About

Whitney Jones

My first show was an independently produced narrative podcast about music. We built it from scratch to more than 25k listeners per episode, and then took it over to Audible for a season. That led to other opportunities making music documentaries, including the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning and Peabody-nominated series Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul.

I helped create and produced two seasons of the business show Spectacular Failures at American Public Media, and during that time also produced Tig Notaro’s comedy/advice show Don’t Ask Tig for a few months. I followed that up with two seasons as Senior Producer on the investigative series Cover Story at New York magazine. From there it was over to WNYC for the successful re-launch of the Supreme Court podcast More Perfect in the summer of 2023.

I’ve freelanced alongside most of my formal jobs, including reporting/producing a number of sports stories for NPR’s now departed Only A Game, a couple of design-related story for 99% Invisible, and a piece on election night 2012 for the CBC.

My freelancing has also extended to mixing, sound design, and engineering work, which I’ve done on Missing Richard Simmons, Switched on Pop, McSweeney’s The Organist, public radio’s Studio 360, and more. I’ve also consulted with producers and organizations on studio setup, recording gear, Pro Tools, sound design, story structure, etc. 

If you have an audio/podcast project that needs help with development, production, mix engineering – anything start-to-finish – my production company Cold August Productions is here to help.