News organizations that have moved toward subscription models sometimes find that retaining paid subscribers can be as challenging and important as attracting new ones. When produced well, podcasts pl...
Nishat Kurwa
Nishat Kurwa is SVP and executive producer of Vox Media Podcast Network.
Kurwa joined Vox Media in 2017 as the Vox Media Podcast Network’s first executive producer to oversee programming strategy, production operations, and new show development. As the network’s executive producer, she’s collaborated with the company’s editorial brands to develop a slate that includes acclaimed podcasts like daily news show Today, Explained and culture podcast Into It, and has led the development and production of shows for partners including Apple, Spotify, and Audible. She’s also launched and helped grow franchises around award-winning podcasts like tech and business show Pivot, and Land of the Giants, VMPN’s narrative series about the five major technology giants, which was adapted into a CNN+ and Vice TV series earlier this year. Named to The Hollywood Reporter’s inaugural list of “podcast power players,” she previously led the digital publishing team at American Public Media’s Marketplace and spent more than a decade as Senior Producer and News Director at the Peabody Award-winning independent production company Youth Radio.
