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WBEZ Award Submissions
by WBEZ Award Submissions
This account holds WBEZ Chicago's work for award consideration. WBEZ serves the public interest by producing and delivering diverse, compelling content of multiple viewpoints and expression. We act as the circuit that connects residents of our region to one another, to the nation, and to the world in a relevant and evocative way. We are a regional resource fostering full and active citizenship by creating connections and remaining present and involved broadly in community life.
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What happened when the Sausage King of Chicago bought a South Side housing complex?
What happened when the Sausage King of Chicago bought a South Side housing complex? by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Chicago's Invisible Property Owners
Chicago's Invisible Property Owners by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Chicago rents are climbing fast. For many, there's nowhere left to go
Chicago rents are climbing fast. For many, there's nowhere left to go by WBEZ Award Submissions
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CPS Absenteeism - News Series Entry
Can two seemingly contradictory trends observed across dozens of schools both be true? That was the question that motivated education reporter Sarah Karp to go digging last school year. She and two colleagues found that a quarter of all high schoolers missed more than a month of class last year —...
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Separated, deported and stressed - Continuing Coverage Entry
When President Donald Trump launched a mass deportation campaign early last year and focused on Chicago during the fall, our newsroom covered the efforts from every angle. But we had one priority: the campaign’s effects on everyday people, their families and their communities. We have selected 2...
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WBEZ Chicago 91.5FM - Overall Excellence Supercut
WBEZ Chicago stands out for the kind of journalism that truly connects with the people it serves. Its reporting consistently centers the real experiences of Chicagoans, tackling complex issues like immigration, housing, public safety and global conflict through deeply human storytelling and...
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Chicago's Death Gap - Schorsch
I submit for your consideration two deeply reported stories by WBEZ Chicago reporter Kristen Schorsch told with trust, care and accountability. In the past year, Kristen embedded in a community on Chicago’s West Side with the support of a national fellowship to understand why residents here are...
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Emmett Till House: NABJ Submission
Emmett Till House: NABJ Submission by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Prisoncast! - Long Supercut
A 60 minute compilation of Prisoncast segments from 2025 for award consideration. Original broadcast dates: 3/30/2025, 6/15/2025, 11/6/2025, 12/14/2025
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Prisoncast: Jernigan Piano
Prisoncast: Jernigan Piano by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Prisoncast! - Short Supercut
A 30 minute compilation of Prisoncast segments from 2025 for award consideration. Original broadcast dates: 3/30/2025, 6/15/2025, 11/6/2025, 12/14/2025
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Separated, deported and stressed
For 2025 Scripps Howard Award consideration in the category of Narrative Human Interest Storytelling We have selected six audio stories in which our reporters revealed in deeply human ways the campaign’s personal toll. This reporting did not come easy. A climate of fear in Chicago’s immigrant...
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Pulitzer Segment 3 - December 14, 2025 - C1
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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Pulitzer Segment 6 - November 6, 2025 - Radio Play
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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Pulitzer Segment 1 - June 15, 2025 - B1
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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Pulitzer Segment 5 - December 14, 2025 - C2
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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Pulitzer Segment 4 - December 14, 2025 - B2
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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Pulitzer Segment 2 - March 30, 2025 - C2
Prisoncast! is a statewide audio and engaged journalism project serving currently and formerly incarcerated Illinoisans and their loved ones. Everything we cover comes directly from a request, a question or an idea from someone in this community.
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EWA 2025 Beat Reporting Sarah Karp
EWA 2025 Beat Reporting Sarah Karp by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Chicago’s selective enrollment schools
From the space race to a consent decree: the history of selective enrollment in Chicago schools Broadcast: 03/28/2024 Chicago’s most marginalized students have almost no shot of getting into CPS’ elite schools Broadcast: 07/09/2024
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For-profit education programs in Illinois often leave students worse off
For-profit education programs in Illinois often leave students worse off than if they hadn’t gone to college at all by Lisa Kurian Philip, Esther Yoon-Ji Kang, Amy Qin, Alex Keefe and Steven Arroyo, edited by Natalie Moore Students at Illinois’ for-profits colleges often leave worse off than when...
