If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

“I have a hook for your story,” a podcast producer told me as soon as I called her up earlier this summer. “Pineapple Street announced it’s going out of business today.” “It feels like podcasts ...

Throw a stone in any major city and you’ll likely hit someone who has a podcast. (As of 2025, there are just around five million of them.) And it makes sense—the cost of production and barrier to ...