| Most important podcast journalist of the past few years? It’s got to be fearless Madeleine Baran. You may know her from her work exposing routinely covered-up sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis—and exposing it so thoroughly that victims’ legal cases became irrefutable, leading the archdiocese to declare bankruptcy in 2015. You may know her as the host and lead reporter of American Public Media Reports’ “In the Dark”, the podcast that has won two Peabody Awards (the Pulitzers of broadcasting) and been downloaded by 70 million people (and counting). Perhaps your favorite season is the second season, in which Baran’s work on the case of Curtis Flowers, tried six times for one dubiously constructed murder case in Mississippi, brought to light such multilayered racial bias that Baran’s material went all the way to the Supreme Court. Baran’s work also exposed tens of millions of us to a fog of racial bias in the legal system like a suffocating cloud. Join us on Friday April 23rd at 12:30 PM PDT/2:30 PM Central/3:30 PM Eastern for a behind-the-scenes discussion of the Curtis Flowers case and racial bias in our United States judicial system. If you have not listened to Season 2 of the “In The Dark” – get started ASAP!
Madeleine Baran is an investigative reporter for APM Reports and the host and lead reporter of the podcast In the Dark. Baran’s work focuses on holding powerful people and institutions accountable. Her reporting for In the Dark helped lead the Supreme Court to overturn the conviction of a Black man on death row in Mississippi and has exposed racial discrimination by prosecutors, a decades-long cover-up of clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, failures by police to investigate crime, and unchecked violence in state-run mental health institutions. Baran’s reporting has also appeared on NPR and has been cited by the New York Times. Baran has received numerous national awards for her reporting, including an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, regarded as the Pulitzer Prize of broadcasting, a George Polk Award, and two George Foster Peabody Awards. Baran received her master’s degree in Journalism and French Studies from New York University. |
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