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Hosted by Garrett M. Graff and reported in collaboration with The Trace, “In Guns We Trust” recounts how firearms went from being an ordinary part of rural American life to a menacing element of modern society in a podcast spanning generations of U.S. history.

With the premiere of “Lifting Ukraine,” a profile of world champion powerlifter Anna Kurkurina by photojournalist Maranie R. Staab, Long Lead elevates imagery on a new photo platform.

As a pioneering adventure writer for Sports Illustrated in the mid-1900s, Virginia Kraft had an unparalleled journalism career. Emily Sohn’s Long Lead feature on the lost-to-history writer is inspiring audiences through a complex tale of literary ambition and its trappings.

The second season of “Long Shadow” chronicled four decades of the modern domestic extremist movement’s ascension. In winning a Signal Award for Best Editing, the limited series shows how Long Lead is raising the stakes and elevating the standard of quality in podcasting.

The ultimate insider’s guide to the world’s most powerful journalism, “Depth Perception” launches today, delivering the media’s most impactful longform straight to subscribers’ inboxes. For more on this free newsletter — including how to subscribe — read on.

As Xan Rice was profiling the champion athlete for Long Lead in 2021, she set a record in monofin diving. Today she added a new record to her collection, dominating another discipline with a dive deeper than an American football field.

The critical response to Long Lead’s epic explainer on kinetic-impact projectiles has been overwhelming. Learn why this Webby, Sigma Delta Chi, and American Journalism Online Award-winning production has been called a “feature most likely to inspire future journalists.”

Honoring the second season of Long Lead’s podcast as one of the best of 2023 (so far), Mashable called the Garrett Graff-helmed series “essential listening.”