Breaking news: “The Giant Pool of Money” has just won a Peabody Award! Congratulations to Adam, to Alex, to Ira and the team at This American Life, and to the people at NPR who tried something new and helped foal a winner!

First, the DuPont/Columbia Award; then, the George Polk Award; now, the Peabody. In broadcast journalism, those are the three biggies, and the Peabody is arguably the biggest of them all. Joan and I are bursting with joy for you, Alex and Adam. We knew that show was good work, spectacularly good work, when we first heard it, and it’s good to see that judgment confirmed. Keep it up.