We are honored to announce that American Reckoning has been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Historical Documentary.”

We’re beyond thrilled that our film, American Reckoning, made with PBS Frontline has been nominated for the prestigious Peabody Award in the “Public Service” category. Watch American Reckoning here.

We’re honored that our series, “Extremism in America,” has won a Webby Award for best 2023 Video: News & Politics.

The Weight of Stigma: Heavier Patients Confront a Bias, released in collaboration with Scientific American, has been named a 2023 NIHCM Awards finalist.

We are excited to announce that Massacre in El Salvador is a runner up in the 2022 Editor & Publisher EPPY Awards for “Best News or Event Feature Video.”

Our Extremism in America series, which places the debate over how to respond to the rise in domestic terrorism into historical context, has won the Online Journalism Award for Best Digital Video Storytelling Series.

We’re excited to announce that Massacre in El Salvador has been awarded the prestigious Edwin M. Hood National Press Club Journalism Award for foreign policy reporting.

On July 26, Retro Report and PBS Frontline will air and begin streaming Facing Eviction, an intimate look at the experience of people at risk of being evicted during the pandemic.

We’re honored to have won three Telly Awards for excellence in video and television.

Two Retro Report videos chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences as Webby Award Honorees.

We’re incredibly excited that the film we produced, How Saba Kept Singing is going to be premiering at the Hot Docs Festival.

We’re proud to announce that our story, What’s in a Number? Some Research Shows That a Lower B.M.I. Isn’t Always Better. is a finalist in the NIHCM Journalism and Research awards.

Two teams of accomplished educators will serve as advisors to Retro Report as it expands an innovative program supporting teachers.

We are so honored that ​Bringing Midwifery Back to Black Mothers​ has won the Nonprofit News Breaking Barriers Award. The award recognizes journalism that brings new understanding to an issue affecting people who are historically underrepresented.

We’re honored to have The BurningBed chosen as an official selection of the LA Shorts International Film Festival. It premieres on July 17th and can be watched via the film festival here.

We’re thrilled to have three Telly Award winning stories! The Burning Bed won in the Social Issues category, while Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press won for Political/Commentary and News/News Feature.

The Mirror Awards recognize the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. It’s an honor to have Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press nominated for this prestigious award.

Racial Inequality Was Tearing the U.S. Apart, a 1968 Report Warned. It Was Ignored. is nominated for best shortform documentary, American Samoa Dodged a Pandemic in 1918. Here’s What We Learned for best news and politics video and The Lessons of H.I.V. for best science and education video.

​We’re thrilled to announce that ​The Burning Bed, a short documentary we released in partnership with The New Yorker, has been chosen as an official selection of​ the ​American Documentary and​ ​Animation Film Festival​. ​

The Burning Bed examines the case of Francine Hughes, a battered woman charged with her husband’s murder, but eventually freed after a public outcry. While her case spurred stronger protections, millions of women a year are abused by a partner.

She Rocked the Pentagon, produced by Karen M. Sughrue as part of Retro Report on PBS has won a Military Reporters & Editors Journalism Award in the television category.

Coronavirus Reignites a Fight Over Rights of Detained Migrant Children, which examines the Flores Settlement — a decades-old agreement that dictates how migrant children held in federal custody should be treated – has been named a Webby Award honoree.

We are nominated for two News & Documentary Emmy Awards! Operation Ceasefire, released in collaboration with The New Yorker, was nominated for Outstanding Editing and Future of Aging, released in collaboration with Quartz, was nominated for Outstanding Business, Consumer or Economic Report.

We are excited to announce that The Future of Gaming just won a very prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award! You can watch the winning story here.

We attended the Webbys to accept our award for All in the Game: the Black Athletein America. A good time was had by all…

We are incredibly excited to be nominated for four Webby Awards – All in the Game: the Black Athlete in America is nominated for best Sports video, Why We Can’t Have a Civil Conversation About Guns is nominated in News & Politics, Future of Gaming in the technology category — AND Retro Report for best News & Politics series!

We’re excited to announce that coming this fall, we’ll be launching a weekly series on PBS that examines how today’s top stories connect to the past. “Retro Report on PBS” will be hosted by Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani and feature segments from Andy Borowitz!!!

The Code, which looks at the hype and hope surrounding the human genome, has been named a finalist in the best series category for the 2018 SMASH Jackson Hole Science Media Awards. You can watch The Codehere.

The LA Shorts Festival, one of the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world, has chosen our yet-to-be-released documentary Ceasefire as an Official Selection.

We’ve received two Emmy nominations! All in the Game: The Black Athlete in America is nominated in the Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report category and our What Happens Next trailer is nominated for Outstanding Promotional Announcement.

