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January 15, 2024:
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Dissident at the Doorstep was new from Crooked Media last weekend - following the story of a Chinese human-rights hero who wasn't everything that some of his fans hoped he was. It's hosted by Alison Klayman, Colin Jones and Yangyang Cheng.
October 23, 2023:
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Crooked Media founders Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor are publishing their first book, Democracy or Else, "a useful and illustrated guide to saving American democracy", which will be out June 4 next year.
October 9, 2023:
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Crooked Media has announced a number of new executives. Madeleine Haeringer has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager of News and Programming; Reid Cherlin has been appointed Executive Producer of Politics; Dariush Brizuela-Nothaft has been named Senior Vice President of Community and Partnerships; and Crystal Ponzio-Busto has been elevated to Executive Vice President of Marketing.
May 11, 2023:
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Audacy published its Q1/23 financials. Excluding the loss of Crooked Media (which switched to SiriusXM in May), podcast revenues would have been up 14%; but they fell in real terms (the company didn't say by how much). However, locally-produced podcasts are the most profitable part of the business, the company said.
May 4, 2023:
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The team that brought us Pod Save America launches Pod Save the UK today, hosted by comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan. Produced by Crooked Media and Reduced Listening, it's one of the biggest UK podcast launches to date.
March 23, 2023:
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The team behind Hot Take, a climate podcast cancelled by Crooked Media in December (and deleted by the company from Apple Podcasts), have written a critical post about Crooked's handling of the show.
March 17, 2023:
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Audacy released financial results. Podcasting revenue was down 8% y/y. Excluding the loss of Crooked Media (which switched to SiriusXM in May), revenues would have been up 14%. The company claims 9% increase in Q4 downloads.
January 18, 2023:
Crooked Media, VOX, The Washington Post, The Daily, Sticher, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few.
December 2, 2022:
Crooked Media, Spotify, VOX, The Daily, Pivot, California Love and Stitcher to name a few.
November 15, 2022:
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Radiolingo is new from Crooked Media and Duolingo; hosted by audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning writer, Ahmed Ali Akbar, it investigates the impact of language across our lives, relationships, culture and more. It is Crooked Media's first co-produced podcast.
October 28, 2022:
Crooked Media, VOX, The Washington Post, The Daily, Stitcher, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few.
October 21, 2022:
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Crooked Media is to launch Pod Save The UK in early 2023. The show will be hosted by Nish Kumar. The news coincides with the news that another British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has resigned.
October 3, 2022:
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Lucinda Treat has been hired as Crooked Media's first CEO. She joins from Vice Media Group, where she was chief legal officer. Crooked Media has also announced an investment from George Soros, the amount of which was undisclosed.
September 27, 2022:
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Juanita Tolliver is a new addition to the hosts of Crooked Media's What A Day.
July 27, 2022:
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Talking of Russia, Another Russia looks at the story of Boris Nemtsov, Putin’s number one public enemy, who was shot and killed in front of the Kremlin. His daughter, journalist Zhanna Nemtsova, and co-host Ben Rhodes tell his story to find out what happened to an entire country – and what happens next. Is another Russia possible? It's new from Crooked Media.
June 22, 2022:
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Crooked Media is making coffee now. Crooked Coffee is ethically sourced, packaging is recyclable, and helps raise funds for the nonprofit Register Her. "What A Morning" coffee is designed to accompany What A Day.
June 17, 2022:
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From Crooked Media, Mother Country Radicals won the prestigious Tribeca Podcast Award: Best Audio Storytelling in Nonfiction, following its world premiere as an Audio Storytelling Official Selection at the Tribeca Festival. All the winners are here.
June 9, 2022:
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Crooked Media and Adobe have partnered to add closed captions to their podcasts on video platforms.
April 27, 2022:
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Lyra Smith is now Executive Producer, Comedy at iHeartMedia. She'd been Story Editor at Crooked Media, working on their limited series including Webby Award winner This Land, and had also worked on S-Town and This American Life among others.
April 14, 2022:
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Hub & Spoke's Rumble Strip has been nominated for a Peabody Award. Also nominated are PRX's S***hole Country (in Radiotopia Presents), and Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe (in Reveal). The full list of Peabody nominees also includes podcasts from WNYC, WHYY, Serial Productions, BBC News, NBC News, Crooked Media and NPR - and Hulu's affectionate-but-not-very-helpful take on podcasting, Only Murders in the Building.
March 7, 2022:
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Offline with Jon Favreau will continue as a weekly series in its own podcast feed, Crooked Media has announced. The show sparks thoughtful conversations about what’s broken on the internet and what we can do to fix it.
February 9, 2022:
Lemonada, The Tiny Chef Show, Vox Media, AconiteCo, Spotify, Crooked Media, WNYC, and BeWokeVote. But you don't have to be a household name to win. Each year, indepdendent creators smaller teams make a big splash at The Webby Awards. You could be next.
January 28, 2022:
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Crooked Media has acquired two podcasts: Critical Frequency's Hot Take, and the indie podcast Strict Security. Terms weren't disclosed.
January 19, 2022:
Crooked Media, Vox Media, WNYC, Wondery, Pineapple Street Media, and beloved shows like Keep It!, Why Won't You Date Me, And That's Why We Drink, Tai Asks Why and more.
December 15, 2021:
Crooked Media, Spotify, HBO, Apple The Washington Post, The Daily, Crimetown, The New York Times, Pivot, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few. Help them continue celebrating the most innovative, creative, and transformative work that shapes the online zeitgeist.
December 1, 2021:
Crooked Media, Spotify, The Washington Post, The Daily, Pivot, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few.
