WNYC and The New Yorker Partner to Produce New National Radio Show & Podcast
The New Yorker and WNYC Partner to Produce New National Radio Show and Podcast
One-Hour Weekly Program to Launch in Fall, 2015
Audible Signs On as Launch Sponsor
(New York, N.Y. – April 29, 2015)—The New Yorker and WNYC today announced a partnership to produce a new national radio program and podcast.
The one-hour weekly program, to be built around The New Yorker’s award-winning writers, artists, and editors, will launch as part of the weekend schedules of public radio stations across the country this fall. Audible, the leading provider of spoken-word entertainment and a longtime supporter of innovative audio content, has signed on as the program’s launch sponsor.
The partnership brings together two organizations long distinguished by a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics and foreign affairs, popular culture and the arts, and business and technology, as well as humor and fiction. Both The New Yorker and WNYC have maintained a steadfast commitment to delivering industry-leading journalism in their respective mediums, while continuing to innovate digitally.
The development process is being led by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, and Dean Cappello, the chief content officer of WNYC.
“The New Yorker has been podcasting for nearly a decade, and during that time we’ve discovered an entirely new generation of listeners—and readers,” Remnick said. “The New Yorker and public radio have had a very long and rewarding relationship over the years, and we’re so pleased to expand upon that by collaborating with WNYC, one of the premier radio producers in the country.”
“This is an amazing time for audio journalism and storytelling, and one of the most extraordinary and enduring sources for in-depth reporting is The New Yorker,” said Laura Walker, the president and C.E.O. of New York Public Radio, which includes WNYC. “We are thrilled to be partnering with an editorial organization that shares our commitment to narrative journalism and conversation at the moment when more and more listeners are discovering podcasting and delighting in the uniquely intimate and personal experience of audio.”
WNYC produces a range of award-winning, innovative public radio programs and podcasts, including “Radiolab”; “On the Media”; “Freakonomics Radio”; “Here’s the Thing,” with Alec Baldwin; “Death, Sex & Money”; and, in partnership with Public Radio International, “The Takeaway” and “Studio 360.”
Listeners can hear the current roster of New Yorker podcasts—Out Loud, The Political Scene, the Fiction Podcast, and the Poetry Podcast—via newyorker.com and on The New Yorker’s app for tablets and smartphones, as well as through wnyc.org and the WNYC app, the iTunes Store, and wherever podcasts are available for download.
About The New Yorker
The New Yorker is a national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture, and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker has consistently published the best writers of their time, and, in recognition of its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration, has received more National Magazine Awards than any other publication. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine, offering content on its Web site and on mobile devices and tablets, as well as through social media and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.
About WNYC
From its state-of-the-art studios in New York City, WNYC is reshaping audio for a new generation of listeners, with groundbreaking, innovative radio programs and podcasts that include “Radiolab”; “Freakonomics Radio”; “On the Media”; “Here’s the Thing,” with Alec Baldwin; “Death, Sex & Money”; and “New Tech City,” among others. With an urban vibrancy and a global perspective, WNYC is America’s most listened-to public radio station and the home to an award-winning newsroom of sixty-five journalists.
About Audible, Inc.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the Internet, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible’s mission is to establish literate listening as a core tool for anyone seeking to be more productive, better informed, or more thoughtfully entertained. Audible content includes more than 215,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
Media Relations Contacts:
Jennifer Houlihan Roussel, WNYC
jhoulihan@nypublicradio.org
(646) 829-4497
Natalie Raabe, The New Yorker
natalie_raabe@newyorker.com
(212) 286-6591
