Webinar: How to Create a Successful Podcast

Dan Ephron is the executive editor for podcasts at Foreign Policy. Before joining FP, he spent 13 years at Newsweek, where he served as Jerusalem bureau chief, deputy Washington bureau chief, and national security correspondent. His book, Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was chosen by both the New York Times and Washington Post as one of 2015’s 100 notable books.

Laura Rosbrow-Telem is a podcast producer at Foreign Policy. She is the lead producer of the Negotiators, which has a partnership with Wondery, and the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, which made it to Apple’s New & Noteworthy list. She was also a founding producer of the hit economics podcast Ones & Tooze and has helped produce various FP shows, including I Spy. Most recently, she hosted State of Seed.

She previously worked as a reporter and host at Public News Service and WRFI and a print and online editor at the Jerusalem Post and Mic. Her reporting has appeared on Radiolab as well as in the Atlantic and Business Insider. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she trained to be a social worker.

Rob Sachs is the managing director and creator of FP Studios, where he oversees partner podcasts. He also assists in the planning, editing, and production of other FP podcasts, including I Spy and Ones and Tooze. His team has been recognized by the Ambies as well as the Anthem and Webby awards.

Before joining FP, Sachs was the executive producer for America Abroad, where he won Third Coast and Gracie awards. Prior to that, he worked for a decade at NPR as a producer and director. While at NPR, Sachs created and hosted his own podcast called What Would Rob Do? After 100 episodes, he adapted the series into a book that was published in 2010. Sachs is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.