Luminary receives 13 podcast nominations and honors from the 24th annual Webbys, the most of any podcast network

Luminary congratulates its podcast creators being honored for their work by the Webbys

New York, NY, April 29, 2020 - Luminary, a subscription podcast network, announced that Luminary creators were awarded 13 podcast nominations and honors in The 24th Annual Webby Awards announced yesterday—the highest number of podcast nominations and honors for any podcasting network. Winners of The 24th Annual Webby Awards will be announced May 19, 2020.

“We are proud of our Luminary creators and the quality content they produce for our subscribers, and we are thrilled to see them recognized as outstanding in their industry,” said Simon Sutton, Luminary CEO.

In addition to Webby Winners being selected by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) - a global organization of industry experts and technology innovators - the online public chooses The Webby People’s Voice Winners by casting ballots for their favorite Nominees during the annual voting period. Voting for People’s Voice Awards is active through May 7, 2020 at http://vote.webbyawards.com.

The 24th Annual Webby Award Nominations and Honors for Luminary podcasts are:

Nominations

Podcasts: General Series - Documentary

  • Tabloid: The Making of Ivanka Trump

Podcasts: General Series - Interview/Talk Show

  • Hear to Slay

Podcasts: General Series - Diversity & Inclusion

  • Hear To Slay

Podcasts: Features - Best Host

  • Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Podcasts: Features - Best Series

  • Spooked, Presented by Snap Judgment

Podcasts: Features - Best Writing

  • Fiasco

Podcasts: Individual Episodes, Mini-Series or Specials - Documentary

  • The C-Word

  • Tabloid: The Making of Ivanka Trump

Podcasts: Individual Episodes, Mini-Series or Specials - Sports

  • Sonic Boom: How Seattle Lost Its Team

Podcasts: Individual Episodes, Mini-Series or Specials - News & Politics

  • The Trevor Noah Podcast 

Honors

Webby Honors / Podcasts: Diversity & Inclusion

  • Stoop Talks 

Webby Honors / Podcasts: Scripted (Fiction) 

  • Anthem: Homunculus 

Webby Honors / Podcasts: Business

  • Wisdom From The Top, with Guy Raz

More information on Luminary podcasts honored by the 24th Annual Webby Awards is below.

THE C-WORD

With each episode, Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett take you on a historical deep-dive into the life of a woman society dismissed by calling her mad, sad, or just plain bad. Join them for a rich, hilarious, and heartbreaking look into exactly what it means when we call a woman “crazy.”

FIASCO

From the co-creators of Slow Burn comes a new podcast documentary about politics, power, and uncertainty. Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Season Two of Fiasco tells the story of Iran-Contra. A secret war, a secret deal, and a scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency--until it didn’t. Season One recounts what happened during the contested 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, and the extraordinary legal battle that followed in Florida.

HEAR TO SLAY

Hear to Slay is the black feminist podcast of your dreams—compelling conversations curated in only the way black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you’re seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay.

SONIC BOOM: HOW SEATTLE LOST ITS TEAM

For more than four decades, the Seattle SuperSonics were among the NBA’s most iconic franchises. But in 2008, they packed their bags for Oklahoma. ‘Sonic Boom’ tells a story of basketball and politics, wealth and power—revealing new truths about the NBA’s greatest heist.

SNAP JUDGMENT PRESENTS: SPOOKED

Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment and WNYC Studios.

STOOP TALKS

Co-hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba carve out a place for broad-minded conversations that embody the black diaspora. Stoop Talks examines questions that may not have answers, but inspire deeper conversations about the complexities of defining blackness.

TABLOID: THE MAKING OF IVANKA TRUMP

Tabloid stories are not just guilty pleasures; they are revelatory ones, electrified by the tripwires of culture: race, class, gender, and politics. This season, a full-life inquiry into the making of Ivanka Trump, from child of very public 1980s divorce to teenage party girl and then her trophy-collecting father’s very favorite trophy. Hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis. By New York Magazine, in partnership with Transmitter Media.

THE TREVOR NOAH PODCAST

Trevor Noah and David Kibuuka explore unfamiliar angles, embrace differing viewpoints, and celebrate the contradictions that make living in this modern world bewildering. And exciting.

UNDER THE SKIN WITH RUSSELL BRAND

'Under The Skin' asks: what's beneath the surface - of people we admire, of the ideas that define our time, of the history we are told. Speaking with guests from the world of academia, popular culture and the arts, they'll help us to see the ulterior truth behind our constructed reality. And have a laugh.

WISDOM FROM THE TOP

From Guy Raz comes a chance to slide your chair into boardrooms, C-suites, and the quarters of top brass. Wisdom From the Top brings listeners into conversations with the leaders helming today’s most powerful corporations and organizations, offering direct access to the secrets, mistakes, regrets, and wins that define modern leadership. By Built It Productions.


Media contact:

Sarah Rothman, The Lede Company


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