THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

The Shorty Awards honor the best of social media and digital. View this season's finalists!

Special Project

Special Project

From the 15th Annual Shorty Awards True Crime & Documentary Podcast

This award honors the most effective and creative true crime or documentary podcast. Includes single episode, series and mini-series.

Finalists

finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
finalist
Father Wants Us Dead
The List family murders is a chapter of Westfield, N.J. history that many may want to forget. But a…
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
finalist
There's No Place Like Home
2021 began with a rumble that became a roar heard across the country: Australian women would no lon…
finalist
audience honor
Tom Rinaldi Presents: Wesley
In the more than 150-year history of Major League Baseball, only one player has ever been murdered …
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …

Nominees

Betrayal
Betrayal opens as a series about a fairytale marriage gone wrong and develops into a journey about …
Catching a Killer: Legendary Mindhunter on Idaho Student Murders
Surviving The Survivor has re-defined the wildly popular true crime genre by bringing together the …
finalist
Father Wants Us Dead
The List family murders is a chapter of Westfield, N.J. history that many may want to forget. But a…
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
Mind of a Monster
Hosted by criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, Mind of a Monster brings listeners exclusive acc…
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
winner
Mother Country Radicals, an original podcast from Crooked Media and Audacy
Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents radicals and counterculture outlaws leading a revolut…
My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty - 48 Hours & CBS News
In the “My Life of Crime” podcast "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty takes listeners through i…
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is an internet radio show and website covering the dark underworld of crime and the…
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
The Perfect Scam Podcast
Fraud is a billion-dollar industry affecting people of all ages, across all walks of life. Transnat…
finalist
There's No Place Like Home
2021 began with a rumble that became a roar heard across the country: Australian women would no lon…
finalist
audience honor
Tom Rinaldi Presents: Wesley
In the more than 150-year history of Major League Baseball, only one player has ever been murdered …
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …