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☆ Life at Guantánamo Bay
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Around 780 people have been detained at the prison at Guantánamo Bay since it opened in January 2002. The podcast “Serial,” which debuted in 2014 with the story of a questionable murder conviction, has dedicated its new season to Guantánamo. Over nine episodes, it tells the story of the prison through a personal lens, by way of conversations with people who worked or were detained there. Desiree: There’s an interesting political story to be told about Guantánamo, but why did you decide to tell this story through the people who lived through it? Sarah: The government threw all of these normal people on Guantánamo, and they had to sort out how on earth are we supposed to behave in here, how are we supposed to make sense of this?

Persons: Sarah Koenig, Dana Chivvis, Desiree, There’s, Sarah Organizations: Guantánamo Locations: Guantánamo

☆ Send the Hosts of ‘Serial’ Season 4 Your Questions About the Podcast
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Sarah Koenig | Dana Chivvis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you’ve listened to “Serial” before, you know that we’re interested in criminal justice stories. Our new season, which kicks off this week, is about Guantánamo — a justice system unlike any other. We tried to figure out how to do a story about Guantánamo for almost a decade. We had so many questions: What was it really like on the ground for the thousands of people who had passed through? If you have a question while listening to the show, you can send it to us using the form below.

Persons: you’ve, Al, we’ll, We’ll Locations: Al Qaeda

☆ No Coincidence, No Story!
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Sarah Koenig | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Our new audio app is home to “This American Life,” the award-winning program hosted by Ira Glass. New episodes debut in our app a day earlier than in the regular podcast feed, and we also have an archive of the show. The app includes a “Best of ‘This American Life’” section with some of our favorite bite-size clips, so you can enjoy the show even if you don’t have a lot of time.

Persons: Ira Glass

☆ Analysis: 'Abbott Elementary' is back in session
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Three things to watch‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 2(From left) Quinta Brunson, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams, Chris Perfetti and Sheryl Lee Ralph in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." Gilles Mingasson/ABCNot enough great things can be said about “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson. “Abbott Elementary” airs Wednesday nights on ABC; episodes will also be available to stream the following day on Hulu. ‘Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’Evan Peters stars as Jeffrey Dahmer in "Dahmer -- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story." ‘The Kardashians’ Season 2Kim Kardashian in a scene from the second season of Hulu's "The Kardashians."

☆ Evidence that freed Adnan Syed was long available, 'Serial' host says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

In a new episode of “Serial” released Tuesday, host Sarah Koenig noted that most or all of the evidence cited in prosecutors’ motion to overturn the conviction was available since 1999. Adnan Syed, center, leaves the courthouse after being released from prison in Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 19, 2022. In the “Serial” episode posted Tuesday, Koenig broke down prosecutors’ motion and described how some evidence they cited was featured in the podcast, while other evidence — including the evidence of other possible suspects — became public more recently. Other supporting evidence on the unreliability of a key witness and questions about cellphone data was previously featured on “Serial,” Koenig said. In the years since “Serial” chronicled Syed’s case and transformed the true-crime genre, a number of breakthroughs have come in other cases examined by like-minded podcasters.

Eight years after the show’s debut, the podcast circuit across all storytelling genres has never been more crowded or competitive. But in today’s oversaturated market, could any one show prove to be as singularly culture-shaping — influential enough to help free an imprisoned person? “I remember a time when I could keep up on new podcast series, but nowadays that seems virtually impossible,” he added. Cindy Ord / Getty Images file“Serial” is not the only podcast to have helped put more focus on a possible miscarriage of justice. In the years since, the stylistic tropes of true-crime podcasting have become all too easy to satirize.

☆ 'Serial' host Sarah Koenig says she was 'shocked' by Adnan Syed's release, nearly a decade after the hit podcast covered his case: 'I did not see this coming at all'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Adnan Syed, the subject of the first season of the hit podcast "Serial," was released from prison on Monday. Sarah Koenig, the host of "Serial," told The New York Times that she "did not see this coming at all." A judge on Monday vacated Syed's conviction in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. "Serial" host Sarah Koenig told The New York Times, which bought Serial Productions in 2020, that she was "shocked" at Syed's release. "Serial" surged to the top of Apple Podcasts on Tuesday after a new episode was released detailing Syed's release.

☆ ‘Serial’ streams new episode after Adnan Syed released
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The podcast that shined light on Adnan Syed’s case was there Monday when he was released to home detention. “Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee. In 2014, “Serial,” which is hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, helped propel interest in podcasts and Syed’s particular case. “Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee. https://t.co/0O60tPrtxS — Serial (@serial) September 20, 2022“According to the prosecutor’s office, they didn’t set out to pick apart Adnan’s case – their own case mind you,” Koenig says in the new episode.

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