Amy Westervelt’s Drilled Joins the Pushkin Podcast Network
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Pushkin Industries today announced that it will begin distributing Drilled, a non-fiction podcast series centered on climate change accountability. The show joins Pushkin’s thriving independent podcast network alongside the likes of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, The Happiness Lab from Dr. Laurie Santos, and Jonathan Goldstein’s Heavyweight. A new series of Drilled is set for an April 21 release.
Hosted by award-winning investigative climate journalists, the show exposes how corporate greed, political operatives, and PR firms built decades of climate denial and delay. Each season unravels new evidence of deception, disinformation, and the power structures keeping real climate solutions out of reach.
Drilled began in 2017 as an independent project by investigative journalist Amy Westervelt to explore the forces exacerbating the global climate crisis and grew into an ongoing investigative audio endeavor, later joined by a popular website and newsletter, and supported by even more investigative and climate reporters, editors, and producers. Over the course of 14 seasons, Drilled has also won numerous awards for storytelling and impact, including Best Radio Podcast Series at the Covering Climate Now Awards, Excellence in Audio Storytelling at the Online News Association’s awards, and Best Green Podcast in the iHeartMedia Podcast Awards.
“I’ve always appreciated Pushkin’s commitment to well-researched and well-told stories, and am thrilled to see Drilled in such great company,” said Westervelt of joining Pushkin.
“Drilled is one of the most fearless and impactful investigative podcasts produced, and we’re proud to welcome it into our network,” Gretta Cohn, Pushkin’s CEO, echoed.
Westervelt will collaborate with Pushkin to distribute Drilled on all podcast channels as well as to explore multi-format adaptations of her work.
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About Drilled
Drilled is a true-crime podcast about climate change, exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. Hosted and reported by award-winning investigative climate journalists and led by Amy Westervelt, each season unravels new evidence of deception, disinformation, and the power structures keeping real climate solutions out of reach.
About Amy Westervelt
Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist who has been on the climate beat for more than 20 years, reporting for a wide range of outlets over the years, including The Guardian, Inside Climate News, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, NPR, and many more. Despite her move into audio in the past 10 years, Amy still reports and writes regularly for a wide range of publications. In 2023 she was named a Covering Climate Now Journalist of the Year. Her work has previously received Murrow, ONA, SEJ, Rachel Carson, and Folio awards, as well as a Peabody nomination. Amy is based in Costa Rica.
About Pushkin Industries:
Pushkin Industries is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners, encourages their curiosity, and inspires joy. Or, in other words: Good, Smart, Fun. Founded in 2018, Pushkin has produced numerous podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on the podcast chart, including Malcolm Gladwell’s hugely successful Revisionist History, as well as Against the Rules from Michael Lewis, Paul McCartney’s A Life in Lyrics, The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, Broken Record, Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales, The Last Archive, Deep Cover, Lost Hills and Apple’s Best Show of 2021, A Slight Change of Plans. Pushkin’s audiobook catalog includes Steve Martin’s So Many Steves, Inside Voice by Lake Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen, Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis, Fauci and Higher Animals by Michael Specter, Heartbreak by Florence Williams, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, The Bomber Mafia, and Talking to Strangers. Follow us @pushkinpods.
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