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Learning how to manage a migrant wave
The relatively poor South American country has received four times more Venezuelans than the United States but offers a path to integration. We went to see it. Broadcast: June 16-18, 2024 Chip Mitchell, lead reporter Patrick Smith, audio editor Kate Grossman, lead editor
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Migrants in Chicago
Chicago migrants are under pressure as the deadline to find permanent housing looms Broadcast: 02/06/2024 Migrants in Chicago file complaints about hostile treatment across city shelters Broadcast: 03/01/2024 Organizers try to calm chaos at a South Side Home Depot where migrants look for work...
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Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments
Chicago is closing its biggest tent city but comes up short on promised apartments: The people left out include Porfirio and Melissa, a homeless couple recovering from addiction. To survive winter, they’re relying on each other. Broadcast 12/4/24 Chip Mitchell, reporter Patrick Smith, audio editor
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"How I Support Democracy" Series
"How I Support Democracy" audio series Mariah Woelfel WBEZ Chicago
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Chicago's Migrant Crisis - New America Award Submission
Chicago's Migrant Crisis - New America Award Submission by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Chicago's Migrant Crisis - PMJA Submission
Chicago's Migrant Crisis - PMJA Submission by WBEZ Award Submissions
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Prisoncast! September 2023 Short Broadcast
Prisoncast! employs innovative, collaborative engaged journalism tactics to reach and serve a vulnerable, oft-forgotten audience with super creative, highly-produced audio journalism. This audio has been edited from its original broadcast length.
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Prisoncast! September 2023 Broadcast
Prisoncast! employs innovative, collaborative engaged journalism tactics to reach and serve a vulnerable, oft-forgotten audience with super creative, highly produced audio journalism. This audio has been edited from it's original broadcast length.
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Prisoncast! 2023: Parenting a child in prison
This thoughtful conversation between a mother and her formerly incarcerated son offers both instructive advice for families in similar situations, and emotional reflections on parenting a child who is locked up.
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Barriers to health care: Kristen Schorsch
These stories explore some of the most vulnerable yet political topics of the past year: abortion and mental health care. I tell one story through the eyes of a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who must travel across state lines for an abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.…
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Chicago's 50 Closed Schools
We investigated whether city of Chicago officials kept promises made after closing 50 schools in 2013. We found that the city failed to live up to its word in profound ways that continue to shape, and harm Chicago, its neighborhoods and remaining schools. We investigated three promises: Students...
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Chicago's Migrant Crisis
Since August of 2022, tens of thousands of migrants have been bused to Chicago, most arriving with little to nothing. The city of Chicago for the past year has struggled to serve this influx of migrants and asylum seekers. WBEZ brings you the stories of this migrant crisis, the personal…
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Extremism in the Ranks
A months-long investigation finds serious misconduct accusations – including many complaints of racist policing – against Chicago and Illinois cops with ties to extremist and hate groups and exposes local law enforcement’s tolerance for those officers, who remain in the ranks of many agencies...
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CPS Tasting Test
Chicago Public Schools Tasting Test July 21, 2022 WBEZ Chicago 91.5FM Spot News
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Motive Season 4 - Dart Entry
Motive Season 4, Episode 2 - Us and Them* Damaria Bates and Jimia Stokes started their jobs as therapists full of hope. But soon, they saw signs of abuse. When they reported the problems, fellow staff retaliated. We go behind the walls as they try to make changes from the inside out. Motive…
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Motive: The Blind Spot
Motive Season 4, Episode 1 The Motive Season 4 podcast tells interlocking stories of prisons and the small towns where they are located, revealing abuses that otherwise would have remained hidden behind the prison walls. The podcast uses investigative reporting, history, and first-person stories...
