podcasts

Podcast: Wired's Makena Kelly on Elon Musk, DOGE, and breaking news narratives

Podcast: Wired’s Makena Kelly on Elon Musk, DOGE, and breaking news narratives

The journalist talks about reporting for breaking news stories vs. longer narratives, protecting sources, and finding her path in tech reporting.
April 10, 2025
Marina Leigh
Introducing the Nieman Storyboard podcast: Stories from journalists, in their own words

Introducing the Nieman Storyboard podcast: Stories from journalists, in their own words

Erika Hayasaki on trauma-informed reporting. Plus: Claire Willett on Trump upending federal grants for artists and writers.
March 28, 2025
Mark Armstrong
5 reporting and storytelling lessons from the current moment

5 reporting and storytelling lessons from the current moment

Plus: A guide to pitching podcasts, and author Matt Bell's inspiration from screenwriting.
March 21, 2025
Power of Narrative: Compelling stories delivered on tight deadline

Power of Narrative: Compelling stories delivered on tight deadline

How The Wall Street Journal has produced the daily narrative podcast "The Journal." for five years with focused content and a classic story structure
March 29, 2024
Madeline Bodin
'Poetic explorations' in a podcast from inside and outside prison walls

‘Poetic explorations’ in a podcast from inside and outside prison walls

The final post in the revived "Audio Danger" series gives voice to the moments and memories of imprisoned people
May 18, 2023
Julia Barton
A true crime podcast that is more about truth than crime

A true crime podcast that is more about truth than crime

The third post of the revived "Audio Danger" series explores the reporting that revealed indigenous lives "Stolen" in a residential school in Canada
May 8, 2023
Julia Barton
A new best-of collection of audio storytelling honors narrative podcasting

A new best-of collection of audio storytelling honors narrative podcasting

Julia Barton turned her public radio career to the development of story podcasts and now revives the Storyboard series "Audio Danger"
April 19, 2023
Julia Barton
What's in a name? When it comes to podcasting, it can be confusing

What’s in a name? When it comes to podcasting, it can be confusing

A Canadian radio journalist fell in love with serial narrative podcasts, and is determined to help them find their known place at the storytelling table
April 14, 2023
Samantha Hodder
Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism

Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism

The literary journalism movement unleashed by Capote, Didion, Mailer and Wolfe in the 1960s is reinventing itself in a remarkably powerful way
October 8, 2019
Siobhan McHugh
This American Afterlife: Aaron Mahnke and the spooky podcast (and TV show) "Lore"

This American Afterlife: Aaron Mahnke and the spooky podcast (and TV show) “Lore”

The creator of the hugely popular true-life scary stories talks about his love for the supernatural and getting listeners to follow him down dark tunnels
October 31, 2017
Julia Shipley