10 years after Serial: Nieman Lab looks at crime news now
Briefly

"The popularity of this podcast, I was unprepared for. I think a lot of that is the fact that it's a crime. It's a murder case." - Sarah Koenig, reflecting on the impact of true crime narratives.
"True crime is a genre that encompasses as much as you could possibly think of... war crime is part of an ecosystem that stretches from Dateline and evening news segments to TikTok reels." - Sarah Weinman, discussing the expansive nature of true crime.
Read at Nieman Lab
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