Madeleine Baran is an American investigative journalist. She is best known as the lead reporter for the

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podcast '' In the Dark''. She has received accolades including three

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s, a Gracie Award and two

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s for her reporting.

Life and career

Baran is from

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. She studied at

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and

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, where she received a

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in journalism and French studies. Baran worked at

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(MPR) for six-and-half years. In 2013 and 2014, she led MPR's coverage of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis' sex abuse scandals in a radio documentary ''Betrayed by Silence''. Her reporting led to the resignation of the archbishop, criminal charges against the archdiocese, and lawsuits by victims of clergy sex abuse. She received a

and a 2014 Gracie Award for Outstanding Investigative Program or Feature for the coverage. Baran is the host and lead reporter of the

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'' In the Dark'', produced by

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. It was named one of "The Best New Podcasts of 2016" by ''

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''. In 2020, season 2 of ''In the Dark'' won the Radio Silver Gavel Award from the

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and Baran received the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for excellence in journalism in the public service (2020). Seasons one and two of ''In the Dark'' each received a Peabody Award.

References

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American investigative journalists New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni Minnesota Public Radio people Journalists from Milwaukee 21st-century American journalists Peabody Award winners Hampshire College alumni 21st-century American women journalists {{US-journalist-20thC-stub