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Long Lead’s latest feature explores how one of the world’s newest cities came loaded with questions, like: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?

It’s the first Murrow Award for Long Lead, which has had an epic run of honors this year.

The Olympics may have just started, but Long Lead has been perched on the podium all season long.

The honor is the second Sigma Delta Chi award in as many years for Long Lead, which last year won for “The People vs. Rubber Bullets.“

America’s unhoused veterans crisis is a story of government malfeasance, neglect, graft… and even death.

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.

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