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Please Explain host Samantha Selinger-Morris said it was “an absolute thrill and a privilege” to win an Australian Podcast Award.

“It’s a privilege to interview some of the most dogged and fiercely intelligent journalists I’ve met in my more than 20 years in the business,on a daily basis,” she said.

“The journalists at our mastheads help me make sense of a world that I often struggle to understand. And I know they do the same for our listeners,too.”

Best daily podcast was a highly competitive category with finalists including7am,the most popular daily news show in Australia;The Australian’s daily cricket podcast,Cricket Et Cetera; andThe Squiz.

Tory Maguire,executive editor ofThe Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, said:“Please Explain has grown so much since we launched it in 2019 as a weekly interview show and is now central to the best journalism that comes out of the newsrooms every day.

“Samantha has given the show a consistent and curious voice and she and the team have taken it to the next level. This award is a very satisfying signPlease Explain has established itself as a must-listen for anyone interested in what’s going on in the world.”

Head of podcasting atThe Sydney Morning Herald andThe Age Ruby Schwartz said the award was an acknowledgement of the hard work and commitment required in creating daily news podcast.

“ThePlease Explain team is going from strength to strength,and it’s great to see this acknowledged by our industry peers,particularly given how strong the field is for daily podcasts,” Schwartz said.

Good Weekend writer Tim Elliott won in the true crime category forInside the Tribe, a podcast he created with Camille Bianchi,about a Christian sect.

The 2023 Podcast of The Year wasThe Lawyer,the Sniper&the NSW Police produced by former ABC journalist Gretchen Miller,shares powerful testimonies from two survivors of the NSW Police workforce. It also nabbed the prize for the Best Interview Podcast.

Actor and writer Nakkiah Lui won in the best factual podcast category forFirst Eats,which asks how different our meals would look if First Nations people owned the land from which the food came.The Missed, about long-term missing people,by comedian and writer Sami Shah won the fiction category.

Ben Rolleston,Audible’s country manager for Australia,which produced Lui and Shah’s work,said:“Audible prides itself on investing in quality Australian stories and we are very excited to win the fiction and factual category.”

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