Kouvenda Media

Dial Back

Dial Back is a pilot initiative to help us do some soul-searching around the impact of technology on our lives. It’s impossible to even imagine life today without the Internet, social media, email, text messages, GPS, apps, podcasts and everything else you might love or hate about being “connected.” Clearly, technology can make our lives better, but sometimes also worse than we had expected. Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and Jessica Kourkounis have piloted this episode here and hope to produce more episodes when they’re not doing a million other things.…Read More

Dial Back

Dial Back is a pilot initiative to help us do some soul-searching around the impact of technology on our lives. It’s impossible to even imagine life today without the Internet, social media, email, text messages, GPS, apps, podcasts and everything else you might love or hate about being “connected.” Clearly, technology can make our lives better, but sometimes also worse than we had expected. Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and Jessica Kourkounis have piloted this episode here and hope to produce more episodes when they’re not doing a million other things.…Read More

Remember Reading

Remember Reading is a thoughtful, engaging and well-produced podcast for all you readers out there, especially if you love classic children’s books. The podcast features perspectives from authors, editors and readers. From 2019 to 2020, Kouvenda Media helped produce Remember Reading for HarperCollins, and the podcast was named an awards finalist for the “Best Use of Podcasting in Publishing.” You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.…Read More

Vaxed Out and Unmasked

Kouvenda Media produced Vaxed Out and Unmaskedtwo special five-part series for the #US podcast from First Person Arts. Vaxed Out explores five different people’s decision-making process around the COVID-19 vaccines, and Unmasked features five different perspectives about living through the pandemic. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.…Read More

Resolved

Kouvenda Media and Brad Linder are producing Resolve Philly’s podcast, Resolved. It’s about the future of local news and collaborative solutions journalism. To learn more, check out the great work that Resolve Philly does.…Read More

Diving Board

Diving Board is a refreshing departure from the daily news stream. It gives voice to artists to talk about the art they create, and a wide range of social and cultural ideas they explore. Kouvenda Media produces this podcast with the Woodmere Art Museum, and it’s been an incredibly enriching and creative collaboration. Episodes available here or wherever you get your podcasts.…Read More

At the Core of Care

At the Core of Care is a podcast series in which you hear stories about nurses and their creative efforts to better meet the health and health-care needs of patients, families and communities. Kouvenda Media is producing this podcast for the Pennsylvania Action Coalition. Support for the podcast comes from the Center to Champion Nursing in America, which is a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AARP, the AARP Foundation; along with the Pennsylvania Action Coalition. Episodes available here or wherever you get your podcasts.…Read More

Grapple

Kouvenda Media helped create and produce Grapple as part of the Keystone Crossroads public media initiative. The podcast won the Public Media Journalist Association’s First Place Award in Division A. Grapple is a compelling anthology of both narratives and analysis to help you make sense of Pennsylvania’s economic distress and how America has changed over time. Check out all 18 episodes.…Read More

Bonus Preview: Prison Censorship Synopsis (feat. James Tager)

This synopsis provides an overview on restricted reading practices in prison with Pen America’s James Tager, author of Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation’s Largest Book Ban.…Read More

Bonus Preview: Montage

This montage features perspectives on prison censorship from Freedom to Read Foundation board member Eldon Ray James, who was formerly incarcerated; institutional library consultant Erin Boyington from the Colorado State Library; staff writer Seth Galinsky of The Militant Newspaper; and University of Illinois faculty member and Education Justice Project director Rebecca Ginsburg.…Read More