page_title: Alex Blumberg
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Blumberg / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, Ira Glass and Ellen Weiss 69th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf=Astoria Hotel New York, NY USA May 17, 2010
context_page_description: Alex Blumberg is an American entrepreneur, radio journalist, former producer for public radio and television, best known for his work with This American Life and Planet Money. He is the co-founder and CEO of the podcast network Gimlet Media.
context_section_description: Blumberg won the George Polk Award in Radio Reporting for his reporting with Adam Davidson for a May 2008 This American Life show titled "The Giant Pool of Money". The piece explained the highly complex chain of events that led to the subprime mortgage crisis by showcasing interviews with participants at each sector of the crisis. The episode was linked widely in the blogosphere and remains one of the show's most-downloaded podcasts.
  He won first place at the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival for his story "Yes, There is a Baby." His story on clinical medical ethicists won the 1999 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI) award for best radio documentary. In 2009 he appeared on an April 12 Episode of NBC's Meet the Press to talk about the financial crisis.
  He shared three Gerald Loeb Awards: the 2013 Broadcast Enterprise award for "When Patents Attack" on This American Life, the 2014 Online award for "Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt," and the 2017 Audio award for his story "Dov Charney’s American Dream".
caption: Alex Blumberg and the This American Life crew at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards for The Giant Pool of Money
  (left to right: Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, Ira Glass, Torey Malatia and Ellen Weiss)
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