The Podcast Academy, the preeminent skilled podcast group, introduced that award-winning reporter, radio host and podcast Sam Sanders, will obtain the Impression Award, which acknowledges a person or podcast that has made a major, optimistic impact on its listeners.
Earlier recipients of the Impression Award embrace Ira Madison III (2024) and Teenager Remedy (2020). The distinction will probably be bestowed upon him on the Fifth Annual Awards For Excellence in Audio (The Ambies), which will probably be hosted by multi-hyphenate comic Tig Notaro, on Monday, March 31, on the McCormick Conference Middle in Chicago.
As beforehand introduced, Ira Glass will obtain this 12 months’s Governor’s Award. The ceremony will probably be LIVE streamed by Amazon Music-Twitch from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CST.
The Ambies have a good time excellence in podcasting and elevate consciousness and standing of podcasts as a singular and private medium for leisure, info, storytelling and expression. The ceremony will spotlight 199 nominees throughout 28 classes with winners to be chosen by each voting member of The Podcast Academy (TPA).
“Sam Sanders doesn’t simply cowl the information, he is sensible of it, humanizes it, and welcomes us into the dialog,” mentioned Christy Mirabal, chairperson of TPA. “From his early days at NPR to his groundbreaking work into It, Vibe Verify, and now The Sam Sanders Present, he builds areas the place pleasure, curiosity, and important conversations thrive. His means to problem views, have a good time tradition in all its complexity, and make audiences really feel actually seen is what units him aside. The Podcast Academy is proud to honor his lasting affect on the trade with this 12 months’s Impression Award.”
Sanders is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. He at the moment co-hosts Vibe Verify from Stitcher Podcasts, with Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford, and The Sam Sanders Present, produced in partnership with KCRW, and distributed nationally by PRX.
In 2022, The New York Occasions named Vibe Verify one of many 10 greatest podcasts of the 12 months and the present was awarded with a Sign Award in 2022 for the very best popular culture podcast.
Beforehand, Sanders launched and hosted the NPR radio present and its podcast It’s Been a Minute, interviewing luminaries starting from JLo to Maya Rudolph to Beto O’Rourke to Malcolm Gladwell. Sanders was additionally a founding host of the NPR Politics Podcast whereas overlaying Election 2016 for NPR. He based the popular culture podcast Into It at Vulture and New York Journal, and it was named a greatest podcast of the 12 months in 2022 by each Spotify and VOGUE.
Sanders has been named greatest podcast host by each the Ambies and iHeart Podcast Awards, and his work has been honored by the LA Press Membership, the Nationwide Affiliation of LGBTQ+ Journalists, and the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists.
His written work has appeared in New York Journal, Politico Journal, The Washington Put up, and the Columbia Journalism Overview. He has a bachelor’s diploma from the College of the Incarnate Phrase and a Grasp’s diploma in public coverage from the Harvard Kennedy Faculty of Authorities, and has taught radio on the Columbia College Graduate Faculty of Journalism.
