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I'm the executive producer of Vox Media's daily news podcast, "Today, Explained". We launched as the third major daily podcast on the scene in early 2018, and currently average close to one million downloads per week. It's a 20-minute, highly-produced podcast with edited interviews, scoring, sound designs (and the occasional personalized song or radio drama crafted around the news). I'm in charge of a team of seven, including producers, an engineer, and a host. I led the team as we created and launched the podcast from scratch, and designed a highly-efficient process; now we can turn around an episode in as little as five hours. I enjoy crafting a narrative arc from a mess of tape; I also edit our show, oversee our promos and ads, book freelancers, hire producers and interns, manage a budget, run social media, assist with marketing our show, train reporters for podcasting, and plan big projects around elections, etc. Before Vox, I produced daily news roundtable shows at NPR stations for nearly ten years.