Press:

Persona – The French Deception:

Vulture: “A scam story told with a clinical eye.”

Financial Times: “It’s a hell of a story, smartly scripted and sleekly produced.”

The Times: “Irrefutably entertaining.”

Love Thy Neighbor:

Vulture: “Meyerson is a half-Black and half-Jewish New Yorker, and she negotiates the space between those two aspects of her identity to find a deeper understanding of what happened that summer in 1991”

PodSauce: “Expertly and empathetically examines the history of Crown Heights.”

9/12:

2021 Year End Lists: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, CBC, Esquire, Apple Podcasts, Variety, Vulture’s Podcast Producers Survey

Time: “A sometimes inspiring, often critical portrait of a society redefining its identity in the wake of tragedy.”

The Atlantic: #1 on The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021

The New York Times: “A striking listening experience.”

Wind Of Change:

2020 Year End Lists: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, WBEZ, Vulture, AV Club

Esquire: “Wind of Change has become the must-hear podcast.”

The Atlantic: “Podcasting at its most exhilarating.”

The Hollywood Reporter: “Wind of Change was the night’s top winner, taking home three Podcast Academy Awards, including best host, best reporting and best nonfiction scriptwriting.”

Running From COPS:

We were nominated for a 2019 Peabody Award.  Here’s a piece I wrote for The Guardian about the cancellation of COPS a year after our podcast debuted.

2019 Year End Lists: The New Yorker, CBC, The Atlantic, Vulture, LA Review of Books, Poynter, Huffington Post, Indiewire, Yahoo, The Australian, International Documentary Association Short List, Global Investigative Journalism Network 

Hollywood Reporter: ‘Cops’ Canceled at Paramount Network

This American Life: Episode 675 – I’m On TV?? 

The New York Times: How Truthful Is COPS? A Fixture of Reality TV Faces Scrutiny 

The New Yorker: “Startling and, as ever, elegantly wrought.” 

Vulture: “A must listen. One of the year’s best.”

Surviving Y2K:

2018 Year End Lists: The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, New York Magazine, Indiewire, Forbes

Vulture: “One of the year’s most beautiful podcasts. Funny, poetic, and wonderfully written.“

The New Yorker: “Smart, sweaty, and overeager, with moments of beauty and moments that make you cringe.”

The Irish Times: “Thematically and structurally one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve heard.”

Stay Tuned with Preet:

The New York Times: “A thrilling and urgent civics lesson.”

Missing Richard Simmons:

2010’s Best of Decade Lists: AV Club, Salon

2017 Year End Lists: The Guardian, New York Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic 

The New York Times: “A cultural phenomenon.”

The Washington Post: “An intimate and complicated portrait of a man who’s often reduced to caricature”

Vulture: “By far, the best narrative podcast out there right now.”

The Webby Awards: Winner “Best Documentary Podcast”

Still Processing:

2016-2018 Year End Lists: The Atlantic, The Guardian, Apple Podcasts, Time

The Atlantic: “Vital, mandatory listening.” 

The Webby Awards: Winner “Best Arts and Culture Podcast”

You Must Remember This:

2015-2016 Year End Lists: The Guardian, New York Magazine, Apple Podcasts 

The Guardian: “A dreamy mix of film noir voiceover, 1940s gossip column and Pathe news broadcast.”

Trumpcast:

The Guardian: “Best of 2016″

Happier with Gretchen Rubin:

2015 Year End Lists: New York Magazine, Apple Podcasts

The New Yorker: “Their voices remind you that life is a human project that we’re all experimenting with.”