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Floodlines
Presentation
Hosted byVann R. Newkirk II
Genre
Written by
  • Katy Reckdahl
  • Scott Stossel
  • William Brennan
Creative Director
  • Paul Spella
  • Ellie Budzinski
  • Erik Winkowski
LanguageAmerican English
Length30–45 minutes
Production
Direction
  • Ana Carano
  • Melissa Depuydt
  • Frankie Dintino
  • Tolulope Edionwe
  • Erica Irving
  • Gerald Rich
  • John Thiel
Production
  • Katherine Wells
  • Alvin Melathe
  • Kevin Townsend
  • Emily Gottschalk-Marconi
  • Kaila Philo
  • Myles Poydras
Composed by
  • Christian Scott
  • Atunde Adjuah
  • Anthony Braxton
  • David Herman
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Publication
Original releaseMarch 11 –
March 11, 2020
ProviderThe Atlantic
Related
Websitewww.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/

Floodlines was an eight-part podcast miniseries about Hurricane Katrina that was hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II and produced by The Atlantic.

Background

The podcast explores how the New Orleans Police Department, the Federal government of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the news media in the United States were all responsible for exacerbating the crisis.[2] The first episode focuses on the story of Le-Ann Williams who was a fourteen year-old girl living in the Sixth Ward of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.[3] In one of the episodes Newkirk interviews Michael Brown from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.[4] Comparisons were made by Time Magazine between how the George W. Bush administration handled the hurricane to how the Donald Trump administration handled the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

Production

Vann R. Newkirk II, Katherine Wells, and Alvin Melathe spent a year researching, writing, and producing the eight-part miniseries.[6] The podcast is the first long-form narrative podcast produced by The Atlantic.[7] The whole miniseries was released on March 11, 2020.[8] Each episode is between 22 and 53 minutes long.[9] The podcast used a mix of interviews and archival content.[10]

Reception

During an interview on Fresh Air, Nicholas Quah—a writer for Vulture and the creator of The Verge's podcast newsletter Hot Pods—commented on the show saying that "It's fantastically written, tightly composed and it sounds like a million bucks."[11]

Wesley Morris of The New York Times commented on Newkirk's role in the audio documentary stating that he "narrates and interviews with a warm inquisitiveness and sly skepticism. People seem incapable of being anything less than honest with him."[4] Vince Mancini—the senior film and culture writer for Uproxx—also commented on Newkirk's role, stating that he "does a wonderful job of not just telling stories from in and around Hurricane Katrina ... [but] synthesize[s] them into a fuller understanding of what actually happened."[12]

Awards

Award Year Category Result Ref.
British Podcast Awards 2021 The International Award Nominated [13]
Discover Pods Awards 2020 True Crime Podcast Finalist [14]
Peabody Awards 2020 Podcast / Radio Won [15]

See also

References

  1. ^ Serrano, Jody (October 17, 2020). "Here Are the Top 10 Climate Change Podcasts Out Right Now: There Hasn't Been a Better Time to Learn About Climate Change Through the Wonderful Medium of Podcasting". Gizmodo. G/O Media. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Brooke, Zach (July 6, 2020). "The Best Podcasts of 2020 So Far: Most Significant Correction to the Record". The A.V. Club. G/O Media. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Lohr, Nikki (April 13, 2020). "Floodlines Is a Superb, Visceral History of Hurricane Katrina". Podcast Review. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b Morris, Wesley (December 21, 2020). "The Best New Podcasts of 2020: Some of This Tumultuous Year's Most Absorbing Programming — Whether Escapist or Heartbreaking — Could Be Found in These Shows". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Dockterman, Eliana (November 22, 2020). "The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020". Time. Time USA, LLC. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Greene, Steve (March 26, 2020). "'Floodlines': The Podcast With the Lessons From Katrina We Can Heed Right Now—Writer for the Atlantic and Podcast Host Vann R. Newkirk II Shares What His Year of Research and Interviews Taught Him About Bridging 2005 and Today". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Sturges, Fiona (April 26, 2020). "Floodlines Revisits Hurricane Katrina in a Timely Podcast About Crisis Response: The Expansive and Powerful Series Reflects on Failures of Leadership and Misinformation". Financial Times. Nikkei, Inc. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Quah, Nicholas (April 13, 2020). "Floodlines is the Right Podcast for This Moment". Vulture. New York Media, LLC. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Price, Neroli (August 30, 2020). "Podcast Review: Racism and Environmental Disaster Collide in 'Floodlines'—As Hurricane Laura Makes Landfall in the US, We Turn to a Story About Another Storm. the Podcast Series 'Floodlines' Revisits Hurricane Katrina and Its Devastating Aftermath". Daily Maverick. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ Sawyer, Miranda (May 2, 2020). "The Week in Radio and Podcasts: True Spies; Floodlines; Iain Lee; Slow Radio – Review. A Real-Life Mossad Operation to Rescue Ethiopian Jews is Gripping, While a Series on Hurricane Katrina Gets to the Heart of the Tragedy". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Gross, Terry; Quah, Nicholas (December 24, 2020). "'Floodlines,' the Story of Hurricane Katrina, Tops the List of 2020's Best Podcasts". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Mancini, Vince (December 29, 2020). "The Best Non-Fiction Podcasts of 2020". Uproxx. Warner Music Group. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "British Podcast Awards Nominations List: Nominations 2021". British Podcast Awards. 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ Goldberg, Kevin (October 23, 2020). "Vote for the 2020 Discover Pods Awards Finalists". Discover Pods Awards. Elite Cafe Media. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ^ "Award Profile: Floodlines from The Atlantic". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved March 31, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

Category:Audio podcasts Category:2020 podcast endings Category:2020 podcast debuts Category:Political podcasts Category:History podcasts Category:Interview podcasts Category:The Atlantic (magazine) articles

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