Henry Molofsky is the co-founder of Please & Thanks Productions.
Previously, he was Executive Producer at Pineapple Street Studios, leading the production of groundbreaking documentary podcasts including Hysterical, 9/12, Wind of Change, Missing Richard Simmons, Persona, Running From COPS, Love Thy Neighbor, and Surviving Y2K. More…
Hysterical, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize, is a medical mystery hosted by Dan Taberski 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 Apple’s Podcast of the Year for 2024, was the Podcast Academy’s Show of the Year at the Ambies, was listed #1 Podcast of 2024 by Vulture and Time Magazine, was named a Best of 2024 selection by The New Yorker and The Economist, and won two Webby awards and a Signal Award for Best Documentary.
9/12, also hosted by Dan Taberski, is an exploration of the surprising ways in which September 11th changed the following 20 years. It was named the Best Podcast of 2021 by The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Time magazine. It took home three awards from the Podcast Academy including Podcast of the Year, as well as 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. It is currently being adapted for television.
He also launched The New York Times‘ Still Processing, hosted by Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris, The Severance Podcast hosted by Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, and Stay Tuned with Preet, hosted by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. His 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. Less
Contact him at h.molofsky at gmail dot com. Website designed by Henry Van Dusen.
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Hysterical
Awards: 2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Apple Podcasts 2024 Show of the Year, Podcast Academy’s Ambie Award for Podcast of the Year and Best Reporting, Webby Award for Best Documentary Podcast and Best Writing, Signal Award for Best Documentary
2024 Year End Lists: The New Yorker, Vulture, TIME, New York Magazine, The Economist, Audible, Apple Podcasts
The New Yorker: “As ever, Taberski and his team know what they’re doing.”
TIME: #1 Podcast of 2024
New York Magazine: #1 Podcast of 2024 “Taberski is one of the finest audio documentarians working today.”
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 Atlantic, Time, 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 Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, WBEZ, Vulture, AV Club
Esquire: “Wind 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 Life: Episode 675 – I’m On TV??
The New York Times: How 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 Magazine, Indiewire, 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 The Decade Lists: AV Club, Salon
2017 Year End Lists: The Guardian, New York Magazine, Esquire, 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 Atlantic, The Guardian, Apple 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 Magazine, Apple 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.”