Biography Flash: Rachel Maddow Wins Cronkite Award While Covering Grassroots Resistance Movement

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Rachel Maddow hosted her signature show on MSNBC, now rebranded as MS NOW, with a gripping December 12 episode diving deep into Chicago's resistance against ICE raids and nationwide anti-Trump protests, audio of which dropped on YouTube the next day via MS NOW's channel. Just hours earlier on December 12, she accepted the prestigious 2025 Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Political Journalism, where Mediaite reports she hailed the decentralized protest movement as the most important story of our age, not a Washington tale but a grassroots fight for democracy, crediting her team's innovative system of scouring local news and social media for footage. C-SPAN captured her speech, emphasizing how everyday Americans' responses will decide our future. On December 8's show, MS NOW audio reveals Maddow promoted her new six-part podcast series, Rachel Maddow Presents Burn Order, exploring the WWII incarceration of Japanese-American families with eerie parallels to today's politics, with episodes one through four already out for free on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music, the rest dropping soon. Bluesky posts from her account highlight the series as a tool to diagnose our present through history. No major headlines in the past 24 hours, but her Cronkite win and fiery show underscore her pivot to live events and on-the-ground activism coverage, boosting her biographical arc as a resistance-era voice. Business stays steady with MS NOW's YouTube push, no fresh social mentions beyond podcast plugs. All verified, no speculation here.

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