We’re excited to be joining The New York Times!

We want to expand our tiny company, to tell different kinds of stories, in new ways. [View this email in your browser]( Hello, Serial listeners! Sarah Koenig here. It’s been awhile, I know. You might be wondering if another season of the show is coming soon. Yes...and no. Yes, there will be a season 4 of the Serial podcast. Though not exactly soon. That’s because I’ve been doing a bunch of other things since the last season ended. Namely, Julie Snyder, Serial’s co-creator, and I have been working on a couple of new shows, under the Serial Productions banner. A few years ago we produced the podcast S-Town — you might remember it. And we wanted to do more projects like that. We wanted to expand our tiny company. Not into a giant podcast machine, but just big enough so that we could continue making seasons of Serial, and also produce other kinds of shows. Experiment. Tell different kinds of stories, in new ways. Now, that is happening. Serial Productions will soon become part of a little media company you might’ve heard of: The New York Times. Which means we’ll be able to make more of what we want to make, exactly how we want to make it, with the full support of The Times by our side. Serial Productions will be owned by The Times, but we’ll keep operating much as we have been. We’ll pursue stories we’re interested in, greenlight the shows we want to make, and be able to kill the ones that aren’t working. Just like we do now. And we plan to continue to collaborate closely with the staff of This American Life, our radio family. Our offices are even staying put, right down the hall from This American Life. Until now, Serial Productions has been kind of a one-at-a-time shop. Which has been great in some ways, but it’s also meant we’ve had to forego stories or story ideas we love because no one was free to take them on. There weren’t enough of us, and our budget didn’t allow us to expand. With the support and expertise of The Times, we’re thinking we’ll be able to double or even triple our yearly output. Which is terrifying to me. But also exciting, the idea that we’d be able to make that much new stuff. The main thing that keeps me from freaking out about any of this, is that our goals haven’t changed. We want to bring all the narrative creativity and journalistic rigor we can to making new longform non-fiction (and fiction!) podcasts. Julie Snyder will still run Serial Productions. I’ll help her out, and also keep hosting the Serial podcast. Neil Drumming, formerly of This American Life, will be Managing Editor. We feel lucky to have a new home at The Times, a company that has the same journalistic mission and high standards as we do. The Times put out a press release about all this, which [you can read here](. Finally, in the grand journalistic tradition of burying the lede: At the end of this month, we’ll be releasing our latest Serial Productions show. It’s really good. That’s all I want to say about it right now. Oh wait — is that annoying? Then here, [have a trailer]( on me. Over and out, Sarah K. [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Vine]( [Tumblr]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Copyright © 2020 This American Life, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to stay informed about Serial from This American Life. Our mailing address is: This American Life PO Box 8483New York, New York 10116 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](