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
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 107.8KFacebook 1MTwitter 374.6KInstagram 114.9K Avg Length 59 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
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 32KFacebook 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 Reporting The 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1.7KTwitter 3.5KInstagram 3.8K Avg Length 30 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
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 2.4K 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
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 30 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
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 32 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Bone Valley

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​​In 1987, 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found dead in a phosphate pit in Florida. Two years later, her husband Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Fifteen years later, previously unidentified fingerprints matched Jeremy Scott--a violent teenager who lived nearby. Jeremy has since confessed to Michelle's murder. In this groundbreaking podcast, Bone Valley host Gilbert King uncovers startling new evidence that Jeremy is responsible for a string of murders...MORE Host Gilbert King
Producer/Network Lava for Good+
Email ****@mac.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 35.8K Avg Length 41 min Format Long 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
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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 The LA Times + CBC
Email ****@cbc.ca
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 2.9K 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
Producer/Network Lava for Good+
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 6.3K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium 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 Lemonada
Email ****@futuromediagroup.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 790Facebook 8.9KTwitter 10.5KInstagram 81.6K Avg Length 30 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.
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Producer/Network Chris Hedges
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 343 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
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 17.5K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Face-Off: The U.S. vs China

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FACE-OFF: US vs CHINA is an inside look at the turbulent relationship between the world's two superpowers, the two men in charge, and the vital issues that affect us all.FACE-OFF is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jane Perlez, former New York Times Beijing bureau chief and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. In each episode Professor Rana Mitter, recently of the University of Oxford and now professor of modern China at the Harvard Kennedy School, chats with Jane on what's at stake.MORE Hosts Jane Perlez, Rana Mitter
Producer/Network Airwave History
Email ****@hks.harvard.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 212 Avg Length 34 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 52Twitter 572 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
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 49 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Deep Cover Presents: Snowball

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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 Presents: Snowball. A special limited series from the Unravel Podcast team at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ollie Wards' family lost everything after their brush with a charming Californian con woman...MORE Host Jake Halpern
Producer/Network Pushkin
Email ****@yahoo.com
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Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 4.5K Avg Length 36 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5 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 Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5 Avg Length 31 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 Email ****@wondery.com
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