Witness Docs
We Tell Great Stories About Complicated People, The Podcast Way.
27/07/2022
The real James Bond was Dominican. No, really! Join Christopher Rivas as he digs into the life of Porfirio Rubirosa and asks the question what if more of our cultural heroes looked like him? Listen now: https://buff.ly/3za8wTB
New season of Unfinished out this week! Ernie's Secret tells the story of the "original civil rights photographer" who was also an FBI informant. Listen to the trailer now. https://buff.ly/3a3Hd4O
Welcome to Provincetown our new show in partnership with Roomtone and Rococo Punch encapsulates stories of artistry, sensuality, solitude, and serendipity of P-town Massachusetts. Listen to the sounds of hopes and dreams being carried through the summer breeze, the feeling of letting go, and the feeling of going all in. Listen to episodes 1 and 2 now.
In the first episode, Mitra arrives in town on assignment to unlock the secrets to growing old and gay. She meets performer and “It Girl” Qya Cristal who, after nine years of hustling in Provincetown, is finally getting her break. She also trails along with Sonny, the “new meat” just looking to have a dumb slt summer.
In the second episode, local comedian Kristen introduces q***r youth to Provincetown through the Summer of Sass program. In this year’s class, Ethan is looking for new experiences and personal growth, but Star only cares about the music. https://buff.ly/3HqCqGV
14/07/2021
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Britney’s life starts get to more complicated in Episode 3 of .
We talk to her **FIRST HUSBAND** Jason Alexander, about how Britney’s team handled their spur-of-the-moment Vegas Wedding.
Listen now wherever you find your podcasts: link.chtbl.com/ToxicThePodcast
recounts his days at TRL, where everybody who was anybody would drop by the studio. And during the early 2000s, nobody was bigger than Britney.
Listen to Episodes 1 & 2 of Toxic: The Britney Spears Story right now: link.chtbl.com/ToxicThePodcast
08/07/2021
A huge THANK YOU to everyone so far who has listened, followed, rated, and reviewed Toxic on !
Let’s keep this momentum going and hit #1 overall 🤩 — Please send the show to a friend or family member who you think would enjoy it!
Episodes 1 & 2 of Toxic: The Britney Spears Story are OUT NOW wherever you get your podcasts.
Congratulations to our amazing hosts and our production team for putting in so much to this project. We couldn’t be more proud.
Artwork by the one and only: 🤘
One week from today, and are ready to bring you the podcast of the year!
Follow and subscribe to Toxic: The Britney Spears Story RIGHT NOW in or wherever you listen to your favorite pods. tinyurl.com/toxicthepodcast
23/06/2021
Tomorrow hosts Tess Barker and Babs Gray are doing an IG Live from with Attorney Sam Nicholson of Britney Law Army. See you then!
07/04/2021
Check out host and co-founder of the Atlas Obscura podcast, Dylan Thuras, sharing some of his favorite road trip stops with
UPROXX!
Atlas Obscura’s Dylan Thuras Shares His 18 Favorite Road Trip Stops Atlas Obscura’s Dylan Thuras takes us through an epic list of must-visit road trip stops across the United States.
Today on Wrongful Conviction, we hear the story of a woman accused of arson that took her children's lives. From an original ruling as an accident, to the nonscientific investigation that switched directions to call her a monster... Listen now on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2NNkWgC
16/03/2021
It feels good to be noticed. But today it feels even better to be in the top 10.
Listen to The Atlas Obscura Podcast everyday, Monday through Thursday!
Today's episode is on The Widow Jane Mine: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/widow-jane-mine/id1555769970?i=1000513180121
Join us and Atlas Obscura for an audio exploration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
New episodes every day, Monday through Thursday!
Listen now: atlasobscura.com/podcast
15/03/2021
Our latest release, The Atlas Obscura Podcast, is a short, daily celebration of the world's strange and wondrous places.
New episodes Monday through Friday, wherever you listen to podcasts!
The first episode now streaming: The Gates of Hell.
https://t.co/y6MPFeSKIw?amp=1
Podcast: The Gates of Hell Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
01/03/2021
We're proud to announce our next release, partnering with Atlas Obscura to bring you an audio guide to the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Coming 3/15!
Learn more here: https://medium.com/stitcher-blog/witness-docs-and-atlas-obscura-partner-to-release-new-daily-travel-podcast-coming-march-15-8a892631be36
Witness Docs and Atlas Obscura Partner to Release New Daily Travel Podcast, Coming March 15 NEW YORK — March 1st, 2021 — Stitcher’s Witness Docs unit has teamed with the award-winning travel and experiences company Atlas…
01/03/2021
With Black families intentionally broken apart by the American slave system, rebuilding families was an important step toward freedom. In , Dr. Kidada E. Williams explores how freed people searched for loved ones & established new lives.
Visit http://Seizingfreedom.com
15/02/2021
Listen to producer Ronald Young Jr. discuss the new biopic, on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.
Pop Culture Happy Hour - Judas And The Black Messiah And What's Making Us Happy on Stitcher Fred Hampton, the charismatic chairman of the Black Panther Party's Illinois chapter, was just 21 years old when he was killed during a police raid in 1969. In Judas And The Black Messiah, he's given the cinematic treatment via a stirring performance by Daniel Kaluuya. The new film directed by Shaka...
15/02/2021
Historian Crystal Feimster explains what it means to study African Americans in the Civil War today, on .
Visit http://seizingfreedom.com to learn more, and listen on
Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
10/02/2021
We're thrilled to announce we're working with Babs Gray and Tess Barker on a new podcast coming this year! More details to come soon.
