Audio awards and honors
APM Studios, The Antidote
● The Guardian’s Top Podcasts of 2022
APM Studios, Mood Ring
● Lifehacker top mental health podcast for 2023
Poynter Leadership Academy For Women In Media, 2021
Facebook North American Journalism Accelerator, 2020
NHPR, New Hampshire Public Radio
● National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Station Excellence in 2018
NHPR, Patient Zero
● Debuted at #6 on the overall U.S. Apple Podcasts chart
● 1.3 million downloads across 7-episode series
● ApplePodcasts: Editors’ Choice Best Listens of 2019
● NewHampshire Press Association Award for Best Health Reporting
NHPR, Outside/In
● Spotify’s 2020 Hall of Fame for best episode
● Overseas Press Club Award for Best Reporting in Any Medium on International Environmental Issues
● National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Feature
● National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best News Documentary
● PRNDI Awardfor Best Investigative/Enterprise Reporting
● 2021 PMJA 1st Place Narrative Produced Podcast, Windfall from Outside/In
NHPR, Civics 101
● Debuted at #6 on the overall U.S. Apple Podcasts chart
● Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation
● Silver Gavel from the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award
● Civics 101’s Student Stump Speech contest featured on NPR’s All Things Considered
NHPR, Bear Brook
● 16 million downloads across 9-episode series
● Peaked at #4 on the overall U.S. Apple Podcasts chart and remained on Apple’s top chart for over a year
● Named best podcast of 2018 by Spotify, Stitcher, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe
● ABC’s20/20: Bear Brook subject of a 2-hour documentary
Writing Awards and honors
2019 Regional Edward R Murrow Award for Feature Writing
2013 Award of Merit, Association for State and Local History
2011 Finalist USA Books for Best Book History: United States
2011 Best Wisconsin History Book, Wisconsin Historical Society
2011 Finalist Indie Excellence Award for regional history
2011 Finalist ForeWard Magazine for regional history
2009 North American Travel Journalists Association Award for historical travel writing
2007 William B. Hesseltine Award, best article in the Wisconsin Magazine of History
2007 Award of Merit, Association for State and Local History