Announcing the 2020 Third Coast/RHDF Winners

Without further ado... here are the eleven extraordinary stories reflect the finest work in the narrative audio industry & push the boundaries of audio storytelling, selected by these 20 judges, and in the categories of... Best New Artist, Radio Impact, Best News Feature, Audio Unbound, Best Documentary: Short, Best Documentary: Non-English Language, Best Serialized Story, Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze), and Directors’ Choice:

Best New Artist: Infinities

Produced by Boen Wang for the University of Pittsburgh.

Impact: Dat Rona

Produced for In Those Genes Podcast by Dr. Janina Jeff (Host and Executive Producer) and Sam Riddell (Lead Producer). Chad Milner is the Music Producer, Chris Diggins is the Creative Director and Dr. Ashira Blazer is the guest medical expert for this episode.

Best News Feature: Diary of a HomeSchooler

Produced by Anayansi Diaz-Cortes for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, in partnership with Chalkbeat. Sarah Alli-Brown was the diarist. The story was edited by Brett Myers and based on reporting from Kalyn Belsha, with sound design from Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda. Kevin Sullivan was the executive producer.

AUDIO UNBOUND: Songs of Speculation (excerpt)

Written & performed by Jillian Walker, with sound design & engineering by Ben Williams. Co-produced by Jillian Walker & Ben Williams for category-other.com.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: SHORT: Centenarians in Lockdown

Produced by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer and Joe Richman of Radio Diaries . It was edited by Deborah George and Ben Shapiro and originally aired on NPR. Part of the Hunker Down Diaries Series.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Crosses in the Desert

Written by Catalina May and Dennis Maxwell, edited by Catalina May, sound designed by Martín Cruz and produced by Dennis Maxwell for Las Raras. Scored by Andrés Nusser.

BEST SERIALIZED STORY: Somebody

Narrated by Shapearl Wells, produced by Alison Flowers and Bill Healy, and edited by Sarah Geis for Invisible Institute, Topic Studios, The Intercept and iHeart Radio, in association with TenderfootTV. It was mixed by Michael Raphael with sound design by Bart Warshaw and Carl Scott.

BEST DOCUMENTARY BRONZE: Not This Again

Produced by Allison Behringer with Hannah Harris Green, and edited by Bethany Denton with Cassius Adair and Caitlin Pierce for Bodies from KCRW. It was mixed by Myke Dodge Weiskopf, with music and sound design from Dara Hirsch. Lila Hassan provided translation assistance. The managing producer was Kristen Lepore.

Alison Flowers

Alison Flowers (@FlowersAlison) is an investigative journalist and producer.
Allison Behringer

Allison (@allbtweetin) is a Brooklyn-based narrative audio journalist.
Anayansi Diaz-Cortes

Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is a reporter and producer for Reveal.
Dr. Ashira Blazer

Dr. Ashira Blazer (@ahira_md) is an Academic Rheumatologist NYU Langone Health specializing in lupus in the African diaspora.
Axel Kacoutié

Axel Kacoutié (they/them) is an audio artist and poet who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and revive a magic in the mundane.
Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro is a New York-based documentarian working in film, television, and radio.
Ben Williams

Ben Williams is an actor, sound designer, and director in NYC.
Bethany Denton

Bethany Denton (@bjodent) lives and works in Seattle.
Bill Healy

Bill Healy (he/him) has spent his life listening to people. At age 10, he started writing a weekly newspaper column called the Youth Perspective, about the suburb where he grew up.
Boen Wang

Boen Wang (@boen_wang) is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh.
Carolina Hidalgo

Carolina Hidalgo (@CarolinaHidalgo) is a producer for Radio Rookies, WNYC’s award-winning youth radio program, where she works with young people as they report personal stories about their lives and communities.
Cassius Adair

Cassius Adair (@cassius_a) is an audio producer and media scholar from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Caitlin Pierce

Caitlin Pierce is an audio producer and editor with an interest in social justice, race, education, youth, incarceration, feminism, music, and food.
Catalina May

Catalina May (@cata_may) is a Chilean journalist based in Santiago. She is the host and co-creator of Las Raras.
Chad Milner

Chad Milner is the in-house music producer for In Those Genes Podcast who re-creates the music vision every episode. He is also an independent writer, film producer, audiophile and executive producer of Cydney Being Cydney Podcast.
Chris Diggins

Chris Diggins is the Creative Director of In Those Genes and the co-host of the PopRoast YouTube show.
Deborah George

Deborah George is the Senior Editor for Radio Diaries, and has recently served as Senior Supervising Editor for NPR and Senior Radio Editor for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Dara Hirsch

Dara Hirsch is a composer, producer and DJ, and podcast audio engineer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Eleanor McDowall

Eleanor McDowall makes audio documentaries, zines about the radio, podcasts and occasionally writes sound captions for films.
Dennis Maxwell

Dennis Maxwell (@dennistmaxwell) was born in Santiago, Chile, and the first significant present he received as a boy was a camera. At that moment Dennis began to dedicate himself to capturing images. Later on, he started telling stories.
Hannah Harris Green

Hannah Harris Green (@write_noise) is a journalist and audio producer.
Janina Jeff

Dr. Janina Jeff is an American geneticist and senior scientist at Illumina.
Jay Allison

Jay Allison (@jay_allison) has been an independent public radio producer, journalist, and teacher since the 1970s.
Jen Chien

Jen Chien (@j_chien) is a senior radio editor for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.
Joe Richman

Joe Richman (@RadioDiaries) is a Peabody Award-winning producer and reporter, and the founder of Radio Diaries.
Lila Hassan

Lila Hassan is a reporting fellow at FRONTLINE PBS.
Kevin Sullivan

Kevin Sullivan is the executive producer of Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX.
Kristen Lepore

Kristen Lepore (@KristenLepore) is a journalist and an audio editor based in Los Angeles.
Martín Cruz

Martín Cruz is a sound engineer, sound designer, musician and aerial cinematographer from Santiago, Chile.
Myke Dodge Weiskopf

Myke Dodge Weiskopf (@mykedotme) is a senior producer at KCRW, and a freelance editor, field recordist, and musician based in Los Angeles.
Nellie Gilles

Nellie Gilles (@nelliegiles) joined Radio Diaries in 2013.
Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.

Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. (@SaiduTTJ) is a poet, writer, and producer born in Freetown Sierra Leone.
Sarah Kate Kramer

Sarah Kate Kramer (@skk_wire) has been working closely with Joe Richman at Radio Diaries since 2012.
Sam Riddell

Sam Riddell (she/her) is a podcast producer and documentary videographer from Queens, New York.
Sarah Geis

Sarah Geis (she/her) is a long-time editor, producer and educator who is influenced by oral history, documentary theater, and Lynda Barry.
Sarah Kate Kramer

Sarah Kate Kramer (@skk_wire) has been working closely with Joe Richman at Radio Diaries since 2012.
Sarah Geis

Sarah Geis (she/her) is a long-time editor, producer and educator who is influenced by oral history, documentary theater, and Lynda Barry.
Shapearl Wells

Shapearl Wells is a mother of six from Cicero, Illinois.