Ways & Means is produced by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. It is part of a suite of podcast offerings from the school including Policy 360 and At the Table with Tony Brown.
Hosts
Each episode of Ways & Means is hosted by a journalist. Recent hosts include:
- Emily Hanford, American Public Media
- Lauren Rosenthal, American Public Media
- Simran Sethi, freelance journalist (New York Times, Smithsonian, The Guardian and more), author and podcaster
- Lindsay Foster Thomas, North Carolina Public Radio, WNYC
- Bob Sullivan, veteran journalist
Season 8
Lauren Rosenthal
Lauren is an investigative reporter and producer for APM Reports. She hosted In Deep, a podcast about disaster recovery and climate change. Lauren previously worked as an investigative reporter for North Country Public Radio and spent three years reporting from rural Alaska, where she covered Arctic oil drilling and politics.
Season 6
Lindsay Foster Thomas
During production of Season 6, Lindsay was Content Director for North Carolina Public Radio (WUNC). In 2022 Lindsay was named Vice President of WNYC Studios. Previously Lindsay was part of the production team that launched NPR’s 1A with Joshua Johnson, among many other roles in public radio.
Seasons 1-5
Emily Hanford
Emily is a senior correspondent covering education for APM Reports, the documentary and investigative reporting unit of American Public Media. Emily has worked in public media for more than two decades as a reporter, producer, editor and program host. She is the host of the podcast Sold a Story which has won numerous national awards.
Awards
2022 National Association of Black Journalists
Winner, Podcast (Commentary and Discussion) for Arc of Justice, From Here to Equality
(Other nominees: CNN: Silence is Not an Option with Don Lemon; MSNBC: Into America: Blood On Black Wall Street; 70 Million podcast: When “Bail Reform” Isn’t; The Stoop: Head on a Swivel)
2022 CASE Awards
Winner, National, Bronze Circle of Excellence Award (Podcast, Occasional) for Arc of Justice, From Here to Equality
2022 Gracie Award
Winner, Series (Radio Non-Commercial Local) for Arc of Justice, From Here to Equality
2020 National Association of Science Writers
Honorable Mention, Excellence in Institutional Writing for A Green Idea to Power Rural Nepal
2019 CASE Awards
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Winner, National, Gold Circle of Excellence Award: “The production quality and storytelling is fantastic. The team at Duke went out of their way to capture audio from individuals off campus and interacting with the broader world in various ways. This audio - and some corresponding video content – is woven together into a compelling narrative.”
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Finalist, National, Platinum, Award for Best Practices in Communication and Marketing
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Winner, Regional, Award of Excellence – Miniseries, New Ideas for Policy in the Developing World
2018 CASE Awards
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Winner, Regional, Special Merit Award for Online Innovation/Experimentation
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Winner, Regional, Award of Excellence for Green or Sustainable Publication
Press
2020 Hyperallergic
Recommended: Reparations: How it Could Happen
2019 The New Republic
The article "Millennial Parents are Failing Their Children" featured our episode: How Parenthood Affects Climate Change Skeptics
2018 NPR One
How Criminals Get Their Guns was featured in the NPR One app.
2018 Working@Duke Magazine
Featured in the article “New Ways to Tell a Story.” “Now in its third season, the podcast combines faculty research, compelling human stories and nuanced sound design, to give Sanford’s scholarly output a new, approachable platform.”
2017 The News & Observer
“…carefully crafted and professionally produced…”
2017 Duke Chronicle
Featured in the article, How the Podcast Movement Has Taken Duke.
2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ways & Means producers wrote this article: 10 Things We Learned Producing a Podcast at a University
2017 The News & Observer
“Produced by a veteran team of public policy experts and journalists, ‘Ways & Means’ probes and pokes at the ongoing experiment that is American democracy.”
2017 BOLD
Featured in the “Podcasts Worth Hearing” series.
Producers
Ways & Means is produced by Carol Jackson and Alison Jones of the Sanford School. Carol previously served as the managing editor for the nationally distributed public radio program The Story with Dick Gordon. Alison is an award-winning writer, editor and audio producer whose worked has aired nationally on public radio. They teach separate sections of the Duke University undergraduate course Podcasting in A Changing Media Landscape: The Art, Craft and Ethics of An Emerging Medium.
Artwork
Duke students, alumni and staff create original artwork for each episode.
- Season 9: Ellen Gibbs
- Season 8: Joy Liu
- Season 7: CJ Cruz
- Season 6: Erin Blanding
- Season 5: Rae Hsu
- Season 4: Melissa Carrico
- Season 3: Cristina García Ayala
- Season 2: Kat Zhou
- Season 1: Kat Zhou