Future of Money has won the Gerald Loeb Awards for Best video – it’s a huge honor to win the most coveted award in financial journalism. Watch the winning story here.

We’re thrilled that our story All in the Game: The Black Athlete in America, released in collaboration with The New Yorker, has won the National RTDNA Edward R. Murrow award for sports reporting!

We’re thrilled to have won a Webby Award for Best News & Politics Series. The competition was stiff – we were up against the likes of Vice, Young Turks,etc – so we’re very proud of this one!

Retro Report and Montclair Film work together on media literacy outreach

In early April we premiered Finding the Code, the first in a three-part series with STAT, which explores genetic medicine and what its successes and failures mean for the future. Following the video we hosted a panel discussion with Mildred Solomon and Josephine Johnston of The Hastings Center.

What Happens Next, a series that we produced in collaboration with Quartz, has been awarded a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for best video. You can watch the series here.

We’re thrilled to have won seven Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards! Retro Report as a whole won for Regional Overall Excellence, while Nuclear Winter won best Breaking News, After Bush v. Gore won best Hard News, On Account of Sex won best News Documentary, Unraveling Zero Tolerance won best Continuing Coverage and Atomic Vets won best Continuing and Investigative Coverage.

Great news! The Mirror Awards, which honor journalists who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit, have nominated The Outrage Machine in the Best Single Article/Story category! You can watch the nominee here.

We’re honored to receive three Webby Award nominations. Where Does the American Dream Live? is nominated for News & Politics: Individual Episode, The Terminator and the Washing Machine for Film & Video: Technology – and Retro Report as a whole is an honorable mention in the Film & Video: News & Politics.

Nuclear Winter which examined whether Carl Sagan’s fear that a nuclear war could plunge the world into a deadly ice age is included in the Environmental Film Festival hosted by the Pulitzer Center. You can watch the story here.

Exciting news – we have been nominated for two Online News Association Journalism Awards!! The Population Bomb? was nominated for Explanatory Reporting and Blood and Sport was nominated in the Sports category. You can watch The Population Bomb here and Blood and Sport here.

We’re beyond excited that our story Vaccines: An Unhealthy Skepticism has been nominated for The News & Documentary Emmy Awards!! As a small start-up going up against some of the biggest in the business, we truly mean it when we say that just being nominated is winning for us. Watch the nominee here.

A big congrats to our reporter Sarah Weiser for being recognized in the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism Competition for the beautiful photos taken while on assignment in India.

Retro Report has won three Regional RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards! The Population Bomb? won for Continuing Coverage, Transforming History won for News Documentary and Retro Report as a whole won in the Overall Excellence category. Watch The Population Bomb?here and Transforming Historyhere.

We are honored to have A Search for Justice and Where is my Grandchild? shown as part of The Arizona State University Human Rights Film Festival. You can watch A Search for Justicehere and Where is my Grandchild?here.

Haunted by Columbine, which partly looks at how misconceptions perpetuated by the media still inform how we think about the Columbine massacre, has been named a Mirror Award finalist. The Mirror Awards honor the members of the press who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

Fantastic news! Anatomy of an Interrogation, the little-known story of the first and only interrogator connected to the CIA to be convicted of torturing a suspected terrorist, has been chosen as an Official Honoree by The Webby Awards!

The Emmy award we won in the Best Editing category for Go or No Go: the Challenger Legacy has arrived!

Settling in to our new office!!! It’s quite a change from our little basement office.

We’re incredibly excited to have won an Emmy for Best Editing for Go or No Go: the Challenger Legacy, which looked at the space shuttle explosion and the general nature of calamity. Watch the winning entry here.

A Search for Justice, which follows up on the recent events surrounding the 1980 murder of four American nuns in El Salvador, has been awarded an RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage.

Retro Report wins FOCAL International Award for Go or No Go: The Challenger Legacy. Watch the winning entry here.

We’re thrilled to announce that The Webby Awards have chosen Go or No Go: the Challenger Legacy as an honoree in the Best Editing category.

A Search for Justice screened at the Socially Relevant Film Festival, which focuses on human interest stories that raise awareness and offer positive solutions through the medium of cinema. You can watch A Search for Justicehere.

“The Shadow of Thalidomide* is nominated for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Magazine.

We are thrilled that Retro Report has won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Regional Overall Excellence.

“The Sleeper Cell That Wasn’t" wins an Edward R. Murrow Award, in the category of Best Regional Video News Documentary.

We are honored that Taking the Lid Off the McDonald’s Coffee Case is nominated by The Mirror Awards in the Best Single Story category.

We are honored that Taking the Lid Off the McDonald’s Coffee Case has been nominated by The Mirror Awards in the Best Single Story category.