iHeartPodcasts and The Meteor are launching “In Retrospect,” a pop culture podcast by Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett.<\/p>\n
Each week on “In Retrospect,” Banikarim and Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them, to try to understand what it taught them about the world and a woman’s place in it. The podcasts will cast their net wide, ranging from salacious tabloid headlines, to the fragrance that defined an era, questionable soap opera couples and illicit student-teacher relationships, with the hosts dissecting the stories they lived through, and sometimes covered, each Friday. <\/p>\n
The guest lineup on the podcast includes actors Pamela Anderson and Robin Givens, Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Salamishah Tillet, journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, media studies professor at the University of Michigan Susan J. Douglas and New York Times <\/em>culture editor Maya Salam.<\/p>\n Banikarim has run newsrooms at Vice, Gizmodo Media Group and The Daily Beast. She directed the 2020 documentary, “Enemies of the People: Trump and the Political Press.” She began her journalism career at ABC News, where she was a producer for Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, and went on to help launch Katie Couric’s talk show. Prior to that, she was a producer on “Wife Swap.”<\/p>\n Bennett is known for her work focusing on gender issues and culture. She was the first-ever gender editor of New York Times, where she is now a contributing editor, and is the author of two bestselling books, “Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace” and “This Is 18: Girls’ Lives Through Girls’ Eyes.” <\/p>\n Executive producers on the podcast are Anna Stumpf, Cindi Leive, Katrina Norvell, Banikarim and Bennett, with Lauren Hansen serving as supervising producer. <\/p>\n The first two episodes of “In Retrospect” will be available on Sept. 21, with new episodes releasing every Friday. It is distributed by iHeartPodcasts. <\/p>\nRead More About:<\/h4>\n