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Prisoncast! - Murrow Awards
Prisoncast! was a statewide engagement journalism collaboration & two-hour radio special for people inside Illinois prisons & their loved ones outside. The sound-rich program combined music, journalism, sound design & interviews to serve them with actionable utility & a forum for connection. IPR...
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Prisoncast!
Prisoncast! was an engagement journalism project and two-hour radio special for people in Illinois prisons and their loved ones on the outside. The sound-rich program combined music, journalism, sound design and interviews to serve this community with actionable utility and a forum for…
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Scouring Chicago alleys for scrap metal is a tough way to earn a living
Chicago's scrap metal industry relies on small scale collectors, called scrappers, who scout for metal castoffs to sell and recycle. Adriana Cardona-Maguigad Curious City, WBEZ Chicago June 10, 2022
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Reset: Closing the Gap on Vaccine Access
Awards audio mix of the Reset segment series, Closing The Gap On Vaccine Access. This audio combines 2 segments on vaccine access. Ensuring Diversity In Clinical Trials (Part 1) How is diversity being tracked in COVID-19 vaccine trials to make sure the vaccine is effective for all groups?…
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Reset: Re-Imagine Chicago
Reset: Re-Imagine Chicago by WBEZ Award Submissions
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‘Fertile Soil For Abuse’: A Reckoning At Covenant Fellowship Church
WBEZ reporters Esther Yoon-Ji Kang and Susie An document multiple allegations that the pastor of a popular Korean American church on the University of Illinois campus discouraged sexual assault victims from reporting the crimes to authorities and how they felt shamed by the pastor when they…
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Tracking the Vaccine: Eye on equity in Chicago and Illinois
For six months, WBEZ tracked how Chicago and Illinois government agencies steered vaccines, who benefited and who didn’t, documenting how systemic inequity in health care in Black and Latino communities left many behind.
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No bars, no chains, no locks: How Finland is reimagining incarceration
Intrigued by the concept of Finland’s open prisons — where there are no cells and prisoners are allowed to leave for work or school — WBEZ reporter Natalie Moore spent two weeks in the Nordic country. She visited three open prisons and talked with wardens, prisoners and scholars to learn why...
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Chicago Blackhawks’ leaders failed to quickly act on allegations of abuse
WBEZ broke the story of a Chicago Blackhawks former player alleging an assistant coach had assaulted him during the team's playoff run in 2010. WBEZ kept digging, the first to reveal a disturbing path of allegations against the former assistant coach across three states, and a continued failure…
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Buried Secrets
Buried Secrets: WBEZ’s investigation into Chicago lifeguard sexual abuse Part 1: Chicago Park District Is Investigating Claims Of Widespread Sexual Harassment, Assault Among Lifeguards – Confidential documents obtained by WBEZ revealed a secret internal investigation had been going on for more…
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Reset: Closing the Gap
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Reset explores disparities in vaccine access and distribution in Chicago and Illinois. In this four-part series, we dig into how we can: bring equity to the vaccine rollout, ensure diversity in clinical trials so that the vaccine is effective for all groups…
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Saving Mercy Hospital
The 170-year-old Bronzeville institution treated the neediest and was rescued from closure for $1. Here’s why hospitals like it are on life support. Krsten Schosch, WBEZ Chicago
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Those Who Did Not Die, Part 4
For every person killed in a city shooting, five are shot and survive. Those victims — about 50,000 since 2000 — are marked for life. Those Who Did Not Die Patrick Smith, WBEZ Chicago
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This account holds WBEZ Chicago's work for award consideration. WBEZ serves the public interest by producing and delivering diverse, compelling content of multiple viewpoints and expression. We act as the circuit that connects residents of our region to one another, to the nation, and to the world in a relevant and evocative way. We are a regional resource fostering full and active citizenship by creating connections and remaining present and involved broadly in community life.
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