Crime Beat wins Murrow Award for best international podcast
TORONTO — True-crime podcast Crime Beat from Corus Entertainment’s podcast network Curiouscast has won the 2020 Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best International Podcast, it was announced Tuesday. Hosted by award-winning Global News crime reporter Nancy Hixt (pictured), Crime Beat was the only podcast outside the U.S. to be honoured by the RTDNA’s Murrow Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism. Crime Beat was honoured for its two-part Kelly Cook: The Back-up Babysitter podcast which tells the true-crime story of a young girl abducted in Standard, Alberta in 1981. Crime...