Lessons from Serial

By Matt Reed. As regular readers know, I’m a devotee of podcasts as a genre. Like most podcast listeners, I’ve been captivated by Serial, the new spinoff from This American Life. (The final episode of the first storyline will be posted this Thursday, but you can download from the beginning and catch up.  If you can, I recommend it.) The current story being serialized is a murder case from Baltimore from 1999, in which a high school student was convicted of killing his girlfriend. Read more...