Can you outline the narrative structure used in the original Serial podcast so I can adapt it for my investigative journalism episode that drops later this week?
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- Full article: Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One · doi.org
- About Season One · serialpodcast.org
- "Serial" podcast producers talk storytelling, structure and if they know whodunnit · niemanstoryboard.org
- The point of “Serial,” which was free but bookended with ads, was not so much to solve the mystery as to reveal the process of attempting to solve the mystery. This meant sharing granular details of Koenig’s investigation, such as an analysis of data from cell towers. (Koenig acknowledged that she handed off this research to a producer, Dana Chivvis, “because I am, technologically speaking, a moron.”) But the show’s real innovation lay in capturing Koenig’s psychological process—her inward strug · arl.human.cornell.edu