Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 176, published September 11, 2018.
One court, week by week. In case you missed it: Serial is coming back for its long-awaited third season later this month. Announced Wednesday, the news was well documented by mainstream outlets like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Elle, Cleveland Magazine, and The New York Times. (I wrote up a preview for Vulture, too.) But if you didn’t manage to get to them, here are the basics:
- The season will drop its first two episodes on September 20, releasing new episodes every Thursday after that.
- It will dive into the infinitely complex topic of the American justice system by delivering weekly stories from inside the courts of the ordinary everyday city of Cleveland, Ohio.
- Emmanuel Dzotsi, a This American Life staffer and Ohio native, joins Sarah Koenig as the co-reporter for the season. Word has it that the dude moved to Cleveland for the past year to cover the courts.
- ZipRecruiter…
