Episode 319: Madeleine Baran

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 4:57 p.m.

b"Madeleine Baran is an investigative reporter for APM Reports and the host and lead reporter of the podcast In the Dark.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cWe\\u2019re always thinking about first not so much the narrative, but first what did we find out and how is it important? And how can we construct a story that\\u2019s going to take people along on that and they\\u2019re going to care about it and be able to follow it. That\\u2019s a challenge in any kind of serialized podcast or film where you have one narrative arc from start to finish in a season, but you also have all these individual episodes with narrative arcs. And because we\\u2019re not novelists, we don\\u2019t get to change the facts, sometimes there are these facts you do not like cause they\\u2019re really confusing and you wish they were not that way. We spend a lot of time in storyboarding and edits and group edits and sound edits. We bring in people who don\\u2019t know what we\\u2019re doing and have them listen for mostly for clarity and confusion.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp, Screen Dive podcast, Skagen, Squarespace, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\\n\\n\\n@madeleinebaran\\n\\n\\n[1:15] In the Dark podcast\\n\\n\\n[22:20] Jerry Mitchell at Clarion Ledger\\n\\n\\n[58:55] Caliphate podcast\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"