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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

"Serial," the podcast

Is anyone else listening to this? What do you think?

If you haven't heard of it, it's by the same crew behind This American Life. In it, Sarah Koenig recounts her reporting on a 1999 Baltimore homicide, bringing listeners along as she investigates what happened. Here's how they describe the first season:

On January 13, 1999, a girl named Hae Min Lee, a senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, disappeared. A month later, her body turned up in a city park. She'd been strangled. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely based…

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