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Mitch Hanley

Mitch Hanley

A Peabody Award-winning producer, Hanley has spent more than 13 years in public media.

He began as an engineer/producer with A Prairie Home Companion, and The Writer’s Almanac. In 2003 he launched Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett (now On Being), serving as Senior Producer/Technical Director before leaving in 2010 to attend Harvard Divinity School. In 2015 he began co-producing WVPB’s Us and Them, a podcast exploring America’s cultural divisions. His reporting includes two episodes on the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Hanley has also produced podcasts for American Public Media (Historically Black), and Harvard Law School (The Listening Room), among others.
Season 8 - Democracy Undone |Episode 1

Episode 1: Weaponizing Fear in Brazil

 Since taking office in January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has weaponized the fear of widespread crime, and...

Oct 31, 2019
Season 7 - The End of Days |Episode 3

Episode 3: A new Jerusalem – Shaping Middle East policy

The Dead Sea lies at the lowest elevation on earth. And in the arid valley that stretches to...

May 03, 2019
Season 6 |Episode 7

The Eleventh Hour

After four years of fighting, 20 million soldiers and civilians dead, and three collapsed empires, World War One...

Dec 07, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 6

War Children

A year after the city of Mosul was liberated from ISIS rule, kids across Iraq are not alright....

Nov 22, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 5

Whatever happened to Zika?

Before Hurricane Maria, the Zika crisis was already pushing Puerto Rico’s health care system to the limit. Then...

Nov 08, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 4

The dancing ghosts of Duffy’s Cut

When Bill and Frank Watson were kids, their grandfather told them a ghost story. Decades later, they discovered the...

Oct 25, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 3

Hope (and contraband) in a bottle

On a South Korean island just eight miles from the shores of North Korea, Jung Gwang-il is trying...

Oct 11, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 2

Refugees Lost in Translation

Three refugees — from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq — are working as interpreters for other refugees coming into...

Sep 27, 2018
Season 6 |Episode 1

Unheard in Appalachia

This season of the GroundTruth Podcast opens with Unheard in Appalachia, part of Crossing the Divide, a project...

Sep 20, 2018
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