In the Dark is een bekroonde podcast over onderzoeksjournalistiek die begon in 2016. Het eerste seizoen draait om de mysterieuze ontvoering van Jacob Wetterling in het landelijke Minnesota en het gebrek aan verantwoordelijkheid van sheriffs wanneer zaken onopgelost blijven.
In seizoen 2 staat de zaak van Curtis Flowers centraal, die maar liefst zes keer voor hetzelfde misdrijf werd berecht. In 2020 bracht In the Dark een speciale reportage uit over de coronapandemie in de Mississippi Delta. In 2023 sloot de podcast zich aan bij The New Yorker en Condé Nast.
In januari verscheen “The Runaway Princesses,” een vierdelige serie die onderzoekt waarom de vrouwen in de koninklijke familie van Dubai steeds opnieuw proberen te ontsnappen. In the Dark heeft tweemaal de Peabody Award gewonnen en was in 2019 de eerste podcast die de prestigieuze George Polk Award ontving. Het programma heeft daarnaast ook de Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award en de Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award op zijn naam staan.
In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sheriffs face when they fail to solve cases. Season 2 examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same crime. In 2020, In the Dark released a special report on the coronavirus pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. In 2023, In the Dark joined The New Yorker and Condé Nast. “The Runaway Princesses,” a four-part series that asks why the women in Dubai’s royal family keep trying to run away, came out in January.
In the Dark is a two-time Peabody Award winner and, in 2019, became the first podcast to win a George Polk Award, one of the top honors in journalism. The program has also received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Alice Munro, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was perhaps the most acclaimed short-story writer of our time. After her death, last year, her youngest daughter, Andrea Skinner, revealed that Munro’s partner, Gerald Fremlin, had sexually abused her starting when she was nine years old. The abuse was known in the family, but, even after Fremlin was convicted, Munro stood by him, at the expense of her relationship with her daughter.
In this episode, the New Yorker staff writer Rachel Aviv joins the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, to talk about how and why a writer known for such astonishing powers of empathy could betray her own child, and how Munro touched on this family trauma in fiction. “Her writing makes you think about art at what expense,” Aviv tells Remnick. “That’s probably a question that is relevant for many artists, but Alice Munro makes it visible on the page. It felt so literal—like trading your daughter for art.”
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