon Benson +20 more
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 6.5K Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. USA v. García Luna

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A Mexican-American journalist and a Cuban-Mexican investigative reporter walk into a recording studio with a bottle of tequila and reveal one of the most shocking true crime investigative stories you will ever hear.From Futuro Investigates and Latino USA, 'USA v. García Luna' tells the story of the most powerful Mexican government official ever to face trial in the United States for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.His name is Genaro García Luna...more Hosts Maria Hinojosa, Peniley Ramírez
Producer/Network Futuro Media
Email ****@futuromediagroup.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Fernanda Echavarri, Maria Garcia
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 226Facebook 8.9KTwitter 10.5KInstagram 84K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. The Chris Hedges Report

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges interviews a wide array of authors, journalists, artists and cultural figures on complex topics of history, politics and war.
Host Chris Hedges
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Dr. Ramzy Baroud, Richard D. Wolff +29 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 713 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

13. Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer

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In Man in the Window, Paige St. John, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter has uncovered never before revealed details about the man who would eventually become one of California's most deadly serial killers. From Wondery and the L.A. Times comes a new series that traces his path of devastation through his victims' eyes.more Host Paige St. John
Producer/Network Los Angeles Times | Wondery
Email ****@latimes.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1M+
Recent Guests Josh Mankiewicz, Richard Winton
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 18.3K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Face-Off

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The nuclear age began in secrecy and scientific ambition. The story is familiar, but its implications have never left us. A bomb created in a moment of wartime urgency became the foundation of a global order defined by terror and deterrence. But what happens when that global order breaks down? Face-Off: Nuclear Anarchy is an 8-part series tracing the arc of nuclear danger from the Manhattan Project to the Cuban Missile Crisis to the abandonment of the New START treaty and the shattering of the nonproliferation order today...more Hosts Jane Perlez, Rana Mitter
Producer/Network Airwave History
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 261 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. WriteLane

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Lane DeGregory, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Tampa Bay Times , is a masterful storyteller. Each episode of WriteLane is a discussion of craft, using prime examples of narrative journalism. DeGregory joined the Times in 2000 after working for two papers in Virginia. She has won dozens of national awards, including twice winning Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing, eight National Headliner Awards and eight awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors...more Host Lane DeGregory
Producer/Network Tampa Bay Times
Email ****@tampabay.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Sean Sullivan
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 57Twitter 537 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

16. The Sunday Long Read Podcast

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Pulitzer-winning reporter Don Van Natta Jr. and journalist Jacob Feldman chat with writers and editors from across the industry as an audio extension of The Sunday Long Read e-mail newsletter.more Hosts Don Van Natta Jr., Jacob Feldman
Producer/Network Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman
Email ****@espn.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Alana Newhouse, Bradley Hope +7 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 50 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Deep Cover

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Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals. Deep Cover: The Family Man: Elise and Marissa grew up in a seemingly normal house in the suburbs of St. Louis, but it was a house built on secrets. There were things their father never told them—like how he really made his money. One night, the police showed up, raided their house, and seized boxes of evidence...more Host Jake Halpern
Producer/Network Pushkin Industries
Email ****@yahoo.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 250k-1M
Recent Guests Patricia Nilsson, Alex Barker +6 more
Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 5.9K Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

18. Division Street Revisited

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Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich traces the lives of seven people in Studs Terkel's first book of oral history: 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 high society. What happened to them? To their children? To their dreams?more Producer/Network Mary Schmich
Email ****@prx.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Mary Schmich, Leon Beverly +4 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 119 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. Just The Photographer with David Swanson

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For over 40 years, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist David Swanson has covered war zones (from Bosnia to Afghanistan to Iraq), natural disasters (the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the LA Fires) and even red carpets. But, while David's photos can tell you what it looked like standing where he stood in order to take those news photos, they can't tell you what it felt like standing there. Those are the stories this podcast will tell! Journalism doesn't get any more personal than this. Or more compelling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.more Producer/Network David Swanson & Alan Katz
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 36 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

20. Not a Very Good Murderer

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Kidnapping plots, arson, jewel heists, attempted murder just another day in Paradise...Valley, Arizona.In this wild, genre-bending audio documentary, New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow dives deep into the strange and storied life of high-society socialite and former Miss Arizona Celia (Cece) Doane.As a well-to-do ex-beauty queen in the 1970s, Cece had no trouble attracting husbands. She did appear to have some trouble getting rid of them, though...more Get Email Contact