Julia Longoria Joins Vox to Develop and Host New Podcast

Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and managing editor Natalie Jennings introduced at present that Julia Longoria is becoming a member of the location to develop and host a brand new seasonal podcast in collaboration with Future Good, its part which examines the large, sophisticated issues dealing with the world and the simplest methods to unravel them. Longoria begins her position at present, with the present anticipated to launch later this yr.

“Julia is an unimaginable journalist who has hosted and produced a few of our favourite podcasts tackling all the pieces from the unfold of misinformation on-line to how the Supreme Court docket makes choices and shapes American lives,” says Sharma. “At Vox, we’re dedicated to empowering our viewers to raised perceive the world round them, and we couldn’t consider a greater voice for this present than Julia.”

Previous to becoming a member of Vox, Longoria produced, reported, and hosted among the most critically acclaimed audio documentaries. She was host and managing editor of Extra Good, a Radiolab spinoff in regards to the Supreme Court docket. She additionally co-created and hosted The Atlantic’s flagship weekly present The Experiment, which was named “Podcast of the 12 months” by Apple, and helped launch Rabbithole, a story sequence from the New York Instances about what the web is doing to us. Longoria started her profession at native NPR stations in her hometown of Miami and in New York Metropolis, the place she received an Edward Murrow Award for her group’s reporting and had her work featured on Planet Cash, Market and PRI’s The World.

Longoria will work carefully with Katherine Wells, who’s entering into a brand new position as editor-at-large the place she is going to oversee the event of this new sequence in addition to Vox’s weekly present, The Weeds.