{"id":52062,"date":"2020-07-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2669631"},"modified":"2020-07-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T19:00:00","slug":"new-york-times-buys-serial-podcast-company-ties-up-with-this-american-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/new-york-times-buys-serial-podcast-company-ties-up-with-this-american-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Buys &lsquo;Serial&rsquo; Podcast Company &amp; Ties Up With &lsquo;This American Life&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4218-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-figure  u-border-b-1 u-border-color-grey-medium-light \" style=\"text-align: center\" data-toaster-activate-trigger=\"\">\n<div class=\"a-glue-parent pmc-u-crop-9x16\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-figure__image\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/07\/529bc380206f2407ec4ec350c11f7f9427-serial-1.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption pmc-u-font-family-helvetica pmc-u-padding-tb-025 u-flex u-flex-direction-column\"><span class=\"pmc-u-font-weight-light pmc-u-font-size-12 pmc-u-color-grey-medium-dark\">Serial Productions<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"a-content pmc-u-line-height-copy pmc-u-font-family-georgia pmc-u-font-size-16 pmc-u-font-size-18@desktop\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_new-york-times\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" data-tag=\"new-york-times\">New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;has acquired&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_serial\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/serial\/\" data-tag=\"serial\">Serial<\/a>&nbsp;Productions, the company behind the hit podcast&nbsp;<em>Serial<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, the media company will enter into a creative and strategic alliance with longtime radio show&nbsp;<em><a id=\"auto-tag_this-american-life\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/this-american-life\/\" data-tag=\"this-american-life\">This American Life<\/a><\/em>, which developed the original&nbsp;<em>Serial<\/em>&nbsp;pod, about the murder conviction of Adnan Syed. The first season was downloaded on average 20 million times per episode and was at the forefront of the podcast boom.<\/p>\n<p>Serial Productions is led by Julie Snyder, Sarah Koenig and Neil Drumming. At its new home with the NYT it will continue to commission and edit its own stories, which will be amplified by the paper, and the goal is to inject more resource and up the producer&rsquo;s volume. The first joint production will be&nbsp;<em>Nice White Parents<\/em>, which will see Chana Joffe-Walt examine the role white families play in shaping public education.<\/p>\n<p><em>This American Life<\/em>&nbsp;will remain an independent company and will continue to broadcast a weekly public radio program\/pod fronted by Ira Glass. Several of its episodes have been developed into TV\/film properties, including the 2016 episode<em>&nbsp;In Defense of Ignorance<\/em>, which formed the basis for Lulu Wang&rsquo;s<em>&nbsp;The Farewell<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/07\/new-york-times-serial-podcast-company-this-american-life-1202992829\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/07\/new-york-times-serial-podcast-company-this-american-life-1202992829\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/> Tom Grater<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p> Tom Grater<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4218-logo.png\" alt=\"\">Serial Productions The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;has acquired&nbsp;Serial&nbsp;Productions, the company behind the hit podcast&nbsp;Serial. As part of the deal, the media company will enter into a creative and strategic alliance with longtime radio show&nbsp;This American Life, which developed the original&nbsp;Serial&nbsp;pod, about the murder conviction of Adnan Syed. The first season was downloaded on average 20 million times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/new-york-times-buys-serial-podcast-company-ties-up-with-this-american-life\/\">Continue reading <span>New York Times Buys &lsquo;Serial&rsquo; Podcast Company &amp; Ties Up With &lsquo;This American Life&rsquo;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/new-york-times-buys-serial-podcast-company-ties-up-with-this-american-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York Times Buys &lsquo;Serial&rsquo; Podcast Company &amp; Ties Up With &lsquo;This American Life&rsquo; - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/new-york-times-buys-serial-podcast-company-ties-up-with-this-american-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New York Times Buys &lsquo;Serial&rsquo; Podcast Company &amp; Ties Up With &lsquo;This American Life&rsquo; - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Serial Productions The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;has acquired&nbsp;Serial&nbsp;Productions, the company behind the hit podcast&nbsp;Serial. 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