Seven-episode podcast examines hate crime, race relations in Chicago
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting has been presented to a podcast for the first time.
Typically the domain of radio shows, the You Didn't See Nothin series was honored Monday by the Pulitzer Prize Board.
The award is shared by the staffs of USG Audio and the Invisible Institute. Invisible Institute host Yohance Lacour reported on the series, which was distributed through USG Audio, a subsidiary of Universal.
The series chronicles the 1998 beating of black teen Lenard Clark by a group of white teens in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, the racial media narratives that followed, what happened to key players almost 25 years later and how the case shaped current race relations.
You Didn't See Nothin was honored over submissions from NBC News and New Hampshire Public Radio.
The organizations will share the $15,000 prize. It's one of two Pulitzers this year for Invisible Institute, which also took home the Local Reporting award for Missing in Chicago, Trina Reynolds-Tyler's collaboration with Sarah Conway of City Bureau chronicling police treatment of missing persons cases, particularly among black women and girls.
Missing in Chicago also includes a podcast series component.
The 2024 Pulitzer Prizes in all 23 categories covering news, fiction, photography, audio, poetry, music and commentary are available here. The awards are named after the late Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Winners are selected by a board of journalists and presented through Columbia University.
