Journalism Podcasts

Citations Needed

148 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.

Longform

443 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
Interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.

This Is Hell!

292 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 805 ratings
Longform interview Hell since 1996.

True Crime Historian

215 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 564 ratings
Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told through vintage newspaper accounts from the golden age of yellow journalism

My Life of Crime with Erin Moriarty

18 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 550 ratings
"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty returns with another season of immersive and intimate true-crime investigations. In each episode, Moriarty brings listeners along on her journey, goin...

Moderate Rebels

84 episodes - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 421 ratings
Moderate Rebels is a news and politics podcast and video show hosted by journalists Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton. We report on the US empire and the endless war propaganda sold to us each day in t...

Killing Lorenzen: Love•Basketball•Murder

13 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 369 ratings
Lorenzen Wright's voice was last heard on a desperate 911 call in July of 2010, but his story — and the path that led him to that moment — began long before that fateful night. WREG TV beg...

Frank Buckley Interviews

216 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 181 ratings
KTLA Morning News anchor Frank Buckley interviews newsmakers, celebrities, technologists and tastemakers about what drives and inspires them, and how they got where they are today. With no ...

My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

157 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 159 ratings
Each week filmmaker Jeremy Dylan chats with a musician/songwriter about their favorite album of all time - the songs, the history and how it has influenced their own music.

The Take

165 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 150 ratings
Making sense of the world, one story at a time. Host Malika Bilal and journalists from Al Jazeera's international bureaus share their take on the news every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Alpinist

34 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 129 ratings
Since 2002 Alpinist has striven to push creative boundaries with everything we do, from award-winning climbing journalism and creative writing to photography and art. Now, with the Alpinist podcast...

OPP with Corey Cambridge

102 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 109 ratings
Other People's Podcast highlights your favorite podcasters, and the dope shows they created. Have you ever wondered how the world's biggest podcasters rose to the top of the charts? On OPP, we int...

Conversations With Matt Dwyer

209 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratings
Conversations With Matt Dwyer is a music and arts podcast that sometimes also focuses on activism. Matt Dwyer keeps the interviews conversational and focused on his subject not his own stories or a...

Some Noise

30 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 78 ratings
A podcast about the foolish pursuit of life, clarity and context.

Wings for Breakfast: A show about the Detroit Red Wings

62 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratings
The Athletic's Max Bultman and analytics expert Prashanth Iyer offer up weekly thoughts on, and opinions, and analysis of, The Detroit Red Wings...and Al, everyone's favorite octopus mascot.

PolicyCast

153 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
Each week, host Thoko Moyo speaks with leading experts in public policy, media, and international affairs about their experiences confronting the world's most pressing public problems.

Data Viz Today

64 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 65 ratings
You want to create effective data visualizations. That’s hard work. There are so many decisions to make, like chart type, annotations, and color! Will this podcast help? Host and fellow data viz ...

MTracey podcast

27 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratings
Independent journalism, analysis, and interviews from Michael Tracey.

Craziest Story Ever

56 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
This podcast is about pulling the curtain back on TV news and getting a look at how the journalism sausage is made. It’s also a chance to more intimately get to know the journalists doing that work...

News Beat

83 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
A social justice podcast combining hard-hitting journalism and interviews with hip-hop music and original lyrics from independent artists. Each episode delves into an important issue with an altern...

When Life Hands You Lennons

83 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 51 ratings
Building a career in the music business is hard. When Life Hands You Lennons spotlights talent in the music business so they can share their expertise with you. Thus far into my career I’ve been ab...

Fashion Assassin Podcast

24 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
Alexa’s turbulent but secretive past haunts her as she attempts to escape a mysterious blackmailer while maintaining her growing celebrity as a fashion designer. But her skills as a former Olympic ...

Just the Beginning

12 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 47 ratings
This is Just the Beginning, a new podcast from Kickstarter featuring stories about how independent creators bring their ideas to life. Meet an engineer turning air pollution into ink, a married c...

Uncommon Sense

158 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratings
The podcast where we talk about all things Chesterton, which includes everything, and everything else. Learn more about Chesterton, his life, his books, his way of thinking.

Voice To America podcast

146 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
Voice to America takes world issues important to America and asks experts, citizens and journalists around the globe for their opinions.

Empowered Health

61 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Created and hosted by journalist Emily Kumler, Empowered Health stems from a history of frustration in finding reliable information on women’s bodies and how to best care for them. Each week, we wi...

Ways & Means

51 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ways and Means features bright ideas for how to improve human society. The show is produced by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Bardown Beauties

53 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Raising the bar on top-shelf hockey content with Jessi Pierce and Alexis Pearson. Covering all things hockey with a Minnesota lean.

Fox and Faust | LA Kings

22 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
Join Jim Fox and Alex Faust as the LA Kings broadcast team dives deep into the NHL to share their thoughts on the Kings, hockey culture, broadcast journalism, life away from the rink and everything...

My Favorite Detective Stories

114 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratings
My Favorite Detectives Stories is a short form interview podcast for listeners who want to be inspired, informed and entertained by great detective stories. We hear from investigators past and pres...