KILLED

4.3 (1.5K)
SOCIETY & CULTURE
SERIES

For every story that runs, countless others are killed before anyone gets the chance to read them. KILLED reveals the true stories behind reporting that was once considered too dangerous, too fringe, too…SOMETHING…by the media. With help from some of the biggest names in magazines, Justine Harman brings dead stories back to life.

04/13/2023

Episode 1: The Doctor

A Pulitzer prize-winning reporter accuses the Los Angeles Times of delaying his exposé on a dangerous doctor.

31 min
04/13/2023

Episode 2: The Town

The Aspen Times buries reporting on a mysterious, Soviet-born billionaire.

33 min
04/20/2023

Episode 3: The Quarterback

Glamour punts a "problematic" 1950s love story.

28 min
04/27/2023

Episode 4: The Relationship

ELLE rejects Justine's profile on "porn moms," women who love gay porn stars.

34 min
05/04/2023

Episode 5: The Queen

In over 30 years at Vogue, Anna Wintour has killed many stories. This is not one of them.

29 min
05/11/2023

Episode 6: The Inmate

Rolling Stone scraps an essay about rock legend Phil Spector's death.

33 min
05/18/2023

Episode 7: The World

A double kill! Travel & Leisure and Playboy sink stories on a secretive cruiseliner for the megarich.

31 min
05/25/2023

Episode 8: The Heyday

A Vanity Fair takedown of a prominent fashion figure…gets taken down.

28 min
06/01/2023

Episode 9: The Missionaries

An ambitious reporter goes door to door with Mormon elders, gets negged by New York Magazine.

31 min
06/08/2023

Episode 10: The Cadet

Men's Journal ditches a deep dive into the Air Force Academy's flimsy rape case against Lt. Douglas Meester.

30 min
BONUS

NEW LIMITED SERIES: Three

After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewhere along the Mason-Dixon county line. Hours later, under the glow of a nearly full moon, only two walked out. The very last time Dave and Mary Neese saw their only child Skylar was in a grainy black-and-white video. In it, she's sneaking out of her ground-floor bedroom in the middle of the night, her purse over her shoulder, her brown hair swinging as she hurries across the small parking lot to a waiting car. What happened to Skylar Neese has become gothic American lore: the odd girl out in a vicious teenage triangle. But in the ten years since that fateful night beneath the West Virginia stars, a fuller portrait of what happened has emerged. From award-winning journalists Justine Harman and Holly Millea comes a gripping 10-part series featuring Skylar's family, closest friends, and law enforcement who lived the case—and are still living it.

4 min

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TRAILER

The Trailer

Each episode of KILLED tells the true tale behind a magazine story once silenced or submerged by the media. Justine Harman interviews some of the biggest names in journalism and learns about the drama and deception that surround major publications' final decisions on whether or not to publish a writer's reporting.

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1,524 Ratings

A Paradox

09/12/2023

Danny Boy100

This podcast paradoxically lives up to its theme: stories that were killed, which in many cases, stories with flaws, making them less interesting, a description made manifest by the reviewers who complain of less than interesting episodes. In logic it woul be circular reasoning.
Great Listen

12/18/2023

haymcg

I’ve listened to all the Audio Chuck podcasts and this is my favorite! Great idea for a podcast. Interesting to hear the perspective of all these writers/journalists and the stories behind what gets killed and why. Sometimes boring (new editor, etc.) sometimes sinister reasons. Pretty surprised by some of the bad reviews I guess just goes to show everyone is different. A winner for me!
Very good…but that song…..ugh

12/10/2023

KL-LS

Love the variety of stories, but that opera type song that plays is awful.
Good, not great.

07/09/2023

Cassieelle444

I love listening to most podcasts brought to us by AudioChuck, however this one is a little let down. I heard the advertisement for Killed in all the other podcasts I listen to ( crime junkie, counterclock, the deck ) and I was expecting a little bit more. It’s not horrible by any means and the host is very easy on the ears but the storyline just isn’t very enticing enough to want to continue. It is put together wonderfully but it’s not personally my thing!

For every story that runs, countless others are killed before anyone gets the chance to read them. KILLED reveals the true stories behind reporting that was once considered too dangerous, too fringe, too…SOMETHING…by the media. With help from some of the biggest names in magazines, Justine Harman brings dead stories back to life.