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yendiAt some point, I need to just post a list of all my podcasts, but for now, I want to talk about two of the newer ones I love.
As you've probably gathered, I do love me some long-form journalism. There are plenty of sites that provide good reads, and a bunch of sites and tool (like longreads.com, Instapaper, and Flipboard) that make finding good journalism pretty easy.
I also love good long-form audio. Most of my podcasts run pretty long, but they also tend to be varied -- On the Media or Idle Thumbs will have multiple stories in their weekly 'casts, while other long-form ones like Hardcore History (the best show out there) are hardly frequent.
But I'm enjoying two recent podcasts dedicated to longer-form storytelling (in very different ways).
The first is The Guardian Long Read; the Guardian actually repurposed their previous longform podcast, The Guardian Audio Edition, and I discovered it when that long-dormant feed popped back in iTunes with new content. As with the previous 'cast, it takes longer stories from The Guardian and turns them into audio pieces. Each runs between fifteen and thirty-five minutes, and they range from a history of English football supporters over the years intertwined with hooliganism and nationalism to a look back at how "refusing to negotiate with terrorists" has worked as a policy (about a 100% failure rate). Well worth it, and while you can read the stories online, I find them compelling as audio.
My other recent addiction is Serial, which has become pretty much the hottest thing in the podcast world since Nightvale. It's an utterly captivating piece of longform investigative journalism chronicling a 1999 Baltimore murder, the aftermath, the botched defense, the contradictions in the case against the man who was convicted, the contradictions in his own story, and so much more. It's still ongoing, and I honestly don't know what the resolution will be, but I'm hooked. It's reported by Sarah Koenig, a journalist and producer for This American Life, and while it has a superficial resemblance to that show, the format here is so much different, and so heavy on documentation and evidence, that they're not even comparable.
As you've probably gathered, I do love me some long-form journalism. There are plenty of sites that provide good reads, and a bunch of sites and tool (like longreads.com, Instapaper, and Flipboard) that make finding good journalism pretty easy.
I also love good long-form audio. Most of my podcasts run pretty long, but they also tend to be varied -- On the Media or Idle Thumbs will have multiple stories in their weekly 'casts, while other long-form ones like Hardcore History (the best show out there) are hardly frequent.
But I'm enjoying two recent podcasts dedicated to longer-form storytelling (in very different ways).
The first is The Guardian Long Read; the Guardian actually repurposed their previous longform podcast, The Guardian Audio Edition, and I discovered it when that long-dormant feed popped back in iTunes with new content. As with the previous 'cast, it takes longer stories from The Guardian and turns them into audio pieces. Each runs between fifteen and thirty-five minutes, and they range from a history of English football supporters over the years intertwined with hooliganism and nationalism to a look back at how "refusing to negotiate with terrorists" has worked as a policy (about a 100% failure rate). Well worth it, and while you can read the stories online, I find them compelling as audio.
My other recent addiction is Serial, which has become pretty much the hottest thing in the podcast world since Nightvale. It's an utterly captivating piece of longform investigative journalism chronicling a 1999 Baltimore murder, the aftermath, the botched defense, the contradictions in the case against the man who was convicted, the contradictions in his own story, and so much more. It's still ongoing, and I honestly don't know what the resolution will be, but I'm hooked. It's reported by Sarah Koenig, a journalist and producer for This American Life, and while it has a superficial resemblance to that show, the format here is so much different, and so heavy on documentation and evidence, that they're not even comparable.
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Date: 2014-11-05 12:45 am (UTC)