Podcasting September 21, 2023

More international acclaim for LiSTNR True Crime podcast

Reporter

Leaders around the world are listening to LiSTNR’s Disclosed: The Children in the Pictures, the podcast that goes inside Taskforce Argos, a team of Australia’s best detectives dedicated to infiltrating global criminal networks and rescuing children from online sexual abuse.

The podcast continues to garner accolades at home and abroad, the most recent being named a finalist in The Signal Awards.

Now, Disclosed: The Children in the Pictures has been selected in the Limited Series & Specials – True Crime and is one of only four from across the globe in the category.

The winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 10 in New York.

The podcast was recognised earlier this year with a Gold at the New York Radio Festival Awards for best narrative documentary, taking out Best Documentary at the Radio Today Podcast Awards in July and being announced as a finalist in the prestigious 2023 Kennedy Awards in Audio Journalism: Outstanding Podcast.

Disclosed: The Children in the Pictures is led by Executive Producers Emma Lancaster and Belinda Lopez.

“The production of the series was demanding due to access challenges, the disturbing nature of the content and legal hurdles. The final product is robust in its journalism, careful in its handling of disturbing material, victim-focused and trauma-informed. The result is an eminently bingeable series for parents and true crime listeners,” says Lopez.

Disclosed: The Children in the Pictures follows Taskforce Argos as it investigates and dismantles a nefarious child exploitation network operating in the dark web.

The eight-episode podcast series sounds the alarm on the heinous and pervasive world of online child sexual abuse and offers advice to combat it.

Lancaster says “We are not interested in making true crime content in a traditional or trope-based way. We are committed to demonstrating how stories of crime reveal systemic injustices in our legal system and world. And our productions are focused on making real world impacts.”