“I remember, I saw, I knew”_ Journalists’ use of first-person storytelling in award-winning podcasts.xlsx

This study focuses on first-person storytelling in six award-winning podcast series. Using grounded theory, first-person language is explored to define its utility as a journalistic practice and its subversion of journalistic objectivity norms. This study’s analysis found that podcast hosts used their own lived experiences to convey an array of journalistic and literary devices, such as eye-witnessing and retrospective reporting. By investigating podcasting’s narrative techniques and its positioning within the process of collective memory, this research sheds light on podcasting’s role in amplifying marginalized voices, examining complex social justice issues, and shaping journalism culture.