Lauren Spohrer
American radio producer
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Lauren Spohrer is an American radio producer, best known for co-creating and producing the podcasts Criminal and This Is Love.
Lauren Spohrer | |
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| Education | Columbia University Florida State University |
| Known for | Criminal (podcast) This Is Love (podcast) |
Early career and education
Spohrer got her start in radio in 2003, when she began interning for Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR.[1] After working as a producer for several NPR shows, she began a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University.[1]
Creation of Criminal and This is Love podcasts
Spohrer, who teaches essay writing at Duke University,[2] was working as the producer of The Story with Dick Gordon, when the show was cancelled in 2013.[3] This led Spohrer and two colleagues, Phoebe Judge and Eric Mennel, to create their own podcast.[4][5] Spohrer proposed to Judge that they create a podcast related to true crime, and they released the first episode of Criminal in January 2014.[6][3][7] Spohrer and Judge went on to co-create another podcast, This is Love, in 2018.[8] Spohrer and Judge have been in discussions with United Talent Agency to turn their podcasts into scripted shows.[9]