In 2021, the Freakonomics Radio Community set a listenership document with over 160 million downloads throughout its 4 podcasts: Freakonomics Radio, No Silly Questions, Folks I (Principally) Admire, and the brand new Freakonomics M.D. Now the podcast community is increasing on their present progress with the hiring of a brand new editorial director, Gabriel Roth, alongside guide Jared Hohlt.
Earlier than becoming a member of the Freakonomics Radio Group, Roth labored at Slate for seven years, the place he oversaw podcasts and helped launch the groundbreaking sequence Sluggish Burn, together with many different reveals. Earlier than coming to Slate, he was metropolis editor on the San Francisco Bay Guardian and is the creator of a novel, The Unknowns (Little, Brown, 2013).
Roth joins the Freakonomics Radio management crew of host and founder Stephen J. Dubner and longtime Govt Producer Alison Craiglow. “I’ve been a fan of the Freakonomics Radio crew’s work for greater than a decade, and I’m thrilled to get the possibility to work on their terrific podcasts and assist develop the community,” he says.
His former colleague Hohlt, Slate’s editor-in-chief for 3 years, has additionally begun serving to Freakonomics Radio as a part-time guide. Roth will oversee all present reveals within the community, with a particular focus on the flagship present, and Holht is focusing particularly on two new podcasts, one within the early phases and the opposite in piloting mode, whereas serving to with the present reveals as nicely.
Coming into its twelfth yr as one of many greatest podcasts on the planet, Freakonomics Radio is now rising sooner than it ever has earlier than. Along with the flagship present and podcast community each setting listenership information in 2021, the Freakonomics Radio workers has tripled in dimension previously two years alone.
The flagship present Freakonomics Radio will have a good time its five hundredth episode on the finish of March and has been joined previously few years by the podcasts No Silly Questions, a present exploring the bizarre methods by which people behave, with hosts Dubner and analysis psychologist Angela Duckworth; Folks I (Principally) Admire, a present the place Dubner’s Freakonomics co-author Stephen Levitt interview unorthodox excessive achievers; and Freakonomics M.D., a present exploring the intersection of economics and healthcare with Harvard doctor and economist Dr. Bapu Jena. The crew additionally has a number of new reveals in growth to launch on the Freakonomics Radio Community this spring.
