Best of the Best 2018 (Part 2)
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
2018 / TCF, USA
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Featuring...
God + the Gays — Best New Artist Award
by Phoebe Wang
In her first radio piece, Phoebe visits Christians from her past and tries to understand whether queer people and homophobic Christians can have meaningful relationships.
Dirty Water — Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award
by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, with help from outside producer Pat Mesiti-Miller and editor Curtis Fox for Ear Hustle
Dirty Water explores the process of restorative justice, through a frank conversation about sex trafficking. During the episode, Sara Kruzan (formerly incarcerated) and Louis A. Scott (currently incarcerated) share their individual experiences of being “in the life.”
Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo — Best Serialized Story Award
written & hosted by Connie Walker and produced by Marnie Luke and Jennifer Fowler for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1970’s. Like thousands of Indigenous children, Cleo’s brothers and sisters were taken from their community, many sent to live with white adoptive families across Canada and the U.S. Now Cleo’s siblings have reconnected as adults and are determined to find their missing sister.
Espera / Wait — Director’s Choice Award
by Sayre Quevedo
Two lovers share an intimate conversation on the eve of their breakup, exploring loneliness and intimacy.
This story is in Spanish. Click here to listen to the entire piece with English subtitles provided by Radio Atlas.
Counted: An Oakland Story — Best Documentary: Gold Award
by Adizah Eghan, Anna Sussman, Shaina Shealy, Jonathan Jones, with co-producers Pat Mesiti-Miller, Nancy Lopez, Jazmin Aguilera, Eliza Smith, and Pendarvis Harshaw for Snap Judgment
Through a series of audio portraits, this piece provides an intimate introduction to a community dealing with violence. It tells the story of one year in Oakland, the people who were lost there, and the people they left behind.
This hour of Best of the Best was produced by Isabel Vázquez.
You can learn more about the 2018 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Awards Ceremony here, and listen to all the speeches in their entirety.
Listen to Hour 1 of Best of the Best here.
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Phoebe Wang (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and works primarily in sound, sculpture, and installation.
Nigel Poor is co-creator, co-producer and co-host of Ear Hustle from Radiotopia. She will be co-hosting the 2019 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition Awards Ceremony.
Earlonne Woods is co-creator, co-producer and co-host of Ear Hustle from Radiotopia. As co-host of the 2019 Third Coast Awards Ceremony, Earlonne will make his return to the "Oscars of Radio." Last year, he beamed in via video (watch here) after winning a 2018 Best Documentary: Honorable Mention Award as part of the Ear Hustle team.
Connie Walker (she/her) (Cree) is a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcast Stolen from Spotify Studios.
Marnie Luke is an investigative producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and co- creator of the award-winning podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo , and Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
Jennifer Fowler (@JenniferKFowler) is an investigative journalist and television producer turned podcast junkie.
Sayre Quevedo (@sayrequevedo) is an artist and journalist.
Adizah Eghan is a senior producer at VICE Audio where she edits and produces episodes for VICE News Reports.
Anna Sussman is the Senior Producer and Managing Editor of Snap Judgment.
Shaina Shealy is a multimedia journalist and producer at Snap Judgment based in Oakland, CA, where she's pursuing her dream of making stories that can connect people, sometimes across divides that are difficult to overcome.
Jonathan Jones is an investigative reporter and producer. Much of his work has focused on human rights.
Isabel Vázquez (@ifvazquez) is Third Coast's former senior producer. She currently works at Adonde Media.