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American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? … Listen here >American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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Innovation, Not Trees. How Bill Gates Plans to Save the Planet

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this conversation between Kara Swisher and Bill Gates. Gates’s latest book is How to Avoid … Listen here >Innovation, Not Trees. How Bill Gates Plans to Save the Planet

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Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

For Vice News, I produced an episode of the podcast Source Material, non-narrated stories based on recordings made by ordinary people who live through extraordinary … Listen here >Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

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Need help telling your story? Looking to start a podcast? Want to add professional polish to your audio? I’ve helped conceive and produce top-downloaded podcasts, edited award-winning stories, and taught narrative skills to audio novices. I can help you reach your audience through planning, recording, producing, editing, mixing, and sound designing great audio. Learn more >

Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump
Categories: Audio, Uncategorized – Posted on January 19, 2021January 24, 2021

Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this conversation between Kara Swisher and actor Bryan Cranston. Cranston became famous playing powerful, broken … Listen here >Bryan Cranston Won’t Play Donald Trump

Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?
Categories: Audio – Posted on January 14, 2021January 24, 2021

Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this conversation between Kara Swisher and Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber. During the pandemic, … Listen here >Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?

What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?
Categories: Audio – Posted on January 4, 2021January 24, 2021

What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this interview between Kara Swisher and Bela Bajaria, the new head of global television at … Listen here >What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?

Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting
Categories: Audio – Posted on December 18, 2020January 24, 2021

Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

For Vice News, I produced an episode of the podcast Source Material, non-narrated stories based on recordings made by ordinary people who live through extraordinary events. … Listen here >Escaping the Las Vegas Shooting

Math Lessons from Pennsylvania
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 12, 2020January 6, 2021

Math Lessons from Pennsylvania

For the New York Times Opinion podcast Sway, I produced this interview between host Kara Swisher and John Fetterman, the Twitter-famous Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania. … Listen here >Math Lessons from Pennsylvania

American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? … Listen here >American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

California Dreamin’
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

California Dreamin’

A new law in California mandates that middle schools can’t start before 8 am, and high schools 8:30. This is based on years of studies … Listen here >California Dreamin’

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

In the U.S. alone, we hold 55 million meetings a day. Most of them are woefully unproductive, and tyrannize our offices. For Freakonomics Radio, I … Listen here >How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting
Categories: Audio – Posted on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

When my daughter was born, my wife and I agreed that we wouldn’t drive ourselves crazy reading every book of parenting advice on the shelf. … Listen here >The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)
Categories: Audio – Posted on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek gave a rare interview to Freakonomics Radio for an episode I produced. We tell the story of how Ek … Listen here >How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Low Fidelity
Categories: Audio – Posted on December 29, 2018

Low Fidelity

Journalist Bella Bathurst describes how she lost her hearing while conducting interviews with the last generation of Scottish lighthouse keepers and then how it felt, … Listen here >Low Fidelity

How to Be Creative
Categories: Audio – Posted on December 29, 2018March 25, 2019

How to Be Creative

Creativity has become a buzzword, universally desirable but uniformly misunderstood. What is it, really? Is there a definition large enough to capture all the various … Listen here >How to Be Creative

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