Another occasion for attachment. Alex and Adam won a Silver Baton at the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Awards Thursday evening. It’s a big deal, and they were in exceptional company. The award was for the prescient radio show they produced last May, “The Giant Pool of Money“, which did so much to de-mystify what was then being called “the sub-prime mortgage crisis” and has since morphed into the worst global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Adam and Alex were on the story early; they got it right, and they made it clear. The show has been downloaded more than half a million times and has generated more comment than any other show ever produced by This American Life. It led to the Planet Money project (podcast, blog, and regular radio segments produced for NPR and/or This American Life), and several other collaborations between Alex and Adam, each of which has received favorable reviews. Alex says this is a great time to be an economics journalist; we’re sure it’s going to get more and more interesting, and we hope the news that Alex and Adam will be covering gets better and better as Obama and his team take control. Alex, Adam, wonderful work! We are proud of you.

(Thanks to Adam’s dad for the photo.)