Condé Nast is making an acquisition in the podcast space.
The publisher is acquiring the In the Dark podcast from American Public Media, including the library of past episodes.
The company is bringing over the investigative show’s staff, including co-creators Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark, who will develop a new season for Condé Nast Entertainment’s audio division.
They will also work with the staff of the New Yorker on future episodes of In the Dark, and will develop new narrative podcast series for the company’s broader portfolio. New Yorker editor David Remnick said that he was first introduced to the series by cultural critic Sarah Larson, who named In the Dark her podcast of the year in 2018.
“And was she ever right,” he added. “I am delighted that The New Yorker will be partnering with Madeleine, Samara, and their team’s extraordinary investigative work.”
“We’re incredibly...
The publisher is acquiring the In the Dark podcast from American Public Media, including the library of past episodes.
The company is bringing over the investigative show’s staff, including co-creators Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark, who will develop a new season for Condé Nast Entertainment’s audio division.
They will also work with the staff of the New Yorker on future episodes of In the Dark, and will develop new narrative podcast series for the company’s broader portfolio. New Yorker editor David Remnick said that he was first introduced to the series by cultural critic Sarah Larson, who named In the Dark her podcast of the year in 2018.
“And was she ever right,” he added. “I am delighted that The New Yorker will be partnering with Madeleine, Samara, and their team’s extraordinary investigative work.”
“We’re incredibly...
- 3/9/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Though it doesn’t emphasize it in an explicit way, one of the enduring achievements of Apm Reports’ “In the Dark” is how the show turns lost time into a tangible tragedy. When we talk about justice — especially in a storytelling era that’s elevated true crime’s place in the public consciousness — it’s often framed as something to be regained, something missing that can be made whole. What this podcast, now in the midst of a just-launched Season 2, does best is to show just how differently everyone’s conception of what’s been lost really is.
The first collection of episodes followed the abduction case of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, the start of a missing-persons investigation that remained unsolved for 27 years until a September 2016 court confession. Following the events surrounding Wetterling’s disappearance, “In the Dark” became far more than an isolated story. It was an indictment of local law enforcement shortsightedness,...
The first collection of episodes followed the abduction case of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling, the start of a missing-persons investigation that remained unsolved for 27 years until a September 2016 court confession. Following the events surrounding Wetterling’s disappearance, “In the Dark” became far more than an isolated story. It was an indictment of local law enforcement shortsightedness,...
- 5/2/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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