Sarah Koenig Talks to David Remnick About "Serial"
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🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Sarah Koenig tells David Remnick why she never fit in as a newspaper writer, and how that led her to the style she cultivated as a producer of "This American Life" and "Serial."
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| 1:16.6 | New Yorker, David Remnick, talks with Sarah Koenig, the co-creator and host of the podcast Serial. |
| 1:22.9 | In 2014, Serial helped make podcasting a phenomenon in the mainstream media. It recently began at |
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