5/19/2023 0 Comments Dear sugar author![]() ![]() The team at NYT Audio are not the only people looking to bring new audio programming to listeners during the coronavirus pandemic. “Right now, the priority is to bring human stories that we need to hear.” ![]() “We only want to put things into the world that matter to people,” Dorr says. Sugar Calling joins a slate of NYT Audio podcasts that include The Daily and Still Processing with hosts Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris. The first episode of Sugar Calling will debut in the feed for The Daily as part of its new series of Friday evening episodes, dubbed “A Bit of Relief.” After that, new episodes will drop Wednesdays. ![]() Though there have been production challenges as the audio team works to launch the show remotely, Dorr says they are “leaning into the low-fi aspect of it.” The production, done via Google Hangouts, is meant “to sound very natural, like you are listening in on a private phone call that Cheryl is having,” she explains. She adds, “It felt like the right thing that our listeners need in this moment.” “She expressed a desire to speak directly with friends of hers who are writers.” “Cheryl has often been a person that people turn to when they are troubled, so it felt natural to check in with her when everything was happening,” she says. Wendy Dorr, managing editor of shows for NYT Audio, says The Times approached Strayed working together on a new project as the novel coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. ![]()
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