Everyone wants to make a podcast. But should they?

Toward the end of last year, everyone (including me) got hooked on the podcast Serial, a spin-off of This American Life, and produced by Sarah Koenig. In case you live in an underground bunker, Serial revisited the case of Adnan Syed, who was jailed 15 years ago for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999. Like everything touched by the This American Life team, it was beautifully paced, thoroughly researched, ...