November 17, 2021:
Crooked Media, Spotify, HBO, Apple The Washington Post, The Daily, Crimetown, The New York Times, Pivot, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few. Help them continue celebrating the most innovative, creative, and transformative work that shapes the online zeitgeist.
November 3, 2021:
Crooked Media, Spotify, The Washington Post, The Daily, Pivot, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few.
October 27, 2021:
Crooked Media, Spotify, HBO, Apple The Washington Post, The Daily, Crimetown, The New York Times, Pivot, California Love and Lemonada Media, to name a few. Help them continue celebrating the most innovative, creative, and transformative work that shapes the online zeitgeist.
October 4, 2021:
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Unholier than thou returns for season two: Crooked Media's podcast that explores the intersection of the saintly and secular. Hosted by Philip Picardi, the trailer's now available, and the new show starts Friday.
September 28, 2021:
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Exclusive to Spotify, Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24 tells the story of Jason Rezaian, a high-profile foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, who spent 544 Days imprisoned by Iranian authorities. The podcast launched today.
August 20, 2021:
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X-Ray Vision has been announced from Crooked Media - a show celebrating fandom and fantasy, from executive producer and host Jason Concepcion. It premieres on August 30.
August 3, 2021:
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Crooked Media has announced its 2021-22 slate. Shows include a spinoff series from Pod Save America.
July 21, 2021:
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First look: Crooked Media has signed with Acast to unlock international advertising and sponsorships across its podcasts. The company's shows will be available to advertisers in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for the first time.
June 22, 2021:
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Audacy has expanded their partnership with Crooked Media. Their Lovett or Leave It podcast is to be broadcast on Channel Q and the LGBTQ+ Talk Radio Network. The broadcaster already airs a minute-long version of What A Day.
May 17, 2021:
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In an award ceremony live from Los Angeles, California, The Ambies were announced last night, the first podcast awards from The Podcast Academy. The podcast of the year went to Wondery's Dying For Sex. The awards seemed to be a streaming success, too, with 25,000 people watching at peak. From the full list of winners, Amazon's Wondery was the winning studio of the night, with five awards announced; Crooked Media getting four, and QCODE with three. The podcast with the biggest award haul was Wind of Change, with three separate wins.
December 18, 2020:
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Crooked Media's Wind of Change is to be adapted for television, says Deadline.
October 15, 2020:
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Crooked Media's Pod Save America has possibly snagged their biggest guest yet - former President Barack Obama. He has things to say - about the census, birtherism, misinformation, and rage.
September 25, 2020:
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Spotify has signed a "first look" deal with Chernin Entertainment, to look at taking their podcasts into TV and movies. WME has signed similar deals with other podcast networks including PRX and Crooked Media; Universal signed with Wondery last year.
August 6, 2020:
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The female founded and led podcast network Wonder Media Network has signed with talent agency WME, to help the network expand into books and television. Founded by journalist Jenny Kaplan and brand strategist Shira Atkins, WMN is an audio-first media company with a mission to amplify underrepresented voices. WME already represent PRX, Rusty Quill, Crooked Media and Malcolm Gladwell, and is owned by Endeavor, which also owns podcast network Endeavor Audio.
June 15, 2020:
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Unholier than thou is a new podcast from Crooked Media that went live on Friday, which tackles the difficult, and often conflicting, journey of exploring religion and spirituality in the modern era.
May 11, 2020:
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"Take me to the magic of the moment on a glory night, where the children of tomorrow dream away in the Wind of Change"... The song by The Scorpions from 1990 captured the zeitgeist of the disintegrating Iron Curtain and the fall of the Soviet Union. But what if it wasn't a song by The Scorpions at all, and was actually written... by the CIA, in a dastardly plot to bring down America's long-time enemy? A new podcast released today, Wind of Change investigates - with Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify.
March 17, 2020:
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America Dissected: Coronavirus launches today - it's the second season of America Dissected, and is hosted by Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former city health commissioner. (Crooked Media / Megaphone)
December 6, 2019:
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What A Day, launched in October, is "a funny but incredibly informative news source", according to their publicist (and we're not going to argue). On Dec 3, the hosts, comedian Akilah Hughes and Gideon Resnick, interviewed presidential candidate Julian Castro. (Crooked Media / Megaphone)
November 12, 2019:
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Crooked Media and Pineapple Street Studios are releasing a Pod Save America special series on the Iowa Caucuses. The series aims to help listeners understand why Iowa is the first state in the primary process, how the caucuses work, and what it takes to win. (Megaphone)
October 22, 2019:
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Launching next Monday, What A Day is a new daily podcast from Crooked Media, "the people behind Pod Save America". It promises a constructive approach - "what matters, and how to fix it". (Megaphone)
July 19, 2019:
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Sarah Geismer is announced as Head of Creative Development & Production at Crooked Media. Geismer, formerly of Netflix, will lead development for all of Crooked Media’s active and upcoming podcast, television, and film projects.
May 24, 2019:
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This Land is a new podcast from Crooked Media to explore the dramatic history of Oklahoma tribal land rights, revolving around two seemingly unrelated Oklahoma murders that occurred over 150 years apart. (Crooked Media / Megaphone)
July 11, 2018:
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HotPod 168 is out, covering Crooked Media's The Wilderness, the Washington Post's dynamic ad insertion ("I can't say that I like this"), and Maximum Fun's Bubble.
November 27, 2017:
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A long-form piece from the New York Times about Pod Save America. "Crooked Media is most likely bringing in at least $50,000 in advertising revenue for each episode of “Pod Save America”".