Eric Mennel is an award-winning journalist, editor and podcast producer. He is currently a senior producer at Pineapple Street Studios.

He has created, hosted, developed and run new podcasts for most of his career. Those shows include:

• Magnificent Jerk (Best New Podcasts 2023, The New Yorker)
• The 11th (National Magazine Award, 2022)
• Stay Away from Matthew MaGill (Ambie, Best Documentary, 2021)
• The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow (Murrow Award, 2020; Peabody nomination)
• Embedded, from NPR
• Mystery Show (Third Coast International Audio Award, 2016)
• Criminal

His work has appeared on This American Life, NPR, 99% Invisible, Marketplace and lots of other shows. He won the 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting for his work at WUNC in North Carolina.

He is also a woodworker, when time permits.

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