A Dispatch from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Center for Documentary Studies audio director John Biewen launched our Scene on Radio podcast in 2015 with the goal of “exploring human experience and the society we’re making for ourselves in America.” It’s not easy to stand out and get noticed in the existing sea of podcasts, but Scene on Radio grew its listenership at a steady, respectable rate. Then, earlier this year, John rolled out a new series of episodes—and things got crazy. An example, among many: one of the world’s leading radio production companies tweeted, “Currently the best thing coming out of the U.S. podcast scene.” John describes it all in this story for The By and By.
—Elizabeth Phillips, CDS Communications Director
By 2016, plenty had happened in recent years to get me pondering a different type of audio documentary project. The string of shootings of unarmed black men and boys by mostly-white police officers. The…
