[4][5][6] During graduate school, Sanders developed an interest in radio journalism and interned at the WBUR program On Point.
[8] In 2017, he created and hosted a pop culture podcast and radio show at NPR, It’s Been a Minute.
[1] After 12 years, Sanders left NPR in 2022 and joined Vulture to host a pop culture podcast called Into It.
[10] In August 2022, Sanders launched a podcast with Sirius XM's Stitcher called Vibe Check, focusing on "news and culture from a Black and queer perspective."
Covering pop culture and "the things we obsess over in our free time," The Sam Sanders Show launched on air and on YouTube with guests Joel Kim Booster and Sasheer Zamata.