#248 – Migratory Notes: Immigration news with context

It’s easy to look at the conversation about immigrants in the United States and ignore everything that came before Inauguration Day 2017. But that’s missing a big part of the story, say Daniela Gerson and Elizabeth Aguilera, co-creators of Migratory Notes, an immigration newsletter. Both Gerson and Aguilera have extensive careers in which covering…

#247 – Can the Washington Post do that?

It’s the one question asked more frequently in the weeks following the inauguration of Donald Trump and the steady stream of executive orders issued from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Can he do that? For Allison Michaels, it’s the question at the heart of her new podcast for The Washington Post, in which she and a…

Write a textbook? How about teaching?

Good things seem to keep happening thanks to this podcast. In May 2016, I announced that I had signed a contract with Routeledge – Taylor & Francis Group to write a textbook about podcasting. After months of hard work and many interviews with some very smart podcasters, I turned in the manuscript last October. The…

#246 – Journey down the underground press rabbit hole

Ethan Persoff first learned of John Wilcock by accident. “There was a blog for the radio station WFMU and they had a listing of interesting records,” he recalls. “One of the records they posted was this magazine, Echo Magazine from the 1950s, which was dubbed the first magazine you could read on your turntable….

#245 – Decades-old cold case comes to life in new podcast

Neal Augenstein wasn’t sure he’d ever return to podcasting. His first foray into the medium, a podcast for CBS’ 48 Hours in 2016 covering the trial of a man arrested and later convicted of murdering University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, was a departure from his career in radio reporting. He had followed the case…