Steven Jackson is an award-winning producer, sound designer, composer, and filmmaker.
He has produced and reported stories for the BBC, Love + Radio, 99% Invisible, WBEZ, CBC, and others. He has sound designed and scored high-profile limited series such as The Trojan Horse Affair, Crypto Island, and You Didn’t See Nothin (Pulitzer Prize, Peabody, & Third Coast Award Winner). He composes music for podcasts, film, video games, and other media, and is a founding member of the scoring co-op Cue Shop. He lives in Portland, Maine, where he co-founded the audio collective Foghorn, sometimes teaches at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and very frequently jumps into the ocean.
awards / honors
Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting (You Didn’t See Nothin’)
2024
Peabody Award (You Didn’t See Nothin’)
2023
Third Coast Award: Best Serialized Story (You Didn’t See Nothin’)
2023
Variety’s Best New Podcasts (The Trojan Horse Affair)
2022
Vulture’s Best New Podcasts (Cryptoland)
2022
Third Coast: Best Documentary - Bronze (Blink Once For Yes)
2017
Signal Award: Limited Series & Specials - Silver (Snitch City)
2025
Atlantic’s 50 Best Podcast Episodes (A Red Dot)
2015
SYS: Best Documentary - Honorable Mention (Pee Shy)
2025