Noreen Malone is returning to Slate to host a SlowBurn season about the Iraq war. Details:
season one was a caper, the Iraq War lead-up season is a disaster," Malone says in a statement. "We all know how it ends and yet there is a can't-look-away dread in cataloguing the steps that got us there, and the individual characters whose agendas and blind spots drove the country to the war. It's a story that everyone thinks they know, at least in the broad strokes, but the details have already been forgotten, or look different now with the lens of recent history.
She continues, "Iraq was formative for me as a reader of the news — and in my earliest days as a journalist, I worked at institutions like TNR and Slate that were still in some sense living in the shadow of their internal reactions to the war and its lead-up — but more than that, it created the country we still live in. This was the time when much of our present-day politics was formed: We still think about pre-invasion support as a litmus test.
Slate says downloads of shows from its podcast unit were up 40 percent year-over-year during the first quarter of 2020, and that its audio business 28 percent since the end of 2018. Podcasting now makes up half of its business, and it currently has more than 25 shows in production. "I'm thrilled to have Noreen, a fantastic storyteller and beloved former Slate podcaster, back to host the fifth season of.
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