Two more awards for The Boy in the Water podcast

A years-long investigation into the death of a three-year-old Gore boy has won two honours at the 2024 Podcast Awards.
The Boy in the Water has taken out gold for Best True Crime Podcast and silver for Best Documentary Podcast.
The Boy in the Water has also secured the number one spot on the 2024 Apple Podcasts NZ chart for Top Series and Most Shared Show, with three further top five rankings for the year.
This follows the podcast winning Best Investigation and Best Original Podcast at this year’s Voyager Media Awards, which prompted judges to write: “The Boy in the Water stood out in a highly competitive category with more than 50 entries. The investigation into the tragic death of a three-year-old Lachlan Jones combined detailed forensic research, highly empathetic interviewing and dogged questioning of authorities.”
To police, the January 2019 death of Lachlan Jones was an open and shut case: he had run away from his home in the Southland town of Gore, climbed a fence to the local sewage oxidation ponds, fallen in and drowned. Case closed, no suspicious circumstances.
Season one of The Boy in the Water asked: Could he have walked that far? Would he have headed to the sewage ponds? Why do none of the witness sightings times match? And how is it possible for a small boy to have no marks on his bare feet after traversing 1.2 kilometres over rough terrain?
Following the nine-part first season of The Boy in the Water, the case was reopened twice before a full coronial inquest was announced.
Seasons two and three took listeners inside the courtroom through both phases of this year’s five-week inquest into the boy’s death.
The Boy in the Water is part of the investigative podcast channel DELVE, which has consistently led the charts, securing more than four million downloads since its launch in June 2023. 
DELVE is the home of gripping, hard-hitting investigations, led by Newsroom’s Melanie Reid.
Reid’s most recent DELVE inquiry, Fractured, is a medical-legal story so unbelievable it will leave listeners questioning what they think they know.
Reid takes the medical evidence used to imprison a first-time mother to international specialists and asks whether a common diagnosis helping to convict parents all over the world is flawed. 
And, in the latest DELVE offering, Powder Keg Newsroom Pro’s managing editor Jonathan Milne travels from the cold of Invercargill to a record Mexican heatwave to track down the elusive NZ founder of a billion-dollar supplement company, a man with a criminal past here.
DELVE has a slate of investigations scheduled for 2025, including season two of Fractured.
The coroner’s findings into the death of Lachlan Jones are still to be made and will reported on by DELVE and Newsroom as soon as they are announced.
Subscribe and listen early and ad-free on our channel DELVE+, the award-winning home of Boy in the Water, Fractured and now Powder Keg.