Josh Dean (writer)
American writer
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Josh Dean is an American journalist and author. He is known for his 2017 non-fiction book The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History. He is co-creator and host of the true-crime podcast, The Clearing, and founded his own podcast company, Campside Media, in 2019.
Early life and education
Josh Dean is a graduate of Wittenberg University in Ohio.[citation needed]
Career
Dean served as deputy editor of Men's Journal until 2004.[citation needed] He has written for Rolling Stone, Popular Science, Men's Journal, GQ, Travel + Leisure, New York, Entertainment Weekly, Inc., Fast Company, Men's Health, Runner's World. He is currently a correspondent for Outside.[citation needed] He was a founding editor of PLAY, The New York Times now-defunct sports magazine.[citation needed]
His first book was Show Dog, published in 2012.[1] His article/ebook, The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang (2021),[2] was optioned by Bluegrass Films/Universal Pictures.[citation needed]
In 2017 he published his non-fiction work The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History.[3][4][5][6]
In the fall of 2019, he started his own podcast company, Campside Media, with two journalists, Matthew Shaer and Vanessa Grigoriadis, and a third partner, Adam Hoff, who is a producer and screenwriter.[7] Campside's lead investor is Sister, a global entertainment studio founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider, and Jane Featherstone in 2019.[8][9] Campside's debut show, Chameleon, is about a notorious scammer known as the Hollywood Con Queen.[10][11][12] The show helped expose the name of a suspect, who was arrested just a few weeks later. Chameleon is part of a slate deal Campside has with Sony Podcasts.[13]
Dean is the co-creator and host of the true-crime audio documentary series, The Clearing, a co-production of Gimlet and Pineapple Street Studios.[14]
Dean is the co-executive producer and one of the main characters of Netflix show[15] Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021), which was inspired by his story about Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel.[16]