{"id":41227,"date":"2026-02-26T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41227"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:44:40","slug":"jodi-tovay-05-wins-podcast-of-the-year-at-2026-ambies-for-wisecrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/jodi-tovay-05-wins-podcast-of-the-year-at-2026-ambies-for-wisecrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodi Tovay &#8217;05 wins Podcast of the Year at 2026 Ambies for &#8220;Wisecrack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41237\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41237 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/02\/jodi-tovay-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/02\/jodi-tovay-2.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/02\/jodi-tovay-2-150x150.jpeg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/200;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-41237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodi Tovay &#8217;05<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jodi Tovay &#8217;05, a four-time Emmy\u00ae Award nominated executive producer with roots in live concerts with Viacom, reality television production with Discovery, and co-owner and executive producer for Rainbow Heads Productions, won Podcast of the Year at the 2026 Ambies for <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/wisecrack\/id1831347408\">&#8220;Wisecrack.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a> The show centers on UK comedian Edd Hedges, who tells a story about a real hometown murder in his standup act, and Tovay, as she investigates the story.<\/p>\n<p>Tovay, a Furman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/communication-studies\">communication studies<\/a> alum, accepted the award on Feb. 24 along with awards for Best Production and Sound Design, Nonfiction Screenwriting, and Society and Culture.<\/p>\n<p>See the full articles at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/digital\/2026-ambies-podcast-awards-winnners-list-1236514381\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/biz\/news\/wisecrack-pablo-torre-ambies-winners-edd-hedges-tovay-1236672191\/\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication studies alum Jodi Tovey &#8217;05 and her podcast team recently won Podcast of the Year at the 2026 Ambies for &#8220;Wisecrack,&#8221; the story of comedian Edd Hedges and his wild encounter with murder and mystery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":41234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,6,3034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-variety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41252,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions\/41252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}