I’m Henry Molofsky. I work at Pineapple Street Studios where I’m an Executive Producer leading the production of award-winning documentary podcast series including Hysterical9/12Wind of ChangeMissing Richard SimmonsPersonaRunning From COPS, Love Thy Neighbor, and Surviving Y2K. 

Hysterical, hosted by Dan Taberski, is a medical mystery that reckons with an age-old condition that many thought was long dead, but may be the defining illness of our time. It was named the #1 Podcast of 2024 by Time Magazine, a Best Podcast of 2024 by New York Magazine, The Economist, and Audible, and won the 2024 Signal Award for Best Documentary series.

9/12, also hosted by Dan Taberski, is an exploration of some of the surprising ways in which September 11th changed the 20 years that followed. It was named the Best Podcast of 2021 by The AtlanticThe New York Times, and Time magazine. We took home three Podcast Academy Awards including Podcast of the Year, and a national Edward R. Murrow Award.

Wind Of Change, hosted by Patrick Radden Keefe, investigates whether the CIA wrote a metal ballad that ended the Cold War. It was named the Best Podcast of 2020 by both The Guardian and Entertainment Weekly, and a Best of the Year selection by the New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and others. We’re currently adapting it into a scripted TV show.

I also launched The New York Times‘ Still Processing, hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, and Stay Tuned with Preet, hosted by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. I’m very proud that my work has been recognized with Peabody and International Documentary Association Award nominations, a Tribeca Film Festival official selection, and has been featured on This American Life and radio stations around the world. 

Press for press.

Contact me at h.molofsky at gmail dot com. Website designed by Henry Van Dusen.

Press:

Hysterical 

2024 Year End ListsTIME, New York Magazine, The Economist, Audible

TIME: #1 Podcast of 2024

New York Magazine: “Taberski is one of the finest audio documentarians working today.”

The New Yorker: “Hysterical evolves from a medical mystery into something profoundly universal and compelling”

Persona – The French Deception:

Vulture: “A scam story told with a clinical eye.”

Financial Times: “It’s a hell of a story, smartly scripted and sleekly produced.”

The Times: “Irrefutably entertaining.”

Love Thy Neighbor:

Vulture: “Meyerson is a half-Black and half-Jewish New Yorker, and she negotiates the space between those two aspects of her identity to find a deeper understanding of what happened that summer in 1991”

PodSauce: “Expertly and empathetically examines the history of Crown Heights.”

9/12:

2021 Year End Lists: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The AtlanticTime, CBC, Esquire, Apple Podcasts, Variety, Vulture’s Podcast Producers Survey

Time: “A sometimes inspiring, often critical portrait of a society redefining its identity in the wake of tragedy.”

The Atlantic: #1 on The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021

The New York Times: “A striking listening experience.”

Wind Of Change:

2020 Year End Lists: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The AtlanticRolling StoneThe New YorkerThe GuardianFinancial Times, WBEZ, Vulture, AV Club

EsquireWind of Change has become the must-hear podcast.”

The Atlantic“Podcasting at its most exhilarating.”

The Hollywood Reporter: Wind of Change was the night’s top winner, taking home three Podcast Academy Awards, including best host, best reporting and best nonfiction scriptwriting.”

Running From COPS:

We were nominated for a 2019 Peabody Award.  Here’s a piece I wrote for The Guardian about the cancellation of COPS a year after our podcast debuted.

2019 Year End Lists: The New Yorker, CBC, The Atlantic, Vulture, LA Review of Books, Poynter, Huffington Post, Indiewire, Yahoo, The Australian, International Documentary Association Short List, Global Investigative Journalism Network 

Hollywood Reporter: ‘Cops’ Canceled at Paramount Network

This American LifeEpisode 675 – I’m On TV?? 

The New York TimesHow Truthful Is COPS? A Fixture of Reality TV Faces Scrutiny 

The New Yorker: “Startling and, as ever, elegantly wrought.” 

Vulture: “A must listen. One of the year’s best.”

Surviving Y2K:

2018 Year End Lists: The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, New York MagazineIndiewire, Forbes

Vulture: “One of the year’s most beautiful podcasts. Funny, poetic, and wonderfully written.

The New Yorker“Smart, sweaty, and overeager, with moments of beauty and moments that make you cringe.”

The Irish Times: “Thematically and structurally one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve heard.”

Stay Tuned with Preet:

The New York Times“A thrilling and urgent civics lesson.”

Missing Richard Simmons:

2010’s Best of Decade Lists: AV Club, Salon

2017 Year End Lists: The Guardian, New York MagazineEsquire, The Atlantic 

The New York Times“A cultural phenomenon.”

The Washington Post“An intimate and complicated portrait of a man who’s often reduced to caricature”

Vulture“By far, the best narrative podcast out there right now.”

The Webby Awards: Winner “Best Documentary Podcast”

Still Processing:

2016-2018 Year End Lists: The AtlanticThe GuardianApple Podcasts, Time

The Atlantic: “Vital, mandatory listening.” 

The Webby Awards: Winner “Best Arts and Culture Podcast”

You Must Remember This:

2015-2016 Year End Lists: The Guardian, New York MagazineApple Podcasts 

The Guardian: “A dreamy mix of film noir voiceover, 1940s gossip column and Pathe news broadcast.”

Trumpcast:

2016 Year End Lists: The Guardian

Happier with Gretchen Rubin:

2015 Year End Lists: New York Magazine, Apple Podcasts

The New Yorker: “Their voices remind you that life is a human project that we’re all experimenting with.”