Samara Freemark
Samara Freemark (@sfreemark) is the Co-Creator and Senior Producer of APM Reports’ investigative podcast In the Dark.
Prior to that role, she covered education and veterans' issues for American Public Media, worked as a reporter and producer with Radio Diaries, and worked in the newsroom of WUOM Ann Arbor. She’s a two-time recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award, as well as the George Polk Award, the Third Coast Gold Award, and other awards. She holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.
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Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream, to be at the 2012 Olympic finals and hear the announcer call out, "The first woman Olympian boxer at 165 pounds - Claressa Shields!"
On the night of May 7th, 1951, a thousand people gathered in Laurel, Mississippi, to witness the execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted of raping a white woman.
This hour what you see, is not always what you get.
This hour: letters. To yourself, to your city, lost letters, found letters... and a love letter to letters.
This hour: the story (and the story behind the story) of Willie McGee.
Re:sound's Gwen Macsai hosts Best of the Best: The 2012 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, showcasing the best radio stories of the year - winners of the 2012 TC/RHDF Competition.
When 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling disappeared in 1989, local Minnesota police seemed determined to crack the case. Instead, it took them 27 years.
Over the course of two decades, prosecutor Doug Evans tried the same man six times for the same crime. But that man, Curtis Flowers, maintained his innocence throughout.
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
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Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark of In the Dark, love the intimacy of radio and the power it has to transport us into other people’s lives...
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The 2017 Third Coast/RHDF Competition awards the following categories: Best Documentary (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Honorable Mention and Directors' Choice), Best New Artist, Radio Impact, Best News Feature, Skylarking and Best Foreign Language.