First Peabody for The Atlantic awarded for narrative podcast about New Orleans after the flood
The Atlantic ’s narrative podcast Floodlines has won a 2021 Peabody Award. The eight-part series, hosted by senior editor Vann R. Newkirk II and executive produced by Katherine Wells, reported on New Orleans after its 2005 flood, and examined how Hurricane Katrina has shaped the city and its residents’ lives in the years since it devastated the Gulf Coast. This is The Atlantic ’s first Peabody Award. Released on March 12, 2020, the podcast presciently revealed the structural dynamics that shape all disasters in the United States: systemic racism, governmental incompetence, viral misinformation, and failures of empathy.
