Join us in the Podcast Garage at KQED for an intimate conversation featuring Zach Dorfman, an award-winning intelligence and national security journalist and host of the podcast Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal. Spy Valley is a new six-part podcast series from global journalism studio Project Brazen that explores the story of James Harper, a Silicon Valley engineer turned nuclear spy during the Cold War. Moderated by Ian Enright, founder and CEO of Goat Rodeo and an executive producer of Spy Valley, the conversation will delve into the making of the podcast series and feature a few audio clips from the show. Snacks and refreshments will be provided at the mixer after.
Doors open at 6pm, conversation starts at 6:30pm. This is an in-person event and will not be live-streamed.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Zach Dorfman is a National Security Writer and Producer at Project Brazen. He was previously a National Security Correspondent for Yahoo News and a Senior Staff Writer at the Aspen Institute. His work has appeared at Foreign Policy, Politico, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, where he spent over half a decade as a full-time staff editor. Dorfman is a past winner of the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Defense Reporting and a Livingston Award finalist.
Ian Enright is the founder and CEO of Goat Rodeo, a creative podcasting company. As a senior audio producer and creative executive, Goat Rodeo’s work includes award winning and groundbreaking podcasts such as The Report, Allies, Cornbread Mafia, and Long Shadow. He is an executive producer on Spy Valley.
ABOUT PROJECT BRAZEN
Project Brazen is a Peabody Award-nominated global journalism studio telling blockbuster stories in every form of media and creator of the Brazen network of podcasts, newsletters and documentary shorts. Founded in 2021 by the best-selling authors behind BILLION DOLLAR WHALE, Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, Project Brazen is a thriving home for the world’s best journalists and creators. Based in London and Singapore, Project Brazen has an active slate of podcasts, documentaries, books, newsletters, as well as scripted film and television. Recent hit projects include the podcasts FAT LEONARD (in-development for scripted TV with SK Global), CORINNA AND THE KING and THE SOUND: Mystery of Havana Syndrome (under development as a documentary series with XTR). Project Brazen is represented by United Talent Agency.
ABOUT GOAT RODEO
Goat Rodeo is a creative audio team headquartered in Washington D.C. For over half a decade, Goat Rodeo has been amplifying audio and crafting stories both in house and with award-winning partners.
ABOUT PRX
PRX is a non-profit public media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling. PRX serves independent producers and organizations by helping them connect to their most engaged, supportive audiences. One of the world’s leading podcast publishers, PRX works in partnership with TED, PBS, the Smithsonian, Futuro Media, GBH, Project Brazen, and more. PRX is also home to Radiotopia, known as one of the most creative and successful podcast networks. In addition, PRX distributes trusted public radio programming to hundreds of stations nationwide, including “The World,” “The Moth Radio Hour,” “This American Life,” “Snap Judgment,” “Reveal,” “Latino USA,” and “Left, Right & Center.” PRX programs have been recognized by the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the IDA Documentary Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. In 2022, Futuro Media and PRX won a Pulitzer Prize.
ABOUT KQED
KQED serves the people of Northern California with a public-supported alternative to commercial media. An NPR and PBS member station based in San Francisco, KQED is home to one of the most listened-to public radio stations in the nation, one of the highest-rated public television services and an award-winning education program helping students and educators thrive in 21st-century classrooms. A trusted news source and leader and innovator in interactive technology, KQED takes people of all ages on journeys of exploration — exposing them to new people, places and ideas.