Serial (podcast)
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| Hosted by | Sarah Koenig |
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| Language | English |
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| Audio format | Podcast (via streaming or downloadable MP3) |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 23 |
| Original release | October 3, 2014 – present |
| Cited for | 2015 Peabody Award |
| Cited as | "an audio game-changer" |
| Provider | WBEZ |
| Website | serialpodcast |
Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, narrating a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed by This American Life. Episodes vary in length. New episodes were originally available weekly, but partway through the second season the schedule was revised to every other week. Serial ranked number one on iTunes even before its debut and remained there for several weeks.Serial won a Peabody Award in April 2015 for its innovative telling of a long-form nonfiction story.
The last episode of season two of Serial was released March 31, 2016. According to co-creator Julie Snyder, season three's release date is set for mid-2017.
Koenig has said that Serial is "about the basics: love and death and justice and truth. All these big, big things." She also has noted, "this is not an original idea. Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard. But trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as Dickens." Episodes are released on Thursdays.
New York Magazine reported that Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directors of The Lego Movie and the film 21 Jump Street, will be producing a television program about the podcast that will take a "behind-the-scenes approach that details how Koenig went from virtual anonymity to creating one of 2014's biggest cultural phenomenons".
Internet radio streaming service Pandora Radio streamed the second season of Serial.
Season 1 investigated the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민), an 18-year-old student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. She was last seen at about 3 p.m. on January 13, 1999. Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in Leakin Park and identified two days later. The case was immediately treated as a homicide. Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. and charged with first-degree murder, which led to "some closure and some peace" for Lee's family. A memorial service for Lee was held on March 11 at Woodlawn High School. Syed's first trial ended in a mistrial, but after a six-week second trial, Syed was found guilty of Lee's murder on February 25, 2000, and given a life sentence, despite pleading his innocence. Syed did not speak in front of the jury.
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