In The Dark

In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January. In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
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2d ago
I was working on a huge project so I binged seasons 2 and 3 in a couple of days and wow. 1) excellent work in season 2 - your reporting brought much-needed attention to a grave injustice and helped save a man’s life. 2) I always knew the war on terror was really just a bunch of American kids dropping terror on foreign nations but it’s so much worse than that. Thank you for giving a voice to those families. One thing the really stood out in both seasons was that the people that hated you the most were/are guilty and perhaps downright evil.
WOW
Mar 21
Listening to this podcast after it was recommended on Death in Ice Valley, one of my favorite podcasts ever. This one was just as mind blowing and eye opening. I have so much respect to this team for shedding light on injustices that are happening today in this country, and for doing some good in the world! The show does cover some heavy stuff but if you enjoyed Serial I highly recommend it. No podcast is perfect or can please everyone, of course; still, they did an impressive amount of honest work and research- and that journalism helped to free an innocent man who had been on death row for decades. Incredible! I found it totally binge-worthy and deeply touching. Keep up the great work!
Required listening
Mar 10
Every American should listen to gain some perspective on the true impact of the “war on terror”
Think you can do better
Mar 13
This podcast is good. I get a little tired of the host hounding the police in season 1. None of the current officers were even on the force back then. They can’t answer your questions. Does law enforcement need more training? Always. But if she thinks it’s so easy and they’re all so incompetent, by all means sign up .
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