Serial
"Serial" began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show "This American Life." In 2017, we formed Serial Productions when we launched the podcast “S-Town.” Since then, Serial Productions has produced every season of “Serial” along with shows like “Nice White Parents,” “The Trojan Horse Affair,” “The Coldest Case in Laramie,” “The Retrievals” and more. In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
Series
Adnan Syed
Tags: True Crime
A Peabody Award-winning investigative podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig that re-examines the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee in Baltimore County, Maryland. The series invest...
Bowe Bergdahl
Tags: True Crime
Season 2 of the Serial podcast (released 2015-2016) investigates the case of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. Army soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by th...
Nice White Parents
Tags: Education, Society & Culture
A five-part podcast series exploring how white parents’ efforts to improve public schools often reinforce racial inequity. It examines a 60-year relationship between white famil...
Quotidian Justice
Tags: True Crime
Released in 2018, the third season of the Serial podcast, hosted by Sarah Koenig and produced with This American Life, examines the Cleveland criminal justice system rather than...
S-Town
Tags: Social & Cultural Commentary, True Crime
A seven-chapter nonfiction story following John B. McLemore, an Alabama man who despises his town and asks Reed to investigate a wealthy family's alleged murder. The story evolv...
The Coldest Case In Laramie
Tags: True Crime
Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Kim Barker, the series revisits the unsolved 1985 murder of 22-year-old University of Wyoming student Shelli Wiley.
The Ghost in the Watchtower
Tags: Society and Culture
A history of Guantánamo told by people who lived through key moments in Guantánamo’s evolution, who know things the rest of us don’t about what it’s like to be caught inside an ...
The Good Whale
Tags: Science, Society and Culture
This narrative follows Keiko’s journey from a small, inadequate tank in a Mexico City amusement park to a specialized facility at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, and eventually to a ...
The Improvement Association
Tags: Politics
The Improvement Association explores, verifies, and debunks long-standing, unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud—specifically regarding absentee ballots and nursing home...
The Kids of Rutherford County
Tags: Society and Culture, True Crime
This series examines a decade-long scandal in Rutherford County, Tennessee, where hundreds—possibly thousands—of children were illegally arrested and jailed.
The Retrievals - C-Sections
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Healthcare
This series examines why pain during C-sections—the world's most frequent major surgery—remains an underreported problem and investigates efforts by clinicians to change medical...
The Retrievals - Yale Fertility Center
Tags: Gender and Sexuality, Healthcare
A five-part investigation into a scandal at the Yale Fertility Center and examines the broader societal tendency to minimize or "gaslight" women.
We Were Three
Tags: Relationships, Society and Culture
A story of lies, family, America, and what Covid revealed, as well as what it destroyed.