The Guardian - Best podcast of the week 2024
Award! American Journalism Online Awards – 2022 Winner. Best News-Based Podcast for Suspect
“Using the familiar form of the “murder podcast” Suspect achieves meaningful insight into the mechanisms of racial bias in the criminal justice system, while being a juicy scene-rich, plot-driven story. Suspect dissects police investigation, jury decision-making, and DNA analysis. This podcast is as much a triumph of reporting as it is of writing or production, meeting all the requirements for a good podcast. While the crime at the center of this story is gruesome, there is a restraint, purposefulness, and basic humanity to this podcast worthy of celebration.”
The Guardian - Best podcasts of the week: Deliver Us From Ervil “Colonia LeBaron was meant to be a Mormon utopia – then a family fallout saw organised crime reign. Find out more in Deliver Us From Ervil…. an intriguing story of a utopia that goes very wrong”
Vulture - Podcasts Worth Trying - Deliver Us From Ervil “Deliver Us From Ervil, an audio doc on a 1940s Mormon utopian project gone wrong”
The Guardian - Best podcasts of the week: Inside the life of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real-life superhero “a tale full of deception and intrigue, chronicling his rise to media sensation”
Miranda Sawyer in the Observer on podcasts and radio “a well-made show. Host David Weinberg does a top job, the production is exemplary, and the Seattle superheroes make an excellent story, well told…. The Superhero Complex is destined to be a hit.
Fiona Sturges - Financial Times ”remarkable ….rises to the challenge of taking his subject matter sufficiently seriously while it prances around in a silly costume claiming hero status….There is genuine curiosity in his attempts to understand Jones”
Vulture - Best Podcasts of 2022 “In this fascinating series, David Weinberg (Welcome to LA) builds out a character study of one of the more prominent and complicated figures in the so-called real-life superhero phenomenon: Ben Fodor, a Seattleite who once led a group called the Rain City Superhero Movement and rose to notoriety. Weinberg and his team’s work is effective in their commitment to treating Fodor seriously as a person and in the way they treat the true-crime-y frame of the show with an ironic remove.”
Vulture 1.5x Speed Nick Quah Podcasts of the Month review of The Superhero Complex “rich with weirdness and complication...This bundle of questions and curiosities are alive in The Superhero Complex”
The Awards for Excellence in Audio The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression. Best True Crime Podcast of the Year - Suspect
The New Yorker - Podcast Of The Year: ….. “the greatness of “Suspect”—a crime podcast, …might startle listeners…. its sensitivity and seriousness are evident from the beginning, and its power builds with each episode….. a gripping, character-driven story that always foregrounds the humanity of its subjects, most of whom we empathize with and respect. It’s also a master class in tone, focussing on justice forthrightly without patting itself on the back.”
Vulture / New York Magazine Best Podcast of 2021 - “Suspect stands as the year’s best pure entry in the genre…the series moves away from its whodunit framework toward a meditation on the consequences of systematically shoddy policing
Apple Podcasts - Top New Show - Suspect - The most popular new shows, free channels, and individual shows and channels with subscriptions that launched this year
Vulture / New York magazine review of Suspect “tight as hell….In terms of pure execution, it’s probably the best narrative true-crime podcast I’ve heard all year."
The Observer reviewing Omay "‘an immersive experience...moving and revelatory. ...With this programme, time stood still"
The Guardian reviewing Second Side Up "fascinating Radio 3 documentary...a riveting listen"
The Observer reviewing Second Side Up " thoroughly engaging and sweet. .... I recommend"
Radio Survivor on Cassette Famous "this utterly captivating, and very human, story"
British Journalism Award 2017 award winner for 6X9 "Crusading journalism at its 21st century best, and very powerful storytelling indeed"