Make sure you're following our accounts on social, as well as our hosts'!
https://deadline.com/2021/02/framing-britney-spears-freebritney-podcast-stitcher-doc-unit-1234690812/
‘Framing Britney Spears’ Contributors To Launch #FreeBritney Podcast With Stitcher Doc Unit EXCLUSIVE: The movement is growing increasingly larger following the launch of FX’s Framing Britney Spears documentary. The film, part of the network’s New York Times Presents strand, …
In school, we’re taught that the Union army was fighting for Black people, but in reality, they threatened to ruin everything Black people were working toward. Explore how those conflicts unfolded with historian Dr. Kidada E. Williams on . Visit seizingfreedom.com.
01/02/2021
You might have learned that the Emancipation Proclamation and Union victories ended slavery in America, but there’s more to that story. from VPM and Witness Docs tells how Black people defined freedom for themselves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Start listening right now at https://www.seizingfreedom.com/
Seizing Freedom Incredible stories of American freedom, told by those who made it a reality All Episodes → — SUBSCRIBE — Ending slavery in America required so much more than official declarations and battlefield victories.Freedom gets built up over time—through a billion tiny, everyday acts. It’s ther...
28/12/2020
We're so honored that The Atlantic ranked Verified Podcast #16, The Dream #27, and Unfinished Deep South and Short Creek #35 on their Best Podcasts of 2020 list!
Congrats to our hosts, producers, engineers, and production partners, who worked so hard to get these special stories out into the world.
The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020 The shows that kept listeners refreshing their apps this year
15/12/2020
Both and Verified Podcast have made it onto Stitcher's Best of 2020 list!
Check out all of the shows that made the cut this year, here: https://stitcher.com/discover/list/155
09/12/2020
Unfinished: Short Creek has been named the #3 Best Podcast of 2020 by The New Yorker! Congrats to our amazing team for all their hardwork.
The Best Podcasts of 2020 As the pandemic set in, the shows that stood out to me most were those that transported me—especially when they made me laugh.
07/12/2020
The finale of S2 of Verified Podcast is here!
And if you need to catch up, you can now binge all 7 episodes of Verified: Dust Up on Stitcher or wherever you get podcasts:
Verified: Dust Up Could a product so many of us have in our medicine cabinets be putting us at risk?
03/12/2020
Are you a listener of one of our flagship podcasts, Heaven's Gate? Or maybe you just finished up Unfinished: Short Creek?
Starting today, "Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" is streaming on HBO Max. This four-part docuseries is inspired by our pod!
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults | HBO Max Originals Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults, coming soon to HBO Max. Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults” is a thorough examination of the infamous UFO cult through the eyes of its former members and loved ones. What started in 1975 with the disappearance of 20 people from a small town in Oregon, ended in 199...
30/11/2020
A whistleblower emerges... Plus Natasha G Del Toro and the Verified Podcast team uncover how Johnson & Johnson sowed doubt about the danger of talc to women.
Listen now on Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts.
Verified - Dust Up | E6 The Strategy A whistleblower emerges who takes calls from women who worry that they also got sick from baby powder. The Verified team uncovers how Johnson & Johnson sowed doubt about the science, influenced testing, and came up with language that obfuscated the danger of talc to women. Support the show: http...
30/11/2020
Unfinished listeners, we have some great news—you can start listening to exclusive Short Creek bonus episodes with Stitcher Premium!
But even better news: Bonus Ep 1, an AMA with the hosts
Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre, is out now for free:
Unfinished - Short Creek | Bonus AMA with Hosts Ash and Sarah Hosts Ash Sanders and Sarah Ventre sit down with senior producer Abigail Keel to respond to listeners' questions & comments about Unfinished: Short Creek. This is a special premium bonus episode that has been unlocked for everyone to hear! Three more bonus episodes will be released ove...
23/11/2020
In Ep 5, "The Snowball," another lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson is filed. It exposes J&J marketing campaigns that encouraged women of color to use talc for personal hygiene, even after the safety of talc was in question.
Listen now:
Verified: Dust Up Could a product so many of us have in our medicine cabinets be putting us at risk?
About Witness Docs
We make documentary-style podcasts with a purpose. Our subjects are as complicated as our hosts are curious. Stories unfold with sharp reporting, expert storytelling and high-quality audio production because, ultimately, what we want is impact. We know that the best stories make you question everything.
We are part of the Stitcher family of original podcast networks which also includes Earwolf, the largest comedy podcast network, and Stitcher Premium Originals, home to popular shows like Issa Rae’s Fruit, Marvel’s Wolverine and Best of Standup from Conan.
The Witness Docs network is led by Stitcher’s head editor Peter Clowney, along with senior producer Stephanie Kariuki. Veteran journalists Ellen Weiss and Susanne Reber add firepower from the Scripps D.C. investigative bureau. Editors John DeLore, Gianna Palmer and Tracey Samuelson help guide the stories from beginning to end. Witness Docs also partners with excellent production houses, including Little Everywhere, Market Road Films, Critical Frequency and Pineapple Street Media.
Stitcher has been a trailblazer in the podcast industry for the past decade and is home to many of the podcast industry’s biggest hits. The Stitcher app is one of the world's most popular podcast listening platforms. Stitcher is also the parent company of Midroll Media, the leading podcast advertising network representing over 200 of the world's largest podcasts. With offices in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco, Stitcher was founded in 2007 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The E.W. Scripps Company.
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