Hosted by The New Yorker editor David Remnick, the national radio show and podcast debuted on October 24, 2015.
[7] On March 29, 2016, WNYC Studios announced the launch of the 2 Dope Queens podcast hosted by The Daily Show's Jessica Williams, and Broad City's Phoebe Robinson.
[10] WNYC was part of the pilot group of twelve public radio stations across ten U.S. region that NPR tapped to bundle local news content with the national Consider This podcast that was launched in June 2020.
[15] The New Yorker has hailed the series as being "subtly astonishing...both sobering in its thoughtful investigations of the United States government's unfairness to many of its own citizens and quietly optimistic in its desire to make us understand.
The hour-long national broadcast show and podcast is based on conversation, debate, humor, and regularly features writers, editors and cartoonists from The New Yorker.
[19] On the Media is an hour-long weekly radio program and podcast, hosted by Brooke Gladstone, covering journalism, technology and First Amendment issues.
On the Media launched in 1995 and was reformatted and relaunched in 2001, and since then has been one of WNYC Studios' fastest growing programs, with more than 400 public radio stations broadcasting the show weekly.
[26] The radio program and podcast explores broad, difficult topics such as "time" and "morality" in an accessible and light-hearted manner and with a distinctive audio production style.
[27][28] Radiolab received a 2007 National Academies Communication Award "for their imaginative use of radio to make science accessible to broad audiences".
[38][39] On September 25, 2020, it was announced that Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser would be joining the show as co-hosts alongside Jad Abumrad.
Radiolab co-host Lulu Miller created and narrates the series, which includes interviews with entomologists, physicists, surfers, hip hop artists and other experts who are in search of new knowledge and ways to interpret natural phenomena.
[44] Hosted by Kai Wright, Notes from America debuted as The United States of Anxiety in mid-2016 and featured the voices of voters in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, the deeply purple region of a blue state where Donald Trump won the GOP primary with 73% of the vote.
[50] In 2017 Season One of the series was named Best Podcast by the New York Press Club in a special competition focused on coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign.
[54] 2 Dope Queens was a podcast hosted by The Daily Show's Jessica Williams and Broad City's Phoebe Robinson.
[57][58] The podcast was taped in front of a live audience, and featured hosts Buteau and Carlos discussing topics surrounding adulthood with guests.
[59][60][61][62] Guests included Phoebe Robinson, Wyatt Cenac, Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Bee, and Vanessa Williams.
[67] Hosted by Roger Bennett, co-host of the Men in Blazers television show and podcast, American Fiasco was a ten-episode podcast series that told the true story of the United States men's national soccer team's surprising failure in the 1998 World Cup.
[85][86][87] Hosted by Kai Wright, it featured contributions from WNYC reporters, as well as poet and activist Reginald Dwayne Betts.
First released in June 15, Hank and John Green answer questions e-mailed by listeners, give "dubious" advice and talk about the weekly news from the planet Mars and the 3rd tier English football club AFC Wimbledon.
Dear Hank & John has also been charted on iTunes in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Spain, Australia and Brazil.
Death, Sex + Money is an interview-style podcast hosted by Anna Sale that discusses the big questions "often left out of polite conversation.
The performance was dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement and featured a cast composed predominantly of BIPOC actors, including André Holland, Phylicia Rashad, and Lupita Nyong'o.
On October 24, 2011, New York City's WNYC released the first episode of Baldwin's podcast,[110] a series of interviews with public figures including artists, policy makers and performers.
[112] Launched in February 2021, La Brega is a dual-language podcast series, co-produced with Futuro Studios, about life, politics, history, and music on the island of Puerto Rico.
[114] Hosted by Kathy Tu and Tobin Low, Nancy was a podcast that featured stories and conversations exploring the LGBTQ experience.