Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2 with Ellen Horne, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton

About this episode

The episode features a panel discussion on the intersection of podcasting and academic scholarship, moderated by Ellen Horne.

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-long conference titled Podcast Intellectuals: Producing Original Scholarship with Audio. Over the course of three panels, scholars, podcasters, and journalists discuss how academics might employ the techniques of narrative audio as part of their research. In this second panel of the day, Ellen Horne moderates a conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, and Julia Barton, three veterans who have made a specialty of working on creative, idea-informed series. Professor Ellen Horne directs the Podcasting and Audio Reportage concentration at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She was the executive producer and editor of Admissible: Shreds of Evidence, and was host, reporter, and producer for Luminary’s Lies We Tell. Horne was the executive producer of WNYC’s Radiolab, where she won George Foster Peabody Awards, Third Coast Awards, and the Kavli Science Journalism Award. Her new documentary, Age of Audio, tells the story of the podcast from birth to boom to today. NYU Professor Chenjerai Kumanyika specializes in using…

People in this episode

Host: Ellen Horne

Guests: Chenjerai Kumanyika, Barry Lam, Julia Barton

Topics covered

• podcasting
• audio journalism
• scholarship
• narrative techniques
• academic research

Keywords

• podcast
• scholarship
• audio
• narrative
• journalism
• conference
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU’s Journalism Institute, Admissible: Shreds of Evidence, Luminary, WNYC, Radiolab, Empire City, Unci

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