Behind the Success of the LA Times’s Hit True-Crime Thriller

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With its first foray into narrative podcasting, the Los Angeles Times has a hit. Dirty John, a psychological-thriller-slash-true-crime story told in six installments by the Times’s Christopher Goffard, has already been downloaded more than seven million times (and grabbed more than one million unique visitors to the print version) since its debut at the start of the month. Produced in partnership with Wondery, the print-and-audio collaboration tells the story of Debra Newell and John Meehan’s toxic relationship, touching on themes of love, betrayal, deception, and domestic violence.

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