Al Jazeera’s Malika Bilal wins Gracie Award for greatest podcast host | Al Jazeera Information

A number of-award-winning journalist garners second win in three years for excellence in work produced by, for and about ladies.

Al Jazeera Digital has received a Gracie Award (PDF) for excellence in work produced by, for, and about ladies.

The award went to Malika Bilal, the host of The Take, Al Jazeera Digital’s flagship information and present affairs podcast.

In three weekly installments, The Take builds on the worldwide reportage of Al Jazeera English journalists, native specialists, and other people residing on the centre of a few of the world’s greatest information tales.

The Take has launched investigations prompting US authorities motion and extensively coated US politics, racial inequality, the autumn of Afghanistan to the Taliban, and the struggle in Ukraine.

Including to earlier Gracie wins, the March 30 announcement marked the fourth time that Al Jazeera Digital was honoured with high prizes within the competitors. Offered by the Alliance for Ladies in Media Basis (AWMF), it was additionally the second time Bilal fetched the highest prize within the Podcast Host – Information class.

“We’re very pleased with Malika and The Take podcast workforce,” stated Carlos van Meek, Al Jazeera’s director of digital innovation and programming.

“Week in week out, the workforce covers the most urgent information and present affairs tales of our time in a considerate and understanding approach. Having Malika as our host is the key sauce that gives the present with character and charm.”

“It’s an actual deal with to be recognised amongst such wonderful firm,” Bilal stated from The Take‘s Washington, DC workplace.

“And to be honoured twice is a testomony to the exhausting work of the workforce of gifted journalists who make The Take the intimate, informative audio journey that it’s – one which makes it a degree to centre the voices of girls and their experiences around the globe on the coronary heart of so a lot of our tales.”

Held throughout dozens of classes, the competitors drew entries and winners from a wide range of information and leisure shops, together with Nationwide Public Radio, Washington Submit, CBS Information, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Vice, Wondery and Spotify.

Meghan Markle, the duchess of Sussex, received in a sister class – Podcast Host – Leisure – for her Spotify sequence, Archetypes, through which she interviews achieved ladies concerning the methods they’ve overcome stereotypes and tropes which have held ladies again.

Information and leisure celebrities who received in different classes included journalist Katie Couric, actress Christina Applegate, singer Religion Hill and podcaster Alex Cooper.

Al Jazeera Digital’s women-led information and present affairs video explainer workforce, Begin Right here, additionally emerged with a second place Honourable Point out for its on-location protection of Afghan ladies.

In its on-the-road explainer, What Ladies in Afghanistan need you to know, the host of Begin Right here, Sandra Gathmann, and government producer Julia Mills reported on what life is like for ladies after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021. Gathmann was additionally honourably talked about within the 2022 Gracie competitors.

The Gracie Awards Gala will happen on Could 23, on the Beverly Wilshire Lodge in Los Angeles, the place the AWMF will honour the excellent work of girls in TV, radio, and digital media.