Dina Temple-Raston, Sean Powers, Megan Detrie, Karen Duffin awarded prize from Military Reporters & Editors
WASHINGTON — During its annual conference for journalists who cover the military, Military Reporters & Editors presented awards to winners of its 2025 MRE Journalism Contest. Dina Temple-Raston, Sean Powers, Megan Detrie, and Karen Duffin from the podcast “Click Here” at Recorded Future News earn MRE’s Best Audio Documentary award.
Award Summary
“Ehtesab in Afghanistan: An app’s struggle to survive under the Taliban”, Click Here at Recorded Future News, published 9/3/2024
Prize Category: Best Audio Documentary, Audio journalism content broadcast via radio or published in online media.
Best audio, radio, or podcast coverage on a topic related to the military, veterans, or war.
Judges’ Comments:
“Ehtesab in Afghanistan” takes listeners back to a time before the US Troops withdrew, when a creative person dreamt up an app to help protect her fellow Afghans. As the story unfolds, the app struggles to survive under the Taliban crackdown on civil society. Excellent storytelling by Sean Powers, Dina Temple-Raston, Megan Detrie, Karen Duffin for Recorded Future News.
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Journalist Biography
Dina Temple-Raston
Dina Temple-Raston is the host and managing editor of Click Here. She was a long-time correspondent on NPR’s National Security Desk, reporting from all over the Middle East on counter-terrorism. She also traveled to Afghanistan for reporting on a book she wrote about the first Americans who joined al-Qaeda (“The Jihad Next Door: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror.” Public Affairs Books, 2007). She hosted and created the award-winning Audible Podcast “What Were You Thinking.
Sean Powers
Sean Powers is the senior supervising producer of the Click Here podcast. He previously worked with the Scripps Washington Bureau, where he was the lead producer of “Verified,” an investigative podcast. Previously, he was in charge of podcasting at Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, where he helped launch and produce about a dozen shows.
Megan Detrie
Megan Detrie is the executive producer of the Click Here podcast. She previously was a narrative editor at Somethin’ Else and a founding producer of Marketplace’s “This Is Uncomfortable” podcast. Her work has been published by WNYC, ProPublica, BuzzFeed, The Atavist Magazine, CBS and NPR, among others.
Karen Duffin
Karen Duffin is the editor of the Click Here podcast. She is a longform narrative reporter, editor, and podcast host. She was a co-host of NPR’s Planet Money and, before that, a reporter at This American Life and More Perfect. Karen’s stories have also appeared on Radiolab, Reply All, Rough Translation, On the Media, The Rumpus and others.