USG Audio
USG Audio, a division of Universal Studio Group, creates fiction and non-fiction podcasts with series ranging from investigative true-crime to sports and genre-bending narratives.
Website: www.usgaudio.com
Latest news
- Jun 19: A dying Brooklyn gangster wants to make peace with God. The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi contains a lot of admissions of the things he's done - killing a guy, covertly working for the US government, working with famous gangsters, and the astonishing claim that he witnessed the murder of Pope John Paul the first. Stranger than fiction - but is it fiction? That's what we'll find out. It's new today from USG Audio, Clockwork Films and truth.media.
- May 7: The winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. The podcast You didn’t see nothin from USG Audio and the Invisible Institute won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting.
- Jan 9: Semafor reports that the podcast arm at Universal Studios, USG Audio, is being “reined in”. The publication had heard it was to close; but it will continue acquiring podcast content that could be used by Universal’s TV studios.
- Nov 7, 2023: ODB: A Son Unique is new from Talkhouse, USG Audio and Novel today - a show looking at Ol' Dirty Bastard, an iconic member of the Wu-Tang Clan who, like other influential artists, died before his time.
- Feb 15, 2023: You Didn’t See Nothin launches today from USG Audio and the Invisible Institute. It's a seven-part series investigating a race-related attack in 1997, in the south side of Chicago. It's hosted by Yohance Lacour who started to investigate the crime for a newspaper, before serving a ten year prison sentence.
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