The most effective of the trio focuses on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy during President Obama’s historic run in 2008, a media frenzy that culminated in Obama’s famous speech on race. FiveThirtyEight, “Obama and his Pastor: Part One”įiveThirtyEight’s audio efforts in 2016 will likely be most remembered for the very popular Elections Podcast, but that would be a shame, because the team’s best productions came in the form of three political documentaries that were sporadically released throughout the year. But it’s with “The Police,” where the team embeds themselves among police officers after the killing of an unarmed black man in L.A.’s Skid Row, where the show truly feels vital, as the producers used their microphones to capture the fraught, compact world shared by various parties.Ĩ. Over the course of its debut season, the show has used this template to tackle a wide spread of stories, from revisiting the Waco shootout to something more domestic like life in the NBA D-League. It missed the cutoff date for the list I made last year, which is why it appears here instead.)Įmbedded operates on a simple premise: Take a story from the headlines, head to the site, report from the ground. (Quick note: This episode originally came out on December 17, 2015.
“Gallery 742” is the first piece from DiMeo’s current artist residency at the Met, and this bite-size story paints a single moment in the early life of Arabella Worsham Huntington, then a young single mother in the mid-1800s who would go on to become the richest woman in America. History being history, some dreams are sweet, others are nightmares, but DiMeo renders all with no small amount of elegance. Nate DiMeo’s Memory Palace is essentially a compendium of little audio poems, with each entry playing out as a dream from some point in history.
This list drills down on ten specific episodes, segments, or audio experiences that stood out by providing good times well-delivered and boundaries well-pushed.
#BEST CID NEW EPISODE 2016 SERIES#
We’ve already taken a look at ten overall podcast series that were consistently excellent in 2016. That challenge is compounded by the relative newness of the form and just how little language has been established to talk about podcasts (or audio shows), as well as by the ways that some shows vary episode by episode. Part of the difficulty of writing about podcasts is the staggering variety inherent in the medium, such that it often feels like comparing novels to poems to talk shows to prestige dramas to travel brochures.
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