THE 14TH ANNUAL SHORTY AWARDS

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

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Original Content

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Special Project

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Strategy & Engagement

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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.

Winner

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…

Finalists

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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 …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …

Nominees

True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Betrayal
Betrayal opens as a series about a fairytale marriage gone wrong and develops into a journey about …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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 …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
Justice for Shireen
On May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh - a Palestinian and U.S. citizen - was sho…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Mind of a Monster
Hosted by criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, Mind of a Monster brings listeners exclusive acc…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
bronze honor
Missed Fortune
For most of history, the hoarding and stashing of gold and jewels happened only in times of insecur…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
Project UNABOM
"The Unabomber was right." Host Eric Benson had heard that provocative, disturbing sentiment in con…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
gold honor
Run Bambi Run
"Run Bambi Run” is a narrative nonfiction Apple Original Podcast about a female police officer who …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale is an internet radio show and website covering the dark underworld of crime and the…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
silver honor
The Deck
Audiochuck creates podcasts and presents stories each week not just to entertain, but to try to mak…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
The Perfect Scam Podcast
Fraud is a billion-dollar industry affecting people of all ages, across all walks of life. Transnat…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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…
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
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 …
True Crime & Documentary Podcast
finalist
What the Hack with Adam Levin
What the Hack with Adam Levin is a weekly true cybercrime podcast featuring interviews with people …